But if you explain to the children why it’s important to not abuse this one button, it will hopefully reduce the number.

I had actual bomb threats called in to my high school weekly for such reasons as “I didn’t want to take my math test”. I can guarantee with certainty this button would be constantly abused in American schools.

I made the best grades in my year for nearly every year of my schooling from 1st grade up through junior year of high school. My dad would tell me that I was smart and gifted, and he would expect straight A’s on my report card. If I ever brought home less than a perfect score I’d be punished for it.

My mom, though, always told me that gap was an illusion. Sure, I was a smart kid, but I wasn’t doing anything anyone else couldn’t. If I could do it so could they, and vice versa. If I wanted to keep that lead I needed to work for it - but more importantly that taught me not to feel superior to the other kids. I wasn’t that special, I just learned new info easily.

I think that was really important for my developing empathy and maybe more smart kids need to hear that.

Between a choice of “you will never be arrested for anything, ever, no matter how heinous” vs “You can be arrested at any time for any reason or no reason, at the whim of your government” I cannot say with confidence which of those is worse.

Beauty is in the eye of the cacodemon

It definitely still caught me by surprise. Not like it might have in 1996 - I just played Baldur’s Gate 3 within the past year, after all - but the first time I played I definitely managed to get almost every single piece of bad evidence against me that I could rack up without even meaning to.

That is the Fediverse. “Threadiverse” was a buzzword made up by Meta when they tried to force attach Threads to us.

The nature of federation means that even if you never post anything to my instance, your garbage may still be visible to my people via tangential interactions on shared linked instances. Bans solve this on the local instance level and are by far the easiest way to accomplish this.

(To be clear, the “you” in this is not referring to you specifically OP, it’s a general term)

Someone must still be responsible for monitoring all this, pulling the trigger on platforms that fit the criteria, and then actually enforcing that trigger pull, though. They will be, by definition, one step behind the public at all times, following them from platform to platform to tell them “you can’t be here anymore”.

People want X (variable, not ex-twitter), the government doesn’t want people to have X, so the government bans X. The people still have X. This fits into the same nutshell that the War on Drugs does and the drugs are winning that one pretty resoundingly, and you have to actually go out in public and buy those. I don’t see a reason why the War on Social Media is going to go differently especially when anyone can set up a VPN from the comfort and privacy of their living room.

Hollow Knight gives a pretty fucking solid try, to be fair. But yeah, I do agree.

Third for Chrono Trigger. I didn’t get to play that one when I was a kid so I played it for the first time in 2020. Holy shit what a game. The original definitely still holds up today.

This is not sustainable at all and is going to lead to a chain of banning app after platform after app as users move to the next thing and the government struggles to keep up with regulation.

I can’t say I’m surprised by American government clown show tactics at this point but this is, most definitely, clown show tactics.

Linking to discord media seems unsupported in a lot of Lemmy apps, I’m getting a failure to retrieve content error as well on Sync.

“This article cannot be true because it contains an ad on the page” 🙄

Yes that’s very sane and reasonable of you

In any state that requires safety inspections that is 100% definitely illegal, proper headlight alignment is one of the things required to be checked to pass an inspection.

For as long as I’ve owned a car I’ve dreamed of installing a flip-up mirror in my back window for this purpose

California has the fifth largest economy in the world, Texas has half the GDP of California and still manages to post a net loss.

There’s a reason we clown on Texas about it and that reason is because Texas quite literally cannot survive on its own but screeches constantly about threatening secession. California on the other hand would survive just fine without a single one of the entire rest of the States but they don’t constantly remind everyone of that fact.

Texas gets made fun of for it because the answer to “Well what would you do without Texas, huh???” is… I’d pay less taxes because Texas wouldn’t be sucking down a bunch of surplus anymore.

but the reason was for the worker safety because of the hostility by the right wing.

Notably, local conservatives out firing guns at FEMA who showed up to try and save their lives.

If I’m helping save your life and you send a bullet whizzing past my head then yeah, I’m going to leave you where you are as well.

This, of course, was reported as “FEMA is refusing to help Republicans!” and not “Local Conservatives perform war crime, fire deadly weapons at humanitarian aid”

Sure would, where can you buy those?

Got any proof of that?

Because if not, then you’re pushing your own conspiracy theory on par with pizzagate or birtherism.

Trump is a known Russian asset.

Want more? There’s more.

America shit the bed, sure, absolutely. No disagreement here. This does not mean that we didn’t shit the bed with assistance.

It can definitely be both.