Yeah it's not gonna do much for the iPad kids being raised by YouTube, unfortunately.
Ilandar
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It’s pretty depressing to see how many people have been ignoring the genuine harm that can occur using social media.
I feel like most people agree that it can be harmful. The problem is more that they don't understand enough about how social media works to realise that it's a structural design problem with the technology itself and one that can only start to be addressed through government regulation. To a lot of people it becomes solely a personal responsibility problem. If a child has an addiction it's solely the parent's fault for allowing their child to become addicted. If an adult has an addiction then it's solely their own fault for letting themselves get addicted. When it gets framed as an individual problem rather than a structural one, it's easy to oppose any and all legislation on the basis of "well none of us have a problem so why do we have to pay for a solution/be punished?". It's difficult to understand how easily psychological manipulation can occur if you don't understand the techniques being used.
Another, related, problem in this particular case is that a lot of people still seem to think the main problems are the more sensational things like child predators or violent content. Whilst those are very real and serious concerns, they are pretty extreme examples and getting fixated on them makes it very easy to ignore the more insidious effects of social media usage on developing brains. I guess that's one of my main problems with the current implementation; it’s based around account ownership and some platforms like YouTube still use an algorithm and build a shadow profile with recommendations based on what you've viewed even if you're logged out. For some of these platforms, the current legislation is going to do little to combat addiction (beyond signalling to parents that this stuff is bad, which is definitely important).
The ban doesn't really affect Gen Z, they are a lot older than you think. It's only the tail end of that generation who will have to wait a few years.
It wasn't a great show but the anime Kubikiri Cycle had a very interesting soundtrack, composed by Yuki Kajiura. Some examples:
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Old-fashioned Fairy Tale (this one features her own language)
There's absolutely no way this goes anywhere considering they can't even vote for another 3 years.
I completely agree with you. Cameron always gets so triggered whenever he's faced with this criticism as well, like all rich white American liberals. He doesn't even try to hide these views because he's so incredibly clueless:
In an interview with The Guardian in 2010, Cameron said the Lakota Sioux Nation was a "hopeless" and "dead-end society".
The interview was prompted by Cameron's visit to the Xingu tribe, located in the Amazon, who were fighting against the development of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam.
During his time there he witnessed cultural ceremonies.
"I felt like I was 130 years back in time, watching what the Lakota Sioux might have been saying at a point when they were being pushed and they were being killed and they were being asked to displace," he said.
He noted that 'this was the driving force' in creating Avatar.
"I couldn't help but think that if [the Lakota Sioux] had had a time-window and they could see the future… and they could see their kids committing suicide at the highest suicide rate in the nation... because they were hopeless and they were a dead-end society – which is what is happening now – they would have fought a lot harder." Source
I think that's more of a reflection of the non-linear technological leaps rather than effort/creativity on the part of the filmmakers. No modern CGI films really wow me in the same way the big features from the 2000s did.
It was pretty good! It was more of an adventure film, rather than a mystery film like the first one, so the story wasn't quite as enjoyable for me. Interestingly, it was also the same run time as the first one but felt much longer, perhaps because the pacing is all over the place. They try to cram in as many chase sequences and creative visual moments as possible (which I loved) but that didn't leave much time for exposition so it infodumps in a few places and those tend to be the scenes that drag the most. There is a post-credits scene (after the crawl) which is worth staying for.
A consensus was quickly clear: "Please bring back the previous format," one person surmised on social media.
"It's awful, the most useful features are gone and it's not user-friendly. A waste of taxpayer money," another added.
Others said the timing was poor: "Why change it on a day of severe weather?"
There were some fans, including one who posted: "I like the new site. The front page is much cleaner". But they were few and far between.
What a time we live in, when social media vibes are enough to determine a "consensus" of an entire population. Have we still not worked out that the loudest people are almost always the miserable ones? People who are happy/content don't tend to waste their lives screaming online about how happy and content they are.
I don't think so. Here's an example of it being used to mean "restricted to a certain age". I apologise for the confusion if I'm wrong, I am talking about the same thing as you.
Sounds like a free surround sound upgrade for everyone else in the cinema!
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His films have rarely been that short, though. Even before streaming allowed him to make very long films like The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon, he was still averaging well over 2 hours.