Narcissistic consumption can be harmful to your health. Hey survivors, thank you for joining me. Please like the video, share your thoughts in the comments, subscribe if you haven't subscribed yet, and share the video with anyone who you believe may help. In this video, I am going to be talking about why Narcissistic consumption can be harmful to your health. What do I mean by this? When you drink alcohol or do drugs, these things can be harmful to your health. They can be toxic when consumed. They can affect your mental, physical, emotional and psychological health. They can even affect you at a biological level. It's the same thing with a Narcissist. This is something you need to take into consideration when you are dealing with them. When you are having a conversation with a Narcissist, afterwards you feel drained and lifeless. This is because they are affecting your energy and health.  Again, it is affecting your energy and health. The more involved you become with them, the worse it gets. The more contact or access they have to your body, mind and soul, the better chance they have of depriving you of the very qualities you possess and need to be who you are. Once you move to a physical level with a Narcissist, that's when you will really notice the change in yourself. With an emotionally healthy person, you will feel replenished and more alive after being physical with them.  The more intimate they become, the worse it gets for you. When you are around people, you share energy. This is normal. It is actually harmful to your health if you do not do that.  Of course, this doesn't happen when you are around Narcissists. You give out replenishing and nutritionally valuable energy but you do not get the same thing back. Narcissists are not capable of giving you that energy. That's why they have to feed off you. They become dependent on you as being their life source to sustain them in their daily lives because they do not have their replenishing and nutritional energy which we possess. So when you interact with these people, you are giving them this notion energy and all you are getting back is a sugar rush. It might give you a sugar rush in the beginning, maybe while you are having a conversation with them but afterwards you will notice your energy levels beginning to deplete. When you have a relationship with a Narcissist, you are not only giving away your nourishing energy and getting back low quality energy in return, you are also enmeshed with them at a biological level. You share the same bacteria and residue with a Narcissist. So even when they are not around, it's still affecting you. Even if you have left them, you could still have their bacteria or residue in your car or in your house. This is why it's so dangerous to get involved with these types of people. It's not just a transfer of energy. It goes much deeper than that. There are processes which occur at a biological level when you get involved with them. Processes which affect your mental, physical, emotional and psychological health. So please keep that in mind whenever you feel like going back to the Narcissist.  Think about it. They never engaged in a deep conversation with you. They never shared anything significant or meaningful with you. They don't even have the emotional capabilities to do that. They are not real human beings. Everything is choreographed and designed in a way to appeal to you and your own ideals but it only goes so far. They can never take it to the next level and be that for real and it's the same thing when you share affection with them. When you are kissing them you feel your energy gradually being depleted.  It's all in your head. It's literally all in your head. They are not about any of that. You might as well be kissing a corpse because really that person is dead inside. Affection is their way of securing you as their source of supply and they can take away that just as quickly as they gave it to you one of their favourite tactics is to withhold whatever it is you desire from them. This is a tactic they learned as children keeping a toy away from another child they later became adults and learned how to adapt this manipulative tactic to adults and in relationships. It's a tactic used to get what they want from you most often what they want is your energy or narcissistic supply so keep this in mind any time you are sharing affection with them it seems that when we do this we end up creating our own fantasy and we apply this to them and they are quick enough to make us believe that's what they are. When you have sex with a narcissist you tell yourself that this person really loves and cares for you you tell yourself that they are amazing in bed and they really know what they are doing but if you take a step back and really look at it for what it is it's only fun because we are there they were just reflecting back what we put out and I think this is something important to think about what happens during sex is exactly the same thing that happens during the relationship the love bombing stage they mimic you and appeal to your own ideals they reflect back what you give to them they tell you what you want to hear show you what you want to see it's exactly the same just a different scenario and this is when they really get the opportunity to take control of your body mind and soul this is when they can do the most damage to your mental physical emotional and psychological health keep this in mind when you are around these types of people without conversations or fake affection they cannot affect your health they will make you believe that you need their time and energy to survive but you don't that's what is stopping you from uncovering from this you need to take some time out away from these people at least for one year I haven't engaged in any relationships or sexual activity for over one year for the first time in my life and I feel great I feel whole like the real me once you get to this level you won't want to deal with these people anymore you will want something more real more emotionally stimulating to you because an empty narcissist can never satisfy or fulfill an emotionally healthy person narcissists are repelled by emotionally healthy people they don't want to be around them I've seen some survivors talking about what it would be like to have a relationship with another empath or healed survivor what it would be like to have sex with them well, I can assure you that it will be worth all of the time and effort you put into your healing and recovery from narcissistic abuse when you finally recover and meet an emotionally healthy person you will soon realize why it never worked with a narcissist I hope this video helped you remember to like the video and subscribe if you haven't subscribed yet let's spread the knowledge and awareness and I will talk to you in another video very soon


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So YouTube team keeping clean, what's going on is engraving here with another video. And in this video, we had to talk about that game that we just finished watching between the dolphins and the bingles. And actually, technically, it's still going on right now. You might be able to hear little bits and pieces of it in the background, but Teddy Bridgewater just threw that pick. Von Bell, and it's like with Von Bell, he's like, you know what? Picking off the dolphins quarterbacks tonight was so nice, you know, I'm gonna do it twice. I'm gonna get a pick on each dolphins quarterback. How about that? And he did it. But anyway, before we get into the game, obviously the biggest story of this game was Tua. Tua, we saw a couple of days ago, and it was so crazy because Tua got knocked out. Knocked out a couple of days ago, obvious concussion. He got up, started wobbling, started wobbling some more, went back down to the, he was just not in good shape to play football. So then he ends up coming back into the game.  But I remember watching that game and thinking like, man, I am so surprised that they're doing this right now because I've seen with the NFL, surprisingly, even in the playoffs, that when it comes to concussions, even for star players, I know NFL, they all about the business, they all about money. So, but I've seen for star players, even in a playoff game, you know, NFL make a lot of extra money off playoff games, they've taken star quarterbacks out due to concussions. We saw it with Lamar Jackson in 2020 against the Buffalo Bills. He got concussed and I was thinking, it's Lamar Jackson. That's a big money maker. They gonna let it slide. Nope, sure didn't. We saw it with Patrick Mahomes against the Browns in the playoffs. I forgot what year it was. But I was thinking, oh yeah, it's Patrick Mahomes. That's a big money maker as well. They gonna let it slide. Nope. But with Tua, they let it slide. And not that I don't know if it was the NFL, it was the independent neurologist. I don't know if it was the Dolphins doctors. I don't know what it was. Cause I don't understand the entire process that happens, but the process was wrong. That they obviously handled it wrong because Tua came back in the game. And it's like, really? And he didn't look any more concussed during the game, but still like, this dude was just wobbling a couple of minutes ago and then he's back. And then they got a game four days later and then he's back again. And then of course that, it was just a nasty process. Just seeing, cause he got like thrown to the ground. His head hit the ground and live it looked nasty.  And football is obviously a violent sport, but Tua's head hit the turf and then you just knew it was bad. That's when it got really scary when his fingers started doing all that stuff. Cause it was like, ooh, this is rough. This is really bad. Cause me, I don't think I've ever seen something like that before, ever. In NFL, when somebody gets a concussion, I've seen people get wobbly. I've seen people get knocked out, but I've never seen where somebody fingers just do all of that stuff that Tua's fingers were doing. They did say he went to a local hospital. They said he has all the movements in his body and whatnot. So that's a good thing. But now I wonder about the long-term health for Tua. So we'll see how the dolphins handle it. I don't think they have the best track record right now when it comes to handling Tua. So we'll see, man.  