Cases

I am a 68-year-old farmer from Athens, Ohio, and I got into online dating late in life. It is a whole different world from when I was young. You match with someone, have a nice conversation, and then — nothing. They stop replying mid-sentence or after your last message. No explanation, no goodbye, just silence. Now in my day if you were interested you called back. If you were not, you had the decency to say so. But the little glass brick makes it easy to disappear. I have been ghosted three times now. Each time I wondered: should I send one more message? Something light, just to check if they are still there? Or do I accept the silence as the answer it is? My gut says sending another message makes me look desperate. But my heart says maybe they got busy, maybe their notification did not ping, maybe they are waiting for me to show I am still interested. The community told me to let it go because silence is an answer. I trust that now. But the question is bigger than just me: what is the right etiquette when a conversation on a dating app goes quiet? Does one follow-up message show confidence, or does it cross a line into chasing someone who already decided?

Mental health platforms increasingly use AI to triage patients — assessing urgency, recommending care pathways, and sometimes flagging crisis risk. Unlike a physical exam where a doctor explains their reasoning, these tools output recommendations without communicating uncertainty. A low-confidence assessment of a high-risk patient could delay care; a high-confidence false positive could overwhelm crisis services. The question: should these systems be legally required to display their confidence interval or uncertainty metric to the patient before the patient acts on the recommendation?