Roblox is full of dark patterns intended to trap and ensnare kids to spend money - they care about nothing else. Their communications insist on the contrary, example:
“Roblox aims to create a safe platform for users by providing parents with visibility and control over their child’s experience”
This is a blatant lie. If they actually cared about empowering parents to control the experience they would provide one crucial feature: ability to block specific games so the kid can’t play them. But this is not possible. Instead the only way to control content is to use the “content maturity” thing they provide. However this is next to useless because a lot of the content is mis-classified. The lowest category, “minimal” is something I would expect to be able to give to a 5-year-old without reservations. But “minimal” maturity games include:
Gun and weapon violence
killing, dismembering
*Inappropriate language
Terrifying imagery (poppy playtime , Sprunki)
*References to inappropriate content (squid game anyone)
disturbing content that might even incite children to self-harm and at best makes them terrified and unsafe.
As a parent keeping a close eye on what the kid is doing I notice these things but the platform leaves me powerless to prevent kids from being exposed to this, short of a complete Roblox ban.
It’s clear to anyone that Roblox doesn’t really care about child safety in their cursed platform.
Whenever market bubbles burst one always talks of a “correction” as a healthy and common feature of the capitalist boom/bust cycle. I wonder why s “correction” always works going down / erasing value and it absolutely never works in favour of those who usually lose money (investors!) - in other words why is a correction a “sorry you got screwed” event and not a “hey you all are suddenly rich” one.
In light of Musk’s responses to the recent petition to strip his Canadian citizenship; the article says there are no grounds to remove citizenship unless there was misrepresentation when it was obtained. However, there is precedent for going back and reviewing how citizenship was obtained, as seen in 2024 for an ISIS terrorist with Canadian citizenship. Terrorism is a serious offence; so is treason, which is what Musk is doing. I think it’s fair to at least launch a review of the circumstances through which he acquired the citizenship; or failing that, to start a legal process looking into his treasonous declarations and maybe requesting his extradition from the US.
As for his responses (which I won’t even quote here, go read the first article): not recognizing a country’s statehood is literally one step before not recognizing people’s humanity - this is more of a fascist gesture than Musk’s nazi salute and bears keeping an eye on and giving a strong response to, to guard Canada from attacks from antidemocratic terrorist fascists.
Francois Legault and Pierre Poilievre are maybe the two politicians who took the longest to react to the Trump Tariff ordeal. Remember this is because deep down they are both Trump supporters as I’ve said before.
Poilievre’s reaction (or rather, carefully planned response which is why he took a full day to post) is the one most worth analyzing : he literally didn’t say anything new, just parroted what others said or what he read in the media, he’s not setting a different posture for the party ostensibly ahead in the polls. What he’s doing is clamouring again to reconvene parliament to “discuss measures to take”.
But don’t fool yourself: what he really wants is an opportunity to bring down the government at a time when unity and coordinated response are needed. And don’t think for a second Poilievre would respond in kind to Trump. He will likely step back, and give a lot of concessions (that’s what the free market is about, right? Just sell everything?).
It’s OK if people are fed up with the liberals and want some change - but the only way I can fathom 52% supporting Poilievre is if they’re mistakenly thinking they’d be voting for a moderate conservative leader like Stephen Harper. Instead, Poilievre is a raging, dangerously radical right-wing extremist who will do immense damage to Canada’s culture, identity, economy and sovereignty. This is NOT the change you want, guys.
By his own admission and as he said himself : here
Rude and foul mouthed
Homophobe
Climate change denier
Anti-socialist; it’s okay to disagree with the ideology but wielding it like it’s a bad word is a classic conservative / right-wing scare tactic.
Will literally sell the country and everything of value to the highest bidder (“unleash the free enterprise system”) - this has been tried elsewhere (see Mexico) and it’s incredibly damaging.
Die-hard Xenophobe and anti-immigration and anti-multiculturalism
Isolationist (pull Canada out of the UN ?)
Anti women’s rights
Really this clown must NOT become our next prime minister.
Si escriben Misuri en vez de Missouri, Tenesi en vez de Tennessee, ¿por qué no ponen “Ayogua” en vez de Iowa, “Ojayo” en vez de Ohio, “Guáchinton” en vez de Washington, Milguóqui en vez de Milwaukee?
