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    5 days ago

    Case studies of children who somehow survived isolated from language have repeatedly corroborated the result. Language, meaning any modality of interpersonal communication that requires formation of semantic constructs in the brain, is fundamental to cognitive development.

    And by fundamental we mean it very nearly is cognitive development. Depriving any child of it deliberately is a tremendous cruelty, based on what we know so far.







  • And it grants them a longer, healthier, and much happier life. If you can’t provide them mates to bonk and aren’t willing to help them raise their kids, the only ethical choices are to either (A) release them and hope they survive or (B) spay/neuter, because subjecting them to lifelong pon farr would be shitty.



  • A friend used to develop apps for Android and iOS platforms. WRT privacy lockdown and default permissions: Android < iOS < degoogled variants of android focusing specifically on privacy, security, or minimalist obscurity (e.g., graphene, lineage, etc). Retail Android is by far the worst choice for privacy, because Google’s primary motivation for contributing to the project was always instrumentation of a mobile platform for data harvesting and ad delivery.