But yeah, you know how it went. Especially with the Bengals being in my division and I just wanted the Ravens to have another leg up on the Bengals. Anyway, we could possibly get it, but it's all good. Ravens just gotta take care of their own business. Next Sunday night, football. But anyway, we'll talk about that later. Dolphins Defense, in this game, they were keeping the big plays to a minimum for a while. They were holding it down. Joe Bro was completing passes and whatnot, but it wasn't anything crazy. But then T. Higgins on that big touchdown catch that he had with T. Higgins, Xavier and Howard. I didn't know he had a groin injury, but Xavier and Howard was so close, but he just missed the deflection and T. Higgins did the rest. Jamar Chase, he had been quiet for a big chunk of the game. But then in the second half, that's when he started making a lot more noise. And then there was one drive where him and Joe Bro, they just started really getting in sync. But after Teddy Bridgewater threw that interception, that interception hurt my heart, because like I said, I really wanted the Dolphins to win this thing, hold it down. But anyway, when Teddy Bridgewater threw that interception, on the following drive, I'm thinking, all right, the Bengals, they just gonna run it out. Try to get a first down or something, but they went for the big play. And I respect that aggression, because you don't just play to get, but no, you play to win the game. And the Bengals, they played to win. They knew the situation, they knew what it was. They knew that the game, even though it looked kinda over, it still wasn't officially over yet. So they went for the kill shot. And that's what you gotta do. That's what you gotta do. And then, so they got that big play to Jamar Chase, but then on top of that, the touchdown to Hayden Hurst. I said, oh, how fitting. This game has already hurt my heart. And then Hayden Hurst gets the official game-winning touchdown that really sealed it. But you gotta respect the aggression, because it was a smart thing to do. It paid off, obviously, and that helped them seal the deal. Teddy Bridgewater, on the Dolphin side, when he came in, his first play was like a third and 17, I think. And he came in there and he threw a great pass to Schurffield, number 14. And I was like, oh, okay. All right, Teddy Beach. And I told my boys that I was watching the game, but I'm like, man, Teddy Beach, he was waiting for this moment. He was waiting for this moment. Because there was no, and I know Teddy Bridgewater, he started in the NFL plenty, because he started for the Vikings, obviously. He started for the Jets, I think, started for the Saints too. Oh, and for the Broncos too. I forgot about that. So Teddy Bridgewater, he done been around. But there was like, he came in, he was ready right away, right away. And he's obviously one of the more experienced backup quarterbacks. But I would expect him to be starting for at least the next week or two for the Dolphins when the Dolphins play. It's nice that they do have this long break now until the next game. I'm not sure when the next game is, but they have a nice long break. So that will help, that'll help with Tua and his situation. I'm not sure what they're gonna do there. I wonder if they will put him on IR. And you know what's interesting that the Dolphins, they had actually called up one of their practice squad quarterbacks, Skyler, ah, I forget his name, but they called him up. And I was like, hmm. So it's like, you feel like the Dolphins just knew something, something that they needed another quarterback. I wonder why. But anyway, Teddy Bridgewater, he came in there doing his thing. And there was some plays where, this is why mobility matters, man. If Teddy Bridgewater didn't have mobility, then a lot of those Dolphins drives would have ended prematurely. There were some plays that definitely should have been sex. But Teddy Bridgewater, he got out of there. One of them for sure was the shovel pass to Chase Edmonds. It was a shovel pass where, I think they brought somebody in motion. Teddy Bridgewater snapped the ball and he was holding it. And a bingles defender, I don't remember which one it was, if it was Trey, if it was Hubbard, whoever it was. But a bingles defender was right by Teddy Bridgewater. And I was like, ooh, uh-oh. Then at the last second, Teddy Bridgewater did a little shovel pass. And I think that was a touchdown. I believe. But Raheem Moston, he was doing his thing. He was quiet early on, but then at the end, like in the fourth quarter, he broke this big run. I was thinking it was gonna be a touchdown, but it wasn't. And then, but after that, it ended up not being enough. Ended up not being quite enough. And the Dolphins, they fell short. So they are undefeated no more.  And I think most people probably penciled this as a bingles win. A lot of people expected the bingles to win. I expected the bingles to win. I was hoping the Dolphins would win, but I expected the bingles to win. And it was a really good game. It was a really fun game to watch. This was one of the better Thursday night football games. Recently, I mean, last week against the Chargers and the Chiefs, that game was cool too. But I guess for this one, since I was more invested in it, since it was the Dolphins and it's the bingles, I was more invested in those two teams that are very near and dear to the Ravens. Obviously, with the Dolphins doing what they did, but then with the bingles being in the division, I guess I cared about this game that much more. But anyway, Team Keep It Clean, I love y'all. I appreciate y'all. Thank you for watching. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss anything. And we out.


I'm going to be looking in Genesis chapter 2 and I'm giving you what would be just a foundational study, an intro to Christian marriage. And so we're going to begin reading here in chapter 2 at verse 18, reading to verse 25. That'll be a foundation. We'll be moving back to Ephesians and picking up in Ephesians next time we're together. But I wanted to lay a foundation. And so Genesis chapter 2 beginning at verse 18, the Lord God said, it is not good that man should be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him. Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them and whatever Adam called each living creature. That was its name. So Adam gave names to all cattle to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man he made into a woman and he brought her to the man. And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh. And they were both naked the man and his wife and were not ashamed. So the pastors there visiting a fourth grade Sunday school class and he's going to talk to the class about marriage. And so he asks the class, what does God say about marriage? And a little boy replied, Father forgive them they know not what they do. And so we're going to be looking at the subject of marriage and the family. I obviously begin this realizing that there are widowed and divorced members present with us though be some who have watched this or will watch this. We have a number of single parents as well as singles have never been married. And so I don't want you to feel any less. I don't want to be insensitive to you. And I pray that the series is going to be able to be beneficial to all of us. But the fact is, it's been a number of years since I've done a marriage series. So let me begin by saying marriage as an institution as throughout the world been redefined. Many have rejected the once accepted concept of what one time had been referred to as a traditional family. They consider such a concept to be outdated, it's unreasonable and for many it's unworkable. Now at one time there was a definition of a traditional family that was accepted by the majority. A traditional family had been defined as a man and a woman who were legally married to one another who often had children born to them. It consisted of a bread winning father, a stay at home mother who would care for the home and the children that were born to them after marriage. But in our day the definition of marriage and family has changed. Today's culture has a new definition and the definition does not require marriage. For many to be a family only requires people caring about one another and living together under the same roof. To be a family doesn't require marriage but exists because they say they're a family. Same sex unions are insistently presented as equal to heterosexual relationships and this arrangement has gained the backing of psychology as well as courts of law. Legalized homosexual marriage exists in many parts of the world including the United States. And what has occurred is the redefinition of marriage, reducing it to really simply a civil matter. It's presented as the same to the male and female in terms of just living together to male and female marriage relationship and homosexual marriage itself has been placed on the same level, the same plane if you will. So many will say that homosexual marriage is legitimate, it's proper, it's equal to heterosexual marriage and that's in spite of the fact that homosexuals as a group have significantly higher levels of promiscuity of suicide of domestic violence and relational instability compared to heterosexual relationships. Today many find it preferable to live together without a ceremony or without a contract according to the 2020 census 18 million Americans are living together. Human life international reports that 60% entering first marriages in the United States are already living together. The Pew Research Center says that cohabitors ages 50 and older represent about a quarter 23% of all cohabiting adults in 2016. Since 2007 the number of people living together ages 50 and older grew by 75%. Now this is also found to be true among some who profess to be Christians. Again Pew Research says in 2019 58% of white evangelicals said cohabitation is acceptable if the couple plans to marry. Views on cohabitation become noticeably less Christian among younger respondents. There are those who will say well you need to live together living together is like a test drive it should be done before you're committing. One study found that 40% of women living with significant others for the first time between 2006 and 2010 transitioned to marriage within three years. 