Thats a big part of it, yeah. Theres lots of really good comments about it in this thread.

I used to say “Speeding gets you nowhere, fast” but the irony is lost on anyone that does it.

Of course they are. They are a literal data farm. People need to stop using it.

99% sure he wasn’t joking. He was plotting.

A fair point. The rule is more to not keep secrets from eachother. This post was more about the distiction between secrets and surprises, and not really focused on the moral considerations or other nuances.

What do you mean? How am i giving him a reason to lie by helping him understand that secrets are bad.

Not sure you get it. But i feels intentional.

I am not saying secrets are kept but that we as a family do not.

You really don’t get it?

She wasn’t forced to flash her breasts. (I mean wrong choice of words as flash implies nudity, which isn’t what happened). she was forced to have someone berate her because they thought she was a man. What right did that server have to follow someone into a bathroom and declare they are a man and need to leave? What proof did the server have?

The bottom line is you are the one sexualising this. She didnt flash, she unzipped her hoodie to show that there were breasts under her shirt. The issue is she shouldnt have to have done that to get that server to leave her alone. What alternative did she have? And dont say she could leave because thats bullshit. She doesn’t have to leave. The server needed to leave.

What would you have done to make the server leave you alone? Short of proving your gender

I still really want to get off this ride… i have been over it for a long time.

Fuck stupid people.

Fuck them in their stupid asses!

I expect i will crumple at that point. But i hope i set him up with the tools he needs to navigate that part of life. And hopefully he feels close enough with me to come to me for help.

An encrypted proxy. Thats a pretty hefty distinction.

They couldn’t switch off VPNs for businesses. I work in a hospital and we use VPNs to create secure tunnels to other third party health care companies as well as NHS adjacent health services amongst other things. This is to protect patient sensitive data amongst other things. This would cripple our service and go against NHS england and government requirements for the secure transfer and sharing of data.

This would have to be public VPNs only. Despite the fact that it would be complete bullshit either way.

My 5 year old son does have access to an android tablet, but i restrict, selectively, what he can do on it and time limit his usage so it locks down after a few hours. I curate his youtube and frequently spend time watching kids content to decide if i want him watching it. If its good and educational i will share it to his kids youtube account. He cant browse the web, he cant buy things on the play stores. He has to get me to approve any app install and i will always install first and play to ensure it safe.

Its hard work, but its worth it to protect him online. And this has lead to it just being another one of his toys, it doesnt absorb his whole existence. He can take it or leave it. Which i am chuffed about.

When he is older and i can help him understand for himself how to be safe, i will help him however i can. Rather than restric, i will help him understand what the internet is, the good the bad and the ugly.

Hey man, i wanna be clear. That wasn’t intended as a freak out. At all. I’m sorry it came off that way. It was a general musing about how vast the world is and that despite thinking everyone must know about a particular thing, there will always be people that don’t.

I was more wonder and amazement at that fact. I wasn’t having a go at you.

Sorry again my dude.

Be right back…

Yeah! Thats what i am saying.

It absolutely makes sense that there will be vast numbers of people who dont know any single well known anything.

But it never fails to blow my mind just how big the world is.

It’s so strange for me, having been born in 1988, to hear someone not know who this guy is, and this song.

I fully understand that it’s been just about 30 years since this came out, and there are multiple generations of kids that will never have heard it that are fully grown adults now.

Its just that this song was not only massive, one that everyone knew, but it lived on way past its release date, it was played on radio, tv, used in films and tv shows (silicon valley is a recent one of note). The same band also had a meme based on the film “napolean dynamite” with the song canned heat, which the main character did a dance to that made it into games such as world of warcraft and fortnite.

The band is a part of pop culture, and despite it all, there are still places in the world where people dont know instantly what this picture is from and who that is.

I get it. It just boggles my mind how vast the world is. Even 10 years ago there were people living in the north west of england asking who the beatles were. (Beatles are from liverpool in the north west of england and liverpool is littered with beatles murals, staturs and that kind of shit) its insane that anyone could not know who they are.

But hey ho. Just thinking out loud.

I mean, from what i can see by googling it, it does seem like it originaled in england and was brought over to america. The apple trees in america were crab apple trees and were useless for making apple pie. The apple trees you use were brought over and domesticated before baring fruit that could be used in the dish.

Also, when i say stolen, i am talking about using a dish that didn’t originate in the USA to define the USA. But to mean that this pie is culturally american and patriotic. Except ironically it actually just proves how american culture is born of many many different cultures that came before it, and being proud to be american whilst simultaneously wanting anyone who isnt white to get out of the country is so idiotic and backwards.

I would argue that apple pie was “stolen” since they have a whole phrase “as american as apple pie” when it isn’t even american. It wasn’t traded. It likely came with the brits et al, that colonised america. And since has become a staple of american culture.