Dragon Rider (drag)

You should go watch Big Hero 6, then. You’ll get a very good idea of how a robot can be supportive.

A robot has infinite patience and will never get mad or bully a child for fun. Ideally, this should also be true of a parent, but it’s not. From a less grim angle, a robot doesn’t have other responsibilities like work.

For a kid who feels too shy to talk to people, a robot can be good for practice. But it requires a lot of attentiveness from parents to make sure the child doesn’t become dependent and moves on to taking to people once they get their confidence.

Back when drag was a kid, we used imaginary friends instead of robots. But a lot of parents and children don’t believe in imaginary friends, which is a shame, because robots are a lot more expensive.

Renewable energy is already cheaper than fossils. It’s already cheaper to build a solar farm than a fossil mine and power plant that produce the same energy.

But, if you charge the people more money for the fossils, then you can make a bigger profit margin even if you’re wasting all that money. And the profit is even bigger if you get the government to eat the expense of building those mines and plants and subsidize fuel prices.

So the most profitable thing you can do is choose the least efficient method to generate power, complain to the government that you need subsidies to compete, and gouge customers on the prices. Capitalism!

In drag’s opinion, involving someone in politics without their knowledge or consent is more political than simply teaching them to value and engage with politics of their free will. The consent violation makes it more political.

Also in a liberal capitalist society, everything is politicised because everything costs money. In an anarchist society you just go to the grocer and take some food home. Under a capitalist regime, you have to exchange money backed by the state which represents a social construct of value exchange just to buy some bananas. It’s weird.

Yeah, but it’s less political than everything else drag can think of

Anarchism. Anarchism is just people working together to topple unjust states with violence if need be. No need for voting or governments or corporations to get involved.

Drag would recommend Linux to everyone, except for the very small minority who plan to install a non-Linux OS on their android phones.

They bought a Mass Accelerator Cannon from the UNSC

Just ship the humans to the other hemisphere.

Build a salt mine next to the desalinator. Tell them the brine will turn into salt faster than seawater would.

Just ship the hydrogen to the other hemisphere.

Is Ubuntu compliant?

No. Your point is old people stuff from the physical world. Times changed and your knowledge is out of date. You’re trying to apply physical wisdom to the digital world. Because you’re a boomer who doesn’t understand technology.

Ok boomer

Kids are people and they deserve a chance to try.

Those kids already have exploiters; their parents. The right to communication should be granted to all, and especially the most vulnerable.

Problematic for the children who are having their rights taken away. This change bans children from connecting with their friends in other countries, other states, and even other cities.

Even something as simple as hopping in a voice call with your squad to play Deep Rock Galactic is now illegal for 15 year olds. That’s ridiculous. The fact that they can break the law is great, but they shouldn’t have to break the law in order to do something so harmless.

What about using Zoom to speak to a doctor or therapist? What about contacting queer support resources through social media? What about using a text based suicide hotline? According to the law, that’s social media.

It’s a good thing we wiped out covid and will never need students to use Zoom again!

Oh, wait

Not that example specifically, but Steam got in big trouble with Australia’s consumer commission for their refund policy. You know how Steam refunds are so permissive these days? It’s because in 2016, Valve had to pay 3 million dollars to Australia for lying to customers about the refund policy and were forced to improve their game. One country can make a big difference to your consumer rights, even if you don’t live there.

Yes they do, but half decent manufacturers are extremely rare.