In my mid 20s I was dating a woman who’s kid was 17 (which is the age she had them). I genuinely can’t imagine how a 35 year old wants to date someone that young.

Wtf and in the northeast no less…

As an American, some do, others see it as explicit rejection of the in group/Christianity and hate it for that reason, still others just see it as a means of dehumanization that’ll get the dumbfucks on their side riled up. The politicians though, most of them ain’t believe in squat beyond what makes them more powerful. If the politicians believed in witchcraft that can overpower prayers you’d best believe they’re secretly doing spells for their benefit.

I thought y’all believed in freedom of religion? Witch is a religion

Fr I do really hate that being pagan is so controversial in so much of the country

Oh well, since we’ve got a bunch of evil assholes we should just talk ourselves down real quick instead of expressing a clear plan that would have a wide range of palatability. Of course it’ll be a fight, but it’s a fight worth having.

Learning. With breaks to play video games, spend whole days hanging out with my wife, and to get laid. Hopefully it happens on a weekend so I don’t have to explain not going to work to my wife every day.

Yeah, my school uniforms were unisex khakis and a polo shirt. I’m not saying nobody could sexualize that, but it certainly left me with a moment of confusion every time I hear someone sexualize catholic schoolgirl uniforms.

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I’m shocked they haven’t just outright banned porn yet

Edit: reading the article I’m sympathetic to the kids, but distrustful of the UK’s continuing slide into censorship especially on topics that involve sex. It’s horrible how adults are sexualizing them, and there does need to be a solution, but I suspect that this one both goes too far and won’t actually solve the problem.

What we need is a cross between the two. Medicaid lacks doctors, but it also lacks copay. For all its inconveniences when I was on it it was easier to get care than some employer provided insurances.

Really what we need is a government owned corporation akin to the NHS, except with standards of care directly pinned to the AMA/APA to prevent meddling in politicized healthcare.

Akron isn’t that bad. Youngstown is. And southeast Ohio is so much worse. Ok Akron isn’t great either, if you must go to Ohio stick to the 3 Cs, Dayton and Yellow Springs if you’re feeling adventurous.

What next? A license to make toast in my own damned toaster‽

I think it’s actually more complicated. Things like sexual orientation, absolutely, some parts of desire are clearly hardwired in. But also there’s plenty that’s able to be induced or changed for any number of reasons.

My primary example is that when I was younger I found tattoos to be a hard turn off, piercings too. Anti tattoo sentiments were part of my family’s form of classism, but over the years I got more positive experiences with people who have them and wound up sleeping with people despite them and eventually through exposure and changing of biases got to the point that I now rarely find one to take away from someone’s beauty and often find them to add to it.

In general it’s rude as hell to assume some aspect of someone else’s tastes can (or should) change, we can’t know them particularly well. But we can challenge our own biases and be open to changes in our tastes coming from those challenges.

Now, as for pedophilia, it’s worth trying to change it if possible, and regardless building safety systems to ensure that it’s difficult for these people to offend. But also, I do suspect that the rise of the rich and powerful engaging in pedophilia is something that at least some of them are inducing. They begin by fetishizing youth as a display of power and creep towards the hard line our culture places at 18, and eventually they cross it. I simply cannot believe, until given evidence to the contrary, that such a large portion of the rich and powerful engaging in sexual abuse of minors is unrelated to the fetishization of youth, the trend of the rich and powerful chasing young adults, and the fact that they can get away with anything they want.

Makes sense, I guess bosom is an excellent translation then lol

USA USA USA! But for real, we started the war, yes, but we had reasonable cassus belli (embargoing our trade with france and kidnapping our seamen into the british navy) and the poem is about a defensive battle.

I still think our national anthem should be a secularized version of the battle hymn of the republic.

And it’s important to add, one of the cassi belli for the war of 1812 was the british impressment of sailors on American vessels, including American citizens.

Yeah it seems like it began meaning chest, became a polite way of saying boobs, and eventually the latter edged out the former. Mind you this is in English and the line in question is Portuguese so maybe arguing English semantics isn’t helping us get close to the truth.

If anyone here speaks Portuguese I’d love to hear if that word has any of these implications in Portuguese.

I have liberty in my tits. They demand freedom!

Not all machines can use dishwasher salt and not all areas need it. It’s apparently for built in water softening. In the US for example areas with hard water typically have whole home water softeners.

I live somewhere with soft water so dishwasher salt isn’t needed. I used to live in Ohio where the water is generally fairly hard, and there every house had a water softener. That said if you don’t have a water softener or soft water (or you just get mineral buildup in places with water) check if your dishwasher has a salt compartment