To be honest, I found the screenshot elsewhere and it didn’t even occur to me that it was an onion article because of how real it sounds, but I guess it adds to the comedic effect.

I’ll add an acknowledgement and it’s URL, since I can’t switch the image. But hey, at least I didn’t post it in c/nottheonion!

Yaw

Doom scrolling short form video.

My dad does this for hours per day after work and nothing else, and now it seems he’s lost all his critical thinking completely and is commonly disregulated, and I’m kind of afraid he’ll get more forgetful and erratic, since he’s already showing signs of slipping into Alzheimer’s.

Legit the whole storyline of Star Trek TNG episode “cause and effect” if you repeat it a few times and end it with them escaping eventually.

How do you suggest we ban all teens for social media? We already tried that, and the result was teens easily bypassing the verification through using game avatars, and pedophiles knowing exactly where to find the kids. It’s moronic and inefficient to keep making failed attempts at banning teens from social media.

Teens will always find a way to flock back to social media, and frankly social media companies may pull out of Australia if the eSafety commission attempts to brute force removing teens, because thats a substantial part of their market. Choosing to instead add a toggle for algorithms is heaps more constructive and be more effective.

The whole age verification thing was partly started BECAUSE of algorithms (but also pedophiles pretending that they want the kids to be safe), so isn’t it logical to make a simple way to allow those who don’t want to be force fed targeted slop to turn it off?

Interesting how a vast majority of the right wingers I know, including my dad, don’t research anything at all, and only rely on algorithms to give them right wing rage bait.

My dad for example said to me that “all these foreign exchange students are getting $50k grants for entering the country on MY taxes” after hearing it on TikTok, then I did the most minor research and found that it’s only for one of the states (I think either QLD or WA, can’t remember which though). I rebutted his claim by stating that it’s state legislation and has no basis in taking other state taxes nor much federal tax, and he gave me a long winded explanation basically just to say that I don’t know what I’m talking about.

Apparently getting force fed slop on TikTok and instagram reels makes you a prolific researcher, while actually researching makes you a bum or something.

Unrelated to algorithms but I opened Roblox yesterday after not playing for a long while and I found that they’ll give you a ‘free item’ if you do an age check

Disgusting, coercive bullshit just so kids can give their biometric data to American companies. Funny how the eSafety Commission managed to completely forget about the privacy rights of children, let alone those of adults, just so they can rush through their age verification legislation like the world depended on it.

I’m a flying, brittle, fuel inefficient vehicle zooming around in traffic attempting to not crash and fall apart.

For context, the game was “Hovercraft: build, fly, retry”

I am so fucked