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Most of the cases that have received public attention are either situations that are already illegal (like the grooming gangs) or situations that would not be made illegal under this change (like Russell Brand or David Walliams, whose purported victims were 18+)
Excl (w/ @AVMikhailova @TimesLucy @conky_k @daisyeastlake)
Men over a certain age should be banned from having sex with 16 and 17-year olds under a staggered consent law, Labour MPs and the victims commissioner have suggested.
Claire Waxman, the victims commissioner, said there needed to be “serious conversations” about changing the law to protect teenagers from exploitation when there was a significant age gap in a sexual relationship.
Lucy Beaumont, the comedian who helped expose allegations against David Walliams, called for a staggered age of consent that would prevent adults from having sexual relationships with significantly younger teenagers.
Multiple Labour MPs backed such a change, but others were concerned it would put the responsibility on to victims.
thetimes.com/article/03bf08b…
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The woman's paradox - you need to do X Y Z to expect sex, but also expecting sex is forbidden.
You need to reduce yourself to a total eunuch. NEVER initiate or do anything to make her feel sexually desired
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"No, of course I don't do anything for my husband or follow any of this advice, I just have sex with him"
teapaw.org/bethanyshondark/status…
They'll put on a fairly nice button down just to walk around barefoot in the trash, what is wrong with them??
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The more obvious point is that this goes against the dogma that every trans person was "always" the other sex in their heart or that "transness" corresponds to some deep truth about them having an opposite sex brain or whatever
The first wave of trans dementia patients has hit.
Ultimately, stress for the dying person and their entire family. As if it isn’t bad enough already.
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paws at you what does it mean
paws at you what does it mean
paws at you what does it mean
paws at you what does it mean
paws at you what does it mean
paws at you what does it mean
paws at you what does it mean
paws at you what does it mean
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Milk Fiend retweeted
i think AI is about to uncover entire chapters of history nobody alive knew happened
here's what it dug up in just the last few months:
> AI mapped where Ice Age people could have sheltered in Ireland, and in the caves it pointed to, researchers found finger marks and possible animal drawings. they could be the first Ice Age art ever found in Ireland, meaning people lived there earlier than we thought
> AI searched 4 million pages of Dutch East India Company records and found a 1615 ship's log where sailors on Mauritius wrote they "caught many tortoises, dodos, and some geese." it's a new eyewitness record of the dodo before it went extinct
> AI cracked the secret code Napoleon III used to message his wife during the 1859 war in Italy, and the telegrams were read for the first time in 167 years. in one he writes it's "impossible to give details of yesterday's battle." in another the empress tells him "I am sorry to have hurt you"
> AI decoded a 598-year-old letter revealing a secret plan to make an Italian warlord king of Byzantine Greece, 25 years before Constantinople fell. the archbishop who wrote it promised he could take the throne "without risk and without great expense"
> AI read the coded half of a letter from Catherine de' Medici, the Renaissance queen of France, written days after Mary, Queen of Scots was kidnapped. the open half sounds cheerful, the coded half talks about "sad and troublesome news." nobody had read it for 459 years
> AI turned up records of three Javan rhinos shipped to the king of Kandy in Sri Lanka around 1740. a leading rhino historian confirmed nobody knew about them
> AI found a meteorite that fell in India in 1812 buried in an old Dutch newspaper. it had been missing from every scientific catalogue for 200 years until the Geological Survey of India confirmed it
there are millions of pages in archives that no human will ever get around to reading
but AI is going to read all of them
ALT 17th-century Mughal painting of a dodo
ALT Catherine de' Medici's 1567 letter, with lines of coded symbols at the bottom
ALT Handwritten Dutch East India Company record from 1739 about rhinos sent to the king of Kandy
By 2040 we will be arguing about the introduction of a National Lightbulb Service to ensure that lightbulb changing, a dangerous activity, be provided free at the point of use for every household in the country. Inexplicably they will pay 4x the market rate for bulbs
Look at the contempt in the eyes of the civil servants. They are stunned that they’re being questioned “why can’t a combat engineer change a lightbulb?”.
This is an example of why we know government spending is the most wasteful and unproductive use of funds in the economy.
Hard working people pay a fortune in tax so these bureaucrats can cook up insane spending programs.
If you’re a tax payer, watch this video and consider how little they care about the money they take from you.
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In 1900s England marriage rates were actually higher for working class men and lower for middle and upper class men.
Across every generation, the men at the bottom of the occupational hierarchy in their societies have had lower likelihood of reproducing.
It has always been so, and probably always will be. I don’t understand where people get the idea that 100% of men were getting married.
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People are idiots for believing that there is one correct interpretation here - even in Classical Greece there were many tellings of the Iliad where Achilleus and Patroclus have a platonic relationship, and many notable literati argued that their relationship was platonic
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Can't wait to have people explain how a party literally trying to talk about demo replacement in Parliament is still not right wing enough
A Reform legislator being banned from Welsh Parliament for asking a question about the demographic replacement of white people will be studied by historians.
A defining moment in this country’s history.
But we will NOT be silenced.
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