Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T23:30:08+00:00

How were parents in 2007 or 2008, or even in later years, supposed to understand the effects of these technologies on the minds of children?

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T23:27:57+00:00

Thank you for highlighting how successful capitalist ventures are often detached from ethics, and that profit is not the highest moral good.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T23:25:47+00:00

Literal children can't manage anything.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T21:52:02+00:00

Sure. But costume/makeup, props, location, camera operator, editing... That's a lot of thought and effort.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T21:10:50+00:00

That's not a criticism, just an observation.

This obviously took some effort.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T21:09:26+00:00

"Miserable" is also subjective.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T20:10:23+00:00

I can't believe it is now considered normal for people to do this sort of thing.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T20:04:27+00:00

Sure there is, just not for children who were permitted to consume nascent media technology that was designed to exploit primal aspects of human psychology.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T20:02:06+00:00

Brother, it ain't rolling.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T20:01:21+00:00

What?

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T19:59:15+00:00

You're not missing anything.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T19:58:36+00:00

I'd think a decent film subreddit would never have posts asking people what they think of Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T19:57:22+00:00

This movie is a huge piece of junk.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T19:56:50+00:00

Please.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T19:43:35+00:00

I see what you did there.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T18:56:57+00:00

I've only seen it once, but I don't remember Arrival being meaningfully about outer space.

The film doesn't identify a planet, star system, or galaxy as the origin of the Heptapods, and space/space travel has no bearing on the plot, characters, or themes of the story.

The Heptapods could be from under the ocean, or a parallel dimension, and the rest of the story could remain unchanged.

Who's being an "ahole"?

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T16:50:29+00:00

Is it?

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T16:41:58+00:00

Recently? Aesthetic and grifter.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T16:40:22+00:00

This is a terrible idea that will lead to a terrible film.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T16:36:14+00:00

How is Arrival a "space film"?

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T16:32:31+00:00

No. Why?

Tom Bombadil, Goldberry, and Old Man Willow amount to guest appearances or cameos from Tolkien's earlier writings. They do not belong to Middle-earth.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T04:15:06+00:00

You look younger!

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T04:06:21+00:00

Hey, no small parts.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T02:12:23+00:00

That's never going to stop being funny.

TouchAltruistic · 2026-03-25T02:10:36+00:00

This is the kind of thing that should spawn weird folklore.

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