what about someone with a whole brain full of Alzheimer's?

I'd sneak into his computer room and tell Google that Loretta was cheating on him.

I'm assuming once they gather enough info Google will eventually create an AI version of Loretta and then upload her into a secret sexbot for use by top Google execs.

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5...APPLENEWS00001

It’s Not Getting Better for Queer Kids

Definitely seen this irl. Thought we were getting past this. Even on our board culture there’s been comments that somehow Marie’s sexuality is more authentic than Wolf’s.

The insane obsession with compulsory school attendance continues with this student being threatened at gunpoint.

I don't even relate to the idea of a "culture" centered around my sexual preferences, but gay culture really doesn't appeal to me at all.

This is true, I see it all the time around me. Bisexual acceptance is definitely lagging behind gay acceptance, and the fact that bisexuals get **** from both straight and gay people doesn't help

Despite the naive hopes of Susan Collins, the lesson that Trump has recently learned is that the GOP will defend anything he does and that Congress will never remove him from office. So now, with the connivance of Barr's DOJ, he's following through with the reprisals and politically-motivated investigations that Schiff and others warned us of. Latest move is to go easy on Roger Stone, who was found guilty of lying under oath, obstruction of Congress and threatening a witness with bodily harm.

To me, the unbelievable bit is that no-one seems to be criticizing the four prosecutors who have resigned in protest. Is this how we address conflict these days? Walk away and let some player for the opposing team take our place on the field? I don't remember that being the attitude during WWII, but maybe I missed the headline:-

Ground zero?

Harvard professor among three charged with lying about Chinese government ties

The same dudes who ran through machine gun fire were afraid to clock out five minutes early on Fridays after they got home.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510diu55oWL.jpg


Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite: The Rise and Fall of the Ceausescus by Edward Behr

I read this a few years ago and goddamn if it ain’t some similar ****. Hopefully the “fall” comes sooner than later.

^ HA! That's a good point I never considered.

^ wow that looks like a great book. A good title and I bet an fascinating look at a country that in the UK was a byword for misery.

The bolded, about the US I presume, is pretty worrying as all those much-praised checks and balances are proving to be ineffectual in curbing the steady decline of democracy in the US. I'm reminded of something I once read: the majority of authoritarian dictators do not gain power by revolution - they are voted into office. :(

Anyone who knows anything about it can point to a million ways Trump and Ceaușescu are different but the important and frightening lesson there is how little it actually took to create a total atmosphere of paranoia and fear in Romania.

^ Red flag from a year ago about the guy who is now taking a kid-glove approach to Trump's band of felons and whose policy of implementing political vendettas is now making a travesty of "impartial justice" in the US.

I think lack of imagination is one reason why Trump and Barr can get away with this stuff: senators and voters both couldn't imagine that the US would have an authoritarian banana republic government - but if it walks like a duck, as they say, and that's how the Department of Justice is now operating:

- lying about the Mueller Report conclusions
- using frivolous investigations (McCabe, etc.) as a device of political harrassment
- re-investigating done-deal guilty verdicts (Flynn)
- downsizing sentence guidelines for cronies (Stone)
- scuppering legit investigations (NY's investigation into Trump's hush-money campaign violation)

That's all true banana republic stuff imo, and it looks like an election is the only way to curb it. That's why I suspect that the upcoming election is going to be an unprecedented sh+t fest of misinformation and voter repression from the GOP.

Caroline Flack (host of well known TV show in UK) found dead.

Was going to be on trial on March 4th for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend.

Media and the online nation tore her to bits and it looks like she killed herself.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51517973

She ****ed a 17 year old when she was 31. Oh the horror.

It's probably more to do with her breaking a lamp over his head, but nice Kobe apologism bro.

I ain’t never even heard of her till now, Bron Bron

But of course you side with your fellow kid ****ers.

Isn't 17 legal in the UK anyway?

Damn @ 14 in Italy and Germany. Apparently the former axis powers are full of creepy uncles.

Good for them.

That’s called letting people with sexually mature bodies decide, you cry baby puritanical sex-haters.

I'd be on board but 14-16 year olds aren't very good at basketball

But they aren't emotionally mature which makes them the perfect victims to manipulate into sex.

Sex isn’t bad so the words victim and manipulate aren’t applicable.

This is the case for lots of people of all ages.

14 year olds should have autonomy over their bodies.

I don't care about 14 year olds screwing eachother but any actual adult who is attracted to 14 year olds is a to-catch-a-predator level sexually stunted creep.

I mean if youre actively seeking sexual partners based on their age that's one thing, but there are plenty of young teens out there that can easily look a lot older than they are.. I don't think it's that black and white.

I guess I don't come across too many 14 year olds that are passable as adults. Any arbitrary line you draw is going to have some people who look older than others. I'm sure there are 12 year olds that look 14. Still creepy if that's not a deal breaker for a grown man.

He'd know.

Church

When life expectancy was a lot lower, it was more common in general for men and women to get together and even have kids in their early to mid teens. Vestiges of that have carried over in the present day, which is why you see such a wide variation across multiple countries in regards to "legal" age.

That being said, there are also advocates out there who think that being attracted to children or young teens in a completely natural orientation in the modern era and should be accepted as such by the rest of society. It's a byproduct of liberal thought.

The OH part. That's arguably the best part.

Let me put it another way. The medical student who spoke at Ted Talk and advocated for pedophilla to be treated as an unchangeable, acceptable orientation instead of mental illness was far closer to your political persuasion than mine.

Uh yeah I'd say it's way more a byproduct of traditional human mating practices and all that that encompasses, which predates liberalism by quite a few million years.