But not necessarily!

That implies they were even picked up. These tokens weren’t wanted

Probably still Cincinnati

You know it’s funny, yesterday I checked his channel because it’s been a while since I saw one of his videos. This isn’t the first time it’s happened like that

Same, I only regret not getting a new case and a better build

It’s a reference to Abraham Lincoln’s possible bisexuality. He grew up in a log cabin in Illinois (which at the time was bumfuck nowhere and now is where our 3rd largest city, and the 5th largest city on the continent is)

If you want fantasy speaking to a young audience I recommend The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett, and if you like it the rest of the Tiffany Aching series

Alternatively I’ve heard good things about The Wizards of Earthsea by Ursula K LeGuinn (I’ve only read her sci fi, which while famously good isn’t in any way a replacement for Harry Potter)

Watch out, that joke may fall on deaf ears

Nah they say it leever in England :P

Well I do love licking clam…

Yep. But also, for an opportunity to get on my soapbox, if you don’t genuinely need to not serve in jury duty, don’t try to get out of it. When we have a culture where everyone tries to get out of jury duty we find ourselves in a society where laws are enforced by people too dumb to get kicked out of a jury.

Hell even in Ohio most folk’ll see one from time to time. Not as close but you’ll catch a funnel

Wow, this is really in line with what I expect of Labour. Pissing off everyone to the right, left, and center in a way anyone with a brain could predict

Someday they’ll form the United Republic of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland

Clearly op isn’t a waffle house customer

Yeah, in my mid-late 20s I occasionally went for cougars (the largest age gap was a little over 20 years, I was her daughter’s age). I was old enough and stable enough for it to never be this predatory situation. Someone who typically goes for their own age, but is able to be seduced by a grown and stable adult who’s younger than they would consider their age range and is watching out to make sure they don’t take advantage is fundamentally very different than someone who keeps getting older and keeps dating people freshly legal. Or as is this man’s case, eventually his type moves up to being legal.

I’m a huge supporter of young people’s autonomy. I think the age of consent should remain 18. I believe that the main concerning power differential at that age range is legal adulthood and the powers it conveys. But preferring barely legal means I have to assume someone would go younger if they could. And those who make a habit of going for people new to legal and social adulthood can’t be comfortably given the benefit of the doubt.

Like, I know several people who’ve had good relationships/flings with people with a significant age gap, and some who’ve had horrible ones and it’s not hard to tell which will go which way. The main questions are maturity (honestly of both parties) and who’s driving the relationship forward (should be the younger person).

It’s the LAPD I’d be shocked if the union contract didn’t protect against dismissal over hate speech

I think our culture needs to embrace the concept of penance. You do something bad, then you do something appropriate in the hopes of mitigating, undoing, etc the damage, and then you forgive yourself.

I was never transphobic, when I was an egg I was edgy by being cool with trans people even. But I recognize we do need to welcome those of us who had this hostile and bigoted past. At the same time, harm was done and the “I didn’t know better, but I’m better now” can feel insufficient on one or more sides in a way that “I’ve changed and I put in some work to try to make up for it” doesn’t

Crucially penance shouldn’t be seen as punishment (punishment is a deterrent meant to be unpleasant), or permanent, but rather a stage of restorative justice where you do what you can for a little while, and the slate is considered clean afterwards.

Idk I think a lot of the folks in here with stories like this should look into some form of volunteering to help the community and after a little while of doing it when you feel you’ve helped enough that you’d forgive someone else, forgive yourselves.

Yeah but I want me to be remembered by future generations as a far right nutjob, not the actual ones.

And it’s funny to call it primitive communism when the Iriqouian peoples were significantly more politically advanced than Europeans, especially when it came to fair distribution of power and resources.