The age of consent is 18 so no she legally could not consent.

First time scrolling this morning and I went to like this before realizing I already liked it from last night before bed…

Wow, who could have seen that coming?

What are you even talking about? If anybody is denying the existence of a challenge, it’s you through your insistence that there is no future worth living without the unrelenting integration and consumption of technology.

Don’t get me wrong, I rely on these technologies as much as the next. In fact, as a software engineer, it’s my livelihood and I’m going to support any means to keep it aligned with my own values.

But I also recognize that I am a small fish in a vast ocean and that my most reliable weapon against tyranny is my own free will. If push comes to shove then I can and will simply refuse to follow society into the techno-feudalist hellscape we’re moving towards.

You call it being left behind; I call it liberation.

Sounds like you’re trying your hardest to convince yourself that it’s worth selling your soul for whatever they’re offering. If that’s the case then they’ve already won and it’s only a matter of time before your freedoms are stripped away and you willfully become a virtual slave for fear of missing out on whatever prosperity is being promised.

Left behind? If you’ve deemed a system to be so necessary that refusing to abandon your privacy at its behest means you are condemned to live in obsolescence, then you’re only reinforcing the idea that we must surrender our rights for the benefits of the system.

I’m old enough to have lived in a world without the internet and if it’s going in a direction that demands I surrender my right to privacy then I’ll return to a life without the internet. I won’t be alone and just like Lemmy I’m confident we’ll build an alternative that aligns with our values.

And so what? Many of us left Reddit because it killed 3rd party apps to force us onto its shitty mobile app. Did it burn without us? No, I doubt they even noticed. Does that make our departure meaningless? Also no, we built something better here.

As a life-long soccer fan, I’ve dreamed of the world cup coming to the US. But now, between the shame of being an American, the danger this country poses to visitors and FIFA’s corruption and shameless money grabs I want nothing to do with it and hope it gets boycotted.

concerned about the future of the US

Considering his business is in surveillance, he must be catching on that billionaires are rapidly approaching 18th-century french aristocracy-levels of popularity.

Lol, sure. Voluntarily alienate an ever-growing chunk of your customers. See how that goes for ya.

That drives me crazy, especially because it makes things more difficult/take longer for everybody involved. It’s not just about being polite it’s literally more efficient.

Being flagrantly disrespectful of basic public etiquette.

America can’t just go back to the way things were before Trump. Trump is a symptom of deeper systematic problems. If we try to pretend this all just goes away when he does, we’re going to find ourselves right back in the same shit in a few years when the base latches on to the next psychopath.

Because the economy would take a significant hit

And risk upsetting Israel? That’ll get you arrested on a good day, missiles shot at you on a bad one.

Great! I finally have an excuse to take that hiatus I’ve been meaning to do for the past several years. You’ve got my number when everything breaks! Oh, and when it does my rate is gonna be double what it is now.

Capitalism

I leased a Kona EV for the last couple years and I really liked it. Great city car, albeit a little cramped on the interior. The range was great but the charge time was pretty ass, making long road trips quite tedious.

I have the Ioniq 5 now and I like it almost as much. The range is a little better but the charge time is leagues ahead; more than twice as fast. It’s bigger and feels like a boat in comparison with the Kona but I just tend to prefer smaller vehicles. If you go with the Ioniq I’d recommend the AWD, it makes acceleration so much smoother.

As a US citizen myself, I can’t blame them. I also hate this country.

Too late, for me at least