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  • scrion@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Thoughts on co-sleeping ?
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    4 days ago

    Sorry, but that’s simply not good advice. Nobody is born with perfect parenting skills and is granted all the answers. In fact, many parents are not fit to raise kids at all, others are simply overwhelmed and need help.

    It’s very easy to have a kid, not particularly easy to raise one. The idea that all your decisions are magically correct and sound just because it’s your own kid and that every parent knows best is simply wrong. It’s healthy to doubt yourself and to ask for advice.

    Also, parenting science is not quackery. This is an actively researched area and there are real scientific efforts to better understand child development with respect to biology, psychology and neuroscience. These efforts do lead to a better understanding of how kids can be raised and how certain parental decisions might affect a child.

    Personally, I’m happy each time parents try to inform themselves and seek the advice of others. That doesn’t necessarily mean relying on the answers a bunch of strangers give on social media, but I hope the Fediverse as a whole can do better.

    Right now, I can’t make the claims you did in your post initially.

    You’re not causing permanent damage to a child by letting them sleep in your bed.

    I wouldn’t know that. Intuitively, I do believe that co-sleeping would have a lot of benefits up to a certain age, after the infant stage and dangers of SIDS have passed. However, I could easily imagine that there might be adverse effects after a certain age. Would it be likely to occur after a handful of times? Probably not. Are there any indications on the threshold maybe? Anything to look out for, given the kid might have anything else going on? Maybe. All information I would have on that subject would indeed be anecdotal though, and so in turn pretty useless. Why the dismissal of an honest attempt at getting educated?

    I would indeed argue for getting an overview of what science has to say on the matter and then making an individual, informedndecision based on all the additional context I’d have as a parent that I could never cram into a couple of posts on the internet.

    Having access to scientific publications, I’ll see if I can provide some material later.

  • scrion@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Scientists Discover That Feeding AI Models 10% 4Chan Trash Actually Makes Them Better BehavedEnglish
    91·
    22 days ago

    Who says you can’t check their outputs? It’s much faster to e. g. read a generated text than to write everything yourself. Same applies to translations, they’ve been excellent for quite a while now.

    Business communication can be handled effortlessly by AI. Of course you read the result before you send it out, but that takes an order of a magnitude less time than formulating and typing all those meaningless sentences.

    And honestly, that’s a perfect use case for AI. I wouldn’t compose a love letter to my family using AI, but a pamphlet, feature description, sales pitch, any bullshit presentation deck? You bet AI excels at those.

    Same applies to content summaries that help augment search indices. Finding a large number of content candidates (e. g. videos) and have AI summarize the contents of said videos to narrow down the search is helpful and works today.

    I’m not looking for AGI. I’m looking for tools to make my life easier, but in an ethical manner that doesn’t advance the destruction of the planet at an exponential rate, just for some tech bro to jerk it and buy another yacht.

  • scrion@lemmy.worldtotumblr@lemmy.world•This just in - all male victims of SA are lying for attention
    30·
    24 days ago

    When I was still young (and buff), I had a very inappropriate encounter with two drunken women on the subway, I don’t want to get into too much detail, but there was a lot of sexual harassment.

    Another time, a female doctor touched me very inappropriately, caressing my pecs and letting her hand slide down my bare chest down to my stomach, pinching my biceps, all while commenting how she liked that I was toned and “not a beanstalk”. She was about 20 years older than me.

    Now, on both occasions, I never felt in danger. I was subconsciously aware of the difference in physical strength between me and those women and never felt threatened. In fact, I was pretty much flabbergasted in both situations and only realized later that I connected these events with an “unpleasant sensation” of abuse. I can’t describe it any better - it was like a thought popping into my head later that evening, akin to “Hey, I think that doctor molested me, how are you going to handle that”.

    While none of these events were even remotely close to what it must feel like to experience actual rape, I still want to speak out against the misconception that men can’t experience sexual violence and harassment, and in particular against the insanity that asks men to open up about their feelings, while at the same time assuming they’re emotionless husks that can’t be affected by such events and should just “man up”, let alone the idea that men are incapable of even feeling anything in those situations and are faking it in order to achieve ulterior motives.

    Fuck that noise.

  • scrion@lemmy.worldtoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon reads between the lines
    38·
    28 days ago
    1. Quiet comes into frame, PoV happens to focus on the bucket so the first thing that to end up in the center are her boobs
    2. Quiet leaves, someone thought the player needed a power zoom on her ass and added a matching sound to it
    3. They made her hum and dance in a jail cell, while randos in the background mumble Oh, she’s a hot girl, what I wouldn’t do…

    Honestly, the zoom gets me the most. Why was that added? How do you get away with something like that?