calypsopub @ calypsopub @lemmy.world

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Where I live, you can't sell them without proof of ownership, so the insurance has gone way down.

I'm retired and I can finally follow my body's clock. Bed at 3:00 am, get up around noon.

The only obligation I can't readily schedule to my liking is worship service on Sunday.

That is an excellent, succinct explanation

We really need to add textbooks into that. It's absolutely a crime to charge hundreds of dollars for a book that cannot be resold.

I wasn't very representative even when I WAS a teenager. I was bullied quite a bit, though.

Sadly, you have a point. Somebody with good support at home and a circle of friends can weather this sort of thing, but others may feel helpless or hopeless. There needs to be an effective place to turn to for kids who are being bullied. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to exist.

I see your point. In that way it's just like any other bullying, though more personal. Unfortunately, society hasn't done a good job of coming up with workable solutions for bullying. In this case, dragging the culprit behind the bleachers and letting the girls take turns kicking him in the nuts would be my go-to, but you can't do that sort of thing anymore.

The more common this becomes the more easily it will be dismissed.

Not really. The more extreme it is, the more easily people will believe you when you say it's a deep fake. Everyone who matters (friends and family) will know it's not you. The more this sort of thing becomes commonplace, the more people will simply shake their heads and move on.

Why should they have to expend any energy proving it's not them?

No jail, just forbid access to any computing device until age 18. That will scare them straight.

Exactly.

Why should it haunt them? Even if the images were REAL, why should it haunt them? I'm so tired of the puritanical shame women are supposed to feel about their bodies. We all have the same basic equipment. If a guy makes a deep fake, it is HE who should feel shame and humiliation for being a sick pervert. Girls need to be taught this. Band together and laugh these idiots off campus. Name and shame online. Make sure HE will be the one haunted forever.

So as a grown woman, I'm not getting why teenage girls should give any of this oxygen. Some idiot takes my head and pastes it on porn. So what? That's more embarrassing for HIM than for me. How pathetic that these incels are so unable to have a relationship with an actual girl. Whatever, dudes. Any boy who does this should be laughed off campus. Girls need to take their power and use it collectively to shame and humiliate these guys.

I do think anyone who spreads these images should be prosecuted as a child pornographer and listed as a sex offender. Make an example out of a few and the rest won't dare to share it outside their sick incels club.

My city (Houston) had a bus system that goes everywhere, but the sheer size and the lack of logical routing makes it hard to use. My friend could drive 20 minutes to work (but cannot drive because of a mental disability) or take multiple buses for 3 hours each way. She now rides an e-bike, but it still takes nearly an hour and she is literally risking her life because there are no bike lanes. Plus the cost of the bike was $3000 and it regularly needs maintenance.

I wish I could upvote you more than once.

Personally I have the grace of Jar Jar Binks. My last few forays on a bike, when I was younger and less frail, were disastrous. Proponents of E-bikes must be very young and fit, I guess? Because all of us older, disabled, or just plain clutzy people need four wheels and walls of metal between us and the world.

Having said that, I wouldn't mind having a glorified golf cart to run around town. Seal me in from the weather and give me AC and Bluetooth, that's all I ask.

This. For most of my trips I could use a glorified golf cart.

People love outrage.

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