There seems to be a real tendency to want to narrow the band of what a functioning adult is, centered right around whatever age the poster happens to be at.
The reason that 25 number came up is that's how old the cohort they were studying brain development got when their funding was cut. There's no reason to not believe brains continue developing all our lives, or that even if that study did find a "cut off point" that it would be the same from person to person.
sure, not like people under 25 need to work, pay rent, take care of their own finances and responsibilities, or anything. we’re all just kids living with our parents and when we turn 25, we magically become adults! oh, wait…
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bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 91 pts · 149d
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 149d
23-19! 23-19!
joelfromaus@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 149d
🧦
verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone · 45 pts · 149d
I don’t see a call to
fork(), so there’s clearly no child here.elvith@feddit.org · 18 pts · 149d
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 149d
Nope. The check should be in a while loop
username_1@programming.dev · 38 pts · 149d
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 149d
42069ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 149d
Le Website: Wow, what are the odds this person using MY WEBSITE was born in 1900 on January 1st? They must be the oldest person in the world!
Le me: is 14
n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 149d
Six seven
wewbull@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 148d
Found the child.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 148d
Or the hip soccer mom
lime@feddit.nu · 30 pts · 149d
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 149d
Unacceptable. All my friends are None
lime@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 148d
*to the tune of California Dreamin'*
eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 148d
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 149d
There's only one thing worse than a rapist
CodiUnicorn@programming.dev · 5 pts · 149d
"I fear no man. But that thing, it scares me."
Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 149d
elvith@feddit.org · 1 pts · 149d
aivoton@sopuli.xyz · -1 pts · 141d
onlinepersona@programming.dev · -14 pts · 149d
Anything under 25 should be considered a child.
org@lemmy.org · 18 pts · 149d
People over 65 should be banned from voting, driving, and accessing the internet
Just like a child.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 149d
Not everyone's brain degrades at the same rate.
org@lemmy.org · 11 pts · 149d
True. Not every 12 year old is too dumb to vote.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 15 pts · 149d
Anyone > 65 should be considered senile until proven different. After all, it's not kids that get scammed out of their retirement funds.
That's not my opinion, but it might lead to changes.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 149d
Kids don't have retirement funds. If they did, and they had free access to them, they would definitely get scammed out of them.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 5 pts · 149d
That's pretty much what I wrote, just lacking the sarcasm.
CanadaPlus@futurology.today · 10 pts · 149d
There seems to be a real tendency to want to narrow the band of what a functioning adult is, centered right around whatever age the poster happens to be at.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 148d
The reason that 25 number came up is that's how old the cohort they were studying brain development got when their funding was cut. There's no reason to not believe brains continue developing all our lives, or that even if that study did find a "cut off point" that it would be the same from person to person.
bluejayway@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 149d
sure, not like people under 25 need to work, pay rent, take care of their own finances and responsibilities, or anything. we’re all just kids living with our parents and when we turn 25, we magically become adults! oh, wait…
onlinepersona@programming.dev · 2 pts · 148d
I just find the arbitrary line drawn at 18 to be ridiculous. So, the second you turn 18 you magically become an adult. OK.
And now it's time to judge societies that decide 16 means adult, or 20 means adult, or 25 means adult.
Was it the US that just decided for us that "18 means your adult"? Why should they get to decide that? Based on what criteria?