I think it’s possible to be attracted to people under the legal age of consent and not be a terrible person. It is a hard life, as you cannot have sex with another person in the way that you enjoy, and probably want to avoid being near underage people as much as possible.

In modern Western society you cannot find anyone to talk to about it, since therapists may even be required to report you. And any sort of erotica to masturbate to is mostly illegal - even just written stories that people made up.

So I kind of admire someone who recognizes they have this attraction, and takes steps to avoid acting on it, just like someone who has desire to harm people - although at least someone with a rape fantasy or a murder fantasy can talk to a psychologist about it. I wouldn’t want a “non-offending pedophile” near kids though…

I mean, that is good, right? Fewer animals killed for humans seems good to me.

Hitler was a vegetarian, so it’s not like choosing a more ethical diet excuses the rest of your life.

Thanks! Very interesting.

Do you have a citation for the Pollack/CIA link?

It had too little memory, but was clearly a step towards phone perfection. I am still bitter that Nokia hired a Microsoft loyalist who killed the Linux line … shortly before killing the whole company.

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I mean, Caesar marched on Rome because he was ordered to leave his legion behind and enter the city where his political enemies would have punished him.

Sorry I haven’t been keeping up. Didn’t Trump end the Ukrainian war 24 hours after he took office?

Ik ben hartstikke moe. We hebben een nieuwe puppy, en hij moet en laat en vroeg naar buiten. Maar wat een schatje. 🥰

At least two people were detained: A bespectacled man was dragged by police officers into a vehicle just minutes after Mr. Kirk was shot. Hours later, another man was taken into custody by investigators, a development celebrated by Mr. Patel on social media.

But in both instances, investigators found, the men had no connection to the shooting. The first one was a local political gadfly who was charged with obstruction of justice.

So they arrested some random guy unrelated to the crime, and charged him with obstruction of justice. Awesome. 😑

That’s 0.2% of the adult men!

They literally have no principles besides acquiring more and more power.

An attack on forces operating in another country is not considered an attack on the country, otherwise NATO would have been at war for most of its existence due to the US constant global conflicts.

The flamingo is a badass bird. It can literally stand on one leg while the water freezes overnight then calmly wait for the water to thaw the next day. Flamingos living near geysers drink near-boiling water. And on and on…

https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/flamingos-are-totally-hardcore-8-209894/

It is an interesting thought experiment to wonder what would happen if Israel bombed Turkey, since Turkey is in NATO…

Why do you hope that?

Ik koop Simon Lévelt. Ik drink maar een paar mokken per dag.

This site is blocked in the EU.

Not really related to this but it’s a pity that the news is apparently still so dependant on Twitter.

Windows 8.1 was released in 2013, so yeah, a blast from the past!