While it’s not “technically” underage rape, let’s be honest it basically is. No normal person thinks it’s acceptable for some in there 30s to have a relationship with a 16 year old.
The law is there to protect say an 18 year old in collage, where it’s common for 16-18 year olds to be in the same classes, not for creepy 30+ year olds.
I know I’m probably in the minority here but I wouldn’t be against getting Sky to watch American football and maybe the odd other channel live, but I won’t because I don’t want to have to pay a bribe to the BBC just to watch it live.
I’m a long term vaper as well but I’m going to be honest I do get the appeal of the disposables. Ludicrous regulation has made proper vapes so ridiculously annoying to use for an average person that it’s no wonder people just turn to the easiest option.
The 2ml tank cap and having to mix your own nicotine are both annoying and impractical. There’s also been a marked decline in the quality of coils and the tanks themselves since that law came into affect, with no actual benefits.
I had to switch to an RDA tank because the terrible coils on offer now were costing me a fortune, I’d gone from using 1 every couple of weeks to having to change them every two days. I’ve tried tons of different tanks and coils but it seems like it’s just a fundamental design flaw, 2ml of juice just isn’t enough to keep the coils wet if you use a decent mod.
RDA tanks are fine if you work from home like I do but it leaks all over my handbag when I go anywhere, so if you don’t work at home it’s just not a good solution.
I know what you’re saying, and I don’t disagree. But in this real world that we live in, when I help people with something technical on the internet they usually thank an imaginary man. If I point out that I’m a woman, their attitude often does a complete 180 and they sometimes start offering me patronising advice when they originally approached me for help.
Definitely not going to disagree with you on that as I’ve experienced it myself plenty of times, especially anything to do with programming.
Of course we need to address the attitudes behind that wearisome nonsense. But I only have one life to live and it’s not going to happen overnight. Sometimes, neutrality helps give people a fair shot because the barriers are all controlled by middle-class, cishet, white men who often lack the self-awareness to correct their own ingrained prejudices, or even acknowledge that they exist.
Does neutrality actually help in achieving that goal though? Isn’t it just making the stereotyping worse? Let’s say purely as an example you were doing IT support and the person you were helping had no idea who you were, their just going to assume a stereotypical dorky cis white man helped them with the problem. Whereas if they knew, let’s say a cis black woman helped them, it’ll atleast to a small degree help break that stereotype. Maybe I’m just be overly optimistic here though, I’d like to think most people wouldn’t care either way, but if there is no representation at all people will just default to the general stereotype and it’ll never improve.
This is a valid and well-recognised criticism. If you mean a specific group or set of groups, name them. But whiteness being the default often means that all "people of colour"are affected to some degree. When that is that case, it’s not reasonable to require an exhaustive list of all possible non-default ethnicities. When the cause of a problem is whiteness, the language should be explicit about that.
I don’t disagree if it’s used correctly, like you’ve outlined, but if we’re honest a lot of the time these days it’s just become a blanket term with no real meaning, that’s what I take issue with. The best example of this IMO is when the media is discussing police brutality, we all know black people suffer this the most yet it’s always discussed as a “people of colour” issue. A young black man and a young ethnically Japanese man probably won’t experience the same issues with the police, so to group them together in my eyes is ignoring the problem. Its basically just an American import to replace “ethnic minorities”, which I felt the exact same way about.
I’m going to be honest, I can’t stand this trend of trying to neutralise everything. I grew up in the 90s/00s so I get this might be a generational difference but to me people being more open about themselves is an amazing thing and I’d hate to see it disappear. I don’t really see what’s wrong with accepting people are different and embracing it, rather than fruitlessly making everything in life a shade of grey.
Personally I actually view it as being kind of offensive, if I’m honest. Terms like “people of colour” to me come across as people minimising the vast and interesting differences in culture and customs that such a broad term covers.
Surely him seeing a therapist is a far more practical solution to that problem then telling everyone else they can’t help out wildlife.
Sunak is absolutely obsessed with doing exactly that. You can tell he just craves the prestige of being Prime Minister but isn’t actually interested in doing the job, it’s embarrassing really.
I kind of agree with OP to a degree. I did 10 years of retail (mostly in small local shops where I could help influence how stuff was run) and now run my own business, which is essentially retail. So I’ve experienced 100s of Karens over the years.
Their endless and stupid complaints in a lot of cases have helped me simplify process for the thickos, make information as dumbed down as possible and helped me clarify things that I assumed anyone with half a brain would just know. It’s also given me the opportunity to learn how to deal with completely unreasonable people, which is a really useful skill to have in life.
The Karens help anyone with average and above intelligence see the world through the eyes of people who are completely ignorant, they allow you to see “issues” that no normal person would ever consider and help try and mitigate the Karen complaints before they even begin.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not excusing their behaviour and I get incredibly frustrated every time I have to deal with one, but you can learn lessons from these people in a lot of cases that’ll make your life easier if you have managers/owners who are willing to listen.
Not the person you replied to but personally I’d like to see some kind of random communities feature so I can discover new ones.
Most of the stuff I see is memes or US politics that I’m just not interested in.
I’ve been car free now for close to a decade but am close to giving up, honestly. The buses that used to be every 10 minutes are progressively getting less frequent to the point it’s usually every half an hour, but not uncommon for them to be every hour.
It’s impossible to plan your day around a bus schedule that constantly changes with no warning, so I just end up not bothering to go out a lot of the time.
The backlash against this is honestly so frustrating. I don’t support the blocking of roads but the Prime Minister is 100% a legitimate target and the kind of person these groups should be directing their protests at.
Is this currently working for you? I’ve followed every step and it just get stuck on installing forever.
It’s the YouTube algorithm that’s pushing this garbage and it’s blatantly obvious, the actual adverts largely line up with my interests. If I don’t watch a YouTuber for a couple of weeks they disappear from my reccommed. I never watch anything about American politics, barely watch any American YouTubers yet there it is every single time without fail.
YouTube is absolutely dreadful for it. I have literally zero interest in American politics, I’m interested in world events but frankly couldn’t care less about another country’s domestic politics yet it’s pushed almost every time I load the site.
I mostly watch things like travel vlogs and trip reports, yet get endless spam about right wing American politics. There’s nothing in my search history that would suggest I’d care about it.
First link I could find, but it has the pictures of the big stick you’ll get here.
I mean his genius solution to the steering wheel being on the wrong side for UK Tesla’s was to give owners a big stick. I think it’s safe to say he’s not a genius.
When I was at school the uniform was just a basic pull over jumper, polo shirt and skirt/trousers. They were pretty effective at getting you caught if you decided to bunk off, like I did during PE and RE.
The uniform kids have to wear these days, which is basically a full on suit looks so uncomfortable, especially in the summer.
At first it isn’t, but as you go more and more grey it becomes a lot harder to manage on your own, especially if you started with dark hair. It’s depressing to be young and constantly fighting a losing battle against the grey. I was like 16 when it started, by my very early 30s the whole of the top of my hair was completely grey.
I run an online business and the vast majority of people who contact me daily ask a question that is literally answered in the first sentence of the description.
He’s abusing the law, it’s obviously not designed for a 30 plus year old to have a relationship with a 16 year old.