32% of those relationships remained the same and 27% were dissolved. You see without fully realizing it by living together they are sinning against the Lord. In the Old Testament book of Malachi chapter 2 verse 11 that verse refers to marriage as God's holy institution. This reveals that marriage is God's idea and his design and is regarded as holy. In Malachi 2 verses 14 and 15 those verses speak of marriage as a covenant not as a legal contract. And when I looked up what a covenant is under biblical definition a covenant is a solemn agreement in which each party bound themselves to fulfill certain conditions with God being the principal witness. You see some don't understand this and so what they do is they enter into marriage improperly casually and even just just flat out wrong and some of you may be aware of this. Four years ago a Japanese man named Akiiko Kondo married a fictional computer synthesized pop singer called Hatsune Miku but he says that they're now having struggles to connect. It's true. I didn't make that up. It's true. It gets worse. As an Irish woman Wilhelmina Kellan who has been married to her dog Henry for eight years. A Hindu woman married her cobra. A Chinese man married himself and a woman married the Eiffel Tower. And so we can see where marriage is in the mind of many people. It's not taken seriously. It's not regarded for what it is yet. God says it's a holy covenant. God said it's a sacred arrangement but the world doesn't see it that way. You see the New Testament reveals marriage as a picture of Jesus and the bride his church. So it's a spiritual union. It's not to be regarded as anything but sacred. So living together and sexual activity outside of marriage is improper as a sin and in scriptures refer to as a as fornication. You see if the person is sexually involved or is living with someone who is married to another person even if they're separated it's adultery. Hebrews 13 verse 4 says marriage is honorable among all and the bed undefiled but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. We saw in Ephesians 5 verses 5 and 6 how Paul said for this you know that no fornicator, unclean person nor covetous man who was an idolater as any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. He went on to say let no one deceive you with empty words for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. God takes it very seriously and so we wanted to spend time looking at marriage and doing so from a Christian perspective and so I begin with a simple definition of a Christian marriage very simple very basic definition. A Christian marriage is a total commitment of one man and one woman to the person of Jesus Christ and to one another. It is a commitment in which there is no holding back of anything. It's been said that marriage is God's refining process as he develops us into the person he desires us to be like Proverbs 27 17 says as iron sharpens iron so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. So marriage is something that is God's creation. When you read your Bible from Genesis chapter 1 to Genesis chapter 9 there are three basic institutions that that civilization is built on that are established. One of the institutions obviously is marriage in Genesis 2 18 it says the Lord God said it's not good that man should be alone I will make him my helper comparable to him. So this institution that is intended for the welfare of the society to actually create a society the first building block of that is marriage. The church is seen in Genesis 3 15 and and you read the words that are spoken to the serpent how the Lord said I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed speaking of Christ he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his seal that took place on the cross. Then the third institution is human government we see that in Genesis chapter 9 verse 6 where it says whoever sheds human blood by humans shall their blood be shed for in the image of God has God made mankind that's the institution of what is called civil law safeguarding people from violence especially from murder man has been made in God's image he's different from animal life and he's of a higher nature and you see that in scripture well we're going to look at marriage and we're going to look at marriage from a Christian perspective. So we begin at verse 18 here in chapter 2 and it reads the Lord God said it is not good that man should be alone I will make him a helper comparable to him so one this first reveals to us that God is the one who created marriage notice how it says the Lord God said I will make him a helper so that reveals that man was created first and that establishes the pattern of marital marital authority in 1 Corinthians 11 verse 3 Paul said it like this he said I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ the head of woman is man the head of Christ is God this is a picture of authority how things are to be done in order for things to be able to be done properly so when it says man is the head of woman it speaks of authority and it speaks of his authority in the home by virtue of priority of creation it's not a distinction based on value it's not a distinction based on abilities intellect or spirituality it's based on interdependent roles for order in a home as well as order in a society for proper social order husbands are to provide leadership in the home and we'll look at that when we look at the role of the husband but he also says in verse 18 that eve is a helper notice a helper comparable to him that speaks of someone who corresponds to his moral and intellectual nature it is one who supplies what he needs it's a counterpart of his being comparable speaks of one that is similar to him and is literally his reflected image eve was his counterpart suitable in nature and one like himself in shape and disposition eve was one in whom he saw his own image and he recognized as his counterpart it's been said she was his second self she corresponded to his moral and his intellectual nature and so woman is not the same thing as man i'm hoping the supreme court justice hears that woman is not the same thing as man but provides help because she shares his nature and that's why a dog can't be man's best friend we call him that but they're not and if you really think he's your best friend open the door and see what he does now the first thing that is ever called not good is found in the scripture it is not good that man should be alone so that emphasizes a man's need for a companion one that is of the same nature as himself now remember there are angels and there's the world of animal life but the angels animal life wasn't enough for Adam needed someone like himself and without eve he was truly alone and incomplete Adam needed another human being to enjoy social relationships and even create them he needed to give love to someone like himself she was a match for him she was at his side she was made fit for him corresponded to him she was formed from him and was to be a perfect resemblance of the man she possessed neither inferiority nor superiority but she was in all things like and equal to him eve was not less eve was not better eve was just different and every husband says amen corresponding to his exact need and as such she was treated with love she was treated with respect she was cherished and she was cared for now by design our mates are are intended to fill our gaps our mates are intended to complete us you may be a person who is habitually late you'll be the last person up in the rapture you are habitually late but have you noticed that very often those who are always have one more thing to do one last thing to do before they climb in the car have you ever noticed that very often they're married to a very punctual person that's very interesting but that's that's often true or you may be somebody who's very fastidious very clean everything has their place and you marry somebody who's a slob who is really really messy you may be a person who's very very quiet you've got a very quiet personality and and you like it that way but you marry somebody who is very loud and all and that happens all the time you may be somebody who's very very very cheerful but you marry a grouchy person you know do you ever wake up grumpy i used to but now she just sleeps in and then you may be somebody who's kind of lazy and you marry somebody who's always wanting to take a walk you may be an optimist and you ended up with a pessimist you may be very creative you like something new and fresh and you married somebody who's very static like things exactly the same way you may be somebody who's got a very volatile personality you ended up marrying somebody who's very quiet and even like my dad my mom my dad was very very quiet my mom made up for him and his quietness and and see that's just the fact and and and it seems that like like we we have these gaps that that person feels for us and it's not by our design necessarily it's not like we're so aware of our own selves the fact is oftentimes we're not but the ones that we enjoy being with are the ones that make us feel whole who helped to fill in those gaps and my wife Marie feels in mind my wife has made me into a better man but it's not by trying to you see when my mom my mom my mom thought that she needed to teach Marie about what it means to be my wife that was part of my mom's role in her mind so she told Marie one time and Marie doesn't keep anything from me so she told Marie one time I was at work and Marie was talking to my mom and and this is when we were first married and my mom said no honey you need to understand it's your job to raise your husband oh no no my mom didn't do a good job and Marie's not gonna succeed it doesn't work that way and every husband understands what I just said you know we have are you gonna wear that you know they have these ideas for us like I usually what's wrong with this well you know brown and blue don't go together and oh eventually anyway I used to dress myself but in marriage I was a project in marriage we learn from one another we conform to one another and we learn to accept one another and and we form one another into a different person as we adjust to one another every married couple knows this you enter into your marriage with certain attitude you're just fine you don't need to change but you married somebody that person you married has their way of doing things and so at first you might have argued a little bit you know trying to see who's boss here who's going to run the show or whatever that's what happens it's that iron sharpening iron iron you get to the point of realizing that not everything's worth a fight compromises and a bad thing in a relationship you begin to learn those things and and what happens over time is you begin to adjust to that person's personality in such a way that yours begins to conform a bit to theirs but they do the same with you and the two who were separate at one time are slowly but surely becoming the one and so they don't say and David and Marie so much as the result is because the two became one we joined in Christ in marriage and we're completing one another and that's how it works we were adjusting to one another I would be an entirely different person and those of you who are married right now in the room you would be entirely different than you are right now if you had married somebody different you'd be different because you adjusted when my mom when my father died and my mom found herself alone one of the things that the Lord spoke to my heart about her and her adjustment was that she had spent 54 years of her life being married to this one man my mom I had met my my dad when when she was 16 my dad was 20 my dad had gotten out of the navy he was at a dance in east LA because my mom lived in Montabello my father grew up in norwalk my mom was there my mom was a very light-skinned Mexican woman very light-skinned her mother was uh was Spanish and so my mom had real light-skinned and so my dad saw my mom and my dad said to his friend in Spanish thinking that she didn't speak Spanish my dad said in Spanish to his friend something like hey I'd like to like to dance with that that cutie over there so my mom says that she turned to my dad in Spanish and said then why don't you ask me and she said my dad got all trippy on that because he said he says you speak Spanish turns out she's Mexican and he didn't know that and all and so they got together and my dad and my mom formed what we would call I I I eventually called it they formed a dance my mom and dad had a dance and and Marie and I have our dance you have yours it's the steps that you've learned with one another you have yours you're you're brushing your teeth in the morning getting ready to go and your wife