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If you set parental controls on your own teen’s device, all you’re doing is isolating them from their peers and making them the kid with the weird parent who doesn’t let them post on tik tok. Social media isn’t what it was when we were growing up. It’s designed to prey on them the same way slot machines create gambling addictions. I’m no puritan but I do truly believe banning kids from social media and restricting teens at a legislative level would be a net benefit for society. Same as alcohol or drugs.

Waste sorting Everything is burnable at the right temperature.

I know the anger and denial is just your defense mechanism against acknowledging that you’re in the wrong here. Hopefully you’ll get past it and start taking responsibility one day. I just your realization doesn’t come at the cost of a child’s eyesight. Peace mate.

The BES article you linked is more about conservation law than actual impacts and the studies it uses as example are primarily from places like north America and Australia where cats are invasive. Right… Well when you get a chance to actually read the article rather than pretend you did, let me know… And so do foxes and birds and rats and voles and every other kind of animal that passes through your garden. And these don’t get canned food when prey animals have been over hunted. So they’ll starve and their population will be balanced against their prey. I’m starting to think I gave you too much credit saying you understood this issue… they kill animals to talking about killing animals yourself I’m interested in protecting biodiversity, sometimes that involves killing… Or you know… simply supervising your pets when they’re outside. But clearly you don’t have the capacity for responsibility. Cool and I was attacked by a dog that came off its lead as a kid. But if I tried to tell you that people shouldn’t take there dogs for a walk, even on a lead and you were a selfish person that doesn’t give a shit about other people because you take your dog on walks, you would just (rightly) think I’m crazy. You’re comparing someone who tried and failed to control their animal. Which is bad. To yourself, who refuses to control their animal, which is easily 100x worse. but we still let them play outside, because keeping them inside their entire lives would be incredibly cruel. How fulfilling do you think the lives of all the birds precious Mittens has killed have been? I’m not the one making threats of violence over the internet. You’re the one actually committing violence by releasing a violent predator unsupervised. How do you know it hasn’t attacked a child? Also you literally started this with petty name calling, so it’s pretty rich of you to start clutching your pearls now lil guy. I know you’re very worked up right now. But take a breathe and try to calm down.

Fair. Thanks mate I know it took thought to write that. I’ll digest if for a while.

using anecdotes I lived in China mate. It felt like living anywhere else. I saw poverty daily but I lived a good life with other middle class people. People love their families, pray for more money and love a good drink. They praise the government when a new train station is built, but everyone in my district wasn’t happy because we were below the river that the government had arbitrarily decided divided which buildings were given permits to be built with heating and which weren’t, so we froze in winter. I loved my electric scooter, I nearly died every day on the roads. The best meals I ever had were at the Buddhist temple where everything was vegetarian. You paid if you could so those who couldn’t could have a free meal. I’ve also never seen so many elderly people forced to work to avoid hunger and homelessness. From the bicycle parking attendants to the elderly couple who lived in a partition in my buildings garage. Every country has lifted people out of poverty over the last 100 years. Do you really think Chinese people don’t pay for their houses? Don’t confuse my criticism of China with an endorsement of America or capitalism. Just a counterbalance to the delusion I see in these threads.

What benefit does trust bring? Doesn’t a democracy function better under scrutiny? Acting like China is a paradise because it’s better than the US is like pretending the Greek economy in 2007 was rock solid because it was better than Zimbabwe’s. Nobody here thinks the US is anything other than a shithole (I hope). But glazing the Chinese government like this is just giving them room to be worse, not better.

Thank you for that. I really appreciate this post and it resonates with me. I wouldn’t have stayed there for so long if I didn’t love it too. But I can’t deal with the rhetoric on .ml that acts like it’s a utopia with no justified dissent. There is absolutely a functioning democracy, but it isn’t immune to nepotism or greed, just like everywhere else. It’s also capable of manufacturing suffering. The two people who remain in my thoughts the most from my time there were the 80 year old couple who worked as parking attendants in my building so they could stay in a single room partition in the garage with a kerosene heater. This was in 2011, in the center of Kunming. Not one of the rural villages in the mountains. They could have been provided for but they weren’t. It’s not a utopia, but it is a great country full of wonderful people.

