Parents are the first line of defense, period. They have the first chance to bring the child up in a loving, caring way. That doesn't mean showering them with gifts and affection, that leads to its own problems, but it does mean taking the fucking tablet out of their hands more often, or, god forbid, not putting one in their hands in the first place. And don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say that these parents did that, I'm sure they have their own sins they are guilty of, but you are right, we aren't getting better parents any time soon, but the problem isn't that they aren't getting better, it's that they are actively getting worse.
And no, I'm not saying that anyone who can't meet my standards deserves to lose their child. That's just some bullshit you made up to try to prove a point you never had in the first place, which is just Strawmanning me with a touch of ad hominem. What I'm saying is that parents can't just foist the blame on to others when it's their failing that caused the bulk of the problems in the first place. I have plenty of empathy. My parents had to work their asses off to raise me and my sister in a way that let us both come out alive. I empathize with the parents that lose their children to circumstances beyond their control. War, accidents, illness. That's where empathy lives.
Fuck that. Blaming the person who provided the drugs is like trying to sue a rope company for providing the rope. You fucked up and didn't pay attention to your kid, and your kid is dead now. That isn't Mr. Law's fault, that's on you. You should have been a better parent, full stop. The "He was such a happy boy" bullshit is just cope. You know you ignored your child. I don't give a fuck how harsh that seems, I'm tired of bad parents blaming society because they didn't want to do the work.
Spoilers vs NSFW is something that has been a problem for such a long time, and it's so crazy that no one has ever bothered to implement a simple second checkbox that blurs things the same way as the NSFW checkbox, but doesn't hide spoilers from your feed. The spoiler tags on text are fine, but you can blur an image with a spoiler tag, so you have to mark it NSFW. Such a strange thing to have left out of online communities for so long.
You are oversimplifying a solution that doesn't exist.
That said, it would be great if there weren't a new porn community every other day. I tried the blocking thing and got tired of it. Now I filter out NSFW even though it will block some posts that aren't porn, it's better than being flooded. Still not sure how to go about getting rid of those creepy communities that fetishize celebrities and their bodies to an unhealthy degree but don't post "porn" so they don't get filtered, not to mention the asshole accounts that just don't tick the NSFW box on their posts.
Right there with you. It's wild to have porn on here at all. I get it, "Sex Sells", but Christ, there are other places to find it. The internet is full of it. You don't need to browse this feed for it. All it is is either posts from porn sites, or self promotion for onlyfans accounts. There is nothing of value. Just get rid of porn on the fediverse entirely.
This has been coming since Venezuela. They are speed running WW3 because they know Trump won't live forever, and once he's gone, they won't have a puppet quite as malleable.
Slow rolling my way through the latest Dungeon Crawler Carl. I've also got Burden To Bear from Gregory Amato to finish up, but it isn't really grabbing me.
Glad I could give you another thing in the list of stupid things we do to harm creatures that gives middling returns on quality that we otherwise wouldn't miss.
As if conflict of interest was ever a matter that the Supreme Court cared about...