As far as I can tell, most Norwegians know the difference between Kremlin and the Russian people. Nevertheless, in a teaching environment it might be particularly difficult to navigate given the political picture. What subject, may I ask? If it’s a subject like history or philosophy, that can be pointed in a direction of “swaying people’s opinions”, you might be in for a hard denial.

I think the best you can do is simply get in touch with the university; send them an email, and be transparent and honest. You won’t lose anything from humble requests.

Is there an equivalent of this for motorcycles?

Interesting… There’s a comment here by @[email protected], so perhaps your instance doesn’t federate with lemy.lol?

In their comment they suggested this command:

bash -c 'pgrep -x keepassxc > /dev/null && keepassxc --auto-type || keepassxc'

This is pretty cool tech! However I wonder what is going on with their proofreading - there are typos and double words in the article. How does this slip through in a company like Time?

With an extended edition bordering 4 hours, like LotR

I’ve been using bangs for a while, and I never thought of this myself! I’ll definitely start doing this.

Do you know of a good way to sync/export&import these keywords that does not involve the Firefox account thing?

I find this question quite fascinating: Culturally, there are countries where this gets asked indeed as a form of greeting, not a genuine question.

In Slavic countries, I feel like if you get asked this question, it’s generally considered to be of genuine interest, and you’ll get a genuine reply. Nothing offensive or informal about saying “Things are bad.” or “I feel bad.”, or any variant of such.

This might be my perception however, and feel free to correct me. I myself think that if someone asks how I’m doing, I have no need or responsibility to “remain positive/pleasant”.

His Japan & family vlogs are also really chill - he has become much more chill and proper. If you remember him from when he got big on YouTube 10 - 15 years ago, he was a completely different person!

I’m sorry that you had to go through that, and I must emphasize that I do not wish to “let” anyone be exposed to this. However, I remain unconvinced that it’s “more common than I think”. The amount of sexual assault that women are exposed to is unfortunately far, far more common, and a bigger problem that should take precedence in being dealt with.

Don’t take my word for it; look it up. But here, I’ll save you some time by spending my own:

https://worldmetrics.org/false-rape-allegations-statistics/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/191137/reported-forcible-rape-cases-in-the-usa-since-1990/

https://www.cdc.gov/nisvs/media/pdfs/sexualviolence-brief.pdf

Say out of 140 000 reports of rape in one year, 4% are false. That leaves us with 5600 false accusations. And according to the survey shown by CDC, there’s an estimated 1.4 million women raped in 12 months.

Here: https://www.cdc.gov/nisvs/media/pdfs/sexualviolence-brief.pdf

Men have so much less reason to fear compared to women. This is not saying they have nothing to fear, but the measures taken by uber is an attempt to protect those who are MUCH more prone to sexual assault and harassment.

The fear of accusations is not covered in this survey, nevertheless, if men feel fearful of accusations, imagine what women feel when they fear actually being sexually assaulted.

It might be considered sexist, depending on who you ask.

The amount of males being falsely accused of sexual assault is much lower than the amount of females being exposed to sexual assault. Hence why there has been provided a measure for women at this scale, and not for men.

Unsure about the “need”, but with current systems, less people would be beneficial in a multitude of ways, indeed, as long as it’s a somewhat controlled reduction. The first thing to suffer is the business model based on infinite expansion, which if they follow other countries’ trend, they will start to cry about to the government pretty soon, demanding efforts into increased reproduction. (Like Japan making alcohol cheaper for youth, and China making condoms more expensive.)

We are breeding idiots.

A lot to unpack here, but the primary reason is that “everyone” survives, is led into adulthood, and encouraged to start a family. From an evolutionary standpoint, we don’t have any sort of filter who gets to live and breed, and no “survival of the fittest”. This is not only about childbirths, but also about who breeds (and raises) children.

Eugenics is not bad in of itself, but people consider it bad because they fear it will be forced upon them by racist/ableist powers. (Remember, a mother (and father) who chooses to abort if there is something bad unveiled through tests are also doing eugenics.)

Not saying we haven’t had this “problem” in the past, nor that we have to do something about it. It’s more a statement that we have a lot of idiots around…

Yeah, there’s no way to be completely sure or safe, for better or worse.

