The meeting that could be an email and sometimes the email that could be a shutthefuckup.mp3
I've been putting in a lot of effort from my son's birth because of something I learned: Our brains start out with all these neurological links, and the ones that get used thrive and the ones that don't die. By 2 years old, many of the links we'll grow up with already exist, and they're further strengthened and culled throughout childhood.
So I imagine a boy who sees a man who is in control of himself despite all the things testosterone does to a brain, and that's very impactful early on. Being a role model really is that important.
I've also come to a hypothesis I won't get to test for a long time: I think you raise your kid to be a teenager in their earlier years. They don't have the changes of puberty going on so those are the times you have to impart the lessons you want to teach, because the voice your son or daughter will hear in their head when he or she is 15 isn't going to be the one you're speaking with at that time, it'll be the one you spoke with throughout the years prior to that. That's why I think it's so important to build a foundation long before puberty takes over and turns the volume either up or down depending on whether it's a girl or a boy.
So I imagine a boy who sees a man who is in control of himself despite all the things testosterone does to a brain, and that's very impactful early on. Being a role model really is that important.
I've also come to a hypothesis I won't get to test for a long time: I think you raise your kid to be a teenager in their earlier years. They don't have the changes of puberty going on so those are the times you have to impart the lessons you want to teach, because the voice your son or daughter will hear in their head when he or she is 15 isn't going to be the one you're speaking with at that time, it'll be the one you spoke with throughout the years prior to that. That's why I think it's so important to build a foundation long before puberty takes over and turns the volume either up or down depending on whether it's a girl or a boy.
I'm hoping my little instance is small enough that I can keep doing my thing, but I have to admit the threat is scary as hell, and it'll hang there.
It's even worse than that. They never intend to have "we the taxpayers" pay for this. They intend to run out the clock, and leave the duty of paying for all this government we get to our kids.
If a father did this to their child, we would call that father a monster, selling their children into a lifetime of debt because they didn't want to pay for things. Instead, it's a few generations doing it to their children with great moral righteousness, and somehow this is isn't just selling future generations into slavery.
If a father did this to their child, we would call that father a monster, selling their children into a lifetime of debt because they didn't want to pay for things. Instead, it's a few generations doing it to their children with great moral righteousness, and somehow this is isn't just selling future generations into slavery.
A baseball cap that's either red or blue pulled over your eyes to hide you from the truth.
On a related note, I remember the day the US government spent a trillion bailing svb et al, they also proposed a budget they knew wouldn't pass through a republican Congress that gave all the talking points -- raising corporate tax, the wealth tax, all that. Despite having control of the house, the Senate, and the executive a year earlier such that they actually could have done it back then.
"Look what we're doing but we're being blocked by the big bad opposition! No stop looking at that and look at this! Pay no attention to the trillion dollar bailout of the richest people!"
It isn't like the Republicans don't do the same thing, but it's a good recent example. And people fell for it.
"Look what we're doing but we're being blocked by the big bad opposition! No stop looking at that and look at this! Pay no attention to the trillion dollar bailout of the richest people!"
It isn't like the Republicans don't do the same thing, but it's a good recent example. And people fell for it.
I don't think it matters to them who wins the war, as long as there's more weapon orders.
The way I interpret it, they're going to put anything that's social media under the jurisdiction of the CRTC. This will give them the power to dictate stuff like CanCon requirements, but it'll also give them the power to deem content offensive and issue fines. The crtc recently admitted they don't give any consideration to charter concerns when they issue broadcasting fines. Moreover, the government has explicitly refused to limit rules to non user-generated content so potentially a provider could be fined based on a comment.
Michael Geist is a Canadian legal scholar who has been following the journey of bills c-11 and c-18. https://www.michaelgeist.ca/
Basically, we're on the verge of the end of the internet as we know it in Canada. What remains will need to be like cable TV -- measured, censor approved, likely incredibly corporate.
Michael Geist is a Canadian legal scholar who has been following the journey of bills c-11 and c-18. https://www.michaelgeist.ca/
Basically, we're on the verge of the end of the internet as we know it in Canada. What remains will need to be like cable TV -- measured, censor approved, likely incredibly corporate.
"tell me what a typical day in the life of a Canadian"
(Modified like a boss song)
"You chop your balls off and die?"
Heeeeell yeeeah.
(Modified like a boss song)
"You chop your balls off and die?"
Heeeeell yeeeah.
Black conservative perspective on YouTube has a couple great videos on this, and he's absolutely correct -- you can't burn everything to the ground and then complain there's no opportunities anywhere! Even if you don't go to jail for your actions, it has an effect on your community and that effect is organic, meaning you can't just delete that law because it's a law of physics.
Dealing with the Internet is one of the things I'm most concerned about in the world right now as my son ages. I have an entire chapter of my book dedicated to the topic titled "the internet is not your friend", because my parents warned me about it but many parents give their kids full access to unlimited internet from before they can even talk.
My plan for now is to have a computer on the living room TV so when he gets older he can go on the internet but we can see everything he does. I know eventually we'll need to give him more access, but I'm hoping we can help equip him fully before we do that, and that there's more to life than the internet beforehand.
My plan for now is to have a computer on the living room TV so when he gets older he can go on the internet but we can see everything he does. I know eventually we'll need to give him more access, but I'm hoping we can help equip him fully before we do that, and that there's more to life than the internet beforehand.
Unfortunately, with dear leader actively moving to regulate the internet as a broadcast medium., Canadian fediverse operators such as myself are facing a reality that we may have to shut down our websites because they aren't crtc mandated.
So we'll get the best of both worlds: state-sponsored propaganda crammed down our throats, and the one free communications medium being slammed into the dirt, ironically probably protecting all the American megacorps as long as they play ball.
This is what happens when you have leadership that doesn't really care about the country that they live in. Our glorious leader is more interested in impressing people from Southern California than northern Manitoba.
So we'll get the best of both worlds: state-sponsored propaganda crammed down our throats, and the one free communications medium being slammed into the dirt, ironically probably protecting all the American megacorps as long as they play ball.
This is what happens when you have leadership that doesn't really care about the country that they live in. Our glorious leader is more interested in impressing people from Southern California than northern Manitoba.
State funded media furious at being identified as state funded media -- it's 2023 if you identify as not state funded that should be enough!