I came here to say this exact thing.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve missed my exit. It’s just not worth getting bothered about.

I might be another 5-10 minutes, but I’ll get there alive, and nobody else will be at risk by my error. I consider that an absolute win.

They seem to give a shit now, so… Progress?

I’m disappointed in the reaction-based interest. They finally have a personal reason to dislike the guy, and now, in retaliation, they actually notice all of the sketchy/terrible shit that he’s been involved in, or party to…

Despite my disappointment, I’m just glad things are being seen finally. It’s probably way too little, and way too late, since he’s currently a sitting president in his second, and hopefully last term, but it’s something.

To be fair, if a record is made correctly, it actually has significantly more sound information than any digital recording.

It’s hard to compete with analog since analog doesn’t really have a bitrate or anything. The precision is functionally infinite.

Meanwhile, they gave us the Redbook standard and unless you go looking for it, pretty much everything is a similar quality or worse, digitally. Digital is convenient, but not higher quality.

Records (true, genuinely analog records) are the Holy Grail of sound quality as far as I am concerned. The problem is that a lot of companies are taking CDs and just playing them back on to vinyl, making them sound like complete shit.

To demonstrate the point. Have you been on hold recently? Hold music sounds like shit huh?

What if I told you that hold music used to be kind of decent. That’s right, most companies are using VoIP, which is lower quality than the old analog phone lines of old, so anything that’s played is compressed to all hell and back. You don’t really notice it with voice, but as soon as that hold music kicks in, you can hear that something is wrong with it.

Depending on how sensitive you are to the musical distortion of digitisation, that can be similar for CD quality content.

I’m not crazy over vinyl, I can’t be bothered with the inconvenience of maintaining a player, and I don’t have the money they’re asking for a new player; so I’m firmly in digital media. I just understand the appeal of vinyl.

Oh man, this reminds me of the Sony Trinitron my family had growing up. We inherited it from my grandparents on my dad’s side when I was very young.

My grandpa died before I was old enough to remember him being alive, and my grandma we lost to dementia/Alzheimer’s not long after… So we got their TV.

Worked great for so many years, but somewhere around the 25-30 year mark, the picture had all but lost most of the color and I’m pretty sure that we had a failure in one of the emitters so one of the colors would only sometimes be there. We didn’t keep it around after that started happening regularly.

It was like this, a huge cabinet on wheels, and it was flanked by two massive speakers the full height of the unit, and about 10" off each side of the screen.

That TV was home to our NES and SNES consoles for a long time, and eventually our Sega Genesis.

We had a lot of good times sitting on the floor playing games on that thing.

Does anyone want to talk about the “share with Facebook” and other similar social media links that track you?

No?

Cool. Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool

I think their entry requirements are doing exactly what they’re supposed to.

The problem is that intelligence, even if we could measure it correctly, doesn’t and shouldn’t imply what a person knows, nor their experiences and the wisdom that they carry.

Someone can be learned with a low IQ. Someone can be wise and similarly low IQ. In the same way, someone with a high IQ can be unwise.

The problem with having only one individual metric for a group which believes themselves to compose the smartest people, is that they’re arrogant. I know plenty of people who are so extremely intelligent that I am certain that they could be a part of Mensa; yet, they are not. When they looked into it, they decided it would be unwise to become a member, given the requirements and the attitudes of, and about, the group.

Hell, there’s a decent chance I could get in. I’ve never tried and I don’t care to, for all the same reasons, so I would never know if I could “make it” or not.

Their arrogance and hubris is their undoing.

… Or wisdom.

In the instance you specifically cite, depending on the laws in their specific jurisdiction, that can certainly happen. I’m aware that there are laws in some/many areas (honestly not sure how common it is), that I’ve heard referred to as “Romeo and Juliet” laws. They specifically exempt people from such charges if their ages are too similar.

Of course the specifics are going to depend on the laws in the specific jurisdiction where it happened, when it happened… But I’m aware such laws exist.

Always has been.

I was hoping that’s how it came across, since that’s what happened. So thank you for the confirmation.

I’ve never been much for dating significantly younger women, since they’re usually a bit unpredictable. By the time my SO and I got together, we were established in our careers and just looking for someone that wouldn’t constantly stir up drama. Our relationship has thankfully been extremely drama free. If there’s a problem we talk about it like the adults we are.

Y’know what? Not the worst idea I’ve heard.

Oh good. More stress.

True. I made an assumption, you have a point.

You’re not wrong, but I would call out a point of clarity, that youth is far more fetishized for women.

I’m a dude, but as far as I can tell, guys need a bit of luck in the looks category (not the most important thing, but not looking disfigured generally helps), ambition, and success (mainly money). I had terrible luck with women. I’m not the best looking guy out there but I’m certainly not the worst either… And I could find relationships, but it always quickly fell apart. Once I decided to improve upon myself, and go to college in the pursuit of a well paying job, I found that my ambition was generally enough to keep people’s attention, romantically.

I accidentally ended up with a very young lady. I know how this will sound, and all I can do is assure everyone that, at least for my part, everything I say is the absolute truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

I went to college late, I was 23 by the time I applied to college, and turned 24 shortly after starting classes. My birthday is in the first quarter, or so, of the year.

Anyways. I think I was in my second year of college when I met this girl, I don’t even remember how I met her honestly; it wasn’t a dating app, those things barely existed at the time and I haven’t ever used one; I just haven’t seen the need… Anyways, everything seems cool, she’s telling me she’s 17 and has a bday coming up. At this point I’m 24/25, and I’m thinking that’s a bit young, but since she’s basically 18 at this point, I don’t really see a problem with it… Anyways, birthday happens, Yay, and life goes on. After a few months as things get more and more complicated, as happens in most relationships, I come to find out that her birthday, was her 17th birthday, she was 16 when we met. I’m suddenly very not ok with everything.

It didn’t last super long after that. She was also preggo with her exes kid and never told me. The relationship was only like 5-6 months long. She lost the kid, I believe it was a miscarriage, and I’m sad for her that happened, but too much weird bullshit and deception was happening so I called it off.

She wasn’t a good person. She’s on a short list of exes I don’t talk to anymore. Most of my exes I still consider good friends, even if I haven’t seen them in a long time. I’m in a stable, long term relationship with a more age appropriate partner, for… Gosh, it has to be 10 years now? Time flies. There’s… 6? ish years between our ages, and we met when I was 30-something… I’m much happier now. Heh.

What an idiot.

Has he put himself on the poor house yet by spending all of his money to appease the young women he wanted a booty call from?

Because that kind of behavior seems to be rather expensive.

I want my mortgage to be paid off.

My SO put it perfectly when I apologized for talking too much, she said “it’s ok, I know you like to listen to yourself”

And honestly, I do talk to myself when nobody’s around and there isn’t a huge difference in what I’m saying in either context.

I’m not having a conversation with myself, I’m just kind of thinking out loud.

According to xitter, if the woman is very muscular, then yes.

I don’t quite understand why though.