Shrug. My mom (70s) and I (40s) share location tracking. I think we’re as “developed” as we’re going to get. It’s just convenient.

I have nearly the exact same situation. I like being able to see when my mom is visiting my sister or some other place we used to go, and I like my mom being able to see what I'm up to, like when I visit museums or parks. Sometimes on a phone call she'll say "I saw you visited ...some place... so I looked it up online. Did you know ...something interesting about it...?"

But you can just mention those things when you talk on the phone ?!

Exactly my take. There can be a privacy and trust issue with tracking and location sharing, but the way my wife and I use it, it's a very casual thing so I can see if she's on her way home yet or something like that without having to have her text me while she drives.

I dare say my retirement would appreciate the buying opportunity a bear market would afford, provided I get to stay employed.

Ha! I can relate. I have cash set aside for just such an occasion. It's that second part that's the tricky bit, eh?

It gives subtle tones of blaming the sick and deceased for their predicament. People get sick all the time from no fault of their own and death comes for us all. But of course diet and exercise are good for your health.

Many diseases randomly affect people. Many other diseases are the result of lifestyle choices.

For example, I seriously doubt that lung cancer causes smoking.

I’ve started embracing my grammar flaws and typos. Emails and chats may get a proof, but only from me or another human, then I send it. I’ve deleted Grammarly because I think the flaws make the comms more authentic in the age of AI.

And of course I’ve dropped my use of the em-dash after being accused of being AI myself.

I'm hanging on to the typewriter em-dash. They'll never take it away from me!

Ever since I learned it's as simple as option-hyphen on a Mac, I've loved the em-dash. Still don't have the hang of typing it on a Chromebook or Windows PC though.

Part of me wants a pure writing device, something that is dedicated to writing and / or maintaining a blog. They exist, but they're a bit expensive for what they are and they don't look very ergonomic. May need to build a Linux boot for a raspberry pi or something.

Reminds me of how Y2K was a "nothing burger," because of the effort that was put into making that so.

Are thoughts illegal?

Sharing them certainly can be under certain circumstances. I wouldn't be too surprised if this case gets tossed, but it's not inconceivable that prosecutors could win on the grounds that AI chats do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy and are therefor meet the requirements in the Florida statutes, or even more likely, they find some lesser charges for a plea bargain.

It’s unwatchable. I’m not being sarcastic. I pulled out some of my old DVDs, they look terrible.

"unwatchable" is ridiculous. I have plenty of 480p rips that I took from my DVDs, and they look just fine. Not remotely unwatchable.

Minecraft is unplayable, too

Mostly because I need to login to a Microsoft account nowadays

I’ve heard this for the last 20 years.

I love this insight, but mailman might not be the best example if you recall the origins of the phrase, “going postal.”

Get a yearly full body skin check from a dermatologist. It’s a common thing. I’ve been doing it for years because of my skin type. They caught early Basal cell carcinoma the last time I went.