walks in and she gets why I don't know why she gets in front of you and and she has to put the toothpaste but you don't say anything you just take a step back she steps in she does it she steps back you you've got to dance you just don't even know it and that is something you don't even talk about anymore and your life becomes that it becomes that you finish one another sentence it's not because that person's boring but because you already know where they're going and sometimes people thought oh don't you you know can't you think for yourself how come you let it's it's not that it's the way we communicate it's just us we've developed that that's who we are everybody has their dance everybody has their steps everybody who's been married for a while has learned that some things matter and some things don't the things that do matter are the things we hash out the things that don't matter are the things we compromise and work out because we Marie and I a long time ago decided that the two are better together than a part so we chose us we chose us it's us it's the Rosalina says it's us we are one and that's what marriage is supposed to be you see the rabbis taught that the wife wasn't a man's shadow so much as his other self they taught that she is his helper in a sense which no other creature on earth can be you see God had already spoken to Adam God had fellowship with Adam notice verses 16 and 17 here in Genesis chapter 2 where it says the Lord God commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden you may freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat for in the day that yeet of it you shall surely die man already had communication and fellowship with God that's been established but man needs another human being to relate to to share with to have as an equal Adam needed another person someone he could share his feelings with somebody who would be part of his life Ecclesiastes 4 9 through 11 says it like this two are better than one because they have a good return for their work if one falls down his friend can help him up but pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up also if two lie down together they will keep warm but how can one keep warm alone so the Lord God says in verse 18 it's not good that the man should be alone and so he says I'm going to make him a helper and that gives us a very basic insight you can have a great relationship with God but it's still okay to desire marriage we're we're creative for fellowship with God but we're also created for fellowship with other people and marriage is intended to fulfill our need to love others and be loved by another human being now marriage again is God's creation it's not man's invention it's God who said it's not good that the man should be alone it's God who said I will make him a helper so God intended marriage to bring joy and satisfaction to those who were married proverbs 18 22 says it like this he who finds a why finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord I remember one man who said I never knew what true joy was until I got married then it was too late that's mean but I like it in verse 19 out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field every bird of the air brought them to Adam to see what he would call them whatever Adam called each living creature that was its name Adam gave names to all cattle to the birds of the air to every beast of the field but for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him Adam was created first out of the earth but Eve was taken out of the man in 1st Corinthians 11 8 and 9 it says man is not from woman but woman is from man nor was man created for the woman but woman for the man now Genesis 1 27 informed us that God created man in his own image created speaks of the fact that man didn't evolve from something else created speaks of man being brand new he differed from other animal life not only in degree but in kind but in species so Adam was created in the image of God Adam was created in God's moral image not a physical image again Adam was created with certain attributes like knowledge and righteousness and holiness those are all moral attributes according to chapter 1 verse 24 animals were created first and then Adam but you have in verse 19 of chapter 2 what I refer to as a parade of animals they they passed before him in pairs and so that highlights the fact that he's without a companion and so as this takes place verse 21 says and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place and so God caused him to sleep ensuring that he would feel no pain that came after marriage and the rib was made into a woman that word made speaks of being fashioned or built she was made fashion she was built and brought to Adam she wasn't taken from the dirt she was taken from his side she was genetically and perfectly harmonious to him now she was taken from his side she does not govern nor does he she usurp authority of him nor is she his slave nor his servant but she is his companion and is to be treated with kindness respect and love when I was doing a men's conference recently after I after I taught one of the attendees of this conference in another state approached me and began to ask me questions and started to complain to me about his wife and his marriage and we had an interesting conversation for a while and I mentioned to him I said you know you you're called by Jesus to serve your wife and he got up tight he got very upset I'm not subservient to her and uh and I'm not her servant I said yes you are and that's where your problem is I said because the greatest in the kingdom is the servant of all and God has called us to serve together with and to serve our wives out of love by cherishing and appreciating her and in the fact that you're not doing that you're demonstrating that you're not you're not married to her in the way that Christ would have you to be married to her there are men who don't understand that they think that their job is to boss their wife around but we have been called by God to love and to serve not to compromise but to have that biblical authority to love our wives and in doing so I discovered this a long time ago that if I love my wife 100% she has a tendency of loving me 150% back it helps her to respond and so it's been said she was not made out of his head to surpass him nor from his feet to be trampled on but from his side to be equal to him and near his heart to be dear to him notice verse 21 how it says God caused Adam to enter a deep sleep now as difficult as it may be for some to hear this is the safest place for those who are unmarried asleep asleep to incessant and overwhelming desires to be married I want to point something out it's important to note that God knew Adam's need before Adam realized that he had a need in Matthew 6 verse 8 Jesus said your father knows what things you have need of before you ask and so we have unmarried people here and unmarried people who are going to hear this and and this portion as we're looking at it may not apply to you you see some are unmarried having no desire to be married they have what is called the gift of celibacy you see when my when my father went to heaven my mother never desired to remarry she remained unmarried until the day she went to heaven but there are others who have a strong desire for marriage so I'm going to give you some advice at this point for those who are unmarried I would say do not rush into dating relationships or marriage because ultimately it will cost you there is something worse than being unmarried and that's being married to the wrong person and if you're unmarried and desire marriage wait for God's best because at this time you're free to serve God without distraction you can go on a mission trip you can participate in conferences you can go to Israel and do things like that without interruptions serve the Lord but marriage brings responsibilities and it brings cares that the unmarried don't have in 1 Corinthians 733 it says he who's married cares about the things of the world how he may please his wife in 1 Corinthians 735 being unmarried makes it possible to serve the Lord Paul said without distraction single parents can have an especially difficult time because loneliness is is difficult but rushing into a bad marriage makes it worse even if it's through Zeus or elite or e harmony or Christian mingle if you're presently dating evaluate your present relationship if you desire to date ask yourself what are you looking for and be mature enough to establish criteria it's not unspiritual it's just wisely counting the cost and so I do this every time I teach an introduction I ask some questions of the single members of our fellowship and what these questions are intended to do is to help our singles to think about the relationships and so here we go let me give you a series of questions of questions first are you a Christian and are they a Christian how do you know that and you need to know that there is no such thing as missionary dating because there are people who say you know if I go out with her I can bring her to faith in Christ no in 2nd Corinthians 6 verse 14 do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness what communion has light with darkness what do you have in common with somebody who doesn't love Jesus if you claim that you do second if they are believers how would you honestly describe their walks with Jesus as you're going out with them you're going to learn how important their faith is because after marriage you may begin to grow in your faith and they may not want to I'll never forget a woman that I had I believe this is it's been 30 some years ago but I had performed her marriage for her she and her husband had claimed to be Christians but after she married him within a few months he told her you are no longer going to church you will now begin to worship me because I am your god so just because someone appears to have that Christian language and commitment and all it takes a while for you to actually discover those things don't rush in your relationships a third question is is your Christian faith and your walk with the Lord growing or are you slowly fading in your walk due to your relationship you were serving the Lord before you met this person maybe even while serving together but now being in church and being in Bible studies being serving in any way doing ministry is losing it's you're losing your interest in those things those things are no longer uniting you and now you're beginning to fade away and you don't even realize it so a fourth question do you ever read the word fellowship pray together and witness as a couple do your friends consider you a Christian couple or just a dating couple a fifth do you attend the same church if not are you willing to leave your church and does that matter to you at all a sixth question who is the spiritual leader if you can't make it to church do they go without you or do they just stay home seventh what about them do you like the most the looks the personality those things are great their spirituality the fact that they love the Lord what is it that most attracts you eighth are you physically