But isn’t the age of consent 18 in the US? How does that work?

Common misconception, but nope! The U.S. decided to leave that one up to the states, since apparently whether or not it’s okay to screw children depends on… what geographical coordinates within the U.S. you’re located in. It’s also separate from whether or not you can marry btw.

It also depends on a number of different factors in some jurisdictions. For example, the age of consent might be 18, but with exemptions for someone who’s 16 or older with someone who is within 2 years of their age. (e.g. a 16yo & 18yo, 17yo & 19yo)

It can also vary based on larger age gaps. For example, Washington has the age of consent at 16, but it can go up to 18 if the other person is more than 5 years older and other conditions are met.

Or, you could be like Iowa, who sets it at 16… but allows people 14-15yo to do it with someone up to 18 or 19yo respectively.

For marriage, sometimes it lines up with age of consent and sometimes it doesn’t.

For example, California sets the age of consent at 18, and any sexual activity with someone 18 regardless of your age (even if you are also under 18, or even the same age) is a crime… unless you’re married, which can be done at any age in the state, so long as there is parental consent and a judge says yes.

To be very transparent… I’m basically just paraphrasing from these two Wikipedia pages 😅

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States

Fun fact, you can see that this poster is for Seattle.

The police union has used its power to force the city to not allow more than about 24 responders on the “CARE” team, which is a team of non-police responders that are basically just well-equipped social workers with formal training that lets them incredibly effectively handle things like mental health emergencies, drug users, etc.

They then put additional restrictions in place to make it even harder for those people to get dispatched to a scene, such as if any drugs are visible at all, if the person is “confrontational”, if they’re in a building or car, or if there’s an “indication” they’ve committed any form of crime at all.

Dispatchers also can’t send the CARE team alongside police anymore.

The police don’t just do their jobs badly, they force the city to spend money on their high salary and high overtime wages to get worse results, instead of sending in actual professionals.

ACAB.

https://publicola.com/2026/02/24/police-contract-has-prevented-unarmed-crisis-responders-from-doing-their-jobs-care-chief-says/

Oh goodie, making tourism and its resulting spending even LESS likely! #winning!!!!!!!!!

Then he’s going to try and pull the lever of removing TSA agents from airports

Yes please and thank you!

Don’t forget Kagi! (though it isn’t technically comparable to the others since it’s a paid, but without ads one)

A combination of CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown so it’s compatible with most markdown formatting people are used to. Also supports LaTeX and HTML. (and of course any custom syntax modifications you make with custom CSS or plugins)

That’s why I use Obsidian! It’s not open source, but all my notes are just… pre-emptively saved as markdown files on disk. If they fuck me over I can just leave and open it in literally any markdown editor 😭

If they used a proprietary format, I probably just wouldn’t have used them in the first place and would have had to use a shittier alternative.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

If there’s a group chat with like 20 people working on a project in a company, why shouldn’t the guy in charge of managing that project be easily identifiable?

If there’s a public channel dedicated to posting alerts for people, but multiple people can post alerts, why not identify who has what role so people know who to contact if they have questions?

If you’re in a group chat with friends, why not have silly labels for each other? Discord’s Roles get used for that all the time in small friend group servers.

This isn’t really much more odd or encouraging user identification than the ability for people to set a username being done during account setup.

For the love of god please do not diagnose yourself as being “neurospicy” based solely on if you like stacking coins by size 😭🙏

Why are they spending money on infrastructure and support but getting no revenue in return?

I already addressed this in my comment. If you want me to expand on how they most definitely can make money from something like this, Mozilla:

• Gets revenue from their paid VPN service that already exists, and it would be a way to convert users to a revenue source, since the thing being taken away after the data cap is itself a VPN
• Gets donations, which more users with a good opinion of the browser will bring
• Has sponsored integrations, which pay money on a per-click basis, (e.g. AccuWeather integration where Mozilla gets paid if you click through to their website, pinned sites like Amazon that appear on the new tab page for new users) and ones that are influenced by overall number of Firefox users (e.g. Google’s deal to be the default search engine when you first install Firefox)

If this feature brings in new users, they can get revenue from any of these 3 sources, especially the sponsored listings. If this feature is just a benefit for existing users that might have already changed all their defaults and disabled sponsored content, it increases the chance of VPN conversions and donations, and increases the likelihood someone will recommend Firefox to a friend.

Either they are okay with losing even more money, OR they plan to enshittify.

Or they’re trying to get and retain users, which helps them make money from existing revenue options without having to make anything worse, while also providing a beneficial feature. I’m not saying there’s no chance they’ll enshittify, but I don’t think unconditional pessimism is the right move here.

For this and many many other reasons, it’s time to switch to a privacy fork like LibreWolf or WaterFox

I can’t speak to Waterfox myself, but I would agree with saying LibreWolf is a good idea if you care.

I just personally haven’t bothered switching since Firefox currently works fine for me, and anything they’ve done I dislike is fairly easy to just disable in settings and never see again.