I wouldn't get my hopes up. Seems like the language of change with ways out of actually doing change. From the article: Each product has to fall into one of four categories: made by a seller (either by hand or using automated tools), designed by a seller, handpicked by a seller, or sourced by a seller.
Easy for something mass produced to be handpicked by a seller or sourced by a seller.
I disagree. this category importantly covers funky old retro items, some of which border on antique. For example, I've sought out and bought from Etsy 1940's dishes and kitchen implements, collected by little Etsy shops that specialize in such things.
Sure. But this thread concern's JohnFen's comment "those are categories that shouldn't be on a site that is what Etsy claims they want to be" and PeterHolzwarth opposition, saying it should allow "funky old retro items, some of which border on antique", and my observation that Etsy previously claimed they allowed those retro items.
That's a legitimate market for sure, but I don't think it belongs on Etsy. The company Etsy could (and should) start up a different website for that sort of thing, and even a different site yet for the more dropshippy things. They could even cross-promote their sites with each other.
That's the point. Pretty much everything can fall into one of the 4 categories. No change is necessary for that to happen - all this at a time when folks are complaining that the site is full of mass produced stuff they could order themselves.
> Easy for something mass produced to be handpicked by a seller or sourced by a seller.
Being able to filter out those would be nice. I wonder what counts as made/designed though. If assembling something counts as "made" or slapping a logo on a white label product counts as "designed" then it's not much of an improvement.
A faithful interpretation of the rules to accomplish what the article says they want would be that handpicked means that the seller goes shopping at markets and chooses items to resell. Sourced means that they have an artisinal manufacturer they directly work with and they do the wholesale purchase/import and then sell on Etsy.
For example, I want some nearly unique leather shoes.
1. I find a shoemaker on Etsy who is selling their wares.
2. I find a shoe designer on Etsy
3. I find a shoe on Etsy whose seller has purchased vintage shoes from another store.
4. I find a shoe on Etsy that is from an importer who works with a shoemaker in Leon, Mexico.
Those are all what I would expect to find in an artisinal store. I could see how these could be abused to support Temu, but also how you could enforce them to remove listings that are abusive.
It is also often the reverse: sellers on Temu (or Ali Express, or any number of other sites) selling knock-off versions of hand-crafted items spotted on Etsy and elsewhere. Heck, sometimes the knock-offs are sold on Etsy too, often using the original maker's images (I doubt the product received will be anything close to an exact match). A friend of mine doses corsetry and related clothing work and sells in part through Etsy, and occasionally has a significant problem with this.
It’s definitely a cycle. Pre-Temu/AliExpress I worked at a store that sold high end purpose made knives and low end “fantasy” knives. As soon as a factory was opened in China by a major brand the original (sans branding) would suddenly show up in the same catalog as the fantasy knives at 1/5 MSRP and an inferior knock off at 1/20th MSRP; all the high tech designer steels and plastics replaced by 440 and ABS or Micarta. It’s the way business is often done in their manufacturing economy.
“The platform’s new rules require all items to incorporate “a human touch” as outlined by its creativity standards”
That’s just as bad as hand crafted pizza in the frozen grocery aisle - yes at one point someone had to design this pizza, then they crank them out on a machine like everything else.
This could be useful if they allow search filtering. Sometimes I may want something artisanal, other times I may not care much about the artisanal qualities and curated is good enough.
What does "curated" mean when the obvious move is to just sell whatever you find on AliExpress? I would be extremely skeptical that someone who sells "curated" products like this actually evaluates each product they're selling.
Exactly. If a manufacturer finds that it will sell 5% more simply by labeling something "artisanal" then they will label all of their products "artisanal." How is Etsy going to know if product number 12,440,911 is artisanal or not. Like "organic," I don't even know what artisanal means anymore. They have become magic checkbox words that increase sales.
And so many of those programs were absolutely horrible.
I had a lot more homework than my peers and was expected to act more mature. Sorry, but we were all the same age as other kids - we didn't deserve a higher workload (as kids and teens) and we should have been expected to act our age.
It was pretty common to make fun of others for not keeping up well enough (struggling not allowed) or for appearing too smart (Not me, but a family member).
Some school systems completely separated gifted kids from 'regular' students. By high school, it was obvious that this created some issues communicating with a broader range of folks.
There is more than one way to make sure gifted kids get challenged - you don't necessarily need a special class for gifted kids.
And you'll need to provide proof for the last one. It is true that they do teach so that the test scores are good - and since funding and jobs are tied to that testing, other things are going to go down. This isn't really making content matching the lowest denominator, though.
