I am not going to say “blood” because I don’t want any to discover I am a vampire ha so I will say sliced meat between bred, butter on various hot objects and various vegetables/fruits depending on the time of day.

not this part

Doctors Without Borders?

I am a child of the generation obliterated by half solutions and illusions of reform, I don’t disagree with you in general but in some specific situations such as this I wholeheartedly believe temporary insufficient solutions that participate in a collective delusion of longterm viability are extremely dangerous and inevitably produce suffocating cynicism in people.

Why would you trust the police?

Yes, and the F35 is a disaster of a project even if it didn’t have a kill switch, steer clear.

I think a lot of them moved to bluesky

facepalm

For one, how are you going to enforce the ban?

Age verification will require a massive destruction of digital freedoms for adults.

People are being absolute morons thinking there is simply a button you can press to exclude young people and there won’t be serious civil rights and privacy violations from it even if it worked.

This is going to backfire so badly I can’t help but feel a little smug towards the people who feel righteous in supporting this.

My country is trash.

I think most people agree but when we slip into trashing social media as a concept and lose the nuance I get concerned.

Social media is a terrible for us. Me included. It’s addictive - that’s why I’m here.

If that is how you feel I encourage you to start from a position of curiosity about what draws you here beyond a simple thought terminating comparison to an addictive physical substance or our sex drive.

It’s the combination of an individualized engagement algorithm and user-generated content that defines modern social media.

This is precisely what is supercharging this moral panic, people don’t automatically think critically about this and will bandwagon on social media = bad because it feels righteous and is easy unless WE force a more nuanced conversation.

You are bad at arguments.

No, when you just say social media = bad you feed into the moral panic with your intellectual laziness.

Try harder with formulating your arguments please.

:)

Ok so sounds like the problem isn’t actually social media then?

Rather it is a question of the choices we make about the architecture and design of social media.

Why are you here then?

I hope Australian kids annoy adults enough that this moral panic about social media dies from adults just giving up because kids resort to even more annoying behavior, that would be poetic justice.

With what tanks?