The app is Covenant Eyes. https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/11/mike-johnson-republican-speaker-interview-covenant-eyes.html
It gives you a blurred view of the porn the other person is viewing in a near-realtime feed https://www.covenanteyes.com/how-it-works/#activity-feed
It is exactly as bad as it sounds unless they choose to claim to not be using this feature and we choose to believe them.
Yes. (See what I did there?)
As a legal matter, maybe not. As a practical matter I’m pretty sure it is evident.
He won’t seek consent for either and he’s already drafting a bill that that look you’re making… yeah, that look… is implied consent.
This man looks like he’s always about to kiss you full on the mouth but you know what he really wants to do is make a jacket out of your skin. 0 stars.
I know a bunch of these do the annoying YouTube thumbnail thing that is very much adjacent to your complaint but I would argue they do a pretty good job of being excited about the topic but not overly dramatic in the presentation during the actual video.
General topics:
https://www.youtube.com/@Wendoverproductions
https://www.youtube.com/@halfasinteresting
Science
https://www.youtube.com/@SciShow
If you just want to learn about astrophysics. Many build on each other so you might want to consider watching a bunch of the early ones first.
https://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime
Engineering. This guy’s voice annoys me but some of the videos are still quite interesting so I linked this specific one about exactly how train wheels/tracks work. Never would have guessed the level of design involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nteyw40i9So
I don’t know much about politics but given the situation it sounds to me like he’s just hoping to get someone with a weaker hand into that already extremely tenuous position. Democrats shouldn’t be fooled thinking “but they’re more reasonable”. That person will automatically have a weaker position than McCarthy just because they are the second choice so it won’t matter much who the speaker is just the fact that they have zero room to maneuver. What might make it worthwhile despite this? I wonder whether Democrats can extract some binding commitments like non-reversible rule changes that survive at least for the session in order to secure their votes to oust McCarthy.
The obsolete skills they are learning are “prompt engineer”.
I like some of the other suggestions better than this but if you’ve already tried communicating about it and other things haven’t worked, I wonder if for some cases you could convince him to take a video or a picture. Like, if it’s a cool thing he wants you to see instead of interrupting you record it and share it when you’re available instead of right now, interrupting you. Again, I think the other proposals are better but I wonder… if you’re right about the motivation at least sometimes being just wanting to share something it might be worth attempting.
In approximate order of how strongly I recommend but all are recommended
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Epistory
Tales of Berseria
Tangle Tower (Pair of male and female protagonists through the whole game and they are very balanced for screentime)
Wargroove
Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale
Crypt of the Necrodancer
The Stillness of the Wind
Sable
Tsioque
The Flame in the Flood
The World Next Door
Never Alone
One Step from Eden
I’m imagining him switching his VP pick to be the dead worm. Do I still need to read the article?