But even if it’s not your own child, it takes a village. So if you are able to, as a safe and healthy individual yourself, you should hang out with the kid and talk about this stuff, and also converse with the parent about the child. I think with all this, there’s not a particularly big need of technological intervention. Although some simple restrictions don’t hurt.

Edit: Actually, I just recalled there being family-friendly DNS! This could be a good and simple measure for adventurous browsing. It doesn’t do anything for the content already on social media however.

There are plenty of apps that both provide restrictions upon the device as well as insight into how the device is used. But ultimately, IMHO, nothing beats open and transparent communication with your kid. Make sure they feel safe with you, and that they can share anything with you and you’d still be on their side. This way, they won’t have any reason to hide things from you, in fear of undesirable consequences. With this, the parent also has to actively engage in these conversations, not expect the kid to bring up everything of possible concern.

There are also parental control built-in with several apps. And on iPhones and Androids there’s already one available where you can do things like limit screen time, prevent app installs, and prevent opening selected apps.

When applying any restriction upon a kid, make sure to talk with them about it so they understand why you are doing what you’re doing. It is not because you think they can’t handle the freedom, but because with the freedom comes a massive responsibility to prevent harm upon both yourself and others. This is often more effective than any tech monitoring and restriction, IMHO.

If you’re asking about how to prevent them from accessing certain sites, there are some options, but they are easily circumventable.

Ultimately though, the internet is an unsafe place, where even places considered safe and mundane can turn out harmful. Open communication is key.

We already have some measurements in place like the CPS. One can also lose the rights of custody after certain convictions. This is all reactive, however, and in many cases CPS comes under fire for “not doing enough”.

This is all speculative on top of my head, and I expect a proper governmental implementation to be much more thought through and extensive than what I write here, but the gist of it I imagine is something like the following:

Before parenthood, one would need to take mandatory courses and a governmental theory test (like the test for driving) in order to be eligible to keep your child when it is born at a hospital. This is not meant to be particularly difficult, but to root out the worst, and to educate a bit through the courses.

All human births are to be registered, and when doing so, one can easily check the parents’ records for things like violent behavior, neglect, conspiracies, etc… This is where I assume most enforcements of this law. (A result of this would be even more children in children’s homes, which is another discussion as a direct result of this. (Which the government also has the power to do something about, like creating subsidiaries for foster parents.))

After the child is born, there should be a wellness checkup at something like the age of 1, 3, 5, 10, and 15, to ensure physical and mental health is good. Both the parents and the child have to answer a questionnaire separately, and if there’s reason for concern, queue CPS.

CPS is also underfunded in several countries already, from what I’ve heard around.

This is an example of where a death should never have been necessary to take action:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JBRHS5vErpg

Because that never goes well.

Could you refer me to some specific cases? I’m curious to learn. I have a feeling it’s most likely due to improper implementation, being either too narrow or too fast. This is a potentially big societal change, and needs time - years - for a proper adaptation.

This problem has become so big and deep rooted, that we need multiple approaches over a prolonged period to rectify the exposure and impressions kids (below 16, maybe even 18) are subject to.

First and foremost, education in every layer: Adults, teachers and parents need to not only be aware of what the kids are (potentially) exposed to online, but be educational about how to perceive it. Blocking is not effective enough long-term (check out the failure of COSA).

Secondly, it’s not the government’s responsibility to surveil kids online, it’s primarily the parents’ responsibility! If you as a parent are unaware of your kid being hateful and a bigot online, you’re part of the problem.

Thirdly, if we are to put any responsibility on the government, it is to mandate requirements for adults to become/remain parents. Just like we have a driver’s license to protect the public from accidents impacting innocent lives, we should have something that protects society from having unworthy parents raising assholes and potentially also ruining innocents’ lives (read suicide).

I’m tired of this, sorry for the rant. We need to step up. I’m painfully aware of what this 15 y/o girl has been exposed to, and I know of so much worse things easily available on the clear web, if not on social media.
Be the safety net your kid needs you to be, dear parents…

I don’t understand, what is YSK about this? This is US politics, and doesn’t provide any good content related to this community as far as I can tell.

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