can anyone into sociology explain why vine felt safe and fun and led to many iconic memes & is fondly remembered yet tiktok feels like the actual devil making our species meaner and dumber by the day
Honestly, i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks.
daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs.
college costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and puts students into debt for life and yet we have thousands of professors living in their cars.
everything we need is astronomically expensive and yet almost none of the money we pay is going towards the people actually doing the work and providing the services.
I'm telling you right now, I'm not uploading my fucking ID to use social media and neither should you
We need to force this fascist government to throw these authoritarian bills in the trash
If they cared about kids, they'd ban GenAI everywhere. Instead they push it in schools
Here are headlines from the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.
Simultaneously, they all want a social media ban. "To protect the children".
Our governments aren't calling the shots; they're following orders.
This is just one example. Every law passed happens in the exact same way in all for 4 countries. This cannot be possible unless each leader of each country works for the exact same people.
Our leaders are not elected; they are installed.
#UK #NewZealand #Canada #Austrailia
The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney
Let's be clear, Carney is trying to be *seen* as making child online safety a priority. But these bans are not based on actual research, have been shown to be ineffective when implemented, and drive child internet use underground where kids become even more at risk of harm.
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Weโve put together this guide to keep the Tartan Army out of trouble in the States.
Read carefully to avoid confusing the locals, deeply offending the country, or being interrogated by Homeland Security over a sandwich.
we live in age of great moral panics about things that donโt matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins weโve ever seen
Me *longing* [in regards to the amazing things he's (been) doing in New York] "Can we clone Mamdani?"
Husband (who apparently lives under a rock despite being chronically online) "I don't know what you mean"
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"https://t.co/CNuTjVjQQo is annoying tho bec of all the ads" yes that's the price you have to pay if you want to corporatize and sanitize your fanfiction website. Either suck it up or just use the filters in ao3 to hide the icky stuff you don't want to see
This is important information for everyone in the UK.
Thank you @UnityNewsNet for sounding the alarm on these 'data centres'.
They are set to devour up to 1.37 billion litres of water EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Buyers: BlackRock, Digital Realty, Equinix
Users: Google, Meta, Oracle, OpenAI
The UK government designated 'data centres' as Critical National Infrastructure, which allows projects to bypass local planning disputes.
People are already angry.
Noise Pollution:
Massive industrial cooling fans are running 24/7. Residents near existing centres compare the constant low-frequency hum to a jet engine parked outside their windows.
Green Belt Destruction:
Despite a national housing shortage, huge swaths of protected green spaces are being rezoned for data warehouses.
They are out-bidding residential housing for grid power and planning to burn on-site gas when the grid fails.
The more apt name for them is 'surveillance centres'.