I’d actually need to make something more like a 10 fps black and white silent film. I’ll make sure I send you the first copy if I make it.

Great description. Its so sudden, and the feeling of falling away from reality is intense. I wish I could draw what I saw and share it with other people.

Future promises in America mean fuck all.

I’m not sure why organized religion is getting a pass here.

Wouldnt that just make him the 4 out of 5 part?

Fair enough.

If I hate all organized religion does that make me antisemitic as well?

Yes, and if I spend too much time on here it affects my perceptions of people in real life. I do a few other things that aren’t really healthy as well. I’m sure I could do better.

Maybe, just maybe, parents shouldn’t let their kids in awful places, and also awful places shouldnt let kids in. Turns out parental controls are bullshit, and the only real answer is RTFM or dont use it at all. A business and its customers dont exist without each other, so the blame is on both sides.

All that said, the government definitely could help the parental understand and controls side of thing too using regulation.

Well, thats what you get when non-tech people try to regulate tech. At least we have correctly identified a problem, and are now trying to solve it.

Tech companies taking advantage of regulators lack of knowledge to continue abusing their customers is a different problem.

This solution might not work but we will learn and try something else or refine it until it does work, or until social media somehow isn’t predatory and doesnt need the guard rails.

Or we could focus on preventing the addiction to begin with.

Great examples include making people wait until adulthood to smoke nicotine or cannabis, or to drink alcohol.

Surely there’s always time for both the kids and parents to set aside to learn every new technology and the appropriate controls to restrict them.

And when someone says it makes far more sense to just not give their kids said technology until they are older, we have people like you arguing on behalf of the technology.

Aww poor little facebook, we dont want to hurt its fee-fees! Let’s just give it another chance! I’m sure we can trust it this time if we just learn how to use it right!

Social media does cause harm. It tricks you into thinking you are socializing with those near you when you aren’t. It tricks you into thinking people are talking in good faith, similar to in person communication. Finally, social media is a huge attack vector for scams and abuse due to the anonymity and ability to connect anywhere in the world.

All of these things produce an overwhelmingly negative social experience from social media. That wouldn’t be a problem if our defining trait wasn’t how we socialize in groups. Socializing is as important as water and food for humans.

…do we all have the same blanket for real?

Fantastic doggo!

Oh shit is that the burrito blanket?! We have one of those too its fantastic! Cat-burritoes and dog-burritoes!

Sometimes we make a mountain out of it and bury the cat in the top like she’s ruling a volcano-shaped-burrito!

I think people forget the past is done and gone.

Does an ld50 actually take into account the extreme ends or does it just not impact the result much?

You could see how that might be misleading though, to say that George Floyd was over the LD50 for fentanyl?

Fent bullet incoming.

I understand that, and thats probably a good rule for those who are naive to the medication. Tolerance does change the lethal amount on an individual basis so its hard to make statements on what would be lethal for a specific person though.