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  • While it is bad they parked in a spot for the disabled, it's a nice reminder this bike commonly drives around exactly as many people as a car that would take this ENTIRE space, not changing the balance much.

  • This is the Enter key, Shift is right below

    For the sake of memes, Enter is commonly replaced with something like "delete" or "destroy" or "ban" or whatever, illustrating the decisive action. It has nothing to do with the actual Delete key.

  • Hey, FBI!

    For those who don't know, Logsday is the fourth day of the week, right between Wednesday and Thursday. They took it from us in January 2003, and did everything so we would forget it existed in the first place. God knows what Machiavellian things they made it for.

  • Honestly, boycotting US is one thing and buying stuff from your country specifically is the other.

    I hope people keep maintaining international trade relations, or else polititians may exploit it to push nationalism.

    *The exception is buying goods from your close proximity, which might be environmentally beneficial

  • Small yes and big no.

    Sure, there is an element of social panic that harms a lot of people in weird ways and may even worsen the trauma of CSA survivors. We need to come to a more balanced view on that particular issue.

    But that's not the primary reason such acts are harmful. Sexual abuse of minors is treated this way because of a simple thing: adults hold systematic power and are in the position of authority over children (which must happen, otherwise parenthood and upbringing will break).

    Thus, children do not feel free to reject the interaction, even if they are not directly forced. This leads to inability to predict whether the consent was given in good consciousness or under pressure, and children are normally not interested in sexual exploration outside basic curiosity for anything at all. As a result, they get involved in highly intimate and potentially very gross activity without adequate means and power to reject it immediately, which is potentially deeply traumatic.

    As per cultures, there's a lot of stuff that went on in different places and ages. Greece had pederasty, it also had slavery and complete patriarchy. Japanese culture is very sexually extreme and explores a lot of non-consensual sexual violence, and women are commonly targeted by perverts of all kinds etc. etc.

    Just because it was or is active somewhere doesn't mean we should do it too.

  • If you listen to the conservative messages closely, most of them are crafted in a way that sounds positive, not evil. Then what's evil and can't be shown any other way gets framed as the necessary evil to make those positive messages come to be.

    The left goes very similar route, speaking of equality, freedom, love, and then coming up with something like "the world would be a better place if rich feared for their lives". Might be true, but it's the necessary evil/angry pushback again.

    So, it's not that people on the right chose to be evil, they just grew with one set of convictions that portrays left as unwilling to see the truth or to accept the sacrifices necessary to make the place better overall (in their eyes). And, similarly, far left that wants to overthrow or radically change the system is seen by the right as a massive evil force willing to destroy the country that took centuries to build a system that led people to where they are now - in relative prosperity and peace.

    That is not to say they are correct in their thinking - there are massive flaws in their logic - but when you're committed to a certain worldview, it's easy to ignore inconsistencies, blinded by the fear of other side destroying it all. This, unfortunately, is what left resorts to as well, while being objectively more true (as in scientifically backed), because in the crazy world of politics emotions go first and reason goes second. Most people never get to cautiously verify and scrutinize the talking points presented to them, after all.

  • Someone who clearly got shot but decided to play like they didn't. Since airsoft ammo are not painted like paintball, they don't leave visual marks confirming to everyone that someone was shot. It is left to the honesty of those catching a bullet.

  • In all seriousness though, therapy is available for all paraphilias, including pedophilia.

    If you, reader, are one, get help. Life isn't over and you're not inherently a danger.

    If you can't get professional help, mutual support online communities are available as well.

    You're worthy as you are, just don't cross this particular line and don't become an offender.

  • It's a typical nationalist-authoritarian pipeline that can sadly happen to any country - but it's only now that people get to realize their islands of democracy are no exception.

    You either get vigilant early on - or get to reap the consequences. This machine doesn't show its head before it is already too late to alter this route in the near future.