The 3rd and 4th paragraphs are certainly true. There are dozens of articles pointing out that Western children are indeed growing up slower. Had a great one I can’t find again, but it backed exactly what you’re saying.

We GenX folk grew up far faster than GenZ, so younger attitudes sometimes confound me. If times get hard, like Depression 2.0 hard, we’ll see that trend flip within a single generation.

Russia already had population issues. Sometime, I think the turn of the century, they enacted a new state holiday for people to stay home and make babies. Not even making that up.

Imagine how bad it is now!

VERY few countries peg the age of consent at 18, mostly the hyper-conservative. Only 10 states in America and only Turkey in Europe. Not sure there’s any countries in Africa or Asia.

This notion that a human goes from child to adult on their 18th birthday is truly bizarre to me. I was sexually active at 16 and the girl I lost my virginity to was 14. We weren’t adults, in full command of our lives, but we sure as hell weren’t children. At 17, my gf and I had sex almost daily, if we could manage it. And you would say we were children? Mighty developed and freaky children indeed!

The age of majority you’re arguing is the age at which society deems one responsible enough to sign contracts, join the military, in short, be responsible for one’s decisions. But to act like there’s no in-between state is ludicrous.

Even weirder is people arguing, correctly, that sexuality, autism, etc., is on a spectrum. But our maturity is not? That idea goes against even the most base observations.

My daughter turns 13 next month. Last summer I was already seeing her flip between “child” and a more serious person, sometimes minute to minute. (Can’t explain better, sorry.) Her brother is 10 and 100% child, no trace of maturity, as you would expect. By the time she is 14-15 she will be a wholly different person. But you would class her the same as a 10-yo?

Nothing changed going from IE Edge to Chromium Edge. Say that with a straight face next time.

Home Depot does sell installation services. I’m sure the prices are astronomical vs. a day laborer.

https://www.homedepot.com/services/

Microsoft: Kills crappy, insecure browser no one used and everyone hated.

Lemmy: BAD!

You’ll love this!

I deployed an open-source chat system at work, just for convenience. Boss was concerned that it didn’t do any logging and we couldn’t tell who said what.

“You don’t have any records of what we say verbally. What’s the difference?”

“…Oh. Well, you’re right.”

He was coming from a legit concern. We didn’t point fingers when someone screwed up, zero blame, but we needed to know exactly what happened so we could fix it.

When I read shit like this I think of Trump tearing down the East Wing. He didn’t do this personally. Multiple people had to agree and execute.

For example; I managed a reprographics shop. We would have flat refused to make signage such as these plaques. Not because management was woke, we simply wouldn’t handle toxic messaging. Somewhere in DC is a shop that said, “Fuck it, the money matters more than morals.” Same for the demolition company.

I’d stand with Big Tech on this one.

“Make me. Dare ya. We’ll pull all UK sales and block your island off the face of the planet. See how that works for ya at the polls. We’re done here.”

Oh! That’s a new one on me! Maybe sounds familiar?

Praying that woman just crushes it.

Oh! Driving past stopped school busses you mean. Had to look up “driving through bus stops”. :)

Set your modem string to go for more than 5.

https://www.computerhope.com/atcom.htm

If it’s illegal why isn’t the state executive branch making arrests? Why isn’t the state legislative banning the sale of these devices?

If I was selling an illegal product, they wouldn’t be dragging my happy ass through court to get relief from my actions.

Few read the articles around here, like any social media. I could come with a headline that Bill Gates proposed using trans people’s brains for AI processing, Matrix style, and harvesting the water of the dead ones, a la Dune. Lemmy would eat it up.

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NSFW, sorta?