I am certainly convinced that TV, being purely passive, is more likely to have negative effects on cognition than online communities, which are something you can actively engage in and be creative.

Correction: you can do that. You shouldn’t because it’s beneficial for young people to have social contacts and belong to positive communities, which is very much enabled by social media!

Also the claim is that the reason this particular child is “stressed out” is:

He said girls especially are barraged with unrealistic and sometimes AI-generated images of women’s bodies at a time when they’re feeling especially self-conscious about their own bodies.

Now I was never a girl nor especially conscious about my body, I am a male nerd who quickly learned in school not to care what others thought of me too much…

But I remember around 15 to 20 years ago reading similar claims about youth magazines and advertisements, that they were promoting unhealthy and unrealistic ideas of an ideal body image. So the beauty and fashion industries or whoever didn’t need computers to do those things.

In both cases, “promoting an unhealthy body image” is literally just free speech which in the US enjoys broad constitutional protection. So the government has no business doing anything against it.

Already a thing: !badnews@lemmy.ml and !badnews@lemmy.dbzer0.com

https://xkcd.com/810/ was oddly prophetic

Is the source code already available?

There are lobbyists for non-profits (that you can donate to if you agree with their goals) too.

Not really.

Lawmakers in a democracy can’t possibly be experts on all the fields they make laws about. Without any lobbyists at all, they wouldn’t know what kinds of laws any organizations (whether for-profit or not) would like to see passed. This would likely cause worse laws to be passed.

Ultimately lobbying is just (parts of) the population attempting to influence what happens in politics, which is what is supposed to happen in a democracy.

In some cases what you say may be true, but not in all.

That’s not what I asked. I asked about a comparison of both of them to PostgreSQL.

Are there real advantages to using either MySQL or MariaDB instead of PostgreSQL?

The uplifting news is that even someone in the European commission (unexpectedly) prefers the less privacy-invasive version the parliament wants, not the one the council wants.

That is interesting. I have wondered before why I regularly heard and read about peanut allergies in US media and US Internet forums when I’ve never actually encountered anyone with one here (in central Europe). This answers that question…

Eh, the Danish presidency will end in the end of December. Whether any future presidency will take it up again is a different question of course.

I suspect OP wanted to know about a video platform where they were not getting any automated recommendations that they hadn’t chosen to follow… my point is, chronological sorting is still an “algorithm”.

There aren’t any because all ways of displaying any data at all involve an “algorithm”. There are no “algorithm-free alternatives” to anything at all except not using computers at all.

Maybe think about what you’re actually trying to ask, then ask that question again.

I don’t think they’re any more cringe than most non-federated services.

Zero Wing Rhapsody

I found it (in the mid-2000s as a preteen) before I consciously learned about the original Bohemian Rhapsody, so every time I now hear the latter, my mind immediately goes “what happen, what happen, somebody set up us the bomb, somebody set up us the bomb”.

maybe https://openlevelup.net/?l=0#11/1.3025/103.9049 to the extent that it is mapped in OSM?

Geographical aspects are incomparable between 1930 and 2025. Germany is a lot smaller in 2025 than in 1930 and German division hadn’t happened yet in 1930.

A bear walks into a bar and says “I’ll have a …....…...….….….….….. beer.” The bartender asks: “Why the big pause?” The bear responds: “I don’t know, I was born with them.”

(Pic in OP relevant. Even bear cubs have big paws.)