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• By the 2000s, nearly every industrialized nation had developed a paid leave policy that allowed parents to stay home for months — up to a year in some places — with their infants, giving them more room to adjust to parenting, learn their children’s needs and troubleshoot the tough stuff. The United States is the only outlier. To this day, it remains the only industrialized nation to offer no such policy.

  That means most U.S. mothers return to work within two months of giving birth. That’s no time at all in baby world. Two-month-olds are still waking multiple times a night, their parents are still in the throes of sleep deprivation. Moms are often still figuring out feeding, nap schedules, developmental milestones and just about everything else.

  To achieve a life that doesn’t feel like a 24-hour circus, working parents lean on solutions they can access from their phones. The United States accounts for roughly 10 percent of all global baby product revenue, though it’s home to just 4 percent of the world population. Only China draws in a larger share of the global revenue (14 percent), but with a population four times the size of the United States. By 2033, the U.S. market is expected to grow another 40 percent, and the fastest growth will be in one sector: online purchases.

  on You’ll do anything for your baby. The algorithm knows how to exploit that. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8h ago

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  on even their own economic rules tell them why it will fail 🙄 in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2d ago

• The bread is absolute rubbish.

  on G’óld Amefood rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3d ago

• And broke 900 functions...

  on Microsoft Patches a Record 974 Security Flaws in Biggest Update Ever in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

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  on Carney pushes idea of making Canada ‘associate member’ of EU, WSJ reports in c/europe@feddit.org · 14 Sep 2026

• Yes, I was confusing the desire for referendums to leave the UK with wanting to leave the EU. Not enough sleep, too much typing

  on Carney pushes idea of making Canada ‘associate member’ of EU, WSJ reports in c/europe@feddit.org · 13 Sep 2026

• Meanwhile, Scotland, Ireland proper and Wales seek an exit path.

  on Carney pushes idea of making Canada ‘associate member’ of EU, WSJ reports in c/europe@feddit.org · 13 Sep 2026

• "When population is too high and jobs are too low, wars are begun."

  on US military disables ad trackers on troops’ phones amid security fears in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 Sep 2026

• It was always weregild.

  on The death of Germany's richest man creates one of Europe's biggest foundations in c/europe@feddit.org · 4 Sep 2026

• You probably think Hillary Clinton, John Yoo, Ty Cobbs, Dick Harpootlian are great lawyers.

  on Flock CEO Garrett Langley targeted as address shared online in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• When the law doesn't follow the law, laws are irrelevant.

  on Flock CEO Garrett Langley targeted as address shared online in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• Satisfaction brought it back

  on Flock CEO Garrett Langley targeted as address shared online in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• They may be closely or distantly related.

  on Flock CEO Garrett Langley targeted as address shared online in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• Now do Axon

  on Flock CEO Garrett Langley targeted as address shared online in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• I was just thinking it may be good practice for all of us.

  on Cover up in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 27 Aug 2026

• Or his corporate espionage, tax avoidance, land hogging and rent seeking?

  on Bill Gates warns ‘there is no plan’ for the ‘upheaval’ AI will cause in c/technology@piefed.social · 27 Aug 2026

• I see the monied elites are training people to accept shock collars.

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 Aug 2026

• Jesus Christ. I guess some generation has to be the sacrificial lambs, and at this rate, this may be the last generation, so whatever. Blech. 🤢

  on Harvard Is Selling a $699 Course Taught by A.I. Clones of Its Faculty in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• Over on another channel, a teacher is filmed butting in as a boy records himself asking a passing girl for her number. The teacher is completely unaware that the boy is recording the encounter for content — and instead interrupts the boy’s “approach,” as pickup artists call it, to shake his hand and congratulate him on his “confidence.”

  WTF

  on Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 22 Aug 2026

• YouTube wasn't created or owned by Google, originally.

  on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026

• I think it's called vlogging. Like journaling, it can help yo look back at what worked for you and didn't, perhaps one day what didn't work will, when you catch something you missed, before. And there are legitimate other platforms, like PeerTube, but you're not guaranteed views there either, so again, for the love of your hobby.

  on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026

• It was doing just fine until Google bought it.

  on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• A lot of YT creators are moving to OnlyFans.

  on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• YouTube became evil the moment Google got involved.

  on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• YouTube says the changes are being introduced to “keep pace with the growth of YouTube, which now sees over 200 billion daily Shorts views and over a billion hours of watch time on TV” every day.

  This reminds me of some past employment positions I had with extremely lucrative companies that, upon several employees having pushed and developed their skills to be able to reach production quotas (despite increasing safety hazards), simply raised production standards to avoid paying what was promised (certainly not meeting the threshold of what workers are worth).

  In short, if you are a content creator on YouTube, do it for the love of your hobby and make money with your day job.

  on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• What United States do has outsized effect everywhere else, and if you object to that, organizing, getting plans A, B, and C seems to be the remedy.

  on A common item in your house may now be illegal, according to US government in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026

• https://archive.is/s7x79

  on AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive. Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could out think neural networks. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026

• Even without that, they track you, if you're not taking proper precautions, from a social media button to a pixel (meta's infamous wtfery, for example.

  on I didn't set a cookie. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Aug 2026

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  on I didn't set a cookie. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Aug 2026

• We have to keep posting it.

  on US Cities Cancel 50+ Flock Surveillance Contracts Amid Public Backlash in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026

• Unless they're Intel.

  https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/trump-congress-fisa-spy-court-fbi-bill/

  on US Cities Cancel 50+ Flock Surveillance Contracts Amid Public Backlash in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026

• And nexstar, door dash, uber, probably instacart.

  on US Cities Cancel 50+ Flock Surveillance Contracts Amid Public Backlash in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026