There’s a plot like this in the Earthsea books

Seriously, 45 isn’t even usually that old these days people can stay healthy into their 60s without any issues at all 

Because he’s mentally ill. There’s no benefit from that or even like... trying to say his color is coming back to his hair (it’s not). People love a man with grey hair, he’s not even saying he was losing his hair. He’s afraid of dying someday and he’s using this to distract himself (and sell shit)

Yeah dude’s obviously got some sort of medical orthorexia going on. He doesn’t look like he’s “taking care of himself”, he looks like he’s killing himself but he knows how to use the right buzzwords to occasionally get praise, attention, or at least not everyone telling him to get to a hospital. Like a sadder worse…

I mean it’s both- there are so many things that promoted him and other bad parts of the current state of the web and also we have to get better at educating parents on ways to reduce risks (personally my kids are getting a flip phone until they’re like 15 and everything with an internet connection is staying somewhere…

I mean unfortunately it can be both, it’s big enough it can impact 12 year olds, incel losers who (luckily) can’t get a gf to abuse, and guys just attractive and capable enough to abuse and exploit women. After all, how many cam girls, amateur porn vids, people selling themselves on OnlyFans, etc are there out there?…

Yup- especially when he doesn’t have a history of dating like a different 20 something every few weeks or years like a DiCaprio. Who has his own significant problems but I think is probably straight

Also he was a fricking creep, even at the time people thought he was courting her mom and were “surprised” when he married Frances. Though of course since it was the 19th century and he was a white man with power he could still basically do whatever he wanted 

I feel like there’s a chance that maybe he’s like asexual or demisexual and the “no sex before marriage” thing just made it convenient. Like they say in But I’m a Cheerleader, it’s easy to not have sex when you don’t want (her/him/them). But even that would probably make the RNC angry at this point bc they hate LGBTQ…

Bc they also hate themselves and everyone like them and everyone who’s like them but happy since they’re not in the closet

The old ladies and frustrated middle age ladies love them because they’re “just like me! I have/had to watch my man like a hawk isn’t that funny” and the guys love her because she reminds them of their moms

I mean they’re so anti- LGBTQ that even the possibility of someone being maybe demisexual would probably be too shocking

They were white, right?

Platforms benefit from dangerous practices so often. FB still loves to promote 5 minute crafts and related video types and those include stuff that could actually kill you

Parental rights basically means enshrining a certain kind of abusive parent. It means maintaining total control of their property 

Also her business partner was also her therapist? What the conflict of interest?

And it doesn’t understand child development. Children that age can’t make a plan that far in the future reliably and children in general are much more helpless than the options adults have available to them. A six year old can *help* pack their lunch. They could even learn how to do it regularly with support and…

Honestly it’s even less just one group of people and more that in the current age of the Internet, things are generally driven by algorithms and algorithms like unusual (and often abhorrent) behavior. Unusual behaviors make the animal part of our brain light up and they take that first second reaction as a sign of…

How effective would a wiper like that even be at actually keeping the rain off at the same rate as 2? You really don’t see one wiper cars

Also just.. I can’t see any functional use of the word “truck” here. Could you even move a sofa with that thing? Apparently you can barely steer or stop it, the idea of it pulling a trailer seems funny. Imagine you’re at a beautiful lakeside campground, and then you see *that* thing