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  • guarantee you know some blokes that treat women like shit at least sometimes if you're at all social.

    approx 15% of Aussie men admit they would rape a kid, most often married wealthy men with kids. https://www.humanrights.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/Identifying%20and%20understanding%20child%20sexual%20offending%20behaviour%20and%20attitudes%20among%20Australian%20men.pdf

    That's probably the most heinous sexual offense there is. I've been at a work function where a guy pinned me against a wall and insisted I come home with him, everyone just looked on with a couple of awkward laughs. I'm not saying your friends are all bastards, but you've gotta have a pretty narrow or pretty small social circle to avoid running into predatory men.

  • My wife has done courses on warning signs for abusive relationships as part of some mental health first aid certification stuff.

    2 biiiiiig red flags are insisting on surveillance and not letting people have separate finances. We have a combined account sure, and also pocket money accounts and whatever else. For all I know she's set up a trust. I mean I don't think she has because she'd probably tell me but she has the freedom to do so.

  • Yes we're teenagers. We've been married 15 years, ceremony was when we were three.

    Privacy is important, have you never kept a diary? Do you film therapy sessions lest your partner not know what you discussed? Shit with the door open? You don't need justification for wanting privacy, you need privacy so when you have a good reason for it nothing looks different.

    What if there’s an emergency?

    What if there is? Get help, that's an insane fear to live with. If I am unconscious there's nothing to do anyway, the hospital or whatever will find her details in my purse and call. What the fuck am I going to do, sit there watching the dot on the map and calling 000 if it stops moving? You are a lunatic, we have society to take care of us while we're out and about and emergency beacons if you're like camping beyond the black stump or sailing the Pacific.

  • If 10% of the men that got offended by this shit would get offended by their mate catcalling or groping someone those behaviours would disappear in a week.

  • Vile.

    I trust my wife, and she trusts me. We trust each other not to ask for stupid brain-poisoning shit that humans weren't meant to have access to that could one day blow up horribly.

    I don't have her passwords, she doesn't have mine. Our phones are locked. I could technically see what she's doing online I suppose via traffic snooping in the router logs but the day I feel the urge to do something like that is the day I kill myself for having abandoned basic moral principles.

    We're apes, we have brains built for avoiding snakes in tall grass and finding water and berries. You poison yourself with surveillance, you feed your worst and most destructive impulses. Practice keeping secrets, practice being okay with not knowing. Trust isn't surveillance, trust is knowing that if something fucking mattered you'd be told.

    edit: I want my wife to be able to break my heart because if she does she'll have a good reason for doing so. That is what trust is.

  • The joke: Hey if you kill men that catcall they stop.

    The comments: How dare you.

  • If you changed the name to singularity or something, or undefined? Referring to the results of the operations you might get somewhere?

  • As someone who is allegedly an anti ai troll (I checked the modlog lmao) who cares?

    Let people build their own communities. If you wanna press on some digital eyes and see mushrooms in static power to you, I'm gonna go eat mushrooms and press on my eyes and see god in the static.

  • I'll never read /Foo as divide by foo haha. Too much time on the linuxes.

    Unfortunately acronyms are a rather ingrained feature of English text communication, and db0 is how that falls out. Not sure you'll win this one.

  • Watching people spruke western approved tyranny and murder: Ok, diversity of opinions, marketplace of ideas

    Watching people jack off about how NK is secretly really good or something: Harmful, dangerous, needs to be quarantined.

    I find it so tedious. Most of the people who Pearl clutch over this come from a state that has been ruled by murderous war criminals for at least half a century.

  • I find the average user less grating than the average world or ohshitit'sjustfash users. There's some fucking wankers but hey it's the internet.

    Good to get perspectives critical of the imperial core and usually more insightful than the average conservative/lib take. Like I might think that glazing NK is hilarious, but it's not like you don't find hundreds of users glazing farcial "representative" democracies constantly which are only marginally further along in terms of real freedom to act in a way contrary to the nation state.

  • Fourth largest country in the world, a pseudo-democracy like our government, right off the coast. You don't hear a fucking whisper about them unless some moron is breaching their boarders during a dick polishing exercise.

  • Don't use the passive voice and weasel-words. If you want to make claims make them.

    It could be argued that the use of the passive voice and the abstract attribution of an argument to a nebulous other. A practice which has been described in some literature as the use of "weasel-words", has a deleterious effect on comprehension and dilutes discussion by making unclear the distinction between the beliefs of interlocutors and mere speculation.

  • I dunno how much blood is personally on his hands, but the government certainly continues to support and arm their genocidal regime.

    Settler-colonial solidarity I suppose :s would be nice if our lords and masters could be on the right side of history for once.

    Something I really struggle with on this shit, is the government has cracked down so hard here, but like aboriginal Aussies are still undergoing genocide here as we speak. Massive overpolicing, massively higher deaths in custody, massively higher deaths in healthcare, horrific amounts of racism. Yet apparently we need a special action body on legitimising Israel :|

  • That sucks. Anywhere where potatoes feature would probably have them on hand and be happy to just roast some if you could had the language to ask? Might be a generalised approach from hot chips as the backup in olive oil Europe anyway. Butter Europe would not necessarily be vegan.

    When I have travelled I've usually been in sea and because of Buddhism it's been easier, although sometimes there's confusion about prawns.

  • My wife followed it closely and is a bit of a lawy person from a family of lawyers.

    From what she relayed it seems difficult to explain why she took all the actions she did, except if she did a murder, but given that murder has the bar of intent as well I'm not really sure the prosecution established that she did murder.

    But like she obviously collected, preserved, and then fed people poisonous mushrooms just like did she intend to kill people beyond reasonable doubt? Idk