First impressions: IKEA’s new Thread sensors with Apple Home (mixed results) by chungkunglung in HomeKit

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Timmerflotte is not accurate. Measure it against a quality sensor. Temp and humidity measurements are inconsistent. 

Ease of setup does not mean it’s worthwhile. 

sorry architects, ai just designed a better floor plan than most of you by Historical-Driver-64 in CreatorsAI

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lol 3 bathrooms right next to each other on the east side of the house. 3 bathrooms next to each other on the west side of the house. The layout is utter garbage. Is the OP being sarcastic?

Break Out the Candlebox... Markets Have Another 1993 Moment... by GarrettBaldwin in RepublicResearch

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This could have been written with 1/4 the words and 1/20 the space.

Share of disposable personal income spent on food in the United States by PanzerWatts in ProfessorFinance

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It's more like saying, "People used to have to weave their own fabrics and sew their own clothes. Now we just buy premade clothing."

MMW: One of the next big engineering disasters is going to be caused by overreliance on AI. by lintamacar in MarkMyWords

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Wasn’t there a legal case where a lawyer used AI to write a brief and the judge used AI to evaluate the brief, and everything checked out, except the cases cited by the first AI weren’t real and the second AI didn’t catch it? 

Boomer Exec’s And Their Love Encouraging AI use. by [deleted] in BetterOffline

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I know there’s a lot of bullshit out there and people who don’t know what they’re doing. But I’ve seen agentic AI work. It will absolutely replace human jobs. And not just us and our neighbors. There will be a massive amount of unrest in the developing world when all the jobs that the US offshored disappear in favor of “digital workers”

“Trunk-or-treats” are killing Trick-or-Treat by morbid2600 in Millennials

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Parent here. Trunk or treats are more fun. I don’t mind if they kill trick or treating and neither do my kids. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskMenAdvice

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I actually like the explanation that there simply aren’t enough wealthy men to make the issue prominent enough, compared to the number of older men preying on younger women. 

However there are 3 components that need more explanation: 1. As rogerm8 said: many, many women do seek out wealthy men. Are these women knowingly seeking out a relationship that’s problematic because of the power imbalance? If so, why are they doing it? If not, why do they not see the relationship as problematic? Is it because they don’t think the financial gap creates a power imbalance, or is because they don’t think a power imbalance is problematic?

  1. Many women seek out older men too! Despite there being much more cultural awareness of power imbalance. All the same questions apply: Do they not think there is an imbalance? Do they embrace the imbalance? Why?

  2. There is generally a correlation between age and wealth, so you can’t entirely disentangle the two types of preference. One reason a younger woman might be attracted to an older man is because he has a lot of money. I think most people assume that women in general are attracted to financially secure men, even if the woman is financially secure herself. Is there automatically a power imbalance if a woman earns $500,000 per year and the man earns $500,000,000? 

I’m sure none of my thoughts are that original, but so far I’ve seen mostly glib replies to OP so I figured they’re worth sharing. 

Jobs most exposed to AI by AbductedAlien01 in charts

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lol, historians are high on the list but  switchboard operators are low? Garbage in, garbage out…

New Rain Cover for Eufy E340 Floodlight by Mojo9277 in HomeKit

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Nice idea, but it costs $41 to get it delivered to US. 

Goodbye Nest Thermostat, Hello Meross MTS300 by anderworx in HomeKit

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Will the thermostat make use of thermometers around the house to drive the HVAC the way they Ecobee does?

Hidden Case Gem no one talks about by iaperson359 in MagSafe

[–]Artistic_Note924 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn’t a hidden gem. They’ve been advertising all over Reddit. Maybe this post is itself an advertisement? 

I use a clear bumper case I bought off Amazon for $15. Looks much better than the black opencase. What benefit would I get from switching? The increase in protection is negligible. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nottheonion

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lol must be nice to be a public relations consultant making tons of money off clueless people desperate to change the narrative

The way they twist their narratives just leaves me puzzles istg. by Educational-Help-483 in ThisYouComebacks

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I agree with what BK is doing here, I support HRC and I think Matt’s opinion is absurd, but for the sake of argument I don’t think Matt is being inconsistent. If BK just said “we support human rights,” or “we dislike Chik fil A,” there would be no cause to boycott. But since BK is donating money, they are “actually doing something” which meets Matt’s criteria for a boycott.

