It’s because the information is often presented as “Vaping isn’t harmful (when compared to smoking)” but the part in brackets is in tiny text.

Smoking is really bad for your health. Vaping isn’t good for you but it’s not as bad as smoking and it’s a great tool to get you away from cigarettes and off nicotine entirely. Quitting nicotine is really fucking hard which is why people end up stuck on vapes for so long.

What exactly are they looking to be able to achieve, though? How are they expecting to make a powerful handheld machine which improves on the PS5 AND the Steamdeck?

During a press conference on Wednesday, Smith said Microsoft has launched a formal investigation into Israel’s reported use of Azure. “We are committed to ensuring that our human rights principles and our contractual terms of service are upheld in the Middle East,” he said.

What a load.

Who the fuck even wants this?

Thank goodness that telling people they cannot have something means that they immediately comply rather than doing everything in their power to circumvent the obstacles you put in front of them.

Although subtle, there is a very slight difference between “right wing party drifting even further to the right to court voters sympathetic to fascism to line the pockets of themselves and their friends” and “firmly centrist but pretending not to be party drifting even further to the right to court voters sympathetic to fascism to line the pockets of themselves and their friends”.

Not super keen on the bombardment of cutscenes so far in 4, but it’s still pretty neat.

This isn’t a spoiler but I need to warn you: the final cutscene is 40 minutes long with no break/checkpoint and you can only save your game after, not before or during. Literally everyone who goes into the game blind ends up trapped there late at night wanting to go to bed.

Possibly one of the best soundtracks of all time.

More testing of what? How to do basic market research so you don’t release a full priced game in a space where the thriving competitors are free to play?

“Land of the free”

Thank you for expanding more on this, it’s gone a long way to helping me understand better.

I still believe that social media, as it currently exists, is something which is harmful to children for reasons I laid out previously but connection and support are important.

The perfect solution would be to disallow any kind of traditional social media outside of break times whilst bolstering better spaces for support and friendship both online and offline; the first part of that is definitely a symptom of the second but I’m not sure how to best solve that outside of direct community support and advocacy for such spaces.

Not really what we were discussing and trivialises the harm done by systems of retributive punishment but okay.

The thread lays out my opinion retty clearly; characterising a discussion as an obsession is being deliberately disingenuous.

It’s also very important to remember that AAA doesn’t refer to quality; it’s terminology borrowed from financial products to indicate how safe an investment it is to generate a return.

“Capitalism causing problem which is unprofitable to solve or directly serves capital? It’s time for socialism.”

Surely learning can be facilitated with devices provided by the school if such devices are necessary? There are dumb phones with cameras that can be used to document any evidence of abuse.

I’m showing my age here - I was alone in school. I am neurodivergent and part of the LGBTQ+ community, both things that were not well understood or accepted when I was in school. The only brief pieces of support and connection I had was online needed to be on a PC as smartphones were simply not a thing.

Are you saying that children today must have instant and immediate access to friends and like minded people online during school hours? The children I know (i.e. children within my family and the children of friends) don’t have smartphones at school and are able to wait until break times or after school to socialise but they’re also not American; is this a uniquely American issue?

A future is coming where it can just be your job to let an LLM observe your life 24/7… And that might be the only job available.

Getting paid to play games, jack off, and shitpost but at what cost…

I could be incredibly wrong with this however it’s my understanding that fascists equally to being shot whether it be by a 9mm or an assault rifle. Additionally, there are still mass shootings where far too many innocent people are dying with a notable lack of fascists being shot.

I don’t believe the justification of having AR-15s to shoot fascists is the worth the trade-off of dead children.

Not really bothered by downvotes when, like you say, the data is pretty clear on the matter.