And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away
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Somewhere right now there is a iPad kid watching skibidi toilet that will one day be president.
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And their parents allow them to blast the sound in public with no headphones. I can't fathom the lack of give-a-fucks for their fellow humans (to include their own children).
i mean, if they were wearing headphones the kid'd still be blasting it. it saves the kid's hearing at a minor social cost. tinnitus really sucks and if the parents have to take measures to prevent it, i'll take being annoyed for a few minutes to keep someone else from getting tinnitus. it's beyond a fair trade.
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This is actually me when I'm in public and see someone judging a family based on exactly one frame of their lives.
I know a family with small kids who watch stuff like this on an iPad. One kid figured out how to get onto regular YouTube, and now watches tutorials to bypass parental controls. A true hacker in the making.
It's been a nightmare for the parents tho, the kid figured out how to turn on all the game systems and plays stuff they're not supposed to now lol.
Also, for anyone feeling high and mighty about the content from their childhood: https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI
I think the problem people generally have with cocomelon or w/e is that it's hours and hours of content that is replacing stuff like Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street. It's okay to watch trash and it's okay to let your kids watch trash but there's a responsible way to do it.
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I was at a friends and family barbecue recently, and it just so happened none of the parents there brought tablets for their kids. It was just kids running around the backyard being kids. The parents generally let them do whatever but were attentive enough to prevent them climbing on the shed and stuff.
I can't remember the last time there wasn't some kid glued to a screen at that type of party. It was a joy to see.
my brother's got six kids. whenever he visits, first thing he and his wife do is go to sleep. they wake up for meals, then go back to sleep. now, i love my nieces and nephews, but i don't invite my brother over to be unpaid babysitters. i invite them over to see the family. so, we don't invite them over much anymore.
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I'm not having kids, but this always feels like such a missed opportunity to let kids do something more mentally stimulating on that tablet.
Drawing apps and eBooks are right there! Hell, set up Termux and Acode up for them and let them program a bit (or like, I bet there's a mobile version of Scratch they could use if they can't read yet). Let them take photos and make little collages. Get them some music Synthesizer App so that they can tinker on their own little beats. Literally just show them that they have the tools to make something great instead of just shoveling in mindless content all day..If I had termux with ghc as a child I would NOT stop studying math.
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i mean, if they were wearing headphones the kid'd still be blasting it. it saves the kid's hearing at a minor social cost. tinnitus really sucks and if the parents have to take measures to prevent it, i'll take being annoyed for a few minutes to keep someone else from getting tinnitus. it's beyond a fair trade.
Set volume limit then? Lol
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Makes sense when even adults use phones as a means to escape even a moment of boredom. How many adults use their phones while driving? That's one of the most mentally stimulating things I can think of, and people get BORED.
i "use" my phone while biking, mounted to the fucker, to play music (so i don't have to use my bell as often, also music rests my brain) and the other day i passed a kid pedaling, holding his phone in his lap and staring into the thing and jesus heelslut christ he wasn't even wearing a helmet i'm still worrying about him
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You watch skibidi toilet on a corporate-controlled spyware machine known as the "iPad"
I read the anarchist cookbook on my RISC-V PineTab
We are not the same.
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Set volume limit then? Lol
you may be assuming too much tech savviness for that amount of sleep deprivation, but you're completely correct.
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Makes sense when even adults use phones as a means to escape even a moment of boredom. How many adults use their phones while driving? That's one of the most mentally stimulating things I can think of, and people get BORED.
To be fair driving isn't stimulating at all (at least for me). Doesn't mean I use my phone while doing it though, because... I'm not an idiot
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The annoying part is when the kids roll into the party iPad already blasting.
Got a earn that shit. Also gives me something to say hey, get your shit together or no games.
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my brother's got six kids. whenever he visits, first thing he and his wife do is go to sleep. they wake up for meals, then go back to sleep. now, i love my nieces and nephews, but i don't invite my brother over to be unpaid babysitters. i invite them over to see the family. so, we don't invite them over much anymore.
