If parents have pedagogic experience in teaching, understand the possible downsides and how to mitigate them, then I can understand homeschooling. Otherwise I’d recommend normal schooling.

They are exclusively for Nintendo’s consoles, and it owns a third of the Pokemon company. Simple.

Considering how the person replacing Spencer has been known from leading Microsoft’s AI division and isn’t much of a gamer, this doesn’t make Xbox’s future rosy. Dwindling sales, large layoffs and RAM prices skyrocketing… I highly doubt they can build a competitive console.

Tobacco industry boss: smoking two packs a day is not addiction.

Germany’s user count is nice.

Exactly! He had this higher snarly voice, at worst it was like Mickey Mouse.

Who would have anything against British cuisine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVHbWHGVYaU

Similar discussion is happening also here in Finland. However, if something is to be banned from kids, it has to be clearly defined. What is considered “social media”? Is it platforms like Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat? Does it include messaging apps like WhatsApp or Signal? Most of this discourse is also based on works of Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff and Jennifer Twente, all of which have received a fair share of criticism. There is also a considerable amount of a classic moral panic sprinkled in.

Alice Marwick, an academic that has extensively studied kids, technology and social media, was on Taylor Lorenz’s podcast earlier this year. Her organization published a report, where the following is stated:

We strongly believe that reform of social platforms and regulation of technology is needed. We need comprehensive privacy legislation, limits on data collection, interoperability, more granular individual and parental guidance tools, and advertising regulation, among other changes. Offline, young people need spaces to socialize without adults, better mental health care, and funding for parks, libraries, and extracurriculars. But rather than focusing on such solutions, KOSA and similar state bills empower parents rather than young people, do little to curb the worst abuses of technology corporations, and enable an expansion of the rhetoric that is currently used to ban books, eliminate diversity efforts in education, and limit gender affirming and reproductive care. They will eliminate important sources of information for vulnerable teenagers and wipe out anonymity on the social web. While we recognize the regulatory impulse, the forms of child safety legislation currently circulating will not solve the problems they claim to remedy.

Dr. Candice Odgers is also a vocal critic of Haidt, accusing him of cherry picking with a pre-made agenda in mind:

The cross-country comparisons, you know, they’re they’re often a starting point to see whether there might be something interesting correlationally going on, but it’s a very slippery place to start and I think you know, unless you start with the pretty clear hypothesis about what should explain those differences, if you’re just looking at trend lines and then going backwards and starting to fill in an explanation, it’s hard to follow where it goes and whether or not we’re just fitting these lines to our existing theories, but I’ll leave it.

This is a message board platform, period.

Interesting to know, I’m not familiar with that band.

And on Switch this happens every time I play Super Smash Bros Ultimate.

A similar inquiry should be done in Finland, here all the restrictions were dropped during Spring 2022. At least one association of entrepreneurs has wanted an inquiry to be done so that they would have tools to prepare for a possible next pandemic.

Let’s not get excited too early!

At last, there were lots of rumours! Plus that controller looks like it has a face.

Let’s get normies aboard the Linux train by creating more distros with celebrity branding: imagine Taylor Switft Linux or BTS Linux.

I have to admit that I’m not really familiar with that website. Kotaku on the other hand is a site whose links I never click, unless archived.

Johnny Sins has so many professions so he must be doing great regardless of the economic situation!

Sopuli is hosted on Hetzner, so no problems whatsoever.

Their styles certainly are similar.

Been mostly playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. The game is now a decade old, so the timing is good. Of course pirated, as I’ll never give Konami any money.