It Is All Very Very Mysterious Why We Would Want That.

It is all very very mysterious why we would want that.

It is completely random that it started happening a few years after both major parties found a loophole in the the law that allows them to take bribes.

I guess we will never know

*and adults

Modern marketing and algorithm content recommenders train you to NOT make choices. To just follow the algorithm.

And... it is not healthy. We have studies saying it is not healthy...

Stuff kids on tumblr better relearn

1. You are responsible for your own media experience. 

2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you - but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.

3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.

4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves - you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine - but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.

5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.

And it is done by saying "This is unacceptable!"

It is done by demanding higher standards.

It is stopped and delayed by "Other places have it worse you know" and "That is just how it is"

The post I just reblogged made me think about "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" and how, now, in our time of dramatically reduced infant and child mortality and increased abundance, the more statistically likely interpretation of that six-word story is this:

"Extended family and friends have gifted us too much stuff for our kid. They didn't even get a chance to wear these shoes before they outgrew them." And if that's not an indication of amazing progress, I don't know what is.

They really hate being called 'weird,' huh?

I said the same thing about companies wanting my gender when I applied to a job.

To my case worker in the unemployment benefit part of the municipality before I found my current job.

She then told me that it was to allow firms gender discriminate, which she thought was perfectly fine...

I... have rarely been that gobsmacket...

Happens a lot on all of tech as more companies is doing the Enshittification thing.

I was told by a senior engineer that what I was promising my boss I could build was not possible.

I countered by oppening the datasheet for the microcontroller in question and pointing to the page that said I was correct.

Turns out he have never read the documentation for the microcontroller he have been working on for the last 10 years.

I had read the entire thing before having been there a month

All his knowledge is based on rumors and hearsay

I think the real reason most websites are janky as hell to use these days is because web developers have become so specialised that nobody really understands how anything works anymore. The other day I had to explain why hosting critical Javascript libraries on a third-party CDN is a bad idea to a "lead developer" who genuinely didn't know the difference between server-side versus client-side scripting.