That’s too many kids. Poor things can’t get the parental attention they need
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And their parents allow them to blast the sound in public with no headphones. I can't fathom the lack of give-a-fucks for their fellow humans (to include their own children).
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yes that's kind of a pet peeve of mine. I understand that sleep deprived parents sometimes need to put their kids in front of their phones. But in recent years I have noticed that they just blast the sound really loud and don't care about any other human being. I'm really shy but after almost freaking out on a train ride because of two different kids just watching something full volume I have asked parents to tone it down. They were even kind of embarrassed and nice about it. I have no idea how you can be so disconnected to your surrounding...
The worst were grandparents with a 2 year old kid during a kids theater and they just let the kid watch a show with the volume up. I mean what about all the other kids who are performing and you sit in the middle with a phone just blasting full volume. They wanted to stop him and then he started throwing a tantrum. They just laughed and were like oh he's so cute and we can't do anything about it. Fuck that's not cute, if you want to watch a tv show with volume, just sit outside of theater with your little brat! -
To be fair driving isn't stimulating at all (at least for me). Doesn't mean I use my phone while doing it though, because... I'm not an idiot
Driving is honestly very stimulating for me. I have AuDHD and it is one of the few times I feel calm because I can actively engage all of my senses. Something about keeping an awareness in your head of what's around you and your car really keeps me occupied.
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Me when a friend of mine who's an engineer who sometimes works for the CERN unironically watches Mr. Beast and listens to Papa-a-pate (?, this nonsense k-pop song, it was popular some months ago...).
Like, yeah, you have the hardware, why fill your brain with malware! ;-;
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I have friends with kids like that, and it’s scary. I’m obviously a fan of technology, but critical thinking might go down the drain if children spend all day in front of a screen at such a young age.
Adults today are, at least wherever Western media and culture has taken over, mostly mentally challenged and vacuous consumerists. What hope do their kids have? I feel bad for my future children, ngl, but they might die in the water wars regardless so maybe they won't have to tolerate nonsense for long, lol.
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Somewhere right now there is a iPad kid watching skibidi toilet that will one day be president.
Somewhere right now there is a President watching skibidi toilet that will one day be dead.
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Meh, back in the days we'd watch youtubepoop videos
Mofo how old are you, I am 33 and back in the day we didn't have youtube, we went out and played football.
Am about your age and was thinking the same! I was an adult when YouTube was widely known.
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Somewhere right now there is a President watching skibidi toilet that will one day be dead.
you jest. fox news would never stoop so low to play that garbage.
they stoop lower by playing fucker carlson, or other fascist talking heads.
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Good god this hits home
Months ago I was visited by a relative who brought their eight year old. She's single and her boy is ever so slightly mentally not there. He's smart enough but just not there with everything. Plus the mother is not capable of looking after him. So many wrong things and I hate to judge anything about it .... both mother and son are having and will continue to have a hard life.
As we talked, the son spent the entire time with their device looking at YouTube videos.
At one point I wanted to try to make friends and asked him what he was watching .... he mumbled and ignored me. I looked over at his video and it was just a completely nonsensical animation of characters running around like in a video game ... I couldn't understand what was happening or why, the cartoon animals were just mumbling nonsense, laughing, running and flashing lights and constant cuts to new scene after new scene. I looked at the kid and he was two steps away from just drooling.
I couldn't believe it and it scared me. This device was melting any amount of brain power the kid had.
It made me think about myself and what the hell I was doing with my time.
It made me think that the world is all doing the same thing to one degree or another. Some are better, since are terribly worse.
It made me think that humanity is doomed.
wrote last edited by [email protected]That's not developmentally normal even for a tablet kid, fyi. I would help them seek immediate evaluation...
I have a family member who was a tablet kid when they were 8. However they engage with me, their favorite thing is to play the addictive tablet game in my lap and they love when I or others play it with them, especially if you make a story out of it. They watch way too much YouTube but they were delighted when I watched with them, we did thumbs up and thumbs down and talked about what we were watching. They sat in my lap and while laser focused and addicted to the content, were also primarily engaging with me. They sadly are a bit attention starved from their neglectful parents but that's a lot more developmentally normal imo.
