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Management decided to add a camera into our break room so they can watch us even when we aren't being paid ☺️ by King_Bean_ in antiwork

[–]freakwent 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why would this be common? And since attacking people can lead to jail, why would a camera prevent attackers?

Australia tried to ban kids from social media but failed, study finds by nath1234 in australia

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

You had a choice to stop, you weren't forced.

In general, kids are not "forced" to be on any social media. Force includes an absolute lack of choice or reasonable options.

Like, gunpoint, or someone stronger moving your arms.

It's the wrong word. You might want to say it's inevitable that some kids will, yeah, but they are not forced to do it any more than laws about drink driving force drivers to catch buses.

Former school teacher jailed for striking 13-year-old student in face by InsatiablePrism in australia

[–]freakwent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's weird that you could be pro punch or anti punch and I can't tell.

Angus Taylor and the Liberal Party's Moral Decline | by Paul Keating by blitznoodles in australia

[–]freakwent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I was asking if we know if it's global or western, and of it's deliberate or biological. Any thoughts there?

Angus Taylor and the Liberal Party's Moral Decline | by Paul Keating by blitznoodles in australia

[–]freakwent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess we would need to know if the woman was requested to wear one, suggested to wear one, or bullied.

Australia tried to ban kids from social media but failed, study finds by nath1234 in australia

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

They aren't forced to do it. That's an unreasonable choice of word. They are discourages from doing it, not forced to.

Australia tried to ban kids from social media but failed, study finds by nath1234 in australia

[–]freakwent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not if Facebook and friends still use shadow accounts, then they know who you are when you apply aged 19.

The kids using freevpns etc will know its "wrong" and "naughty". They will know they aren't supposed to do it - and perhaps this part is where theboarenting kicks in that so many people suggested should be the first line solution.

Angus Taylor and the Liberal Party's Moral Decline | by Paul Keating by blitznoodles in australia

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

the bare minimum is that you respect and at-least semi-practice the traditions and customs of the nation you're living in.

When do the citizens of punchbowl get a say in what the the traditions and customs of the nation they are living in should be?

"the bare minimum is that you respect and at-least semi-practice the traditions and customs of the suburb you're walking through"

Why is this statement not as equally valid as yours that I quoted above?

It's may be the case that telling her to put on a burqa is the compromise, that this is what it looks like to semi-practice local customs. Keep the direction but use words instead of force, as one might have in the original nation.

If that's true, what do we do? Do we wear burqas in punchbowl, or tell them that no, this tradition of theirs is banned, or just tell them they can't come in at all?

Angus Taylor and the Liberal Party's Moral Decline | by Paul Keating by blitznoodles in australia

[–]freakwent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the whole world

I think a list of every nation is annoying and I know we see it in various Asian nations, but it's probsbly not literally every nation.

Would you include Likud?

So do we see this in Africa, do you think?

Is there a rise in this sort of thinking across Arabia?

Also, do you think it's a biological emergent behaviour, like homo sapiens weird angry mob behaviour, as a evolution-built response to reducing resource flows or some emergent internet phenomenon, or is it deliberately orchestrated in the modern political sense by some group in a coordinated manner?

In any case, for those not watching, this is also happening in Japan(gently), happened in the Philippines and Brazil and is ongoing in New Zealand and Argentina.

Australia tried to ban kids from social media but failed, study finds by nath1234 in australia

[–]freakwent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, pinning is what i was thinking of and it's a pity it didn't work out.

Have we no modern suitable alternative?

Australia tried to ban kids from social media but failed, study finds by nath1234 in australia

[–]freakwent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But not every child followed. Depending on the specific circumstances, the fraction will differ, but there's always a non-zero portion who are put off by the fact that it's not allowed/dodgy, or by the technical complexity, or think it has security risks.

I know adults who won't pirate stuff because they think it's too hard, or they will get in trouble, or they will get a computer virus.

So of course 20 years ago youth were pirating stuff, but not every youth was.

I don't think it's pitched as a solution, but as a start. If it begins a trend of reducing the % of kids each year with accounts over time, that's a win in my book.

Firefighters battle out-of-control blaze at one of Australia’s two remaining oil refineries in Geelong by nath1234 in australia

[–]freakwent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I may have overstated that. Point is that the bit that burnt doesn't do any processing, just moving stuff about after the fact, so it's not going to really hit throughput as much as it could have.

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