Mine was great. It had a normal amount of homework, a smaller class size (which was a happy but unintentional accident), and accelerated four years into three. We shared electives with the rest of the school and socialised widely. I was bullied pretty badly through my pre-teen childhood and the program provided a way out of that, which in turn taught me how to interact with a group of people who didn't physically and emotionally abuse me for social gain - something a lot of people take for granted.
Which is to say that anecdotes are of course going to be mixed.
My daughter is in gifted.
She still has a regular home room class that she is in 80% of the day. Gifted is treated as an elective where they have a class or two that is small in size and more intellectually stimulating (or so they say, I don't sit in there and have nothing to compare).
No extra homework...they don't give homework at all nowadays.
Because of how fragmented the United States school system is, your experience will definitely not be applicable to everyone. Heck, even the county next to mine does gifted differently.
It definitely isn't uniform in the US - it isn't even uniform in schools near each other.
Schooling systems between countries are very difficult to compare. I just learned that some UK schools have gifted and talented programs and funds, for example.
I literally cannot remember the last time I had to show proof of age to buy tobacco or alcohol. I'm middle aged - mid 40s, in fact - and places don't ask.
If I order alcohol, the reason I'm showing ID is to prove that yes, it was me that ordered it instead of someone else (and I'm showing my ID at the liquor store).
I've only bought porn twice - once a video and once a magazine full of naked men. I didn't get carded either time and this was back in the 90s. One of those times, I was 17.
And if I needed to verify ID online (for payments, etc), I have a secure way of doing that, which folks in these states simply do not have. The websites don't need to keep any information on file either. And this is the very thing that pornhub is objecting to. If they were rolling out age verification that already has some of this in place, it'd be a different story.
And a sidenote: I don't think it is all that wrong for a 17 year old to see what naked people look like. The rest of us need to be mature enough to make sure that young folks have a reasonable view of porn, including things like 'this isn't realistic and physically difficult for these reasons." A lot of so-called 'harm' is simply that we - the adults in the room - haven't held up our end of teaching.
I'm middle aged - mid 40s, in fact - and places don't ask.
Your appearance is the age verification. One can obviously tell you are of age to buy the products in question by looking at you. That’s the age verification.
Communities are permitted to determine what constitutes age appropriate materials and at what age those materials can be consumed. Such standards ought to apply to web content too. There is nothing special about online that indicates it should be exempt.
I may be in the minority, but the community does not raise my child. I do. As such, I will talk to them, set our family’s standards after consultation and monitor appropriately. If it turns into a discipline situation, I have no qualms about going there. Or if it turns into a praise situation, I have just as few qualms about going there.
Government regulation cannot and will not replace parenting. If government regulation worked, groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving would not have to exist.
Moral is - talk to your kids. If porn is too hard to talk about, you weren’t ready to have children. It’s time to start building relationships with trustworthy adults who can talk about porn, sex, consent and all those other wonderful things with them. Because guess what dude? If parents don’t, someone will and their intentions may not be good.
Communities set some standards of behavior. This has been always been true. While the government doesn’t replace parenting it does enforce standards of conduct. Like requiring parents to feed their kids or preventing businesses from selling porn to your child.
If government regulation worked, groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving would not have to exist.
MADD is precisely the kind of community action that is successful. They made people aware of a problem and government stepped in to help provide a solution. Drunk driving fatalities were reduced as a result.
…you weren’t ready to have children.
Lots of people are ready to have kids and have them. A healthy society tries its best to prevent such kids from suffering too greatly from the misfortune of being raised by a moron. A healthy society tries its best to prevent morons from enticing kids of good parents such as yourself to do things that are harmful. Hence we try to keep people from selling drugs to kids. We don’t have 100% success at this but this isn’t a valid reason to not try.
I might be too cynical, but when I see governments roll out initiatives like this, all I see are campaign slogans.
Meanwhile, we’ve got kids living in poverty or in foster houses of horror and those topics don’t get the same attention.
In our family, porn is a gateway topic for us to start talking about issues like revenge porn, sexting and all that other stuff that is right around the corner for us.
So this is a tricky one for me and I guess I don’t understand why porn is so important. Its existence is helpful for me because of the topics it can help bring up, but we talk about everything from periods to child birth so I know that’s likely rare.
I’m maybe trying to impose my attitudes too much on others so I just can’t understand. I apologize if I’ve been obtuse - I am so I don’t really have an excuse. :)
> I literally cannot remember the last time I had to show proof of age to buy tobacco or alcohol. I'm middle aged - mid 40s, in fact - and places don't ask.
I'm older than you and I'm carded every single time I buy tobacco or alcohol. The policy on showing identification varies widely depending on region, both due to the actual law and store policy.
I'm an immigrant in Norway. The darkness is enough of an issue that told us know about this in the state-funded language classes and made sure we knew help was available. I'm in Trondheim, so December is full of 4.5 hours of poor sunlight each day.
