Priorities and objectives.

Absolutely, all of this. I cancelled Netflix, in part because it had become impossible to navigate, it’s a junk box. You could be scrolling for hours looking for something inspiring you to watch it, nothing. Everything they make is bland, basic and sanitised, like what Disney did to family movies, it’s torture to watch, so unengaging. (Plus all the evil, and price rises, so it was easy to leave).

You know you’re telling on yourself right. Parents are supposed to teach their kids these skills, man what have you been doing!! (/s)

I have had some success with soaking in a solution of vinegar for min 20 minutes. And or oxy bleach, (not at the same time).

That article was so conflated and entirely waffle, I couldn’t read it. It doesn’t offer science behind brain rot. I think it’s ok for you to have an opinion for yourself on what brain rot is, absolutely, but when you start going warmonger on it, you should really make sure you have more science to give you an understanding and ability to communicate your opinions with more clarity.

There is science out there, but not in the way you might be thinking, based on some of your opinions expressed here. Brain rot isn’t going to be able to be avoided by curating the content, the effect of disassociation is caused by distraction, it could be argued any content caused that disassociative effect, which essentially sends your brain into a form of fight or flight, causing it to feel like it’s not safe to be here,( if I have to disassociate).

I don’t have any great articles to link at this time. But I would suggest it’s a personal balance thing. Taking the time to limit the time you spend on the internet, yourself personally, and just taking a moment to exist, just breathe and be, where you are, right now.

The more engaging and interesting posts will naturally float to the top. Maybe, you need to change your settings, or the app you use to engage if you are getting fed with everything as its first posted. I noticed an entirely different experience going from boost to voyager app.

This place isn’t about one person deciding for everyone, what is and should be, the antithesis of that is why this place exists, and I’m sure you’re noticing, you don’t have many people who agree with you. Maybe Either your delivery needs to change, when discussing your opinion, or your opinion itself, might need some expansion and nuance.

He looks less evil, with those eyes.

Is that only on android?

OK, this is starting to get hilarious.

Dude, don’t normalise this bullshit. Wtf.

This sounds like a threat.

I was wondering if this was a takedown from the inside, because of the whole, people working together to stop a company being shorted to death, thing. Which, i could imagine, angered those who think they’re gods, to no end. But surely they wouldn’t be so obvious about it.

Do you have kids?

What you’re saying is so important to say out loud, because I don’t know if it’s easy or even in some cases, possible, for average Joe to find that information.

I do think that the whole rebellion from enshitification, is valuable in whatever format, so the whole crowd going for old tech, because they don’t know how to use new avenues, other than the ones they’re familiar with, still achieves the same task.

I don’t have a lot of time to deep dive, I don’t have a lot of expertise, those muscles have become flabby from no use for so many years, I used to download my music, then had Spotify for so long, then qobuz because Spotify turned evil, but I genuinely tried to download music again and I couldn’t figure it out. I just feel like, I wish there were more tutorials on how to do the things you talk about. (If anyone knows any, I’d be so grateful for the help). I feel like theres not a lot out there? I see this so often, Lemmy has some amazing talents and minds, who know all this stuff, but talk about it like it’s common knowledge. It’s not. You guys are magicians. I just wish I knew how to do all your tricks.

Was this all about getting rid of vpns…

Gaslighting. If he says it enough, he hopes we disconnect with reality and believe him.

But look at you, being the village, awesome job, stepping in and helping them grow up to be rounded little people. I have 7 niblings, and they’re all a mix of neurodivergence, I’ve been gathering them all and taking them to events and teaching them, playing with them, since day dot. Even though I have kids of my own. It’s so hugely necessary to be in the kids in your life, lives, like that. You can’t parent from an empty cup, and the ability to refill that cup has been removed from us. You taking that time, also gives time for the parents to recharge. You’re amazing, keep it up!

There’s two ways to view what you just said there. Parents aren’t parenting, but you can’t speak for someone elses emotions about it. And it’s more constructive to a problem (rather than adding to it) to ask why, to figure out what’s happening, with compassion, so as to help it be repaired.

Here’s another example, drug addicts, quite often you will hear people judging and shaming their behaviours, without asking why, or looking at their choices with compassion and an eye to repair the problems for them. Most often, very very abused children, grow up to self medicate their internal agony, caused by what they’ve lived through. You wouldn’t then choose locking them up in jail to help repair.

You’re talking about kids, maybe some of them go on to be these same drug addicts.

I would suggest this whole problem with the unsupervised parenting / disconnected parenting is capitalism. And it’s by design.

People have kids (mostly) because they want them, they love them. I would argue very few would want to be parenting poorly. So why are they?

Could it be that there’s no opportunity to stay home and raise kids. Raising kids, is work, and it is hard work, has been so hugely devalued, intentionally, so as to be able to remove it as needing space in people’s lives. Who thinks it’s admirable to stay home and raise kids? That is an opinion that has been societally planted, to serve the bourgeois.

Actual paid work, who can live without working? Multiple jobs, even. That’s also by design.

Capitalism also designed this system we are all currently using, of a family in a singular home. It wasn’t like that, previously. So no village, no desperately needed support for raising kids.

Jobs burn you out, we aren’t designed to live like this, but there’s little to no flexibility, and parenting burns you out, and theres little to no support for that, now. Who has energy left after that, to also find all the ways in which tech is attacking this week.

I would argue, partially, the solve for poor parenting, would be to start rolling out some guillotines.

But also, raising a kid is supposed to be the job of a village, I’m sure you’ve heard that. To be a good parent, you need a full tank, but all the avenues for refilling your tank have been removed.

We should all care about fixing this, it is our next generation. I don’t believe hating on the singular parents trapped in this hellhole, is the answer.

That was really well done. Where he went through and tested the verification process, to see how far he could push it. That bit was really eye opening.

Oh I just watched a video on this the other day, apparently scammers (like the types who do romance scams, pretending to be a gorgeous guy, then taking all your money) are getting around this security function.

They upload all stolen pics of a gorgeous guy (probably exists for women versions too) then there’s one picture of them, because they have to have one pic of themselves to get the verification tick. But that one pic is obscured, like a face on a billboard or add on a poster on a street. And then tinder verifies the whole account, regardless of the other pics. I forget, it’s either bumble or hinge, I think it was bumble, deletes all the pics that don’t look like you, after verification, so those were sites that block that scam.

That’s an aside from ai profiles. There does need to be something to protect users from scammers. I couldn’t ever speak for what the best verification option is, myself.

Music doesn’t stay under copywrite, forever. You could use anything that’s aged out of copywrite, too. And then you, as a business won’t alienate people who choose not to consume ai for ethical reasons.