Melon Usk doomed their FSD efforts from the start with his dunning-kruger-brain take of “humans drive just using their eyes, so cars shouldn’t need any sensors besides cameras.”
Considering how many excellent engineers there are (or were, at least) at his companies, it’s kind of fascinating how “stupid at the top” is just as bad, if not worse, than “stupid all the way down.”
Talk to them honestly without pandering about how to be discerning about what they watch?
Find things to watch with them that are genuinely enjoyable for you both?
Make sure you always interact with them in an open, accepting, genuinely-involved way so that they tell you what they’ve been watching and respect your opinions on those things?
Edit: Missed that you were talking about educational content, so this is more about entertainment, though quite a few of the shows in the linked post touch on social lessons that are, in my opinion at least, also important for kids to learn. Acceptance, open-mindedness, self-expression, that sort of thing.
There’s a post I ran across a while back that might be what you’re looking for: https://lemmy.world/post/30235633
There are a lot of good shows for kids that age (and the adults watching along with them), they just tend to not be all that well known. There are also a decent number of older cartoons not in that list that are kid-friendly while being just genuinely good art; off the top of my head:
Because I’m slightly an animation dork, I’d also personally include Batman The Animated Series and Batman Beyond. Mostly just standard-but-high-quality action cartoons, but both occasionally did some really impressive artistic stuff, especially TAS.
Seeing TADC in the thumbnail and the “stock footage with scaryvoice” shockumentary intro immediately put me off this video (plus a link to another video from the same person with the same thumbnail but with Minecraft characters; seems like a good racket). So, my two cents:
🪙: The Amazing Digital Circus is a pretty-brilliant psychological horror adult animation. It shouldn’t be recommended to little kids, for sure, but it’s not “disgusting content.”
🪙🪙: There is definitely a problem with the stuff being recommended to kids on YouTube. Google has no real incentive to fix it, of course, but leaving a kid to watch YouTube at random long enough to wander into the really weird shit is kind of on the parents. It’s a video service that cares only about serving ads, not a babysitter; either adjust your expectations or stop complaining.
There are plenty of services for only a few dollars a month that are actively safe for kids. Quick DDG found this (and I’m a little dubious about them including the big players like Netflix and Prime, but they also list stuff that looks better): https://thestreamable.com/video-streaming/best-streaming-service-for-kids
Anyway, here’s a much better video courtesy of Dan Olson about the weird stuff on YouTube aimed at kids: https://youtu.be/LKp2gikIkD8 (and its only 15 minutes long)
Katz said on Sunday that the blockade was essential to Israel’s national security as it seeks to destroy Hamas. “The State of Israel will not allow anyone to break the naval blockade on Gaza, whose primary purpose is to prevent the transfer of weapons to Hamas,” he said.
Well, if that’s true (big “if” 😑), search the ship for weapons and let it through when you don’t find any.
Edit: Now that I think about it, that would be a really obvious PR win for Israel that wouldn’t cost them anything. “Look at us, we’re not doing a genocide, we’re letting supplies through!” Once again, their bullheaded belligerence and vicious genocidal bloodlust wins out.
I suspect I’m number 31, but just in case, I’d be interested in a Steam key. Thanks!
Don’t need a plane, just have them carpool in cybertruck long enough and the law of averages will handle the rest.
Ryobi Desktop Vacuum. I do a lot of small-scale craft stuff and absolutely love this thing. Good for cleaning up odd crumbs and whatnot, too. It’s surprisingly powerful and fairly quiet (a LOT quieter than a standard handheld vacuum).
Honestly, I haven’t followed the state of Western animation much the last few years, so I can believe that there are fewer good shows than there used to be.
That said, animation is extremely expensive to produce for the amount of media it creates. Combine that with creative writing (well, art in general) being very under-appreciated, and therefore poorly-paid-for, there are a lot of societal/business pressures working against shows like this being produced. I only bring that up because people being unwilling to pay for non-slop is a big contributor to the problem.
(Not to defend Disney or the other mega-corps nickel-and-diming us for shareholder profits, of course. If only these companies would use their billions to fund shows from enthusiastic new creators rather than dumping everything into forgettable live-action remakes and CEO bonuses >_>)