Yea I wondered this too, but I think I did some digging and it looked like he was from the states I thoughtā¦
Doesnāt MEAN heās going to be fluent in English I suppose, but I would expectā¦ something more coherent I guess
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Hey, yāall know that he might read this thread as well? 
Think this conversation is really funny, considering he might just be āsitting at the tableā as well - though I admit, I totally agree to what youāre writing here, and that it might not take long until he gets himself into trouble againā¦
I can make sense in a language that Iāve been studying for less than 3 months. Itās not a matter of grammar or vocab, itās a matter of logic between sentences and punctuation. And ultimately what you have to say, and whether it has substance
Hmmā¦ tempting 
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The āsocialā Facebook profile says heās from Tucson AZ, so that could be some Latin American backgroundā¦ shrug
Itās possible, but I meanā¦
So? I assume most people can read anything I post
I donāt think Iāve said anything maliciousā¦
I warned him last time if he didnāt chill heād likely get put in time out, and then it happened
Iām hopeful heās learned, Iām just not confident
Especially that one of his first posts was straight to the vivokey iOS thread
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It was, and it was also just a ācool updateā
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Nah, didnāt want to say that - I just think this situation is a bit comical 
Thatās why my first post about it was to off topic instead of summoning the HAMMER
I figured we could all watch and see if he learns to fly or falls from the nest
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Just a Latino kid who just moved to the states and is all exited.
I get direct PMs from him on other social media regarding the iOS app and Spark 2 and implants and stuff. And I donāt mind.
But then again Iām used to play with kids on some gaming servers like minecraft or whatever. And I know how obnoxious they can get sometimes. I know this aināt a children focused group. Also some of you are very strong opinionated about if a 13 year old should have an implant or need a tremendous reason to even consider it viable.
I donāt know. Maybe because Iāve lived in different countries I am more insensitive to peoples differences. Iāve seen little boys with long hair, or even pierced ear (yes male little kids) and no one sees them as āabusedā or āruinedā
Is not like the kid wants to start having some beers and smoke weed and drive a car without permit.
He is into bio-hacking and I think thatās cool.
Thing is that his parents donāt speak English.
I told him to make a video even on Spanish with his parents explaining whatās their point of view and their support to him and getting an implant. Cuz no one believes him.
He is a bit hyper and English doesnāt seem to be his first language so I guess he is just desperate to be the ācool kidā at school with something special about him.
Yeah yeah he doesnāt even know what it is for. And he seems so focused on the Spark 2 when in reality he doesnāt have much use for that chip yet. I think he would find more fun the LED blinky one if anything.
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I would say xSIID. My LED blinky is underwhelming.
The xSIID will at least stay lit up for them.
He does seem to have learned lol, I definitely think he would enjoy the xsiid more
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Youāre not alone, I agree. I respect other peopleās opinions about it who are parents though, because I donāt have kids so Iām less informed on the consent side of the issue. It does kind of bother me when decisions are made as if kids arenāt āpeopleā, and that they need to be treated delicately like eggshells.
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Thing is, if they decide by themselves that they want a pierced ear, they are not abused - many many little children get their ears pierced because their parents want it, and thatās a different story, I think. It is abuse. Additionally, I like to stress again that no pro will pierce a little kidās ear, so itās usually done with a piercing gun - these things do massive damage to the tissue and they can not be properly sterilized, so you can get every f*ing disease from that. Nope, nothing Iād recommend.
And this case might be similar - no pro will install a chip in a 13-year-old kid. So, either self-install or assisted, with all the risks of cross-contamination and people with little knowledge about anatomy and stuff. This is simply not a good idea, at least not for someone that young and impatient.
Just my humbleā¦ yāknow
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Autocorrect is my worst enema as well. 
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I just want to point out this isnāt always true. I have a 1 year old, and I inquired at my local piercing place. They will do it. They just prefer they are not over 12 months, but below 5 years. He just said that if he does an 18 month to 4 year old, they usually pull on them too much.
Abuse was when my mother hit me with a pizza board, or when her flavor of the week put his cigarette out on me.
I have a hard time considering ear piercing abuse. If my daughter doesnāt want them when she is 5, she wonāt get them. She wouldnāt have had a choice if I acted earlier.
That is a very different thing, and I donāt mean to relativize this by what I said.
Still, punching a hole through a part of the body is, first and foremost, harming someone. And if that someone doesnāt say that he or she wants it, it is abuse. Not the least bit comparable to the shit you had to go through, obviously, but where do you draw the line?
Okay, different countries, different work ethics for piercers
In Germany, no serious piercer would do that. There are some who do, and those are the ones I would never consider āserious piercerā
Hey that is fair. I guess we have different levels for what to consider abuse. I would consider it abuse, if the child that had their ears pierced when they were a baby, and the parents refused to let them take them out.
Funny, I guess I wouldnāt consider a piercer a āserious piercerā UNLESS they did do childrenās ears. They donāt use a gun for it here, they do it like a normal piercing.
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Heās gunna poke that bear again lol
I am half tempted to send him a xNT I have just sitting around that I donāt know if I will have a use for
25$ To shut him up? Lol 
ā¦but spare the rodā¦
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I think itās less of him being here and more of the new topics he makes. As soon as he made a new account his first post was āshould i spread the word of vivokeyā
Like itās awesome he is excited, but that really didnāt need to be itās own forum post as it dosnt spark (no pun intended) a conversation, and really is just a post that takes up space.
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