When Florida’s lawyers tried to defend the state’s social media age restriction law by claiming it’s “well known” that platforms harm children, they probably werenR…
That title is definitely difficult to understand lol
The Judge used the fact that he played D&D in the 80s when it was ‘well known’ that D&D would make you a satanist- which is obviously ridiculous- to refute that it’s ‘well known’ that kids are addicted to social media today.
MR. GOLEMBIEWSKI: Well, Your Honor, it is well known in this country that kids are addicted to these platforms. This is a mental health —
THE COURT: It was well known when I was growing up that I was going to become a Satanist because I played Dungeons & Dragons. Is that — I don’t know what really that means. You can say that there’s studies, Judge, and you can’t ignore expert reports that say X.
What is up with that title? I’ve read it three times and I still don’t understand it
Judge Uses D&D’s Failure To Make Him Worship Satan, To
SchoolTeach FloridaOnAbout Social Media Moral Panics.I think that’s what they’re trying to say
Guessing they tried to use the more colloquial “to school on,” but accidentally created a garden path sentence.
Those were my edits, they didn’t use both
Yep, caught that right after I posted and made an edit.
Thank you
That title is definitely difficult to understand lol
The Judge used the fact that he played D&D in the 80s when it was ‘well known’ that D&D would make you a satanist- which is obviously ridiculous- to refute that it’s ‘well known’ that kids are addicted to social media today.
Thanks for the response
Well as a matter of fact, I played D&Ds in the 80s and I was a satanist ever since. Can’t imagine my life without it.
It’s like all the words are there, they’re just assembled in the wrong order
Like on a Ouija board?
It took me more than that, but I finally decoded it: change ‘school’ to ‘educate’ to make it parse more easily.
(Accidentally posted this as a top level comment instead of a reply, oops)
Thank you
Oh thank god, I thought I was too high to function for a minute there.