They’re not acceptable. In fact I can’t think of a single one except burnt that is still actively kicking around.
Who told you it was acceptable, if you don’t mind me asking. And if it was your english teacher, please ask them how they managed to get here from all the way back in Shakespeare’s time.
Past 30, age is less about biology and more sociology.
I’m a 49 year old male. But I’m divorced, no kids. Still living a bachelor life quite happily while most guys close to my age are married with the kids and coaching soccer on weekends in a minivan. As a result, my friend group almost exclusively skews younger because those are the people who are in the same stage of life as I am (regardless of biological age).
The same works for relationships. Past a certain point it doesn’t matter how old you are, as long as your sociological age is compatible. (Ie. Your way of life)
Edited to Add: The rule we always learned in highschool when we were stupid kids with nothing better to do is “half your age plus 7”
51 divided by 2 = 25.5 + 7 = 32.5.
So by highschool rules, you’re just a little bit outside the lines, but close enough that if you’re both attractive most people will ignore it.
I apologize if this sounds flippant, but it’s FICTION.
Literally ANYTHING works if its written well enough…
Why are corporate IT policies the way they are?
I thought about this the other day when asking my IT department why they won’t let me carry a USB stick between home and work to be able to work from home and instead lock down the USB access and instruct me to use Google Drive instead…
I decided that most corporations only cosplay their IT security inasmuch as it only matters up to and not beyond the point of economic convenience.
If any of these companies truly cared about security, they would at the very least be using a hardened fork of Chrome with Google Services stripped out. They’d be self-hosting their own servers connected only via a VPN or some sort, etc… etc…
But that shit takes money and staff to maintain it. So they’ll give everything to third parties to manage instead and then send out pop-quiz emails about phishing every couple of weeks followed by sternly worded emails when a person fails it.
(Sorry…off my anti-depressants until pay day, so I have a lot of micro rants that have built up…haha)
Most regular people just use what came with their computer, unfortunately.
So this is a case of a company that made a browser to appeal to techies that didn’t see widespread adoption, is pivoting to a new browser that is focused on the central conceit of a product that most techies decry…
Read the room, Arc. Read the room.