Not sure from what time is your experience is from, if it’s pre Covid, I would say it’s outdated. Dating apps in the last few years turned into hyper optimised tunnels to get money out of their users while keeping them in the app with algorithms surgically portioning interactions aimed to keep their users swiping.
I think her parents are not doing what they should be doing. And I also think, that it is partially their parents fault but much more the fault of the education and social system the parents has been brought up and currently working and existing, because they are missing the resources (time and knowledge, etc) to attend to their child needs in this regards. And I'm also 100% sure they are not missing those resource because they are not doing their best to get what they need to meet with their child's needs.
It would be really easy for me to blame her for choosing the easiest things to do, her teacher to not giving homework which cannot be solved with chatgpt, her brother for letting her using his account, her parents for not being there and overseeing how she does her homework, but I very much think that each and every person is in this story is exhausted by just simply trying to exists in systems which are not setup for this 11 years old to meet what she needs with her homework and every person either still fighting the systems or just gave up because they run out of steam and they are doing their best to keep their head above the water.
Autistic people do have empathy, it just works differently. Most of them are actually really caring, just not very good at showing it. Nor at picking up others' feelings. But they do care about them in my experience.
Most of them I know will have more difficulty with this type of work, not less. Because they don't tend to process it as well. This includes myself as I do have some autistic tendencies. No way I could do this.
As far as I'm aware hands down layouts were primarily designed to be used on a split ergonomic keyboard with thumb cluster, the space and enter lives on the thumb cluster.
Even those better thumb variants don't seem to statistically take that into account (judging from the description/heatmaps/data sources), but then it also presents the "slab" variant...
It would be great to understand (and perhaps everyone else has figured this out already) how much of this stuff is just bad people responding to incentives created by social media design for anger and how much is directed (at least at some level) by interests (e.g. oil or whatever) that want to see the issue fuzzed up.
If it's mainly the design of social media then how do we hold these folks to account for the damage?
Media consolidation means most local and national news are controlled by a few people, this was happening in past few years as well in USA, and the number of people touting conspiracies and snake oil treatments (Geraldo etc) on Fox or formerly shows like Oprah sometimes predate social media. This along with social media was powderkeg in hindsight.
The only way to counter bad speech is with more good speech, not to silence the crackpots. Silencing them makes it way worse. If their bad speech is artificially amplified then so too should your good speech be artificially amplified.
indeed, like when the experts were all telling us that we shouldnt use masks, as they dont work, and then they swapped and told us to wear them, only to be filmed not doing it themselves.
Or when the mainstream media couldnt emphasize enough how covid was only of a concern to countries without any healthcare, to then flipflop entirely.
Cant we just make them all unable to reach an audience?
A friend of mine is a (retired) MD/MPH who was asked in February '20 to be on some task force or another. I congratulated him, but he said turned it down. I was kinda shocked and asked why.
"Imagine you're the captain of the Titanic, and one of your men tells you that you've just struck an iceberg. Naturally, you sound the alarm, call for help, and immediately get everyone into the lifeboats (which you have plenty of), right?"
Recognizing the rhetorical move, I smiled and waited for his continuation.
"Of course not! You tell them everything is fine, that your Best and Brightest are working the problem, announce that drinks are on the White Star Line tonight, and strike up the band. Then you pray like hell that you can fix the problem before the ship sinks and everyone dies. No, thanks. I'm too old for that."