pure are they pressuring you to be sexually active are you living together that's called fornication some people say no no we're engaged yeah in fornication a lot of times people have approached me and said i'd like you to meet my fiance which very often turns out they're living together that's a sin ninth do your family and friends feel good about your relationship what your mom say about them what your dad say your brother say you have a sister what she say yeah i'm i still remember this when marie met my mom for the first time my mom and dad i she had two roommates and they gave me a ride home from church for some reason i didn't have my car and they gave me a ride home from church and they came to my house and that's when marie met my mom but she wasn't she wasn't my girlfriend we weren't dating she she just came and visited with my mom with two of her friends and and when they drove away i was sitting at the dinner table with my mom and my mom looks at me and she says i'll never forget this though i like the little brown one so my mama fell in love with marie right away do you have to make excuses for them do you have to explain their behavior to other people because they say something off the wall and do something wrong and you find yourself constantly having to explain them to others sometimes your friends your family maybe even to strangers be careful with that a tenth thing do you feel forced to stay with them because you've been with them so long do you think well that's the best i can get might as well live with that is that how you're thinking right now that's not good 11th are they too dependent on you are they selfish are they jealous are they hot tempered you may be flattered at first but that's a way of controlling you and here's another question do they hit you do they look at your phone messages do they monitor your social media do they tell you who you can be friends with do you have to report to them you see there's a difference between a committed relationship and jealousy that is possessive and controlling be very careful with somebody has to control you it doesn't end it gets worse 12th do you have to ask them for permission to do things why 13th do they have children from a previous relationship or marriage can you love and accept their children as if they're your own will they let you love them if they don't have children do they want them can they have them have you discussed that because the further you go into relationship those questions matter 14th how do they treat other people how do they feel about your family and what do they say about your family when it's just you and them listen carefully to what they have to say how often do you see them do you call or text them after the date ends I mean you drop the person off you're driving home before you know what you look I'm thinking of you it's freaky are you thinking of me you know put your phone on the pillow so I can hear you breathe as you sleep creeps that's creepy 16 are you doing domestic duties for them you doing their wash and cooking for them playing house why 17 are they always borrowing money from you or your friends do they like nice things and charge up their cards to buy them do you end up paying for the dates and excuse it by saying we're getting married I remember you know going out with Marie one time she got mad I only spent ten dollars on the date that's all she had if she had if she had more I just spent more 18 what things do they do that irritate you don't plan on changing them you know I've done I used to do the premarital counseling and I would ask I would say to the husband to be also called victim and the bride to be I'd say everybody has habits that causes irritation to somebody else we all do so what is it about this person that you're going to change after you get married because when you're dating and stuff they're oh no they're perfect the guys always I don't remember a single guy ever saying anything about why didn't you change anything about her never did what would you do what do you think needs to change with her and the guy nothing no she's good she's good really not a single thing really no she's good she's good and so I'd say okay and you what are you going to change about him she pulls out this list don't plan on changing them don't plan on changing them usually when we're dating we're on our best behavior we like everything they like you like this food I like this food you like this place I like this place you like this music I like this music you like this I like that whatever you like I like and then you get married after you get married I hate that I hate that I wouldn't eat that happens so be aware of that you're not going to change them 19 how well do you really know them are they open-hearted are they moody how well do you know them how how deeply have you become aware of who they are 20th are they free to date listen if they are separated they're married if they're not free to marry you they are not free to date you there are people who I've met I've met them often we're going to get married after the divorce comes through what what oh yeah we're just waiting on the divorce you're involved with a married person you don't know that well you know what the love died no yeah the contract still has ink that hasn't dried you are still licensed and married and having a relationship when that person is is still married is improper I know that sounds old-fashioned but that's actually the truth if you can't marry them you can't date them they're not free and who knows that God might do a work in the heart of that person that you're interrupting because of your relationship if they're not free to date to marry they're not free to date keep that in mind very practical but be aware of that here's another one do they like do they like alcohol and do they use drugs that isn't going to change after you get married and finally is this really God's best for you or are you just older and anxious might as well you know that old biological clock is is is ticking my as well wait and pray for the Lord I've shared this all of you have heard probably and perhaps some haven't but I always say this when I when I was young all the way to my my 20s I I wanted to be married I wanted a wife I think I proposed to the nurse attending my birth and from there it got worse I mean I had girlfriends in in elementary school my first girlfriend her name was Bernadette Archuleta and she was my girlfriend when I was about four years old and I had a girlfriend Sandy Martinez and Becky Padilla and Linda Lane I mean I always had this desire for marriage from the time I was a kid and so you know when I got saved you know I thought well Jesus said that if you ask anything in my name I will do it and so I'd be in a Bible setting there'd be this little hippie chick and I'd say in Jesus name that one's that's mine that's mine I claim her in Jesus name you know and so I got tired of of of having that mindset and so my brother got saved and he needed a Bible study and so I started driving from Norwalk to to Ontario to teach him a study just my sister Madeline me and my brother and I prayed and I said to the Lord Jesus I said father I have a friend named George who said that he had prayed that even as Adam had been put to sleep to his desires and all he was literally asleep may I be put to sleep to my desire for marriage I make a lot of bad decisions I don't want to make a bad decision when it comes to to being married so Lord may I be placed to sleep to my desires I ask God would you please put me to sleep and so I was teaching a Bible study and as I was teaching this Bible study my brother began to invite friends from work and and one day and I still remember that day I was sitting at this one particular chair he had this very small little apartment the door opened up my brother walked in and he said to me David I'd like you to meet Marie and one second in one second my life was forever changed in one second one second I didn't know her the next second I haven't been without her and that's how it works and and so I told that story because I met her I spoke to her at the study she was a college girl she was getting a degree out of Cal Poly Pomona and um and she was kind of you know she wasn't safe but she said in there she's talking to me she first question she asked me is what's your sign you know and I said the fish and she says oh you're a Pisces I said I said that I don't go for that horoscope garbage I said the fish the ictus I'm a Christian I don't believe that's our first conversation and and she's but I'm talking to her and I get in the car and I'm driving home with my sister Madeleine and I say I just met the girl I'm gonna marry I just met the girl I'm gonna marry I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt no I did not ask her out three weeks later about three weeks later my sister Madeleine talked to Marie after a bible study and said do you want to come to faith in Christ and Marie gave her heart to Jesus and that was in my bible study and she has from the day she got saved until this moment right now been sitting under my ministry every day of her spiritual life and the Lord when I went to sleep to my desire he brought the woman to me I didn't have to go out you know Christian mingle or whatever I just I just said Jesus I'll make a bad decision I believe that you answer prayer and I asked that you would do this and that's how it worked for me now my my son Joseph approached me one time and he said dad he says I've got a real problem I need your advice and I said what is it son he said remember how you prayed and and the Lord brought mama I said yeah he said well I prayed that too dad I don't want to make a bad decision but my problem is this he said I met a girl that I really like and he started talking how beautiful she is and how sweet she is and she's got a servant's heart and I started smiling and laughing he says what I said there's a part of the story you don't know son he goes what is that I said I prayed that prayer but within two or three weeks I met your mom I said you may be thinking that you've got to be you know asleep for like rip fang winkel for 40 years I said it's not that way I it's it's just that you die when you die the Lord brings I said and so that girl turned out to be Karina his wife you know and and he did the same thing that I did prayed and sought the Lord and said I want to be asleep to my desire and the Lord graciously brought his wife as God brought mine to me and God presented Eve to Adam establishing the holiness and seriousness of marriage notice in verse 22 how it says that God brought Eve he presented her he was he was given to Adam and and and that was God's best gift to him Proverbs 1914 says houses and riches are in inheritance from fathers but a wise wife is from the Lord and so we need to be aware that that love is patient and waits and therefore we won't rush into marriage now as this took place verse 23 says Adam said this is now bone of my bones flesh of my flesh you shall be called woman because she was taken out of man you might find this interesting but when the words is now it literally speaks of the tapping of the foot it speaks of the tapping of the foot it's really musically keeping time what it means is he's saying this is actually a love song this these words that you see here this is now bone of my bones flesh my flesh you can almost hear him what whatever she shall be called woman he named her and completed the task of naming this is now bone of my bones at last it literally is saying at last at last something made just for me and he sang therefore verse 24 a man shall leave his father and mother be joined into his wife the two shall become one flesh that is Moses his addition he explains the purpose of marriage you leave your parents home and you create a new one and so with these words we see marriages to be permanent men are to leave and they're to cleave and that speaks of like you can use that as a picture of pieces of wood being sealed together with an adherent if you peel those pieces of wood apart from the inside it splinters you see God joined it together God made it one and when it is cleaved God hates it because he hates divorce and finally they were naked verse 25 that means obviously more than just nude they were innocent they were open emotionally open physically open spiritually shame entered into the world because of sin but it didn't exist before the fall someone said those who have no sin in their conscience might well have no shame in their faces though they have no clothes on their backs they were the perfect people in a perfect marriage it was what God had designed for them and it says it was good and then they had kids we'll look at that later on our father we bless you


