If you look into that event, its not entirely as scripted as you think, which is partly why it was such a shocking event. Mankind did take a huge risk and I'd argue he very easily could have died.

The match where mankind was thrown off the top of the cage is by far the most famous match and regularly gets mentioned and memed about today.

Drinking a pint of liquor in your car before a social event is a pretty solid sign of alcohol dependency.

Its not that serious my guy.

"CAR!"

shuffles net to the curb

Pretty sure you have to have shame to be blackmailed. We all know what trump did, he doesn't give a shit.

Mines the same, its a lot of paper per kid. I never see a paper delivery truck though...

I do have kids and this is really the only way, the path of least access needed. The parental controls built into most of the services are limited and/or ineffective. Its most of the reason I have my own media server. The kids have Linux computers with no browsers installed.

The trickiest thing is that most other parents dont seem to do much of this, so the kids think we are a bit strange compared to everyone else.

That description is your perspective, which says a lot about you.

You also haven't denied that you dislike women in general, or that you are for people driving drunk.

Feel free to set the record straight if youd like.

Getting something done to a sub-par level but with a reasonable amount of effort and time is better than doing something perfectly with an immense amount of effort and time spent.

Sometimes we just need to do the thing, and not worry so much how well we are doing it. Most things, we will be terrible and slow at until we do it repetitively to learn more efficient methods.

Sweeping and picking up the house used to be terrible for me, now its mindless and somewhat relaxing. Ive done it so many times it takes zero mental effort anymore.

Be patient and forgiving with yourself, and manage your expectations if you can. We can be incredibly hard on ourselves.

Edit: also be careful comparing yourself to others! Especially with people in this post mentioning ADHD, you will find people who are taking stimulants to push their productivity, which I personally think is short-sighted and unhealthy.

Its funny, the words you wrote made people think that.

Their posts reads like drinking used to be accepted and okay but now its not accepted but still okay. Also, it was women that ruined it for us. This is some bullshit Charlie Kirk level of dishonest debate.

I think you raise a fair point, can you participate in social media without affecting others in a negative way? My guess is scale is a big issue. If social media was just our neighbors together in a forum using technology to improve our communication, that would be a positive overall I'd think.

Tools aren't really bad on their own, it depends how we choose to use them and what goals we try to achieve with them.

Being an addict isn't illegal, possessing illegal drugs is. Plenty of legal ways to be an addict if you insist though.

Even the parents that have degrees and jobs in tech have trouble keeping ahead of all this stuff, because there is far more money and manpower put behind making these products as abusive as possible. Sure, I'd like everyone to be as knowledgeable as us on the subject, but that's not practical. Social signaling has a place for broader society even if it ends up hitting people it won't affect.

Parents are only one side of the equation, with the other being the social media companies themselves. These laws make it so they have to stop offering their services to children, just like I would expect laws to prevent a corner store from selling tobacco or alcohol to minors.

If we actually cared about society in general, we would behave differently. This is a result of the fuck-you-get-mine mentality that thrives in America. There are plenty of people here that don't care about their neighbors, at all.

You only see outrage come from people affected firsthand, because everyone else thinks they are too smart/rich/successful to possibly fall victim to the same systems as the stupid/poor/lazy people.

You bring up a great point about focusing on youtube and letting roblox slide right by. Plenty of parents made that mistake, but the truth is that almost no online platform is safe for children to meet strangers in.

I'm not sure what the best way to restrict access to adults only is though, but it does seem the current attempt is the best we've come up with so far. Its incredibly invasive, and I simply won't use products that require age verification, so I'm hoping this leads to a better solution. Perhaps another country will figure out an idea and we can copy it.

Giving someone's opinion on something isn't policing it. If you don't want people to give their opinion then dont present art to them.

The answer is convincing people that the major social media services available now are bad for everyone regardless of age. For some reason this type of understanding tends to start with the most vulnerable people affected, until we finally admit its bad for everyone. These laws only punish those who use social media and those who provide it as a service, which should reduce social media use in general to a degree, so I'm for it.

Ideally for me, social media wouldn't exist in the way it does today. If we did have it at all, it would be extremely localized as a means to connect neighbors to one another. Something that would benefit society in some way.

I think its well known its addictive for everyone, but profit and convenience are the most important things to Americans, so here we are.

You all love troubleshooting computer problems right? Well, we replaced everything in your car with computers so you can always be troubleshooting! Yay capitalism!