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vsis, to technology in Carmen Osorio, expert in technology addiction: ‘It’s not a good idea to give children a smartphone; in any case, you let them borrow yours’
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It’s not a good idea to let children go wherever part of the city they want to go. Specially for no-go zones in the city.

Internet should be treated like streets. If you trust a teenager to go outside with certain restrictions of time and places, same should apply for internet.

But a minor who barely reads shouldn’t be alone in the streets all day. The same for the Internet. Similar dangers may be involved.

Jumuta, to world in The planet’s vision is getting worse: 50% of the population will have myopia by 2050

reject smartphones return to thinkpad

cygnus, to world in The battle for lithium: US and China fight over Argentina’s white gold
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Ah, this helps explain the Biden + Milei meeting. I can’t imagine Captain Libertarian siding with China.

PeteBauxigeg, to world in One in five children on the planet is now overweight or obese.

Interesting that we’ve made progress on world hunger to the extent that 1 in 5 kids is now overfed, I swear when i grew up we were told child hunger was ubiquitous in the majority of the world’s population

pineapplelover, to world in One in five children on the planet is now overweight or obese.

Now do north america. I bet the number is much higher

spujb, (edited )

Already done, it’s about the same.

Obesity affects ∼20% of U.S. youth, with severe obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥120th of the 95th percentile and/or ≥35 kg/m2) at record high prevalence.

Oops this source only counted obesity and not overweight as the original post does. It’s actually ~33%; you were correct.

pineapplelover,

Which isn’t surprising, factoring worldwide would include war torn countries and places where there’s severe famine.

FlyingSquid, to world in Claudia Sheinbaum, the first female president of Mexico
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Wow. Everyone got elected today apparently.

IcePee, to world in Seven out of 10 Europeans believe their country takes in too many immigrants

A few questions:

  • How many respondents where there?
  • What was the national break down?
  • How were the respondents selected? Was it random?
  • Were the questions phased universally across nations?

Without these questions answered, it’s hard to make out what to think about this statistic.

As the saying goes: “lies, damned lies, and statistics”.

As it is, It would have been more useful if they allowed respondents a selection of choices. Such as: Don’t Know/Care, Neutral, About Right and Not Enough.

Maybe a meta study would have made a better subject for an article.

eran_morad, to world in Seven out of 10 Europeans believe their country takes in too many immigrants

And this is why Europe faces a demographic calamity. This is also reason number 928,354,191 for the necessary marginalizing of the republican traitor filth.

FaizalR, to world in Mexico is heading towards its most violent election ever, with 30 candidates murdered, 77 threatened and 11 kidnapped

Democracy is a threat to the human.

john89,

It’s certainly not a one-size-fits-all solution.

aggelalex, to world in The cycling revolution in Paris continues: Bicycle use now exceeds car use

Cookie popup is kinda illegal

cricbuzz, to fuck_cars in The cycling revolution in Paris continues: Bicycle use now exceeds car use
hk_a, to world in An object from the sky smashed through my roof: Space debris is starting to be a problem

The atmosphere causes almost all meteorites to burn up before hitting the surface, I imagine that the same holds for space debris. So the concern about space debris hitting your house seems to be more about drawing attention to the very real problem of space debris to orbiting satellites.

Fiivemacs,

Except NASA straight up confirms it was crap from the ISS that smashed his house…but ok

nearly 2-pound chunk of a jettisoned pallet of used batteries that crashed through the roof and two floors of a Florida man’s house last month came from the International Space Station.

capem, to world in An object from the sky smashed through my roof: Space debris is starting to be a problem

I keep saying, space is mostly a waste of money until we have better technology and solve more of our problems here, first.

But hey, it makes rich people richer faster than building houses for the poor so guess what we’re going to do?

FlyingSquid,
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Communications satellites and globally-accessible internet are not a waste of money because they will bring the world together to help develop that technology (yes, I realize there is a bad side to that too). The problem is the way it’s being done… launching over 5000 Starlink satellites alone so far.

Foni, to world in Spanish parliament approves controversial amnesty for Catalan separatists

I’m not an English speaker but I think “controversial” is an understatement to describe it.

Jakdracula, to world in The government of Cuba declares itself in a ‘war-time economy’
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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8a12117d-1367-4ac5-a16a-5910630a19a2.jpegI took this picture in Havana. I quite liked Cuba and its people and culture.

robocall,
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great pic! I would like to visit Cuba, but I haven’t figured out how to travel there comfortably without access to my American bank account.

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