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Bob's avatar

Here is an extremely hard thing to explain to kids

Kids are homeschooled

So they are not brainwashed

They ask why cant we watch any channel on TV?

Kids ask why cant we eat marshmallows?

Why cant we eat M&M's?

The list of things not allowed is endless

The internet is off limits but they see me and my wife online and they ask why not them?

I explain that it isnt good for you, it is bad, it will make you sick, internet is not all true, etc etc

Kids response "Why is it allowed then?"

Interesting listening to kids talk about the things we try and shield them from

their perspective is a true innocent logical approach to it all

My answer to them is I am trying to keep them safe and healthy and that they stay that way forever

The WinePress's avatar

Food for thought.

Elusive1's avatar

Great points!

Our family homeschooled. In the middle of those years, I became widowed and wasn't strict enough with our 2, in particular online, as well as I had lost my other half ---- and his authority and presence.

Bob's avatar

Sorry for your loss :/

It is a challenge raising kids in todays world

Elusive1's avatar

Thank you. It was a while ago now, but he is greatly missed. Both children have left the nest, aa adults now, but yes, it's very challenging!

Terry's avatar

The PTB thru intel agencies that controls DC and actually run the federal gov't created the internet and used proxies like Bill Gates to massively roll it out publicly back in the '80s as the "digital genesis" to remake society and eventually enslave mankind in their technocratic dystopia. Remember, the "www" stands for "world wide WEB" -- like a spider web ..a digital trap. And now today, the gov't, every business, and everyone depends on the WEB to live and survive. So today, the PTB have successfully trapped us in their WEB.

Elusive1's avatar

I often point out the "web" part of this trap most of us find ourselves in. 😢

Bob's avatar

I agree

The internet is a complete mess now. I have been on the internet since the 70's and always thought it would be 2050 and beyond before we got to this point.

I have been deleting people I follow a lot lately as their writings have become chatgpt words

I called out one cancer survivor who I followed, wanted to know how he stays cancer free, so I called him out for it and wanted to know why he is pumping out articles every 4 hours, $$$$$$

Sad, he has thousands of followers and he makes more money.

Sadder than that is the people can not see thru it, followers keep going up

Worse than all of that is people will argue with you because GROK says blah blah blah lol lol lol

I spend a lot of time on the wayback machine retrieving articles, books and things before they disappear

No idea where we are headed as a society

sourapples's avatar

headed to Terry Gilliam's Brazil

Birdwoman's avatar

I have found this to be very helpful during these troubling times.

Galatians 1:3-5 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ. 4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: 5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen

The WinePress's avatar

Great passage!

Elusive1's avatar

Sounds like you have a good plan!

The WinePress's avatar

Besides some of the sermons I have written, I'd like to convert my articles into volumes for each month, just to preserve some of them. The process will be a bit tedious, though.

Elusive1's avatar

It's important enough to accomplish! I'm sure you're up to the task. 🙂

David Aarons's avatar

Let me know Jacob if you need supplies and I'll help ya the best I can, I would love to read them in a book/pamphlet form (did I spell that right)

The WinePress's avatar

Thanks brother.

Vittoria's avatar

The Human Security data is staggering, 8x growth in automated traffic versus human traffic is not a trend, it's a structural shift. The "dead internet theory" used to be a conspiracy. Now it has a benchmark report. What strikes me is the framing though: every proposed solution is still about detection and filtering after the fact. Label the AI content. Flag the bot accounts. Build better captchas. None of that addresses the upstream problem, which is that there's no cost to creating fake identities at scale. The only real fix is making verified human identity a structural requirement to participate, not an optional badge. Building something in that direction, curious whether you think there's appetite for platforms that make that trade-off explicit.

David Aarons's avatar

I see it daily, most everyone uses A.I. to create their video title/picture to get to watch, nothing is genuine anymore