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you, including Ollie Sanjabi, Andrew Bradley, and Dale Mulcahy. Coming up on DTNS, Shannon Morris is here with an up-close look at the Pixel 7 phones and the Pixel Watch, plus Apple's new App Store rules, Target NFTs, and Facebook, and Shutterstock, partners up with Open AI. Is that a good idea? This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, October 25th, 2022, in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. I'm from Studio Red, but I'm Sarah Lane. From Studio Colorado, I'm Taylor Snopes. Shannon Morris. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chan. Couldn't decide for a second, which one do you want to do? I want to know what Roger's, like, alter ego is. It's Roger. Okay. It's just a very slightly different Roger. Sounds about right. Yeah. There are several differences. Roger. Yeah. All right. Let's start with a few tech things you should know, the Quick Hits. Here they are. Amazon is rolling out the option to use a Venmo Balance, linked bank account, or debit cards for payments, as it promised in 2021 it would do. And Venmo can also be made the default payment for payment going forward. Venmo Purchase Protection will apply, and the rollout began on Tuesday, and expected to be available to most Americans by Black Friday, which is November 25th. Oh, how convenient for Amazon. In a statement to the Verge, Nvidia says it is investigating reports of two RTX 4090 cards that had their included power cables melt or burn. Nvidia moved to a new 16-pin connector for the RTX 3090 Ti cards, and now it's standard on the RTX 40 GPUs across vendors. The concerns stem from the 12-volt HP power connector designed for ATX 3.0 power supplies that might cause issues if bent in a certain way. These things sometimes turn out to be user errors, sometimes they turn out to be design problems or confusion, sometimes it's a little of all of that, and there's only two across a lot of cards, so we'll see. Reuters sources say that Microsoft is beefing up its Chinese video game content to compete with Sony's success from Genshin Impact, an action role-playing hit from Shanghai based studio MiHoYo that has brought Sony billions of dollars since its release just two years ago. Games show that Microsoft paid $2.5 million to feature action game ARC Survival Evolved on Game Pass, and $2.3 million for sequel ARC 2, both from US developer Studio Wildcard, which you might not know, is owned by China's Snail Games. Executive from Shanghai's Recreate Games tells Reuters that his company signed a deal with Microsoft last year for its upcoming multiplayer title party animals to launch exclusively on Xbox. Japan's digital ID effort launched in 2016, but the government has had a hard time getting folks to sign up. The government of Japan has decided now to link the My Number card to driver's license and health insurance, and the key is that the health insurance cards folks have now will be discontinued in late 2024. So after that point, if you want your health insurance card, which you do, you need a My Number card, which means you need to sign up for the digital ID program. Now, there's resistance to the plan in Japan, based in part on common concerns over data protection that I'm sure you could guess at, but it's also not that easy to sign up. To get a My Number card, you have to get a form in the mail, then fill it out and send it back in the mail. Only about half of the people in Japan have a My Number card, and those have don't really want one. So we'll see where this goes next. According to a Google support page, the final version of Chrome that will be compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 will be released next year with Chrome 110, tentatively scheduled for February 7th, 2023. Windows 7 was released back in 2009. Microsoft officially ended support for it in 2020, but it's estimated that at least 100 million PCs are still running that OS. So kind of matters. Yeah, upgrade your Windows. All right. That is a look at the quickie. Let's talk a little more about Shutterstock. What do we got? Let's do it. So Shutterstock, if you're not familiar, is a marketplace of sorts for artists. If you're a photographer, you might want to license and sell your work for things like pamphlets or advertising or maybe a video that somebody would use that has your work included and the like. We've talked a lot about the increase use of text to image generators as a potential replacement for stock art and the fact that it takes a certain skill to get those generators to output something that is usable that would be on par with what an artist could generate themselves as a human with that in mind. It's not surprising to see Shutterstock get in front of the issue and announce it's partnering with open AI to integrate dolly too. In the coming months, you'll be able to enter text prompts to create images in Shutterstock, which then you can modify as much as you want and then sell on the platform. That part is really important. That also means you won't be able to sell machine generated work on Shutterstock that wasn't made with dolly too because that's not a partnership. So Shutterstock sold open AI access to its images and metadata in order to train its algorithms to address concerns about that quote contributors whose content was involved in training. Generative models will receive a share of the earnings from data sets and downloads of all AI generated content produced on our platform. Now those payouts will come every six months based on earnings from data deals and royalties from generic licensing on Shutterstock. Well, that's nice, except those training sets weren't just made up of data from Shutterstock contributors. I'm not sure what Shutterstock plans to do about people whose training data was used and they aren't on Shutterstock. I imagine Shutterstock has no plans to go find out who they are and pay them. One of the big names in imaging licensing is Getty Images. And Getty Images has decided to avoid this whole question by not allowing any machine generated imagery to be sold through its systems because it's unclear if that is fair use of data or not. Shutterstock doesn't have to pay people, at least not yet, but we don't know what the legal system will say about that. Getty Images CEO Craig Peters told The Verge, we don't want to put our customers into that legal risk area. Getty is taking a different approach. It's partnering with a company called Bria, B-R-I-A, to provide its customers with machine powered editing instead of machine powered generation. So the source material still comes from you, the creator. The algorithm in Bria helps you do things like remove an object fast or you can even tell it to change the gender of people in a photo, apparently, just by typing a few words. I think it's really fascinating here to see the different approaches to what is a tool to help you make better stock images and also with Shutterstock and Getty both having different ways of addressing the concerns over what those tools could be used for. Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure Shutterstock or Getty are right here. I get the Getty saying, we're just going to hands off for now. We don't know how this is going to play out and we'd rather just not engage. Shutterstock says, well, let's do some dolly stuff. Let's allow folks to be able to pay for AI generated images that are based on artist images. Now, in some of my artist community this morning, there was a lot of fud. People saying, well, hold on a second, I'm on Shutterstock and now I'm competing with AI on Shutterstock that has used my images on Shutterstock to make the AI more effective to give Sarah the eventual art that she's looking for altogether. Well, Shutterstock saying, don't worry, you're going to get paid. OK, if that's true, that's great. I don't know how you record that, though, effectively. I have a big concern with how much these Shutterstock artists are going to get paid because in my experience, I have paid $50 to $250 for a commercial anime character of myself from an artist. And if they're not making that same amount of money, if they're only making like $5 from some kind of AI generated content, that's not fair to them. And ethically, that makes me very concerned for the artists that are on the platform as well as the ones that aren't. Like Tom mentioned, the training sense were not just made up from the data from Shutterstock. So there's other people involved. And when it comes down to that, personally, I would rather just go straight to a content creator on Twitter and commission them for some kind of piece of art that I have a little bit more control over, over something that might come out really janky from some AI generated tool. But even if it isn't janky, even if it's exactly what you wanted, it's like, OK, who contributed and who's been paid? Like, it would be cool if there's some way to use the AI generated content to find out what artists it's kind of bringing in this information from. And then I could go find those artists and pay them directly for the content. But that's not how it works. I know. And I think I am going to take the unpopular stance here, which is I don't think artists are owed what Shutterstock is paying them any more than Scott Johnson owes all of the artists who inspired him and helped him learn. This is just training data that was used to teach an algorithm. And and it now creates something based on that. I understand that they didn't get permission to use the