Re: OT: Don't let Peanut Die For Nothing

On 8/11/2024 11:50 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Fri, 8 Nov 2024 23:05:27 +1100) it happened Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in <vgkuqi$36je2$1@dont-email.me>:
 

On 8/11/2024 5:19 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Fri, 8 Nov 2024 12:44:37 +1100) it happened Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in <vgjqeg$2t0r1$2@dont-email.me>:

European parliamentary systems were pretty rudimentary back in 1786.
They've got a lot better since then. The Australian constitution got set
up in 1901 and missed the cutting edge stuff that the Swedes and the
Dutch worked out a few later. The 1948 German constitution copied them
and seems to work well.

>
Australia now wants to ban kids below 16 years of age from participating in / using social media!
Ridiculous!!!

>
Less ridiculous to the parents of kids who have taken bad advice that
they got from social media.

 Would not they have died <and maybe sooner> if left to the control of their parents of environment only?

Probably not. There seem to have been more bad outcomes in the last few years than there were before social media became popular

As soon as kids can read and write they can also swipe a smart phone these days...
They know about google and politics too.

But they mostly can't afford smart phones.

Kids don't have good judgement - neither do
you - but most of them get wiser as the get older and brain development settles down >> settles down. They can't even get married without parental consent.

 >
 > boring twit!
You seem to be the twit here. I'm not to boring to reply to.

Kangaroos have more freedom there.

>
And most Australian kids can spell the word correctly. Kangaroos are
wild animals,

 Just testing

Pull the other leg.

and can't screw up as thoroughly as kids can. They rarely
commit suicide or become anorexic.

 >You just contradicted your own argument.
But you can't spell out how.

You never grew up in a city (like me in Amsterdam in the forties and fifties)? > Lots going on there for kids less than 16 years old long before

social media existed.

Some died..

I grew up in a small town in Tasmania (population about 15,000 at the time) but there was quite a lot going on there too

Quite possible just those social media and a view of different life styles will
protect the very young kids.

It doesn't seem to.

Maybe help them to learn languages, what the world looks like higher than  down under...
Other cultures, religions, what not, even electronics...

Grow up. I managed to learn French and German in Tasmania - Australia had lot of migrants from Europe at that time (including some from the Netherlands that I ran into as a kid). It obviously wasn't as cosmopolitan as Amsterdam, but we had  a Danish next door neighbor and a couple of Russians lived just down the street at one stage. They moved to Sydney and my younger brother ran into them again fifty year later when he was organising the Sydney Olympic games.

Amsterdam was fun yesterday, media all over it, pro-Palestinians against Jewish genocide-committing foot-ballers.

The football supporters may have included some Jewish military on leave, but they'd probably argue that the numerous Palestinian civilian casualties were collateral damage arising from the nasty habit Hamas has of hiding in the middle of the civilian population. Genocide involves trying to kill every member of an ethnic group. An insensitivity to collateral damage is morally repugnant, but it isn't genocide.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney