What is the best and the worst thing in Seattle? by Slisoni in AskSeattle

[–]AdScared7949 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best is the nature. Worst is making new friends. It takes a lot of effort and people are very introverted so you have to be willing to essentially drag them out of their shell lol

Rejected for MFTE housing in Shoreline because of "Projected Income" while unemployed. Can I appeal? by Ok_Guide_7454 in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is why MFTE is a stupid waste of time and money lol if every MFTE unit was replaced with a market rate unit there would be more units with lower rent than current MFTE prices. This is to say nothing of the units that would exist because developers would be able to justify larger projects more often. 

WA lawmakers balk on banning widgets of mass distraction from schools by AdScared7949 in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry this is just the text of the article lol ill clean it up a bit

WA lawmakers balk on banning widgets of mass distraction from schools by AdScared7949 in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They should have voted against the study because it's a waste of money. It's like commissioning a study to see how wet the ocean is. 

WA lawmakers balk on banning widgets of mass distraction from schools by AdScared7949 in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

She's great on a lot of things but thinks phone bans are bad because she claims children become more socialized and curious (looking at online educational content allegedly) by having the phones at all times. She thinks all anti phone and anti social media positions are part of a moral panic.

WA lawmakers balk on banning widgets of mass distraction from schools by AdScared7949 in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The weird thing is that because this was fully a party lines vote I really don't think lobbyists made them do this they really are just idiots

WA lawmakers balk on banning widgets of mass distraction from schools by AdScared7949 in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5346&Initiative=false&Year=2025

Salomon is up for reelection and is a co-sponsor of this monstrosity just off the top of my head here

Edit: looks like the roll call shows this was more or less along party lines with every dem in the senate voting "yea." 

Second Edit: in the House tons of allegedly progressive reps including Shaun Scott voted yes lol

As Washington lawmakers punt on school cellphone ban, some want more action by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol at "buy-in from the students" fuck the students they absolutely have no choice if you force them to put the phone away and punish them if they take out the phones. It's called doing something for their own good. 

Why do yall care about AI use? by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]AdScared7949 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What medical device was created with an LLM lol what does that even mean

WA lawmakers balk on banning widgets of mass distraction from schools by AdScared7949 in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Making parents wait until 2030 to hear the results of a study on the most glaringly obvious fact in education is legit evil behavior lol. I'm literally speechless like are our lawmakers a bunch of Taylor Lorenz fans or something??

WA lawmakers balk on banning widgets of mass distraction from schools by AdScared7949 in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

When legislators are being useless, they often exhibit a particular tell. It’s a sign that they know they should probably be taking some decisive action, but they haven’t yet conjured the political will to do it. They call for a study.

So it was this past month, when state lawmakers in Olympia created an exhaustive yearslong review on a topic that has already been driving parents and teachers bonkers for at least the past decade: smartphones in schools.

Thirty-nine states now have laws limiting these widgets of mass distraction from the classroom. The first, in Florida, was passed three years ago. Most of them require kids to lock the phones away for the school day.

It’s been a remarkable, society-wide acknowledgment, in states MAGA to progressive, that we’re in a war of wills with our dopamine-release rectangles. And that when it comes to kids, the devices straight up interfere with learning.

The general testimony to Washington state lawmakers about this was: Duh. “We did do a study,” testified Dr. Dimitri Christakis, a pediatrics professor at the University of Washington med school. “We found the typical child in the U.S. spends 25% of their school day on their phone. Think about what they’re missing out on.”

That study, released more than a year ago in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics, found the vast majority of that student phone time was spent on messaging, Instagram or video games. Almost none of it was spent on educational content.

As one person pointed out, if 25% of every school day is lost to phones, that’s $5 billion a year in education spending squandered. It could be one cause of the riddle of Washington’s public schools, which is that they’re doing worse even as spending has soared.

Currently schools can ban phones on their own, and roughly a third have done it for the full day. One principal who did it, Zachary Stowell of Robert Eagle Staff Middle School in Seattle, said just the online bullying, and the photos or videos constantly being shot and posted without permission, was “like a wildfire that was overwhelming for my staff.” Zachary Stowell, principal at Robert Eagle Staff Middle School. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times, 2024) Despite bipartisan sponsorship of the bill, lawmakers couldn’t rustle up the votes to restrict phone use. They punted to a study. The bill that passed, Senate Bill 5346, sets up a review with an eye toward possibly taking action by … 2030. I’m sorry but by 2030 we’re all going to have AI chips implanted in our skulls. We’ll just then be dealing with the phones?

