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I had similar thoughts while thinking about the right to own copies of music or films. That is - increasing ease of recording and transmission of cultural artifacts has homogenised…

>Follow the science bud. The science is telling you to give them screentime If I see some science that says this, I'll think about it.

"We" - the West. Our opponents won a demoralised and fragmented citizenry, and economic success.

There are entire political industries openly dedicated to swaying the undecided! It's a messy business, but that's what we have. Propaganda is not necessarily to gain influence or …

Have you read the paper you linked? It indicates at best a slightly positive outcome on average, with many caveats (video is worse, the younger the kid the worse the effect, removi…

> TV was found to be a massive benefit in increasing vocabulary By who, and for who? My kids (ages 5+7) watch significantly less TV than their peers (as well as currently almost ze…

> Should we maybe focus on the more fundamental problem of our democracies being vulnerable to propaganda campaigns Step 1 is reduce your attack surface :) As a second point, democ…

>I don't want the government to decide which thoughts I can access and which ones I can't That would be an interesting discussion in itself, but even so - accessing material in iso…

Abusive online relationships. An attention-suck that I can't handle as an adult, with the corresponding lack of development of other life skills that I consider essential to a succ…

That's exactly my point. They are likely to get exposed to the worst of the internet at a significantly younger age than they will have the maturity and experience to handle (and y…

That was originally going to be my plan - my kids can have a smartphone when they can afford to buy one themselves. I figured that by this point they would be old and experienced e…

FWIW I agree with the intent of the Act, and am generally in favour of a sovereign firewall. Edit: In a nutshell - almost every other transfer of goods and services across national…

>The way we protect British kids from the Internet is to make better and more capable Britons, rather than to try and kidproof the entire internet. If only it were that easy. For m…

That's not the point of this robot. I suppose the original iCub research robot is running out of grants it can milk, so they strapped some jet engines to it.

I don't think that's true - I'm certain that the advertising has always done everything it can to maximise return on investment.

Not sure about the situation where you live, but "dirt cheap" 2nd hand cars aren't a thing any more.

>Where buying a car is really expensive? Pretty much world-wide. The cost of new cars has risen several times faster than inflation for at least a few years now.

Why would you expect things to stop changing? For one, cars old enough to be without emissions or safety equipment are becoming more rare, to the point that they are now worth a si…