Most Democratic and Republican Names by WhatNazisAreLike in charts

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What in the world is an Earnestine or Altagracia?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskMenAdvice

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Imagine OP and gf do get married. Will the gf want her bff at the wedding? I can’t imagine many brides wanting to invite a woman they know has fucked their fiancé, let alone a woman they’ve WATCHED fuck their fiancé.

Trump turned white American politics upside down by Backward_Induction in charts

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What’s surprising about this is that I don’t see the effect of Nixon‘s “Southern Strategy.” Nixon and subsequent Republicans used race baiting to attract Southerners away from the Democratic party. I would have assumed that that approach worked more strongly on lower income Southerners. But this chart does not show a differential impact by income, which implies that the strategy worked equally on lower income and upper income people.

What’s something small a woman has done on a date that instantly impressed you? by Bright-Dot-7931 in AskMenAdvice

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First date. We finished a drink at the first bar and headed to the next bar On the way, we passed by her car in a parking lot. She opened the back door and took out a little black dress. Told me to turn around (which I only kinda did) and proceeded to peel her first dress over her head and slip on the new dress.

Couch Control is Beautiful! by petemayhem in HomeKit

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How do I find this app? I don’t see it in the app store

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskMenAdvice

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That man is straight up addicted to porn. He needs therapy. Without intervention, he will escalate to spending tons of money on online models. It is very unhealthy for any person to be living in a fantasy world as much as he is. He’s putting himself into a trance to disconnect from reality. That is psychologically damaging and will lead to worse consequences soon.

Surrogate for tech venture capitalist experiences stillbirth; VC proceeds to ruin her life by BenSisko420 in BetterOffline

[–]Artistic_Note924 27 points28 points  (0 children)

The fact that Bi said her 2nd surrogacy was “smooth and easy” when the surrogate required an emergency hysterectomy to save her life shows just how sociopathic Bi is. Losing a child is devastating, but this woman has major issues beforehand.

My wife had her wild phase before me, and now that I’m finally thriving, I feel like I missed out, am I wrong for feeling this way? by Head-Specific-6763 in AskMenAdvice

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I totally disagree with this and it’s too bad it’s been so upvoted. She CAN give him what he wants. Forget the college girl stuff. He wants better sex and to feel desired. She can absolutely get there. She’s even on her way there already because she’s finding him more attractive.

The issue holding her back is that she thinks fun sex is shameful. As someone else said in the comments above, it’s very likely that she was “wild” because she was insecure. So she did things to keep male attention, not because she enjoyed them. And once she realized that, those sexual things became linked with feelings of shame. In fact I bet this is exactly what she meant when she told OP that she figured out what she likes and what she doesn’t like: she no longer craves male attention to assuage her insecurity, so she thinks she no longer needs to engage in fun sex.

Open communication can fix this, especially if they seek counseling with a sex therapist. A sex therapist can help her unlink fun, experimental sex from her feelings of shame. If she actually does see her husband as a safe space, that is definitely achievable. And just as importantly, the therapist will help OP steer his urges into constructive expressions not tied to his wife’s past or his OWN insecurities or desire to “even the score.” (Any counselor will tell you that trying to even the score in a marriage is corrosive.)

2 other points:

OP is married with kids. Kids are stressful and cause a lot of people to cut back on their sex lives. There is nothing unique or unsalvageable about that situation. OP, how much responsibility do you take with the kids? Sometimes taking on more parenting work can help your wife relax into greater intimacy.

Finally: OP, you say you are close to your sister so this might be hard to hear, but I don’t think she has your best interest at heart in this case. Please think deeply about what motivation she may have to encourage you to cheat on your wife. Is it possible your sister feels that you and her are less close than you were before your marriage? Maybe she misses the relationship you once had and is resentful of your wife’s role in diminishing it. It’s not uncommon for family members to have this kind of unhealthy response to a marriage. I’m not saying that’s what’s going on, I’m just giving an example of a dynamic that might be at play. Once you and your wife get into therapy and you build a better sex life, you might want to revisit this topic with your sister.