Let’s not further isolate our society. Parents should feel free to bring their kids along places so they can still socialise.

Totally agree. And it’s not that difficult to find quiet places. I’d like to see more kids out and about be safe and playing, laughing, screaming, whatever, or meeting other people in the company of their parents so they learn about community and communication. So many kids are cooped up with their parents and with gadgets indoors day in and day out.

it’s like we want to warehouse the old, warehouse the kids and warehouse precious adults. This is no way to have a healthy community.

F**k, there’s some evil bastardry in our society. Parents and kids both need help with this. I’ll cross-post to Life Support unless yo want to.

sounds like a pretty exploitative system to me

It mostly is and not only when it comes to PhD students. We are in a society in decay.

20% are ill-informed or don’t want to be. 1 in 5 people thinking it’s excusable to mass murder your way to ‘security’ is a stain on our society. The society of the ‘fair go’, what? Any politician bringing up the Eurovision crap show can’t sink any lower. But maybe they can.

It’s all very new to me. I started seriously using social media only about 4 yrs ago. That was Fb and I was kicked off that probably because of my political ideas though they fabricated some other excuse. Then I came to HERE! I’m still a beginner.

I look forward to see if this goes anywhere and it’s not just a PR song-and-dance replacing taking real action to stop the ongoing slaughter. At this point it sounds vapid.

I agree about not using X, but for writers/journos/commentators etc who want to get their message through to as many people as possible, it’s only logical that they go to the most popular media no matter how nasty it is. If they only wrote in social media like Lemmy they’d be speaking mostly to the converted and to a much, much smaller cohort.

So, we need to grow Lemmy, right?

I believe she is directing the information to people who are users of X and other mainstream media. I am sure she is not limiting herself to just X. She is on Substack as well as other mass social media. I use her email mailing list.

I find information through her that I do not find elsewhere. I respect her greatly. She has the courage and integrity.

You/we need to speak up about this.

It also reminds me of sports betting and its apps which make it easy and addictive to use them.

As an older person I feel sadness that young people cannot see how beautiful and interesting they are in all their individuality (we have to communicate this to them) and I also feel anger that our current culture is doing them damage.

Look around the world. Similar horrors abound. Our socio-political systems are rotting and the general population react and reflect that.

We need to make a lot more noise and get answers from all politicians an what they intend to do, no matter what political allegiance they have. It will show what they’re about. We have a very high level of lethal violence against children and women and this provokes more violence into the future.

It’s on 4Corners tonight togethr with the the incident with the woman having a pychotic episode being attacked by police.

“determine if longer term protections are required”, whatever that means.

So that’s the show people have been talking about!

Thank you. Here’s another testimonial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL9wEoav1x0

Perhaps one petition may not, but if there are enough people signing it tells the politicians this issue has traction with voters (otherwise they wouldn’t have done even the small reforms they’ve done so far). If we let them know we haven’t forgotten and keep at them, more is likely to happen.

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Ok, if that makes you happy.

That’s not a catchphrase. It’s an observation.