data in the training set. And I think that is a fair thing to address of whether they should have been paid to use their data in the training set. But I don't think what the algorithm outputs is in any way theirs. It's just whether their data was used to train. To me, that's similar to, well, did you pay for the book of art that helped you learn to do art? So the creator of the book got paid. That's how I view it. And don't forget that it's not a machine putting out cheap art that's going to undermine the marketplace for stock creators. What they're doing is saying Dolly, too, can be used by the creators of art on our platform to help them make the art. And there's a lot of creators who want to do that. And using that tool doesn't immediately make you able to create something that you couldn't otherwise. There's a skill to having it create something that then you might want to modify. So I think this isn't, I think people get very upset about this because of a perception of unfairness that isn't there, but there is an unfairness that we're confusing it with that is there. And what Shutterstock's doing is trying to address one kind of fairness, but it's addressing it in the wrong place. And I'm not sure that that's, I think that's gonna engender a bunch of confusion, actually. I think the comparison you make to Scott Johnson, prolific artist saying, well, hold on a second. If you're inspired by my work and you make your own work, great. I'm pretty cool with that. If you rip off my work, not cool with that. And that applies to a machine as well. And we're still in those early days of figuring out, okay, well, how much of that is derivative versus actual copyright infringement? Yeah, and what Dolly too does is not gonna rip off an artist unless you direct it to, in which case it's your fault for putting in the text that says imitate Scott Johnson, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, don't do that. Yeah, don't do that. I really do try to continue to see this as a tool because I know a lot of artists like Scott who are like, yeah, this is interesting. I might use this. This might help me. Apple regularly updates the App Store guidelines with little tweaks here and there. Of course, the latest revision comes with the release of iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1. We don't usually cover these, but this time around, there's a couple of things in here that are of greater interest than usual. Let's go through a few of them. For instance, developers now have to give the app review team a demo account for apps that include account-based features. That makes sense. A reviewer can't properly verify that everything is secure in an app if it doesn't have access to all the features, right? Yeah, there are also some details on handling NFTs in apps. This is new, but you can use in-app purchases to sell NFTs as well as charge for things like minting, listing, or transferring NFTs. You can also let people see the NFTs they may have bought elsewhere, but you can't let a user use an NFT to unlock features or functionality within the app. Well, you can view other people's galleries of NFTs. You can add buttons, you can add links, you can add links to buy them, unless it's through an in-app purchase mechanism, which is where Apple gets their cut. We're familiar with that. And, quote, apps may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality, such as license keys, augmented reality markers, QR codes, cryptocurrencies, and cryptocurrency wallets, et cetera, end quote. So you can unlock special stuff with an in-app purchase or for free, that's kind of it. Yeah, so they're basically putting NFTs in the class of Netflix or Amazon Kindle Store. It's a viewer of your NFTs. If you wanna do anything else with NFTs, you gotta go do it on the web. Shannon, does bother you at all? Not really. I mean, it kind of makes sense from my standpoint. And so far, this is not confusing. So it's pretty basic. I think it reduces the usefulness of these kinds of apps on the platform by relegating them to reader status.  You can't let people do some of the features you would normally do because it's a digital purchase.  Then you can charge whatever you want from whomever you want. There's also the clarified guidelines on advertising apps. If your app only lets people buy and manage advertising campaigns across multiple media types, you don't need to use the in-app purchases. So if you're an ad agency, you can have an iOS app for people to manage their campaigns and you will not need to give Apple a cut. That's dependent on the fact that the advertisements themselves don't show up in the app to other users. I mean, if I'm managing my ad campaigns in big digital ad agency.com's app, I don't expect to see any ads, but the ones I'm managing, right? So that makes sense. It makes sense, but here's where it might get kind of interesting, digital purchases for content that is experienced or consumed in an app, including buying advertisements to display in the same app, such as sales of boosts for posts in a social media app must use in-app purchase. So this is a perfect example of what Facebook does, where you can buy a boost to your post from within the same app, where you can also see other users boosted posts. You can ignore them if you want to, but they're probably gonna show up more often because somebody paid for that. Same goes for TikTok, same goes for eBay. A few more apps do the same thing. Gizmodo notes that Twitter and Tinder already use Apple's in-app payment system for these kinds of purchases. This is all just too confusing. We can go through each one of these and be like, well, I get what they're doing, but I feel like in the end, what I'm seeing is in order for Apple to serve a principle that's supposed to keep people from being fooled into paying for things, they have erected an elaborate system. And when you have to erect an elaborate system that that is this elaborate, it's probably not the right system. Yeah, I mean, I would say, well, why don't they just say, you can't boost anything. Nobody can. If nobody can, then nobody can.  Or come up with a way for there to be alternate payments for digital items, just like you do with physical items. People are just as much at risk for buying physical retail. Bartering systems been around for millions of years. Well, you don't even have to go to barter. You don't have to send chickens through the mail or anything. But I'm saying like, some of that seems a little bit easier to understand than this. Seriously, no, that's a fair point, yeah. From a content creator perspective, like it will be easy to understand from my end just using the application for developers, it seems like there's gonna be a lot of hoops and confusion whenever you're developing these apps. And what's digital and what's not digital? Well, this is digital, but it's allowed, but this is digital, but it's not.  Take your cut if you need to, but yeah. Oh, they need to. Yeah, let people do the external payments.  It's like when they kept adding epicycles to the orbits of planets because they didn't want to admit that the sun was at the center of the solar system. The sun's at the center of the solar system, Apple. Stop adding epicycles. Don't make us send chickens to the van. If you haven't thought about something on the show, like Tom, that chicken thing doesn't make any sense, please explain. We have an email address. You can email us feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. Shannon, Google kindly gave you a chance to spend some quality time with the latest Pixel 7 Pro and Pixel Watch. How did you get so lucky? They did. So they invited a whole slew of content creators and influencers to this thing called Camp Pixel last week. It was four days up in the middle of nowhere in New York and in the Catskills. So never been, but it was a perfect time a year to get some photography done, do some workshops and get a little bit more education on the products. So how are you finding? Let's start with the Pixel Watch because I think that one gets covered less often than the phones. What do you think of the watch so far? Yeah, I've noticed that too. I am loving it. I've been wearing it since the day I got it and there were like three major things that I really wanted to focus on. The first was the battery life because I had heard a lot of negativity around the battery life and it's true. It does not last for a whole two days. You can maybe get a day and a third of a second day or a half of a second day through it. I found since I do sleep tracking the easiest way for me to get like more than one day out of it or more than a day and a half is by charging it every morning while I'm like brushing my teeth and doing hair and makeup. And then by the time I'm done it's back up to 100% battery. So I can make it last for the 24 hours that I need it to before I need to charge it again. And mentioning sleep tracking that's a part of the Fitbit integrations as everybody knows Google did purchased Fitbit and they integrated a lot of their software into the new Google Pixel Watch. I have been finding that it's super, super fun to use. I love that it tracks my heart rate. There was a giant spider when I was up at Camp Pixel and I could see where my heart rate went from like 80 beats per minute up to 103 beats per minute in like an instant. Like you could tell that I was very, very scared. They call that the spider interval in your, yeah. Yes. Bit of Shannon. It absolutely works, definitely. And Google Assistant is built in straight into the watch. I know it's built into other watches as well. I just wanna put that out there but it's very, very well integrated into this watch. It's super easy to use. You can of course speak to it or you can just hit a little button if you don't wanna use the vocal prompt to wake it up. And it works just like your phone. You can do translations. You can do like weather, calendar. You can pick up and call somebody. You can write text messages. There's so many integrations built into the watch that I'm really enjoying it. I have mine on right now and I am loving it. Yay for Android having a good watch, finally. I mean, I love, it always seems to be the main complaint of somebody with a great watch and I'm rocking an Apple watch these days but I used to have a Fitbit Versa 2 that I wore for a couple of years and I really, really liked the Fitbit universe even today, even though Apple has its own stuff. Apple stole your heart? Apple, I don't know, I'm an Apple person. You have a heart rate, baby. Heart rate. Yeah, no, there are many times where Apple's like, your heart rate seems high.  