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These Shoes Let You Track Your Child's Location With Apple's AirTag
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I totaly agree with you until the day my best friend child of 12 years old desapear for 3 days and turn off his mobile into plane mode…
Yeah that post and some other posts in this thread are really like concerning.
A reminder that its all strangers here😳
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I lived previously is rather sparsely populated town-ish place (~7km to the densely populated city centre; within district had ~2k radius mostly); school was at maxium 2km / 20 minutes walk so most kids went walking or took a (regular city) but to shorten the walk a bit or went by bike. It changed a bit nowadays as parents want to "feel premium" and are still under instllied mentality from the 90s via US massmedia, that "driving kid to school" is super awesome mixed with equally retarded mentality that "everything is so scary and dangerous". But yeah, car was quite often convenient to get around outside of the district.
Now I'm in Spain and it's dense and I can't even fathom to have a car.
again - issue with urban sprawl. my nephew has most of his friends within walking/biking distance and while he is quite "glued to the screens" he often goes out briefly telling parents "I'm going out to this or that" (he's 14yo now, started quite independent since he was like 5-ish?)
Erm, I know USA is not uniform and a lot vary on state level, but it's still on more paranoid side when it comes to: "child neglect laws"
Some major metropolitan areas with subways are like that; I was surprised some U.S. adults go through life without learning to drive. In the places I've lived, I could hardly fathom not having a car.
In the U.S., one factor is the distance from many kids to school, another is the practical reality there may be busy highways to cross between the kid and school even if the distance isn't all that far. Walkability in many U.S. locales is not good. A seasonal issue is much of the U.S. gets very hot in summer and/or very cold in winter. Granted, even if the day's high of 90+ degrees F doesn't kick in by 8 a.m., one could still get to, or home from, school pretty sweaty, never mind cold winter mornings in the teens and 20's. So even kids who could walk need accommodation some of the time.
I spent the 1st 8 years of so of my life in a suburb where I roamed the neighborhood on foot or bike a lot unsupervised, 'free range kids' were normal, and there were pro.s and con.s to that. One anecdotal memory sticks in my mind from when I was a few blocks from home. A stranger in a suit and a nice looking (? luxury?) car stopped and tried hard, persistently, to talk me into getting in his car so he could give me a ride home. I didn't go for it and I'm still here, but little kids are often ill-equipped to face off with an adult, even if the kid's been taught not to do such things. Still wonder if my face would've made it onto a milk carton.
I now live on sort of an 'outside edge of town' suburb road where some other kids live, but our kid wouldn't dream of roaming the neighborhood without a 'guard.' And not because we disallowed it.
Note: go back a few generations and some families had 'amateur farms' and other 'chore generating' things going on, and getting away from home could mean getting away from work and the baleful eye of parental authority. Now that many kids hole up in their 'entertainment center' rooms video-conferencing with their buddies, the drive to walk out the front door is less. My point is, it's not all paranoid parents demanding their kids live as shut-ins.
Isn't there brain implant tech from Musk to know what they are _really_ thinking?Why stop at the shoes and lets add a microphone so we can hear what's going on.
Erm, the problem is mostly with the scale - proportion. From the little of the USA I visited basically only NYC has some decency to live without a car.
Everything else you basically need a car.
In Europe in majority (most) metropolitan areas you don't need it.
But again - this is due to mentality that impacts infrastructure development. Its not like the urban sprawl and gazzilions of kilometres of motorways appeared there magically - innit?
And when you have situation like that you get pushed more and more towards certain modalities...
Once I was in Dallas area, for some bizarre reason opted out of renting a car (in Texas from all the places, sic!) and it was "funny"
- 20 minute walk to the next target to get socket adapter? turned into 1h becase there were no road crossings (and doing frogger across 6 lanes was amusing) nor sidewalk (also heat was killing me xD
- going downtown... by train? what could have gone wrong with that (besides station being far away and being treated on the train basically like a homeless guy)
The thing is again the proportion and mentality of the USA - there is less (none?) fear that your kid could be shoot at or kidnapped or you could be reported for negligence outside of the states... and while many parents may not be paranoid (and its great) majority probably still is...
EDIT: don't get me wrong - I couldn't care less what the US folks do and how they go about their life. What bugs me is the influence the US holds over the world and that this mentality is being spread over the world influencing my local surrounding, and I'm not amused (or more so - I'm getting pissed seeing more and more pickups in the city because "streets are unsafe, and I need a tank to drive around" :/
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The kids are gonna love getting the “an AirTag was detected traveling with you” alert on a daily basis!