We are going to see a very whiny Trump from now on.
Puritan ideals of feminine innocence
I don't think most people here focus on the gender, it might be you who is doing it either for winning an argument by agitation or it reflects your internal state of reference on the topic. This is not related to gender at all in my perspective.
The main argument is difference in mental maturity and compatibility. Younger people, having less experience in life generally will have poorer decision making skills in this regard and are also more easily manipulated by more experienced people. You may oppose such a relation for the same reason you may oppose two people of the same age making kids at the age of 18. Ofcourse if you are their guardian, next natural step is to probe how well they defend their decision and how well informed they are in the potential gains vs losses. Not to reject it out right. Everyone has the right to do whatever the fuck they want after whatever the legal limit is in their country. Doesn't mean you shouldn't discuss downsides of any decision made after 18.
I presume you would be less ok with this if it was 40 vs 16. But any age limit you put between 16 to 19 will be a blanket limit considering the worst possible cases in terms of mental maturity. So being ok for 19 and not for 16 is kind of arbitrary. The only tangible fact here is that 19 is just about the age where your life view really starts to mature where as someone at the age of 40 has had like 20x more life experience in their mature years compared to you. It creates the same kind of power imbalance that a teacher student has. This is also not the same as 30 vs 50. Here the difference in mature life experience reduces to about 3x almost an order of magnitude less imbalanced.
Yeah they should have a word for this. Borderline pedophile maybe? I mean I see 19 year olds from time time and get exposed to their life view/style. For a 44 year old to date an average 19 year old, that person really needs to have some "issues". Ofcourse there is still the chance that she was like a decade ahead of her peers in terms of mental maturity and what not which maybe makes it slightly more ok but not by a large margin. That he didn't dump her after she got older also makes it better, but still...
Most of their revenue would be from corporate contracts. An infinitesimal portion of their revenue base is interested in this.
Are you basing this on how you feel about Proton or actually have some reference/data to back it up? Proton is a heavily individual user subscription based company, calling business contracts most part of their revenue probably misses the mark by a large margin. The fact that they do PR and damage control on reddit all the time and pretend to care about public criticism just validates this more.
To continue this more it seems Proton has about 50000 firms registered to its domain
https://technologychecker.io/technology/proton-mail
most of which seem like small business with less than 100 employees
https://www.appsruntheworld.com/customers-database/products/view/protonmail
where on individual level Proton has about 100mil accounts. That doesn't look minor to me.
If there weren't Proton wouldn't be trying to do PR and damage control in reddit. Proton is small enough and not a large monopoly like google or microsoft is, there is more competition (which keeps shooting itself in the foot all the time but anyways...). So it can be affected by this.
the developers also admitted to the "loser thinking" quote in reddit but just glanced over it saying Andy will work on better communication.
The same Andy who also some years ago said
"Great pick by @realDonaldTrump. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.”
There were many antitrust actions filed before Trump and during Biden (against Microsoft, IBM, standard oil etc). Calling Trump a friend of the little guys just because he added some more is either missing the mark completely at best, manipulative at worst. Tariffs, Trump coins, Melanie coins all were designed to funnel money from the little guys to the big guys. How do you trust the decisions of a person that makes such a comment so confidently. This is your typical run of the mill billionaire or wanna-be a billionaire thinking they have brilliant ideas on everything because they were successful in one venture.
It is like saying Trump wouldn't even notice you not voting for him.
That is what he meant when he said he envisions a future in which big tech is the owner of a tap that distributes skill and information to the rest of the world. This man is a walking crime against humanity.
that gives me hope thanks
What else was a lie? Are you going to tell me that you can not walk on air for five seconds before you notice it and then start to fall down.
Hey Mate, your are a wee late on your payment so we decided to give you a visit
wow, way to go Microsoft. I am sure you market it with some bullshit like it helps you prevent live broadcast slips but we all know your wet dream is that fascist goverments line up in your doorstep to buy this tech. It will also remove any sort of accountability from news reporting. Someone can now say "Heil Hitler" on live tv and then say it was an AI fault. Not that they are fazed by such an expression in the US nowadays but you get the idea.