Search engine, Kagi for parents. You can customize it to just kid friendly results for them so they never see all of the easily manipulative links out there on nearly every other search engine. Similar to the OG Google experience of the early 2000s, but way more relevant and way more helpful as a service to find anything/everything of child curiosity that’s child appropriate.

Day trips yes, including overnight costs then that’s gotta be saved up for.

Same, worked for a nonprofit for 7 of my 12 adult years that rented space to 2 schools (small high school and a daycare/preschool) within their buildings and we had our own services after session. Wasn’t directly involved with the teaching for the schools but did maintain all the computers for students and teachers while having a small program training a couple of the teens to manage a repair shop fixing those computers. That provided more satisfaction than any other job since, even though I will still hate Roblox with a passion on how much like a virus it acts to whatever it gets installed to, I’d do it again if the opportunity was open, but it was a unique deal between the three.

Its a dating app that’s turned into a hookup app

I used tinder on and off over the years and delete it not long after signing back up (moved a few times). I get matches but too many people expect hookups after a first hang out as if its the norm, not looking for that. For some people that might be great but I’m not into that scene. Currently trying bumble and it seems better on that end

In and out hands down. Wish we had them on the east coast. For this coast I’d say Shake shack if I’m truly craving a fast food type of burger. Sonic’s double quarter pounder is great for the price but there aren’t any close in my city so mainly a quick go to when traveling. Chili’s has yet to disappoint me if you’ve got an extra 10 minutes to wait or pre-order while on your way to pickup, so wouldn’t conser it fast food.

It is mukbang, yeah. Seeing those videos of people eating the giant plates of donuts in 60 seconds, drink this hot sauce challenges and all that gross me out so much. I know more about people like the pink sauce lady than I wouldve ever wanted to (Only need to see first 90 seconds to grasp who that is)The extreme violence, I don’t know how so much of it is allowed on there, Instagram seems almost as low of moderation as X as long as the person doesn’t die on camera.

It’s what I’m realizing. We’re right at the millennial gen z median being from 1994-98. Thankfully not being sent the 67 type of content like the kids scream in public but it’s still a concern to me. As I’ve said in response to others imma still work on getting a couple new friends but I do want to try to find things to help keep them social and come out the house once in a while since they do enjoy hangouts when the phone is away, or requires both hands to where the phone has to be away haha

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Yeah I don’t agree that it’s good in coding. I just see the reels that get sent talk about what’s promised about it while in reality programs like Windows 11 have code written by AI and sucks with years of bug patches needed of the current damage, not including future

Thanks for the advice. I’m working on the new friends for sure, I just hate seeing what this is doing to friends of close to 20 years. They enjoy the hangouts everytime but as another person was saying in their comment, they’re pretty much in an addiction, which I do have to view it as. Two of those friends have kids now, oldest being 5 and it rubs off on them with the iPads so part of why it’s still worth attempting to help in my eyes, they arent bad, just I guess dopamine gullible. I know I can only do so much on my end

This is basically what I’ve been doing but you’ve summed it up well. For the main 2 that do the sending daily of the reels they do actually enjoy similar things but as you say they are addicts atm. Both had the time of their lives doing laser tag not long ago but its getting them out the house to do anything. Both have kids too and when I go to make that effort it’s apparent it’s rubbing off on the kids. If money is the issue that’s why I am open to getting the tickets to things, most of what we do isn’t over $30 each most the time anyways and the kids can go have a good time offline as well. The beaches nearby cost money to go to for example so it’s like $40-5p total for the access to enjoy it for the day and everyone loves it every time and the kids sleep the ride back. Working on the newer friends though, I don’t drink much while living in a boozy city I moved back to last year so it’s a slower than expected process but it’s happening.

Work and consume media. Knowing every content creator and influencer gossip summary and seeimg all the livesteam clips and sharing reels about the drama. I can’t think of any useful hobbies for the last few years. We were computer techs in some period of time (friends from school and childhood I was able to get a foot in the door at a company at least starting in my department for a bit) while everyone was doing their college thing but those friends that still kept on with that stopped coding once they saw AI could do it. The others I only know one works on his car but I don’t know much on anymore since he’s been quiet. Myself and one of the other 6 have stayed active, I’m outdoors adventure active while he is gym active

Yeah I’ve talked with them about it but it’s really the dopamine being hijacked is the issue from the content. I know there’s a thing where people lose interest in “normal” when they get used to more and more wild of a thing, like porn fetishes. I’m sure there’s things that have helped reset that mental rush, like with the example about the fetishes, those said people having actual sex to reset to being more normal (don’t take literal I’m being very general since I don’t study this). I’m pretty scared of the “create your game” AI engines that will inevitably coming for this reason cause it will make exactly what your want to always want it and then hook the user to never wanting to disconnect from the game. My friends though aren’t cut out for stuff like paintball so laser tag seemed as one of those good out of norm medians that’s not physical but out of the house

"Zoom zoom zoom! " is still stuck in my head to this day

It depends so much on the work but I think 25-35 is a healthy work life balance. I for one would rather have a well rested surgeon that’s on a 30 hour a week schedule than one that’s been pulling back to back to back 12 hour shifts

I had something similar for a few years and loved it. Spoiled me since it was my first career out of high school and ended up feeling the 9-5. Schedule is closer to 30-35 a week more spread out over 6 days atm but works better for my current life and doubles as a good workout without being exhausted like if I was doing 8-9s 5 days a week

I only use it within Kagi and only have pretty much used their Kiki K2 model which I believe is locally on their servers. At most I’d say twice a week to help sift through some information faster but have no intention for outside of that. Such a waste of resources and compute power for most tasks imo, the internet needs better indexing to find information more efficiently.

Conversation > Number of upvotes on a post. Similar to old reddit when upvotes didn’t matter as much but the information in said post did which would end up having the top few comments having more upvotes than the most itself.

Pants are so annoying to try to buy. Every brand/version currently avaliable is a slightly different size even with the measurements so it’s hard to try to buy them during sales in bulk online. I’m pretty active for work and have bigger thighs so I go through pants more often than the normal person, but even with that I feel like quality is getting worse causing more of those issues, especially unsuspecting shrinkage. I like the lees extreme motion pants but have noticed if I buy 2 pairs online one will be slightly more narrow than the second pair when it’s both the same pant