I think you misunderstand what gender affirming health care is. It’s not just surgery and drugs. It also includes simply calling them by the name and pronoun they prefer, and it includes counseling and guidance as they do precisely what you said they should do: wear the clothing of their preferred sex as they begin to…

Under KOSA, social networks would be legally obligated to take an active role in ensuring young users aren’t exposed to content involving suicide, eating disorders, substance abuse, or other dangerous topics.

But if a child genuinely identifies as a different sex from what they were born, at what point does “mental health treatment” become torture? How long should a child endure what’s effectively reprogramming to train something out of them that realistically doesn’t have substantial consequences other than ridicule from…

Your opinion isn’t wrong, but misguided. Yes, parents need to parent and are responsible for their child’s well-being, but when are they supposed to do that? There are only so many minutes of the day a parent (even with ample free time with their child) can observe their online interactions.

Which parents? The ones working two jobs just make ends meet? Who are barely in the same zip code with their kids for more than hour or two each day? Or spend what little free time they do have completely exhausted from their jobs? Those parents? The ones that society is working to death to keep the machine of…

Here is a bit of a technical question.

I can sympathize if the driving force here is the well-being of her non-striking employees. WGA owns the decision to strike (a decision I agree with and support them on) but there are other production personnel impacted who had nothing to do with the decision.

The Switch has also now had the longest lifespan (by which I mean release of a system to the release of its successor) of any other Nintendo system other than the NES and original Gameboy, and next summer it’ll be more than the NES. It’s definitely on its way out soon and with the number of rumors I’ve seen from…

Yeah I see how it could sound like I was saying they aren’t worth educating but absolutely not. I just think if they choose football they might be annoyed with a law making it so they can’t choose football entirely.

When I was in school we had teacher reviews but I don’t think the school did anything with them.

I’m not saying they don’t want to learn ever. I’m saying that they are trying to get a career, which is what everyone’s doing in college, and they aren’t likely to want something getting in the way of that. I know there are athletes who see the football scholarship as the ticket to an education, and those athletes go…

Yeah they can hire good professors instead of trash professors who only show up at class once or twice per semester and think it’s fine to have their TAs who can’t speak English running 400 level classes.

I like that idea but I think a lot of the players would not.

That’d probably be a state by state thing but I doubt the NCAA would allow laws like that to be passed.

Fucking. Awesome. Well done next generation.

The parent company sucks no question, but this sounds like maybe it’s the case the “artist” is to blame and they're going to update their terms to prevent this sort of thing in the future. At least that's what it looks like so far. Hopefully they're going to fix this fast. 

Some other accusations/confessions/convictions.

I grew up in a town that is currently 8,054. Everything I have heard in that song happened in that town. The idea these people act like rednecks don’t spit on cops or run from the cops or cook meth or... Good bad the song is full of shit. 

That’s the part that really confuses me about it. What’s the point of “following” someone if it doesn’t affect your feed? Like... maybe I’m just old, but if I find someone, click ‘follow’, I would assume that there would be a “stuff from people you follow” page. Absolutely destroys my mind.

Part of the dropping engagement must be new people using it a lot for the first time, and then dropping down to normal levels once they've explored it.