Maybe, just maybe, parents shouldn’t let their kids in awful places, and also awful places shouldnt let kids in. Turns out parental controls are bullshit, and the only real answer is RTFM or dont use it at all. A business and its customers dont exist without each other, so the blame is on both sides.

All that said, the government definitely could help the parental understand and controls side of thing too using regulation.

Well, thats what you get when non-tech people try to regulate tech. At least we have correctly identified a problem, and are now trying to solve it.

Tech companies taking advantage of regulators lack of knowledge to continue abusing their customers is a different problem.

This solution might not work but we will learn and try something else or refine it until it does work, or until social media somehow isn’t predatory and doesnt need the guard rails.

Or we could focus on preventing the addiction to begin with.

Great examples include making people wait until adulthood to smoke nicotine or cannabis, or to drink alcohol.

Surely there’s always time for both the kids and parents to set aside to learn every new technology and the appropriate controls to restrict them.

And when someone says it makes far more sense to just not give their kids said technology until they are older, we have people like you arguing on behalf of the technology.

Aww poor little facebook, we dont want to hurt its fee-fees! Let’s just give it another chance! I’m sure we can trust it this time if we just learn how to use it right!

Social media does cause harm. It tricks you into thinking you are socializing with those near you when you aren’t. It tricks you into thinking people are talking in good faith, similar to in person communication. Finally, social media is a huge attack vector for scams and abuse due to the anonymity and ability to connect anywhere in the world.

All of these things produce an overwhelmingly negative social experience from social media. That wouldn’t be a problem if our defining trait wasn’t how we socialize in groups. Socializing is as important as water and food for humans.

…do we all have the same blanket for real?

Fantastic doggo!

Oh shit is that the burrito blanket?! We have one of those too its fantastic! Cat-burritoes and dog-burritoes!

Sometimes we make a mountain out of it and bury the cat in the top like she’s ruling a volcano-shaped-burrito!

I think people forget the past is done and gone.

Is that the one where you had to spray paint stuff by holding the controller sideways like a spray can and acting like you were spraying in the air?

Does an ld50 actually take into account the extreme ends or does it just not impact the result much?

You could see how that might be misleading though, to say that George Floyd was over the LD50 for fentanyl?

Fent bullet incoming.

I understand that, and thats probably a good rule for those who are naive to the medication. Tolerance does change the lethal amount on an individual basis so its hard to make statements on what would be lethal for a specific person though.

They tried the same thing with Alex Peretti too. Disgusting behavior.

There is no standard lethal amount of fentanyl. Someone who is naive to the medication could die from a very minute amount, while someone with experience and tolerance could do far more.

You can’t be the victim and perpetrator at the same time.

It didn’t defy party lines either, a quarter of American citizens are suicidally/homicidally religious and they support the war.

Yeah, all these Americans were just minding their own business, basing their whole economy on pillaging oil from any part of the world they can, doing nothing wrong of course though.

So innocent, just driving around in their pickup trucks blasting propaganda from their radios, then rushing home to watch more on their television.

Can’t we just leave the Americans alone so they can pretend they aren’t the shittiest group of people on earth?

I was thinking the same thing!

Interesting! I am a huge fan of beans so I’ll have to give that a shot.

Without the meat should I just start with the crushed tomatoes and go from there?

I like the idea of experimenting, another commenter mentioned using different types of mushrooms together as well.

I guess I never really knew the simple part of how to start a sauce so thats why I’m trying to learn more here.

Thank you for the advice I’m saving most of these comments.