But that whole kind of like day plus thing totally, I totally feel your pain Shannon because I also like to wear my watch over night because I'm like, that's data that I can use later but that means all night, if I'm lucky, eight hours that my battery is being depleted, I have to figure out when is best to charge it and that's just gonna be any smartwatch really that is pulling from a lot of data going forward. Yeah, definitely. Now the Pixel 6 was dinged a little bit for being too far in the direction of affordability without adding specs. So a lot of people have looked at the 7 and said, okay, they're making progress towards adding some more of that flagship phone functionality but still keeping the price fairly reasonable relative to other flagship phones anyway. You've got both the Pro and the 7, right? I do. I purchased the 7 off of the Google Store the day it released and they sent me the 7 Pro to bring with me up to the camp. So I have been able to compare them side by side and one of the biggest upgrades for me since I love security and privacy was the fingerprint sensor. It works way better now. That was a huge issue for me on the 6 Pro and the 6 and they also included face unlock and it actually works. So quite happy. Yeah, yeah, very, very good impression with the security features when it comes to unlocking your phone, very happy with those. Battery life, I'm hoping that it gets better. My adaptive battery last me screen on time about eight to nine hours, which is good. It's very good, but I watch a lot of YouTube during the day. I do a lot of content creation. So I would like for it to last a little bit longer. Hopefully it increases over time. And the other thing that I really like on the 7 and 7 Pro is the new cameras, very, very impressive upgrades with the cameras. Now the 7 does not have as good a zoom lens as the 7 Pro does. The 7 Pro now can go up to 30 times zoom optically or digitally and then it can do, I believe it's up to eight, five or eight times that it can do optically. And it's very good at giving you a nice clear picture even with a very far zoom. The 7 can only go up to eight times, but it's also really good. And then macro with the ultra wide on the 7 Pro is something I've been using every single day and you can get very, very clear pictures. You can get so up close to a subject like three centimeters away and get a wonderful macro shot. And that's something I was seriously missing on not only the 6 and the 6 Pro, but also the S22 Ultra, which I have been using a lot as well. So I'm very happy with what they've done with the cameras. So usually folks decide that they're gonna upgrade because they've waited long enough and their phone is just old. But some folks wanna know like, well, if I'm on a 6, should I get the 7? Should I wait for a 7A to come out? What do you think? Yeah, honestly, it's a good question. Like if you are happy with your 6 and 6 Pro, stick with it, it's still getting upgrades. You're still getting your security and privacy updates and patches and everything. So you can stick with it and save your money. If you want to trade it in, you can get like hundreds of dollars off the price of a 7 Pro and you could absolutely upgrade and get the better camera and get the better fingerprint sensor in the face unlock. And for those features alone, I'm very happy with the upgrade, but I can understand if people wanna wait and it's totally fine if you do. Yeah, all right, good to know. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Absolutely. Well, if everybody wants to harken back to the year 2007, where were you when Netflix launched the streaming version of its service? I don't really remember where I was because I was doing DVDs for a while after that, but that's when it started existing. In May of the same year, the online platform Grupper became Sony's Crackle. Also in 2007 in October, Hulu launched. It was a year to spawn many a streaming service. Things were somewhat quiet though, until 2014 with the launch of CBS All Access, HBO Now. 2018 brought us ESPN Plus and then in 2019 began the Plus Avalanche with Disney Plus, Apple TV Plus, BT Plus. 2020 saw Peacock and HBO Max. 2021 brought us Discovery Plus and the conversion of CBS All Access to Paramount Plus. Along the way, there were constant smaller launches, Crunchyroll, Shutter, Britbox and others. Now that brings us to 2022, where are we now? GammaWire notes that even when you consider services with less than one million subscribers, which would mean not necessarily a huge hit, no major streaming services have launched this year. And there are no announcements, at least as we've seen ahead of time, going into November for new services in 2023. So you've been wondering when it would end. Looks like we might be at that end, my friends. We are at Peac Services and it's time to start the Deadpool. Yeah, we're at the top of the roller coaster. Who will die? I've been saying for a long time, like just hang in there. Everybody's gotta try these things. All the big players have to try these things. And then at a certain point, the market will start shaking them out. People will stop using all of them because they can't. And we're there. We're at that point. Within the next year, we're gonna start to see either consolidation or depletion. So yeah, feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. Send us your Deadpool bets. Who's gonna drop first? It's true. Listen, I would pay for everything if I could, but I don't know many people who would pay for every streaming service, even if they really wanna watch all the things as easily as it is afforded to them if they pay. That is just not practical. It's not. So yeah.  I think once a few regulatory barriers are out of the way and Comcast and Disney have figured out who really owns Hulu and they've bought out Comcast and all that. I think we see Paramount get snapped up and I think we see Warner Brothers Discovery get snapped up and then we see. Snapped up by whom? Well, by Comcast, Disney, Amazon, Netflix, the bigger companies out there. I don't know. Oh, no, it's coming. The consolidation is coming. And I think. Consolidation is coming, everybody. New series, Paramount Plus. I think Paramount Plus will be the first of these to get merged into something else. Somebody will buy Paramount and they'll just take Paramount Plus and squeeze it into something else. I don't know who. I don't know when. But it's gonna happen. What is happening? All right, let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. So yesterday on GDI, our extended show, we were talking about use cases for tablets. Like who uses tablets and when? And why are they better than laptops or phones? We're, you know, as companions. And Dwayne chimed in over email with an interesting one of his. Dwayne says, my company develops B2P iPad solutions. One of our clients is a medium-sized real estate firm. They deployed a custom iPad app to their staff. The staff considers the iPad the most powerful computer they've ever used because it significantly improves their professional workflow. In the field, they can upload real estate property pictures, edit the inventory database, prepare and sign documents, conduct video tours and conferences using the front and rear cameras simultaneously and watch ESPN while waiting for clients. But don't tell anybody that they're doing that. We are implementing AR functionality so they can do virtual staging based on the potential buyer style or corporate branding theme. We can also use LiDAR for automatic floor plan updates and measurements. Dwayne says the tablet form factor and iPad OS are not a limiting computing environment for them. Quite the opposite. They can do more on the platform than the previous windows set up with laptops. Similarly, we've developed iPad apps for medical offices and corporate meetings, productions, companies that see higher productivity and significantly reduced IT maintenance costs after deploying iPads for some of their staff. Again, these firms don't consider the iPad or iPad OS apps as limited or for basic functions. It's their computer. That's so cool, Dwayne. Thank you for sharing your use case with us. That was awesome. 100%. Yeah, thank you, Dwayne. And thank you to everybody who sends us emails about everything we talk about on the show or might talk about on a future show. Feedback at DailyTechNewShaw.com is where to send those emails. Thank you in advance. Your knowledge helps us get stronger. Also, thanks to Shannon Morse, whose knowledge helps us get stronger every time she's on the show. Shannon, thanks so much for being with us and let folks know where they can keep up with the rest of your work. YouTube.com slash Shannon Morse. This month I have gone super deep into data brokers and how to delete your data online and how to kind of clean out those Google search results. So check it out. Check out my newest videos. It's been super fun. Well, we're so glad to have you with us today. 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I wanted them to sort of grapple with the context of the fireside chat and really think about what was happening then and how that was influencing what FDR was going to talk about and think about the uncertainty that surrounded 1935. And so what I had students do was actually to visualize that and to draw what that looked like to them during their warm-up contextualization exercise. They, I feel that students too often think of FDR as a savior and think of the New Deal as without critics and I think that too often people believe that everyone was on board with the New Deal when the reality was that people had their doubts and people still had their nagging concerns about whether the New Deal plan would work. They've read in the textbook about FDR at this point. They know about the fireside chats. They know a lot about the Great Depression and this is getting towards the end of the unit on FDR looking at how FDR is trying to convince the people that his plan is going to change the course of the country and bring the country out of the deep, deep recession that it was in. Listen for his tone. Listen for how he's saying these words and think about how that's important to understanding the context of 1935 here. For the overwhelming majority of people in this country know how to sip the wheat from the chaff in what they hear and in what they read. They know that the process of the constructive rebuilding of America cannot be done in a day or a year. It was nice to have students listen to FDR's voice and give kids a good sense of the year 1935 thinking about what listening to a radio would have been like and think about how FDR used his voice and used tone and used his reassuring metaphors to really capture his audience. The next step was to have students then draw or label some of the uncertainties or what they were concerned about in the year of 1935. Imagine that you're listening to one of FDR's fireside chats, Ramona, and draw a picture of what that looks like. What does that look like to you? Stick figures, fine. And this one student draws a picture of a family listening to the radio. He's worried about money, this family's worried about unemployment, family, poverty, jobs, death, homelessness, food. So they're really, they're getting the context and they were really thinking about what it would have been like to listen to the radio at the time and I did notice one student who had, he had drawn a homeless family that was pressed up against a shop window listening to the radio at a shop instead of listening to those at home which of course is again really capturing some of the context of the times and I was excited to see him draw that.