Social media in general is likely contributing to the rise of violent facism. Anything that can reverse that trend is good IMO.

RFID is silly to put in a card that 99% will forget about and leave behind. QR codes are better as they are just the same ink that goes on it anyways.

Yeah I think that was the original point the other person was making but it sounded like you were arguing against that. I think we’re all in agreement, a QR code is a cheaper and quicker method of doing the paper>electronic data connection than whatever the tech in this article is describing, unless they can increase storage a massive amount.

Does an RFID tag not require something electronic to read them?

Pretty much what happens now–name and shame, get the story out there. If McDonald’s wanted to plaster a billboard with someone’s personal family photos, the odds that that family could even afford a lawyer for recourse to an appropriate degree is essentially nil. What would likely happen is that McDonald’s would settle for some absurdly low dollar value and perhaps take down the billboards–or just as likely, negotiate for use in the settlement agreement, saying “take this and let us use the photo or we’ll see you in court.”

If someone gets a reputation for stealing others’ work continuously, who is ever going to work with them?

I’m not sure of any evidence suggesting that piracy impacts the bottom line in a meaningful way. The piracy problem is primarily one of competition and innovation–people pay for things they find valuable and convenient, and if the barrier to payment is too high, they won’t pay it.

Highly pirated movies tend to be the most successful, most profitable ones. I don’t know of any high profile, highly regarded pieces of media that didn’t earn their investment back purely because everyone pirated it instead of paying for it.

Some links you might find interesting: https://copia.is/library/the-carrot-or-the-stick/

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/22/eu-piracy-rates-tick-back-up-in-study-that-shows-income-inequality-and-less-legal-options-to-blame/

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/12/how-not-overly-enforcing-its-ip-universal-made-the-minions-ubiquitous-and-beloved/

That last one is an especially interesting case study, albeit a perhaps accidental one.

The key here is that as a business your objective isn’t to capture every last dollar that you potentially could have if every single use of your IP was completely in your control–you want to make enough people want to pay you so that you can be profitable. Pirates are often just providing free marketing to someone that may or may not have ever heard of your product.

I have been using the same PC with the same hardware for 7 years. I have never had an issue playing the latest games that I wanted to, and I never have to so much as open the settings menu to get the game to run well. It’s literally not an issue.

Also anecdotally parts seem to be lasting much longer than they used to. Maybe I’m just playing fewer games, maybe I care about graphics less, or maybe there actually is a technical reason but in the early 00s when I first started building computers I was essentially forced to upgrade about every 2 or 3 years but now I’m still running on my 7 year old desktop with a 1070 – I was going to upgrade the graphics card but the crypto mining boom priced me out and lo and behold I’m still able to play whatever I want with nary a difficulty. Even Baldur’s Gate 3 runs just fine, with a little chugging.

I’m pretty sure that’s in support of the concept.

I’d be curious of the serious long term issues that she found. I did a bunch of research on this as well and never found any credible source for or against CIO, really. There’s a huge spectrum between the different methods too, and I found lots of people conflating “ignoring all the needs of your child” with CIO which isn’t really what any of the methods proscribe.

I don’t really have a horse in the race, my daughter sleeps wonderfully and has since she was 4 months old or so, but there is a lot of fear mongering on the internet about parenting styles and techniques and the amount of actual evidence is sparser than I’d like. New parents are already neurotic and the internet in general jumps to warning about serious long term issues for almost anything.

Others have given really good advice about the baby, so I’ll give you advice for both partners. Postpartum depression/anxiety/psychosis are all very real things and can impact all new parents. Far and away the hardest part of the new baby for our family was my wife’s PPD/PPA–and she’s still struggling with it, 16 months later, despite psychiatrists, counselors, medications, treatments of all kinds, we’ve tried just about everything.

We’re finally to a point where she can get by each day and be relatively happy, even if it’s difficult sometimes still.

I would encourage you and your partner to trust your guts on how you are all doing–our providers early on kind of brushed off our concerns about PPD saying it was normal and would fade after a few months and it took an emergency room visit because she was feeling suicidal to get someone to take us seriously. Definitely stay in tune with your feelings and seek help if you need it. It may take a lot of effort which is NOT what you want when you’re also dealing with a new kiddo!

In the end, I’d say that you’ve got this, don’t let what people say scare you, the early parts are the hardest and then you figure it out and before you know it you have a wonderful family that you couldn’t imagine life without!