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> your best options for guaranteeing that you avoid it are homeschooling

Accepting your premise that "public schooling is fucked" (I disagree) there's absolutely zero guarantee that homeschooling is any better for any particular child. It's a completely random chance whether your parent, or whichever potentially untrained person, is going to provide you with an education that sets you up for society, work and the wider world.

Public schools at least have defined curricula, governance structures, complaints procedures, _accountability_ in some form.

> because there's a good reason not to trust the experts

I hate this. Where else do we get knowledge from if not experts and academics in their fields? That's how humans grow our collective knowledge. People learn, gather evidence, build knowledge and then share it. The people who have done the learning over many years are called "experts". Those are the people I want to learn from, no?

> conservative "evidence based" movement

Evidence should not be political. You can either prove something, or you cannot. It is neither conservative, nor liberal.

It's Musk.

Me, and thousands others, loved Tesla cars. Now you can buy a better, more reliable EV for the same money from a company not owned by a man hell-bent on forcing the rise of the far-right in Europe.

If Rupert Murdoch made cars, I wouldn't buy one of those either.

I should say that I've not been using Rails _exclusively_ for that period. But it's the one framework that sticks around in my toolkit no matter what. It's what I reach for in any new project by default.

Been using Rails professionally for 13 years (currently at GitLab) and I still don't think anything else beats it for developer happiness and productivity.

It cuts through all the mess of modern web development so well and makes turning an idea in to something deployable incredibly easy.

I want a dumb TV. A TV that I can plug my Apply TV in to and watch TV. I don't want it to be smart, I don't want Roku built in, I don't want it to know what I watch and sell me ads.

It's really hard to find this.

> Large language models on TVs

Stop it. Please.

This is gross, and should be illegal. Absolutely get in the bin with this nonsense.

I'm curious where you find the time to apply to 500 jobs. You're not alone, I know, but is quality not better than quantity? Are those applications tailored to the jobs you're applying for?

Admittedly I've not job hunted recently. Are things really just that bad?

Absolutely. Airbnb is great if you want a really unusual stay. Like a treehouse in the Scottish highlands. It should corner that market.

But if you just want an apartment, go stay in a nice hotel.

I stayed at https://another.place in the English Lakes and it was delightful, and only slightly more expensive than an AirBnb in the same area. And like you say... I got breakfast included. Maybe hoteliers will see this as a sign that the pendulum is swinging back if they up their game.

Guess it depends where you want to travel. I tend to use hotels in Europe now when I travel. My experiences are just as good, if not better, in hotels most of the time.

But Europe's a big place, so I can accept that it's not the case everywhere.

Airbnb has made me really appreciate a good old-school hotel. Find a nice one, and it's so much nicer than any airbnb I've stayed in.

I hate when companies do nothing to help their customers, unless a national newspaper gets involved. Looks even worse than doing nothing.

Firing someone during their parental leave is a special kind of messed up. The fact that it's not completely illegal in any reasonable country is horrifying.

"Our fact checking wasn't good enough, so we're outsourcing it to the public."

This is insane and clearly a political move. Maybe we just don't require social media as a species. That might be nice.

> Calling his ex-coworkers NPCs and believing he's qualified to streamline the US government - all because he built a glorified screen recorder? Have some humility LOL.

This is basically Elon Musk's MO. Except it was shiny cars and not a screen recorder.

I quit FB 3 years ago. It's already riddled with bots, AI generated "content" and ragebait.

If this doesn't push you away from it, what will?

I'm a native British English speaker that works for an American company. I use y'all much to the dislike of my friends and family but it's friendly, and very inclusive. I quite like it.

Is it because corporate profits are put ahead of the living standards of the masses? I bet it's that.

Ever since they decided to spend hundreds of millions on Rogan whilst also gouging artists, I've been looking for an alternative to Spotify.

This might be the push I needed.

Rising up violently to protect my child's right to scroll mindless on TikTok for hours? No. Social media today is unrecognisable to the internet that you, or I grew up with.

Children will always network, and share ideas and form community. They don't need to do it on a platform designed to exploit as much of their attention as possible as a way to sell advertisements.

I think children should be able to congregate safely online. If you think a meta-owned platform is a good place to do that, I've got bad news for you.

I think a lot of my generation owes a lot to the internet during our formative years too, but the idea that Meta offers anything other than a curated stream of addictive ragebait nowadays is for the birds. Maybe this ban will encourage teenagers to hang out in less corporately owned spaces online. I can hope.

An outright ban probably won't work, but it sends a signal that perhaps society needs to use the internet better to be a benefit.

I'm troubled by the premise that further right on the "demanding" scale makes parents "wise". At some point, an increase in demanding things of your children seems unwise to me.

Maybe the world would be better if we just didn't have a service that allows everyone to shout whatever is on their mind in to the internet void?

I'm glad X is dying; is a replacement really needed?

This is so freaking cool. What a fantastic idea and a great write-up.

> Some of us look forward to that future where you mostly just interact with AI.

What is it about that that appeals to you? I'm genuinely curious.

A world without human interaction feels like a world I don't want to exist in.

Apple is absolutely in the wrong here.

What on earth are they doing using a taxi firm to deliver $3000 equipment?

Hard agree. It's our generation's smoking. Zuckerberg's recent PR glow-up is just this generation's Marlboro man. An acceptable face on something much more sinister.

Social media that tech workers in the 30s and 40s were exposed to was never any more intense than a bulletin board or a chat room.

Social media now is a very different beast. It's designed to be addictive, and it generates engagement through polarization.

Is banning social media for children a punishment for the child? Some parents would argue the opposite, that it's a good thing that the child isn't developed enough to realise yet.

Find a niche community that wants something like that, who typically have disposable income. (Photographers)

Make a privacy-first Instagram-like social network and (here's the important part) charge for it.

https://glass.photo/ is a good example.

The US is the outlier here though. I don't think any other country's political norms would describe the US Democratic Party as "far-left".

Describing any policy of the dems as "far-left" is just nonsense. It's used as an insult rather than to further actual political discourse.

The idea that America has a far left party, let alone that the democrats are a "far-left" party, is hilarious to the rest of the world.

The democrats, by european standards, are about as centrist as it gets.