@hj@sim well, yeah, sex is a topic that's tricky, i would say. it's probably harmful for children to have sex with other people, but it is still important for schools to include education on sexual knowledge, and e.g. masturbation (i would say that i did it since kindergarten, but without realizing what it is, until middle school.), how to have safe sex, what is sexual harassment and what to do if you encounter one, etc. while i was in middle school, i got taught some very shallow topics on puberty, but that's it. when i entered university, i met a student group who does sex ed to frosh and to high school seniors. still very basic, but it's better than nothing.
given that sex is still a "forbidden" topic in so many societies, i doubt there will be a lot of progress in the near future. i hope there will be, though. and again simply imposing an age limit on sexual materials does not help children become prepared for sexual stuff they might encounter either now or in the future -- only proper education will do.
@hj@sim what you say do make sense. safety education, that's definitely needed. and also, if bad things happen, then it is already a problem itself! "children being able to see them" is a symptom -- and not allowing children to see them does not make the problems magically disappear. we know there are bad things, and what is needed is to prepare children on how to act towards these -- not masking children and telling them that the bad does not exist.
> Government solution is age restriction with verification - comes with free surveillance - irresistable offer!
and a lot of people buy it -- to me that's really the sad part.
@hj i agree it's education problem. just pointing out banning children from certain places is not the right solution, and not even the right direction. as someone who suffered from tremendous bullying and lack of support in "real life" in childhood, i cannot imagine how much harder my life would have been if i was not allowed to access the forums, irc and other online communities when i was in primary school/middle school.
@sim@hj in terms of functionality, i don't think "social media" is essentially different from a great grand café, public square, or park. people meet each other, talk to each other, or by themselves watch other people. it's public space; it's everyone's space. the only difference is size and way of transmitting information. to say that children should not be on social media is not essentially different from saying that they should not go to the park to play with friends or just watch seniors playing chess.
@chjara one simplified character can have more than one corresponding traditional ones and it's more frequent than the other way around. rime's default input method schema also uses this traditional-first approach
@libreleah No. It will only hurt the people under dictators' rule, not the dictator themselves. A thing maybe counterintuitive for you is that, imposing any kind of "sanctions" will hurt people much more and much more quickly than it hurts a government. And the right solution? The most basic is to let anyone under the rule of a dictator that doesn't like it easily escape -- make it really easy for them to travel to your place (i.e. lifting visa requirements) and claim refugee.
To do more, support worker's rights movements in those places. Mainland Chinese people are taught by the government that "foreign powers" are hostile to them so the only way to thrive is to support the CCP. They will be led to blame bad life on foreign governments, not CCP. If you try to support their lives instead of trying to destroy it, they will know who is good for them.
@phorge Oh, after looking more deeply, GitLab has two types of issues. One is "issue" and the other is "work item" (or "task"). And only "work items" can be assigned as a child task. A "work item" can be created by the "New Task" button in the "Add" dropdown. Very confusingly, a "work item" can be converted into an "issue," but only if it does not have a parent. However, the only way to create a "work item" is to create it with a parent, using the steps I described before. There are two routes to display an issue, namely /work_items/:id and /issues/:id, but they are almost the same, and only the former route has the UI to convert between an "issue" and a "work item".
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