If there were something else that really gets folks, it is that Norway's people are rather reserved, to a point, and it really makes some folks lonely. This combined with the dark winters really causes some folks to struggle.
Everyone gets used to the weather and quickly learns how to dress properly enough.
For me, personally: I'm fairly introverted myself and generally had only a few friends near me before I moved, so it suits me well. Also: I've been here a decade or so and I moved for marriage - I've always had at least one friend here. I've worked a little bit. And then I got into board games (both immigrants and local folks), so I meet some folks that way. The person that organizes the games, though? They struggled a bit for a while.
Which isn't really all that special. In England alone, there are 816 churches named after St Michael. He's pretty popular. It'd be a lot more spectacular if they were all named after someone much more obscure.
That's right. I would actually expect there to be a few more than 7!
And if we extend the search to all placenames dedicated to St Michael quite a bit more!
It's not pure coincidence but it is a kind of observation error as highlighted in other comment. Increasing and decreasing the variables and measurements effects the odds.
Basically you can get a line between many things on earth, but 1) the dimensions of that line cannot be chosen if you also want to choose the things that define it or 2) the dimensions can be chosen but the things that make it up cannot.
Which might be if it said they were spending a lot of time online.
It just says in the past week. Most folks I know use the internet a little bit each and every day, even if they aren't being social. Banking, playing a single player game (after logging into playstations network, of course), reading news, watching a show or movie.
They're investigating the use of a drug that they don't understand to treat a condition that they don't understand...
You'd probably be shocked to figure out how often this happens - and it used to happen a lot more in no small part because we didn't have the tools we have today: MRIs and better microscopes and other tech has really helped our understanding of the body. We are still figuring out how exactly the body works, after all, to the point that we occasionally discover a new body part. Of course we are going to do things we don't understand. Yet.
This isn't limited to medicine, either.
Maybe they want something to prescribe. For a lot of diseases, that's better than nothing. For example, I have MS. They know more than they used to about MS, but most of my life they've not known enough. I have medicine that isn't a cure, but I'll take it. Modern medicines mean that modern folks with MS have a much better quality of life than folks that didn't have medications. I'm more likely to have mobility and things like that. I'll take it.
My ex was schizophrenic. Medicine gave them a life. They still couldn't work, but they weren't suffering as much either. Again, not a cure, but help.
Imperfect cures or medicines that treat the symptoms are so much better than no help at all. This is where a lot of medicine starts - treating a symptom, and by doing so learning a bit more about the disease or affliction.
My ex was schizoaffective. They thought BP1 for a while, but then she started hallucinating while baseline. Anyway, I've seen her take all the meds. Some work sometimes. Then they don't. Most of the time we'd be dealing with symptoms of the meds, which are not easy. When she was completely manic even the highest dose of some meds would not work for her. Actually a side effect of one of the meds had the same symptoms as schizophrenia, so in that case what was even the point?
Neuroleptic-induced deficit syndrome (NIDS) is a psychopathological syndrome that develops in some patients who take high doses of an antipsychotic for an extended time... characterized by the same symptoms that constitute the negative symptoms of schizophrenia
You're right, a lot of times it seems like they just wanted to give her a pill and strap her down to a bed. Good sleep was far more important to regulating her wellbeing, but that was very difficult with the side effect of akathisia, which is common of antipsychotics. So it became a matter of upping the dose until it would make her pass out after hours of writhing pain. A daily occurrence.
So I could see why taking the meds were difficult.
If you told me I could take a pill to cure my autism but it would have the same symptoms as an antipsychotic, no thank you I wouldn't do it.
That's just not how that works. Bending depends on how bad the break is and where it is and how much swelling there is. People break ankles and walk around on them for some days, after all.
I could bend my finger after I broke it... that day, anyway. The next day it was too swollen to bend it. This was a simple and clean break and healed well.
Similar with my elbow. I could bend it at first, then less, and then the swelling really started and I could just barely bend it. I could bend it a little for the xrays, even (I was to do what I could) Weirdly, it didn't even hurt that much just stopped being functional.
That's fair, but he didn't declare it broken in the ER after an x-ray. He declared it broken with a not visibly mangled finger, that by your own description would not have reached the painful point, so color me suspicious of the (probably) clout chasing youtuber.
In general, this is going to include things like sweeping the floor, vacuuming, and walking a dog. Putting groceries away can be a moderate activity. You might have a job that covers it, too.
It doesn't need to be all at once nor does it need to be dedicated exercise. You probably get some of this in your week as it is. If it helps, the link lists a slew of moderate and vigorous activity.
Easy for something mass produced to be handpicked by a seller or sourced by a seller.