No. It is so simple that I do not need to read beyond your first sentence.

Ok. Then I won’t read beyond yours either.

Eh, yes but no. Just because there’s no legal action doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t be societal pressure to not be a creep and a weirdo. It should be unpopular to have a romantic relationship with anyone with whom you have a power imbalance (and age is definitely a power imbalance): dealing with the raised eyebrows and looks of concern can help keep misguided but well-meaning people from becoming creeps, and it can help the victims of predatory relationships realize when they aren’t in a good situation.

The previous commenter was right: there’s no magic switch that flips in your brain on your 18th birthday that makes you suddenly able to make adult decisions. Some people are ready, some aren’t. Biologically it’s uncommon for anyone to be truly grown before they’re in their late 20s, but our society decided we were going to set the bar super low; so for people who have trouble clearing even that bar, the societal pressure is a good thing.

I say this as a man who’s four years older than my wife, whom I met when I was 21 and she was 17. I knew I wasn’t going to date her until she turned 18, but even still, having the push-back of people who are smart and thoughtful, and who said, “hey, you need to recognize what is going on here, and how you’re going to mature before she does, and the potential for it to turn predatory even if you don’t mean for it to”—in hindsight I really value that warning, and it helped us to keep it really simple and light for the first several years while she figured out who she is and decided whether she even wanted to be with me.

Obviously we still ended up together, and now at 40 and 36 nobody bats an eye at our age difference. But when I think about the hurdles we faced even with only a 4-year difference, and imagine an age gap more than five times that size? I don’t think I could ever be in that situation, but even if I could, I’d want those smart and thoughtful people to check me.

The societal pressure doesn’t necessarily do the same things as the legal pressure, but it still helps.

I assume it’s not, but are you thinking of the end of the first part of Bohemian Rhapsody?

Me: “ugh YES we can all see your screen, stop asking”

Also me: “ugh YOU FORGOT TO SHARE YOUR SCREEN idiot”

This. It might be financially difficult, but you know what’s harder financially? Mental breakdowns, hospital stays, divorce cases, jail time. All of those are on the table when you work that much. Quit your job if you can, take as long a vacation as you can afford, remember why you enjoy your family’s company, and then ease your way back into working—at a reasonable schedule.

It’s not a cure-all. You probably still need therapy (there are places that offer grants and assistance with counseling). But a good work-life balance makes everything else feel like something you can handle.

No, they’re saying that some hardware manufacturers report 80% as 100% (as you noted) while others do not. Just like some manufacturers report 5% as 5% while others report 10% as 5% with the realization that most people misjudge when they’ll be able to charge.

Well, the market will definitely contract. I would say at least one of the big AI players will go out of business or be acquired by a competitor over the next few years, and at least one of the big tech corps will sunset their AI model over that timescale as well. Nvidia stock is going to take a steep nosedive. I think the future for consumer AI is mostly in small, quick models; except for in research and data analysis, where just a few big players will be able to provide the services that most uses require.

They currently have enough money to keep going for a while if they play their cards right, but once investors realize that the endgame doesn’t have much to offer them, the money will stop flowing.

I’m probably going to be allowing most of my streaming subscriptions to lapse over the next year or two. Gonna stick with Dropout and PBS, but that might be all.

Once the bubble pops, we can go back to letting AI do what it’s actually good at—pattern recognition, summarization, translation, natural language processing—and stop trying to shoehorn it into every single thing.

I get why you say that, but I disagree.

Fred Rogers was Ted Lasso, from what I’ve heard. Relentlessly encouraging, always on-mission, no dark side.

Ooh, you are in for a treat my friend. Parks and Recreation is a modern classic.

The first season is a bit rough. But once Adam Scott joins the cast, it becomes legendary.

“Because he can?”

They’re offloading authentication to your email provider. It’s basically quick and cheap oauth. I think it’s because they’re trying to avoid being a vector for a data breach.

Most phone OSes now have a “lockdown mode” which temporarily disables biometric authentication until you use a PIN to unlock it.

I don’t remember, but I hold my kids’ hands whenever they want me to and whenever I am concerned that they’ll run off into a dangerous situation. (And, to your second-to-last paragraph, I’m a dad haha)

My five-year-old and three-year-old sons actively seek it out. My eight-year-old daughter is ok with it, but doesn’t usually seek it out. My eleven-year-old son doesn’t need it and doesn’t ask for it; if we’re in a crowded place and I need to keep him close, I’ll usually just put a hand on his shoulder.

I don’t like the sky replacement stuff and never use it, but I can imagine that it’s because a photo of the moon is a photo of the moon, while a photo with sky replacement is a photo of something else where the sky just happens to be in the background. Pretty substantial difference.

One is a touch-up. The other is just replacing my photo with a better photo.

The difference was before, it didn’t make the fuzzy moon a clear moon when they took a photo. It was a misleading ad for a feature the phone didn’t actually have.

No, it did. The “feature” was actually released.

My wife and I have phones where we keep our shared calendars, yes. But we have four kids who also have their own lives and schedules, and they often want to know what’s going on, what our plans are, etc. They would value being able to see the day’s upcoming events, too; when the play dates are, when the dentist appointments are, when the days off of school are, what we’re eating for dinner, all of that. Currently, their only access to that information is through our phones.

Having a screen in the kitchen that only shows calendars and a couple of other pieces of data would be useful. We wouldn’t want to be able to watch videos or browse websites on it, though.

Interesting. I have not had that experience, on Tiktok or elsewhere. I do have a similar experience with tech reviewers’ videos on Youtube, though. Albeit not the sponsored ones.