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BygoneNeutrino

@ BygoneNeutrino @lemmy.world

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  • Australia’s teen social media ban is a flop. But there’s no joy in ‘I told you so’

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  • Prohibition is effective, it's just that it doesn't work for easy to manufacture compounds such as alcohol or marijuana. Every known human culture has independently discovered alcohol, and marijuana is a weed that is ready to smoke in its natural form.

    As far as social media goes, my country has reached a point where TikTok and Facebook are preinstalled on every phone. If a parent buys their kid a phone and removes them, they will reinstall themselves after an automatic update. When you take into consideration the "streamlined" registration process, one can argue this is a means to target prepubescent children.

    ...I guess an 8 year old could download a VPN and steal their parents identification, but I feel like some form of prohibition would help.

  • How do I block a community I was banned from?

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  • ...this was actually a positive experience. My All feed is completely different after excluding that one particular community. It feels less like I'm surrounded by bots and more like an active platform.

  • Australia’s teen social media ban is a flop. But there’s no joy in ‘I told you so’

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  • I still think it's a step in the right direction. Once you make it illegal for children to use social media, you can start going after the platforms for knowingly manipulating children.

  • How do I block a community I was banned from?

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  • Thanks. I figured I'd be blocked eventually because the opinions on that sub were so homogeneous, but it would have been fucked up if I had to make a new account to block the sub that banned me.

    ... it's just baffling to me. Dissenting opinions are a good thing. Echo chambers aren't healthy for the people in them. It's just weird how the opinions of the people I know are so different than the opinions of people on the internet. It's like I live in an alternate reality.

  • Cindy Cohn (EFF) Warns Jon Stewart That Americans Have to Make X and Meta ‘Less Important’

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  • The value of social media lies is in it's ability to change thoughts, opinions, and long-term behavior. The public underestimates how effective this technology is, especially when it comes to children. In the absence of regulations, these platforms can make people believe just about anything by exploiting perceived peer pressure.

  • White House's Attempt To Scrub 'Unflattering' Photo Of Karoline Leavitt From The Internet Is Backfiring Hard

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  • 10/10. I'd smash.

  • Battery costs have declined by 99% in the last three decades, making electrified transport a reality

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  • Lol. Although this claim might be technically true, comparing the cost of the first prototype lithium ion battery with a modern mass produced batteries is apples to oranges.

  • Trump signs order directing creation of a national voter list, a move sure to face legal challenges

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  • You fundamentally misunderstandUnited States politics if you think Trump is responsible for making any important decisions. He is a combination between a scapegoat and a front man.

    If we had elected anyone else, the present international policies would be largely the same. It's the beauty of a two party system that is financed by corporate lobbying.

  • Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subreddit

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  • ...Reddit is the opposite of Republican. The people there are aggressively far left. It is hard to believe that it's not an artificially enforced echo chamber.

    The problem with echo chambers is that they are politically sterile. By aggressively forcing Republicans and moderates off the platform, we lose the ability to influence their stances and opinions. It becomes a circle jerk.

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  • Testosterone administration is more illegal pharmaceutical use then it is a fad diet. It's also not particularly dangerous. The safety profile is similar to hormonal birth control.

  • If you created a simulation that resulted in the creation of countless intelligent beings would it be unethical to end the simulation?

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  • I wouldn't want to shut down the simulation, but it would depend on the energy expenditure. A hospital could theoretically save more people if they allocated fifty million dollars per patient. A person's right to life is contingent on the cost to maintain it.

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  • Born again woman?

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  • ...I don't think I've ever met a man in real life that ate a fad diet. They eat hamburger helper and take out.

  • Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold

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  • If we had sustainable practices, at least of 3rd of the people in the United States and Western Europe would have a standard of living similar to the people in 3rd world country. This is assuming we don't compensate for things by exploiting more vulnerable populations.

    I personally think this is a decent trade-off, but the people my country would end up exploiting would probably disagree.

  • White House App Found Tracking Users' Exact Location Every 4.5 Minutes via Third-Party Server

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  • I don't see this information as being particu relevant. There are various boards and committees where half the people are government and half of them are from Google. From what I gather, Google more or less functions as the mass surveillance arm of the government, so a Government App serving this purpose would be redundant.

  • With Reddit flirting with requiring Age verification, the next Rexit might be around the corner, are we ready?

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  • Reddit isn't terrible when a user adjusts what they are suggested, but the system they use to ban people pretty much sucks.

    If I respond to a user that is suggesting the unnecessary euthanasia of a relatively healthy cat with, "Great. Now it is okay to k*** relatively healthy cats. This is a positive development," I will get a warning for promoting the abuse of animals. Four of these strikes over any period of time will lead to a permanent ban.

    ...it's not sustainable. Since there isn't any human oversight, I have to heavily censor what I say to avoid being banned from the platform. I'm using an actual example. My appeal was denied.

  • ‘They feel true’: political deepfakes are growing in influence – even if people know they aren’t real

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  • Another thing to consider is the fact that people can form false memories. A person might know at the time of exposure that the misinformation is misinformation, but he might misremember it as a fact after repeated exposure.

  • With Reddit flirting with requiring Age verification, the next Rexit might be around the corner, are we ready?

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  • I just signed up, and it's confusing. I used lemmy.world because it seemed like it was the only means to get my registration approved. It wasn't clear whether or not this account can still view and interact with other "instances", so I went with the website that had the largest userbase.