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  • It’s not that simple. It just isn’t.

    As a parent you’re in a constant balancing act between disconnecting from your teenager while also trying to provide guard rails to aid their maturity and growth. If you lose a battle in an area, their friends (and the wider world, because remember they have a phone) are more than happy to help raise them.

    It’s always a compromise. You can stand your ground hard on area and that’s another shard of their life that you don’t have influence on and won’t hear about. Every channel between you and your kids have to be balanced between guidance and enforcement.

  • I’m a dad of four kids. I don’t yearn for the good old days, but I do wish social media companies were legally obliged to ensure kids are 16 before they let them into their platforms. There’s a tremendous amount of pressure to conform and it affects girls in particular. Most 14 year olds aren’t in my opinion mature enough to put a phone down when it starts to become a negative influence on them.

    May I ask you a direct question: Are you raising teens? If so, what are your impressions of how they use their phones (for good and bad)?

    If you’ve not raised kids during this decade, is it possible you may not have seen first hand what happens?

  • Nothing here is contractual. It’s just words. The founders at Affinity are now employees. Canva feel no connection to the community - if their agenda for Affinity was exactly the way things are now, there’d be no need to acquire them.

  • Literally these messages could be written by an AI, they’re so generic.

    “We’re thrilled”: we’ve been paid to be happy and have golden handcuffs on. “Nothing will change”: We’re busy popping champagne bottles and ordering private jets and besides this isn’t our concern any more. The new owner will eventually make some changes I’d imagine. “We’re committed to”: we are making no promises and until we announce changes we will fully back the current policies.

  • As a dirty European watching from the sidelines, I’m struggling to understand how to could both have bought a firearm illegally yes utilised a loophole to not get charged for it. I did a quick search but couldn’t find anything - could you explain more?

  • Sugar.

    People are far too afraid of it. Add a tablespoon to bolognaise: Instant improvement.

    Also, balsamic vinegar. There’s very few savory dishes that aren’t improved by a table spoon.

    Also, Worcestershire Sauce. Can’t deny the umami.

    And yes, nutritional yeast.

  • Thing is, I can express in Excel in 2 hours what takes two weeks to develop in production. And I’m not arguing against moving things onto a production footing. But hot damn, as a prototyping tool for how to treat data, Excel and Jupyter is near flawless.

  • You’re swapping it with more “all police are schwein”, “capitalism hasn’t ever done anything for anyone” and “the West is the wicked” though.

    I’d prefer some balance in the middle.