Cybertruck isn't allowed in the EU anyway so our regulatory agencies and courts have no power over it. Plus they could just enable it in EU and keep disabled in US if there was a verdict in the EU court system that they have to honor their original terms.
Technically you're right, but there's a whole load of things where you might be concerned about brain development. Enlisting, alcohol and tobacco consumption and taking out any sort of credit including student loans, comes to mind. I think actually you'll agree with me that those should all be restricted to 25+.
Now where things get less clear is voting. Why should people under 25 be allowed to vote if we don't consider them adult enough to make their own decisions in a lot of other cases? You could easily make the case that someone who can't yet decide their own future, should not be able to decide on the future of the nation.
The impact of this would be that the group of voters that has the most reason to care about the future, might lose their voice entirely. Maybe it's not a particularly active group, but they should be heard like anyone else.
This is one reason I don't think it's a great idea to start raising age minimums for things far above 18 based on the brain development argument.
You dropped the DEAD :(
Conservatives will happily take their own wages being garnished as long as there are more liberals whose wages are being garnished than conservatives.
But as an adult, I can more easily rationalize why I should spend my time doing the former. Children do not yet have this ability
Are you sure? I mean by about 5th or 6th grade, we'd all been taught that we needed to go to university to be successful. I for sure wanted to go to university!
I tried going to university twice, straight after high school and then again ~8 years later, flunked out for different reasons each time, and realized that it's not even going to improve my career, at least now that I don't want to move to the US for work anymore anyway. So adult me has realized I could've started doing more programming earlier instead of even going to high school, and probably I'd be more successful. But kid me was super excited about university, and so were most of my peers.
Phones were banned at my school and definitely forced me to pay attention as learning is usually significantly more entertaining/rewarding than fruitlessly trying to distract yourself by staring at the clock.
This varies so much. I know I got bored as hell in most classes. The problem with analog textbooks is that you can read ahead, there's no lock saying "You can't open this chapter until next week". The problem with ADHD (in my case) is that you get super bored by the slow pace of class. End result is you run out of curriculum way before everyone else, and at that point it's watching the clock, playing games on your phone, or socializing. Watching the clock is also boring. Leaves phone or socializing.
Besides, my curious ass spent half the phone time on games, half the time on reddit, and half the time on Wikipedia reading about things I found on reddit. Yes, three halves. I don't know, I was never good at managing time. Somehow everything takes more and less than expected.
Do you have already have the media literacy needed to navigate disinfo and toxic content online?
I think you get that by navigating disinfo and toxic content online, not by aging or going to school. Look at all the adults who believe everything they see online.
Personally I'm conflicted about using phones in class. Most kids shouldn't. But there's a rare type, kids like me. I was intelligent (for high school, anyway - I make no claims about being more intelligent than average as an adult lol), social and have ADHD. I went through the textbooks for the quarter in the first week and then it was either hill climb racing and temple run, or chatting to my classmates who needed to pay attention more than I did.
Okay yeah, Indian food has strong flavor for sure.
It's more local stuff here that is fairly weak flavor and in comparison, American-origin fast food has stronger flavor. We're a meat and potatoes kind of people. Without too much flavoring, except we have ridiculously strong mustard that you put on your plate instead of it being used to flavor the meat beforehand.
Brb changing a million libraries on npm to use padStart instead of left-pad and removing the dependency
Oh most definitely. I just pointed it out because everyone talks about how men are never there for their children and partners, and nobody ever talks about how some men can't be because of abusive partners who tell you you're lazy when you only work 60-70 hours a week to feed her lifestyle.
I'm probably in the minority here and I'm sure a lot of men are deadbeats for real, but this subject really gets my goat because even my own friends think I'm an asshole for working too much and not being at home enough, while the truth is, it's my own wife who would rather I work 100 hours instead of, like said, 60-70. I just haven't told them what's truly going on in my life.
When I eventually serve her the papers I've been dreading, it'll be with an offer that our child can live with me rather than her if she can't handle it like she keeps saying. I won't even ask her to pay me child support if she agrees.
Maybe this rant wasn't needed here on this topic, but I needed to get it out, I can't tell people in real life because I don't really like badmouthing people even when it's all true. Plus she is the mother of my child, she went through all kinds of hell for 9 months.
Anyway, I think Alexis is approaching all this from the wrong angle. Instead of robots taking care of everything at home, it should be possible to take longer parental leave (for both parents, not just mothers) and work less hours after that. I imagine a lot of men would love to spend more time with their kids, but it's often the financial and career stress that is so important, especially if you get scolded at home for not making enough money. But then again, he seems to support parental leave too. I was VERY surprised at some parts of this paragraph in the article:
In recent years, Ohanian has become a vocal advocate for paternal leave, an area in which he said the tech industry has "led the way" for working parents. He worked with President Donald Trump's first administration to encourage a 12-week paid parental leave for all federal workers, which Trump signed into law in 2019 during his first term.
(emphasis on parts I found particularly surprising)
Also to be clear, when I said in my original comment:
Moral of the story is, fathers should do more around the house and take care of children too, but nobody should let their partner guilt trip them into what’s essentially a 140+ hour work week. Both parents need sleep and some time off. Partners should have equal workloads.
I did truly mean both parents should get sleep and time off. Not the "men work hard and need to rest after work" excuse you hear a lot. I do recognize that raising a child is hard work - I, too, get tired when I'm alone all day with the baby. I meant both that fathers shouldn't guilt their partners into raising children alone and doing all the chores alone, and at the same time (and I acknowledge this is WAY less common), fathers with abusive partners need to recognize it and stand for balance instead of literally sleeping <10 hours a week by drinking energy drinks all day and abusing ADHD medication by taking double doses and only at night not in the morning like you're normally supposed to take them.
I won't argue against the fact that fathers should be more present, but what that meant in our case was that I slept 10 hours a week because I was with the baby all day and then worked all night while tending to the baby whenever she woke up, while the mom did nothing but sleep all day and drive around with her friends and complained that she didn't have enough free time. After that I told her that if I have to be there for the baby all the time, she better get a job. She did not like that idea, but at least allowed me to go to the office again.
Moral of the story is, fathers should do more around the house and take care of children too, but nobody should let their partner guilt trip them into what's essentially a 140+ hour work week. Both parents need sleep and some time off. Partners should have equal workloads.
The fact that the div center search needs a year on it got me lol
Loving my nearly frontend free development life. I use Stackoverflow or Google maybe 2-3 times a month these days, not sure if I qualify for the upper row :(
Hell people born in the 90s have families and mortgages now. But I think this cutoff is people who are young enough to have grown up online, not being too badly affected by 2008, etc. Post covid has been some of the hardest times of our lives, whereas I guess people in their late 30s and 40s have gone through plenty of harsh times before, economically at least.