And I am unfortunately in contact with real Americans who won’t shut up about the glorious Trump regime too…

The Anna’s archive link on that page is dead unfortunately, I’ll try to find it but do you have one handy right? Functionally you know it’s all propaganda though right? Even if you want to gloss it up as the “the revolution protecting itself” the PRC isn’t going to go out and admit “there’s flaws in our system”, much less “our government is run by a bunch of horny greedy assholes just like everywhere else”.

With all due respect, and apologies for not reading the book first (I will get to it when I have time). Have you just read the theory, or have you lived the implementation? Because unfortunately, they can be different in practice. In my experience of the discussions I’ve had with my Chinese friends, and the amount of gossip I’ve heard about local political dynasties and KTV prostitutes, I think the ideal and the reality is very different. Something you could also sat about the US.

with a functional democratic governance I swear none of you guys have actually lived in China haha. The Chinese political system is nepotism first, plutocracy second. Just like the US. The only difference is they’re much more sane in public. The benefits of a shame based society. If anyone can beat 7 years in Kunming, let me know how I’m wrong.

I’m glad you’re aware of the issue and I think it’s great that you’re involved in spay and release programs. However literally everything else you wrote is at odds with research that has been conducted. The British Ecological Society (one of the “non-american” countries you referenced above) has a great article on the horrific impact domestic cats have. I suggest you read it: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…/pan3.10073 To address some other problematic statements: The only real danger cats pose to local ecosystems is feral cats Every time you let your pet cat outside, there’s no guarantee it comes back. Feral cats aren’t a self sustaining ecosystem of felines that spring from the earth. Aside from that, you’re also impacting other humans. My neighbour’s cat shits in my garden every night, cat shit carries pathogens like toxoplasmosis that can cause pregnant women to miscarry and can literally make children go blind. The only reason I don’t sit out waiting with a pellet gun like I would for other pests is because I like the mangy bugger. My younger sister was also attacked while she was playing outside in our back garden by one of the neighbors cats. She still has the scar on her lip to prove it. Do you not give a shit about what your cat might be doing when you’re not being responsible for it? Imagine if I just let my dogs roam around the streets unsupervised. I’m guessing by your, Franky borderline psychotic response, I think you should really check yourself here. It’s too easy to make fun of crazy cat people for this to descend into petty name calling.

Wild birds and mammals don’t get pet food and warm houses to sleep in. You have elevated a predator above the natural order. When his range is over hunted, your cat should starve or leave. However now he won’t. He’ll go home,get food and go back out to murder everything he can find. Imagine every single other cat owner giving their pets around you the same competitive advantage and you should be able to see the problem even in areas where cats are “native”. Next time I’m walking my dog’s I’m going to let them shit in your garden seeing as you have no problem with your cats shitting in mine. Maybe I’ll let them hunt your cat too. I don’t want my precious babies being bored. Except I won’t. Because I’m responsible and empathetic. You’re being incredibly selfish.

“I hate birds and small mammals and I want my little prince to be able to murder as much indigenous wildlife as he wants because otherwise I’ll have to provide adequate stimulation like for a fucking dog or something else that requires responsibility”

Those would be some thick ass cabinet doors.

Why say sexual abuse material images, which is grammatically incorrect, instead of sexual abuse images, which is what you mean, and shorter?

Sorry. To address your two points, where did people get the idea that the word porn implies artistic merit or consent? It simply means material intended to sexually excite people. Is that not the difference between what we consider CSAM and a picture of your kid in the tub? CP can stand for a lot of things but it’s common parlance now. CSAM just causes confusion. Also really? Now you’re stooping to the old “why so mad bro?”. You’re the one having a meltdown, I’m wasting time at work by sharing an opinion.

“I’m mad you’re right so let me compare you to a hateful right wing grifter and also by the way, you’re wrong because all my friends say so.” It may shock you but a handful of Lemmy users doesn’t constitute the linguistic consensus you’re trying to inherit here.

You’re right. It can be images, that’s exactly why saying “this man was found in possession of child abuse material images” does not make grammatical sense. It’s why CP still defines it better as we’re not arresting people for owning copies of Lolita, which you could argue is also CSAM. the majority of people disagree with you. The majority of people can be wrong.

Material.

A “material image” doesn’t make any sense. I don’t know why this is the second time I’ve had a discussion about CSAM being a stupid acronym on Lemmy, but it’s also the only place I’ve ever seen people use it.

CSAM images ATM machine