Much more detail available in the linked blog post, written by the author: https://www.crisesnotes.com/can-the-trump-administration-arb...
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I’m upvoting just because that will cause a small increase in carbon emissions due to the REST request to the HN servers just to spite this author.
One self-deported back to Mexico, expecting he could find a way to come back legally and reunite with his wife and daughter. After intervention by a US senator, he returned and served honorably in the US Army in Afghanistan.
Follow up: https://www.azcentral.com/story/life/az-narratives/2014/07/1...
“he brought British textile technology to the United States, modifying it for American use. He memorized the textile factory machinery designs as an apprentice to a pioneer in the British industry before migrating to the U.S. at the age of 21.”
If you consider Biden pardoning his son so egregious, I think you’d agree the pardons of the thousand defendants of the violent riot on January 6 would be even more disgraceful? If your cherry picked metric for a good president is “didn’t start a war”, I’ll counter with “didn’t encourage riots to obstruct the peaceful transition of power, then pardon all those involved to intimidate anyone who dares challenge him”
It’s pretty clear to me the only person who Trump cares about is Trump. I don’t understand why anyone would defend a person with such obvious disdain and lack of empathy for people, so I’ll just leave it at that. Enjoy the carnage that Trump leaves behind for the rest of us to pick up and rebuild.
https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco-weiss/pr/robert-hunter-...
Why do you defend Trump so vehemently?
The FBI raided Mar-a-lago as a last resort. He was asked to return classified documents and lied about it. Then it was shown he ordered others to move the documents so as to obstruct the investigation. As pointed out before. What should happen? If I would do that I would be in jail, rightly so.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593.amp
https://www.wsj.com/tech/musk-unleashes-online-army-on-feder...
I’m embarrassed that I live in this country.
Unsurprisingly, the data available show that this narrative that Musk is promoting is 100% false.
So clearly he’s against any censorship? /s
You can see a table of the number of electors per state, and how that changed over time, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_Colleg....
You're basically trading one regulatory body for another. Perhaps Google makes the "right" decision now, but you disagree with their SEO metrics in the future? We are already beholden to undemocratic tech platforms for a lot of our life, why provide them even more power over our lives? I realize that sounds a little hyperbolic, but it's interesting to see that we are much more comfortable with a multinational corporation that doesn't even have a customer service department to make rules about the Internet rather than a democratically elected government.
Google doesn't publish statistics AFAIK about adult search terms, but evidence from several sources puts adult related search terms at around 10-15% of search volume. Given our metric-obsessed micro-optimization culture, if even a small proportion of those users decided to shift to DuckDuckGo or Bing because they suddenly couldn't search for porn on Google, that would have a material effect on their advertising and bottom line.
Like any other “voluntary” system, this is also doomed to fail. It’s not like the cigarette companies didn’t target children for a reason.
To put it bluntly, the companies that use the “voluntary” metric that by definition restrict their reach will have less monthly active users and therefore less revenue than those who do not, so therefore nobody will. Already happened in 1998, it will definitely happen again.
Have you tried to restrict devices against a determined child? Especially one that has to use a device to complete school homework? Because you make it sound easy. I can assure you, it is not. Just because a device is allowed at a time of day doesn’t mean he’s using it for the stated purpose. I sit with him as much as possible while he’s doing homework, but I may have to step away to cook dinner, wash dishes, drive a kid somewhere, help one of my other kids - and guess what, I come back and it’s more YouTube. So how does “time of day” restrictions help?
I may come off snide and annoyed, and truly this topic does make me annoyed as there is no simple solution. Yet people who are not in this position are so quick to point out how simple it is - yet never can back up their claims with actual facts.
Edit- before I’m accused of being too lenient, I have a fairly strict screens policy for my kids, and I still struggle. When I go out, it’s insane how many parents just let their kids sit and watch videos while the parents talk. The kids will have iPads basically chained to them while in line, at the table, in the car, it’s absolutely sick. Hell, I have my own problems with screen addiction.
Here’s some mitigations and how they’ve failed:
There are no devices allowed in bedrooms. Work is to be done in common rooms, but unlike when we were kids, there is no desktop. Only laptops. So they’re easily portable. I have had a recently wiped iPhone swiped from my office because it was unlocked - it took me a few days to realize that, and by then he had watched 22 hours of YouTube. Internet is locked out on their devices but turning it on and off is a bit of a pain so sometimes I’ll forget. Even with no internet, he will pull out the laptop while in the car driving home from school and play a cached web game. They tricked my wife into thinking the rear screen in the car was unlocked, so she toggles it- not realizing that actually unlocked the screen. Their Nintendo switches have ok parental controls once I realized you can actually set it to zero time if you do it on a day-by-day basis (otherwise the minimum is 5 minutes). I have a house wide pihole, but once he gets a cellphone that will be trivial to bypass unless I go through the effort of forcing an always on vpn. One time my wife shared the password to her laptop with my daughter (who is responsible) but my son was within earshot, so he was able to unlock it while we weren’t looking. Shall I go on?
I believe I’m doing the best I can yet I am fighting upstream the entire way.
The safety mechanisms you point to are not a result of parents failing, it’s a result of a common agreement that society as a whole benefits from certain guardrails. Seatbelts were very controversial! But after you realize that a seatbelt is a small inconvenience that can prevent you or your children from being violently ejected from the vehicle and splatting on the pavement in the event of a car crash, we agreed as a society that the public health good outweighed the slight inconvenience of wearing a seatbelt. Nothing to do with the failings of parents. Parents already feel like failures most of the time already as it is.
Some assumption that I did not impose a punishment. Prey tell what would you suggest the punishment be? Don’t forget, assignments for school are posted online in Google classroom and need to be turned in online. Many require watching YouTube videos. Please enlighten me.
You edited your comment to add nuance past the snide “parenting is hard” useless quip. So I’ll add some to mine as well.
Greed is the problem. There is a problem of misalignment around this entire ecosystem we have built. We are in an age where we can measure so much more accurately than ever before, so we have invented metrics for everything.
Unfortunately these metrics ultimately boil down to “how can I make more money”. We are what we measure. So now we are stuck with platforms whose key performance indicator is time on site, leading to micro optimizations to identify how to get people hooked. No wonder parental controls are so shitty! Those don’t exactly move the “engagement” graph up and to the right, do they? And there’s no meaningful regulation to counteract that force. In other words there is no incentive for them, and I fact every incentive to make my job as a parent harder.
So now back to your first comment, boiling down to “you’re a shitty parent. If you were a better parent who scolded their children, you wouldn’t have this problem”. It’s telling that you started your comment that way, and instead of responding to my comment by perhaps enlightening me with your sage parenting tips, decided to edit your comment to add bs about how oh it’s greed not parenting after all. Tell me again how I as an individual is supposed to take on an entire industry built upon a profit motive to do exactly what my kid is doing?
Punish him how? Take away his video games? Did that. But then he got up at 6am on Saturday and turned on the Apple TV. Guess what, there’s no meaningful parental controls on that. So I took the remotes and locked them away. Encourage him to go outside and play with friends? Won’t do that because the screens are way more stimulating than interacting with actual people.
Then, one day, I forget to turn the Internet back off on his school laptop after he turns in a project online, and the cycle starts again.
One of my kids has a very addictive personality. Great kid, smart, gets good grades. But 100% addicted to YouTube. He will lie straight to your face, sneak an unlocked phone to his room, and watch 22 hours straight of random videos.
I shudder of the day he discovers internet pornography. He has no natural defense mechanism and he’s up against billions of dollars and decades of research on how to stoke addiction (aka “engagement”)