That’s what I always say. Targeted advertising should be illegal. Contextual advertising is acceptable.
If I’m on the star trek wiki, serve me ads for star trek, sci-fi, and whatever. You don’t need to know anything about me specifically.
We’d still need to do something about like ads that take up too much space, hurt page performance, or introduce malware, but removing the stalking would be an improvement
Healthy parenting would go a long way. See some of the other comments in this thread.
You can also have settings on your local network. If you’re afraid of your kid casually finding something inappropriate, you can set that up stuff locally without involving the government. A determined kid will still find a way to get stuff, so this is more a safeguard against accidental discovery.
Investing in quality education would also benefit everyone.
the only way to protect kinds (like little me) is to block the porn.
This is false.
Parents have a number of options available to them that do no need to involve the state.
I don’t think individual anecdotes are that useful here. For example, a dude I worked with reported his old boss was extremely racist and made all sorts of hiring decisions based on race and stereotypes. Is that common? You’d have to find or do some studies to find out.
That’s not even touching implicit bias and friends. Perhaps when the white guy is late it’s traffic, but when the black guy is late it’s because he’s irresponsible. That kind of thinking happens all the time, to all of us.
I understood that reference
Friend of mine never got their driver’s license. They live in NYC and don’t need one. They also were concerned about safety- they have ADHD and are prone to inattentiveness, and they didn’t want to be driving a car when that manifested.
I have a license but I also live in NYC. I don’t need to drive. It’s pretty great. It’s expensive in time money space and externalized costs, and it’s often less effective than just taking public transit.
Unfortunately most of the US is resistant to investing in mass transit and density, so it’s going to be shitty car-first spaces for a while.
A verbal secret passphrase to identify yourself to your family would be pretty smart.
Most of the subway smells fine.
I’m just going to go scream into the void for a while.
Well you know, if you do the main quest it might lock you out of some side quests! You can’t go back to Lothering! (Minor spoiler for a 15 year old game)
I am going to get a lot of use out of that URL.
I’ve been telling people they need to put a dollar in the jar when they do that, but I haven’t actually been enforcing it.
The idea is that, if you feel like you drifted apart, that your work on that and don’t just get out of that relationship on a whim.
This part is separate from the legal framework.
Is your argument “you shouldn’t dissolve a marriage because the legal frameworks we built don’t support that well”?
If so, is that how things should be?
Regardless, there are steps you can take to minimize legal challenges in divorce.
You are making the assumption that the divorce won’t be amicable. The situation in the original text here is extremely amicable.
If the legal framework was adjusted to remove the risks of “paying for other people’s cars”, would you still advocate for taking it seriously? Why?
Part of the humor comes from subverting the expectations. You might expect this kind of conflict- that one wants kids the other doesn’t, that one wants to change their gender expression into something the other doesn’t like- to cause conflict. Fighting. Anger.
Instead they just fully support each other.
Further, it subverts the mainstream possessiveness of partners. It’s very typical for people to be like “don’t be interested in my partner!” Or to be very uncomfortable with their ex seeing other people. Instead, this person is being very supportive of their person.
A lot of behavior in typical monogamous relationships is really shitty and selfish.
It’s not the funniest thing ever, but that’s how I see the mechanics of it working. Subverting some relationship expectations.
that your work on that and don’t just get out of that relationship on a whim.
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You’re making statements predicated on your beliefs that may not be shared by everyone.
I hang out with many queer and poly people that this didn’t even seem unusual. Sometimes I forget how basic and unexamined most people’s relationships are.
Kind of a missed opportunity to examine other relationship models, but can’t have everything.
I understood that reference
Been seriously thinking of switching to linux for my desktop. I mostly use it for games. Today I was looking at mods for Mass Effect, and the mod manager says in all caps - LINUX IS NOT SUPPORTED :(
There’s probably going to be a lot of that sort of annoyance for years.
It’s like the Three Panel Soul joke from 2014, but not quite as good: http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/dog-philosophy
It was a gift from an old partner. I think she bought a nice bathrobe and then put all the stars on it herself.
I don’t see how taking it out on the staff is going to make anything better.