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We all have different metabolic rates so the variance will always be there.  I'd rather be close enough because in the end the scale is going to tell you whether you've ingested more calories or less over a given period. 

Absolutely hate dealing with Epic Games.    Success for Fortnite doesn't mean the company is run efficiently at all. 

It's the new Government boondoggle. 

EFF has been fighting age verification mandates because they undermine the free expression rights of adults and young people alike, create new barriers to internet access, and put at risk all internet users’ privacy, anonymity, and security. We do not think that requiring service providers to verify users’ age is the right approach to protecting people online. 

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/digital-identities-and-future-age-verification-europe ;

There are plenty of products that work at the router level to block access to harmful websites and Apple at least has acceptable parental controls 
via Screen Time.  The Law of Least Action would put the protection at the gateway or local.  Just like we have door locks that prevent casual access to our 
homes. We don't have to send our house key to the regional government office or to anyone else. 

I am enjoying watching Tech companies flounder.     Most of them lost the plot along time ago.  

In the infancy of the home computing revolution the messaging was far more empowering and it had to 

be because the Internet wasn't a thing.  


Today computing users are disempowered at alarming levels.  Companies want to employ this "let me do it for you" 

ideology.  Nothing is swimming in the same VC infested waters that all of these other companies are.   They're all  

singing the same tune "you can trust me to be your only source".  The lack of outrage about Snowden's reveal 

told the people that matter that consumers don't care about privacy and thus sovereignty of their digital lives.  

People are bored with technology because they've been told that they should just consume content and if they dare be 

creative why now have AI crank out some derivative images and prose for you.  "Let me do it for you" 

Just like I don't do everything for my children because I realize it will only hinder their executive function.  The companies 

are driven by the love of profit,  not my well being or possibility of improving my executive function.   I keep returning to Barry Schwartz's Paradox of Choice.  

At least Apple has given people the choice to disengage Apple Intelligence.    I'm getting CoPilot and Gemini crammed down 

my throat whether I want to or not. 

Apple and Tim Cook are correct on this one.   It's the old "Think of the children" canard for collecting widescale data on citizens.  Parents should have the right to protect their children in the ways "they" deem important without some Government telling everyone to "show me your papers".  These same institutions were all gung ho about breaking into people's phones so it's not a leap to suggest that companies that have to comply with age verification could have pressure exerted upon them to "provide the data they've collected" to the government office with jurisdiction. 

Liberty is not about the Government going into nanny mode.   We already have offices setup (Child Protective Services) that are a layer of protection when it appears that parents may not be doing an acceptable job.