I agree with what you are saying, but have to point out the very obvious fact that it doesn’t solely fall to parents to teach children. Our popular culture, news media, peer groups, and all the rest of the “outside world” constantly send messages that may contradict what the kid hears at home. If you’re lucky, your…

Not sure I have been using those exact words “women are not prizes” with my on since he was 8. I’m going to keep doing it too.

It’s not hard. I am proud to say I have raised two young men who are staunch feminists, and I can say, quite honestly, that getting them to see girls and women as people with rights and agency just like men was way, way easier than getting them to put their dirty dishes in the dishwasher. I can’t speak for other…

I think part of the problem is that these boys are not encouraged to develop social skills. So, when puberty hits and social skills are required to navigate dating successfully, they get angry and blame girls, and later women.

There is literally nothing hard about viewing and treating women as people.

One or two parents, perhaps with limited time, perhaps not raised to believe in equality themselves, against a mass media culture, with huge money and refined over decades to establish particular images of what men and women need to be (and more importantly need to buy) to be included, valued, loved, and happy.

Guh, right? ‘Cept I think so many parents, even new ones and young ones don’t themselves believe that we’re people with agency and aren’t owed to their sons. They have no reason to challenge the status quo.

Maybe Apple throttles their old hardware ahead of the release to prime the pump.

Funny how you forget to mention that “Slow Android” doesn’t seem to have the same trend.

I had an iPhone 3g and the “slowness” when I upgraded it two generations later wasn’t in my head. Apple does the same thing Microsoft used to do with windows -intentionally handicap your device so that you want a new one.

The drop off in Search results could also be due to people learning to live with the slowness. As an analogue, the glade smell things that alternate scent so you keep noticing it.

I would also assume the people that update and get a slower experience get used to it over time to where it stops being an issue because it’s “just the way it is.”

Mine has been running like shit lately. The Kinja team trying to cripple functionality when using content blockers doesn’t help. Here’s a tip: Don’t make ads so intrusive that they negatively affect your site and users won’t block them.

Or maybe it does actually slow down (forced obsolescence) and after a month people just accept their new reality.

That’s the thing, though. The graphics aren’t even bad. We’ve become so wrapped up in the graphics hype that we’re starting to consider decent or even good graphics shit nowadays.

very good points Smokin Jay - I was waiting for someone to see the obvious role these play. I have compact bluetooth earbuds but the battery life isn’t very good and they fall out when working out hard and sweaty, and they are less comfortable than a lightweight set of wired earbuds. This product “solves” those two…

Who cares what they look like if they’re functional? I have a friend that works for a moving company and he says that every single one of his coworkers have these because they serve a purpose and they’re durable. You don’t want wires in the way when you’re moving stuff or running or doing whatever kind of work that…

That only works so well, depending on the length of the cord.

Counterpoint: you don’t have to worry about your headphone cord getting caught on something and ripping the earbuds out of your ears, which is literally the most irrationally infuriating thing in the goddamn universe.

Just change “these kids” to “this newfangled technology” and I think it still works.

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