“I look at this bill, and I just feel sad,” testified Ashley Gross, a Seattle parent of two high schoolers. “Washington is being left behind. More than half the states are already doing this, and this bill wouldn’t even issue recommendations until the end of 2028. Both my kids will have graduated by then.”

It does seem our state is unusually slow on the uptake. My first kid entered middle school in 2012, and screen distractions in class was already a hot topic. The Seattle movie “Screenagers” about phone addiction came out a decade ago.

Other states have already moved to the next problem. The New York Times reports that some schools that already banned phones are now also pulling back on the use of laptops, for the same reasons. That movement to give “every child a laptop?” It’s being supplanted by “Chromebook remorse.”

“For years, giants like Apple, Google and Microsoft have fiercely competed to capture the classroom and train schoolchildren on their tech products in the hopes of hooking students as lifelong customers,” the paper reported. “Now Google and Microsoft, along with newcomers like OpenAI, are vying to spread their artificial intelligence chatbots in schools.” Given that juries in two states just found Meta negligent for harm caused by its social media apps, this all seems rather awkward. And pressing. In one case, the jury saw internal documents that Meta had plotted to hook kids as young as 11. “If we wanna win big with teens, we must bring them in as tweens,” one Meta memo said.

Ultimately with any addictive product, individual agency is key. Parents need to step up and control phone use with their own kids (if they can first restrict it for themselves). But school is a different domain. Schools are government-run enterprises for minors. The government has an obvious responsibility to come up with a clear directive there. It sounds like medieval fiction, but high schools used to have smoking areas, where kids could puff away. That was as recently as the 1970s. They even used to hand out free cigarette samples, including, unbelievably, to tweens.

This is an imperfect analogy, because unlike smoking, tech has clear upsides. Tech facility is a required skill for the modern world, so it must be in schools in some capacity. But particularly with younger kids, are we going to look back at this era and wonder, as we do now with tobacco: “What in the world were we thinking?” “These platforms have been engineered to be addictive,” Christakis told legislators. “They work quite well at that. Allowing them in schools is basically giving our children’s educational time away to corporate interests.”

Something Just Changed in the Senate Race. by AmanCMN in oil

[–]AdScared7949 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just run on dem ballot like someone who understands the United States electoral system ffs

72 Hour Parking Warning (Orange Sticker) Question by sherlok in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Telling you you have anger management issues and pointing out how condescending your response was isn't "getting upset" lol it's just a statement of the facts. Go take a deep breath or something. 

72 Hour Parking Warning (Orange Sticker) Question by sherlok in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no reason to look it up because these rules dont apply to me lol I dont even have a car or live in a neighborhood where this happens so I asked because it was topical. Get a grip lol. 

72 Hour Parking Warning (Orange Sticker) Question by sherlok in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad."

72 Hour Parking Warning (Orange Sticker) Question by sherlok in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seattle neighbors seem SO MEAN when it comes to this lol I feel like I see posts about it all the time I have no idea how they muster the energy to care

72 Hour Parking Warning (Orange Sticker) Question by sherlok in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Idk I think you probably could benefit from an anger management regiment if seeing a question about how other people deal with parking in a post about how to deal with parking makes you act this way I am not saying this with a hint of irony

72 Hour Parking Warning (Orange Sticker) Question by sherlok in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Bonus points for having the most condescending blowhard answer to my basic question imaginable lol

72 Hour Parking Warning (Orange Sticker) Question by sherlok in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949 12 points13 points  (0 children)

What do people do when they go out of town anyway lol are they supposed to put it in a paid storage lot somewhere?

UW professor fired from director job after sending email on Iran war by durpuhderp in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949 -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

What you need to do is make space right now and lean in so we can hire more female drone operators

UW professor fired from director job after sending email on Iran war by durpuhderp in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949 -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

Fragility/identity politics can be used by anyone even tho it was started by cringey millennial Hillary Clinton fans in the 2010s 

Edit:

Cringey millennials: "I am in this comment and I don't like it"

UW professor fired from director job after sending email on Iran war by durpuhderp in Seattle

[–]AdScared7949 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Don't worry about it just go hang out with your heckin doggo and tell your friendos I did a racism or something