I think you’re confusing warmth and use-ability with familiarity.

Nobody who grew up using the metric system feels it ‘cold’ and yearns for something with more character.

I use PhotoSync on my phone for this - select which albums to sync where with a rule and away you go.

Half way through the mask seems to slip and it was the vaccines all along.

This article goes from pretty agreeable content to 'vaccines did it' so fast I have whiplash. Please tell me I'm reading this wrong.

> Key implications:

> 2. After the DPT vaccine entered the population, neurological and behavioral issues rippled through society. In the 1950s, “minimal brain damage“ [MBD] was coined, with hyperactivity as its defining characteristic. MBD symptoms overlap significantly with encephalitis, DPT injuries, and autism. Eventually, they found it could be “treated” with stimulants, and the disorder was renamed ADHD.

> 3. I suspect something similar is happening with screens—their dopamine-releasing nature is being used to counteract behavioral disturbances in vaccine-injured children. Many parents lacking bandwidth to handle misbehaving children are forced to provide addictive technology, transforming children into lifelong users.

I'm instantly suspicious of anything online that uses the "dopamine" buzzword. The name of the neurotransmitter seems to just be used to mean "good feeling" so the grifter writing the article can make their self help content or specious moralising sound scientific

You _can_ curate the Enterprise edition a lot more with group policy/intune and remove all that stuff but my experience has been most corporate IT departments don’t care/don’t know how to do it, and MS will just randomly enable new things without asking the same as home editions and you have to keep an eye on it and go to disable them.

It’s super annoying!

Right? As a teenager on overclocking forums there was a strong mod presence and you knew them. They were quick to delete any shit and keep a lid on the drama - playing a very effective ‘big brother’ role for the rest of us to have a great time.

What makes this impossible is the scale that people assume you need to cater for. When you limit your population to a reasonable size then moderation is easy and everyone gets to know the expectations of the community.

Yep this is it. These social media companies don't want to moderate because it costs too much.

Unfortunately we have built a world in which people can live stream terrorist attacks or child rape.

Have Microsoft and Apple even tried? I haven’t seen any evidence that it’s their goal.

Microsoft didn’t but Apple did.

So did Meta.

I have a cheque from NAB for 1 cent because I somehow screwed up closing my Citibank account and had fractional interest that had to be paid to me.

Children need instruction, they’re not born with an inbuilt list of things they should probably learn and the desire to go and learn them without guidance.

If we were talking about 6 year olds I wouldn't made this comment. Plenty of teenagers are curious about the world around them. The ones that can't read a clock, aren't. By the time people get to their teens there's already a huge huge range of interests and yes, IQ too.

Relying on ‘plenty of children are curious enough to be motivated to go figure it out’ as a teaching strategy is pretty wild.

Teenagers.

They’re still children and regardless of your definition, my statement still applies.

Looking for an explanation about how these people weren’t just engaging in freedom of speech?

A government official who created and implemented government censorship regulation is a little bit more than "just engaging in speech". That's like saying Deng Xiaoping was "just directing traffic" when the tanks rolled in to Tiananmen.

They weren't implementing "government censorship regulation". They were trying to ensure the different views on speech in their own countries are respected and conformed to.

This is a clear example of global operators running up against the natural friction of conflicting national customs and laws.

It's a particularly knotty issue in the intuitively borderless and passionate medium of internet speech and won't be helped by regulators or commenters here ignoring that.

I presume you’re referring to something specific there. What is it?