Not just feminism, read on and it's *sex for pleasure*, too
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Not just feminism, read on and it's *sex for pleasure*, too
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Isn't most of that growth is due to immigration, not births?* Statistica claims EU ave total fertility rate is 1.4, Ireland 1.6, between France and Slovenia *I'm not averse to immigration, I'm a serial economic migrant www.statista.com/statistics/6...
Nope, not everyone can afford to give up healthcare and the years they've worked toward their pension, and a lot of people signed up for the free college, training, benefits, security and to see the world, not for idealistic reasons or to die - most military is admin, logistics, etc
These are working guys and gals who often signed up (under Obama or Biden) for the benefits they and their families receive Not everyone can afford principles
If / when he succeeds Trump, it'll be interesting seeing how the MAGA base deals with another non-white First Lady and their kids, and how President Vance reacts
Eh, if you're British, noshing, poncy and plimsoll are common - as in common people - parlance It's being triggered by *bread* that's notable here Everything nice is woke now
Content doesn't create itself
Food used to have meaning
What's your claim, that he fabricated that interview with WA, and this is fake? Seems unlikely in the context of an official interview, with a photo, and no denial from WA's camp in the days after My take is that few credible journalists want to interview the friend of a convicted pedo-rapist
As for your concern about the letter, why are spelling errors & lack of paragraphs odd, given WA - as a fan, you should know this - uses a typewriter he bought when he was 16 Seems you're not much of fan, just interested in denying he was friends with a convicted pedo-rapist, which even he admits
Notable this didn't seem to happen when QE2 died, even though it was clearly a far more significant event in terms of being "the end of an era" and the passing of the only person most had ever seen on the money or stamps
He doesn't even care about harassment or rape AFAIK there's be no call from Lowe (or Farage) for more funding for rape centres, expedited processing of rape kits & cases, campaigns against rape culture, casual misogyny etc It's clear what kind of man Lowe is www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Sure, except WA is quoted on the record has having attended multiple events at Epstein's home And you, whose hobby is defending WA, don't even know that! Wonder what else you're missing?
And another quote from WA Your guy clearly enjoyed hanging out with a convicted pedo-rapist Seems odd, to me 2/2 www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
Why do they need to disclose anything, when WA himself has admitted he was friends with the convicted pedo-rapist? 1/2 www.showbiz411.com/2024/04/17/e...
I wouldn't overthink it Clear health problems (ankles, hands) + public absence / silence + Vance saying he's ready to take over + Pentagon Pizza Index* = runaway speculation on social media + hopium from those who wish Trump ill *activity supposedly indicates "big news" x.com/penpizzareport
Epstein's _friend_
Not at all I can't stand him, but Trump clearly has a strong, personal, charismatic hold over a sizeable number of people, hence the grass-roots cult of personality Can't think of any other current or recent political figure with that quality in the West
On that Pentagon pizza thing... x.com/penpizzareport
Fortunately Vance lacks Trump's dark charisma, as does every other public figure Without Trump as a figurehead, I suspect (hope) the movement collapses due to in-fighting and internal contradictions
Trump hasn't been seen since Wednesday - and the rumors are he's very sick or dead
Sure, I've seen plenty of gleeful racists, anti-LGBT+, "liberal tears" folk on here But I block them on sight, because I don't need them pissing my pool
Exactly, so the claim "So hard that almost every country has managed?" feels somewhat irrelevant in this context, because you're not comparing like with like, and no other developed country has a gun culture like the US
Which of those countries has anything like the 2A? The admittedly small sample I'm familiar with (in Europe and Asia) all start from the position that owning a firearm is a privilege, not a fundamental right (much the same with regard to "free speech")
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Oh, and here's WA himself talking about his friendship with a convicted pedo-rapist, and stating that the photo - which you dismiss - was taken after leaving the pedo-rapist's house Sure seems like WA doesn't think raping children is much of a character flaw www.showbiz411.com/2024/04/17/e...
And in case you don't read the story, a spokesman for WA didn't deny it Your guy liked hanging out with a convicted pedo-rapist Own it
How about this story from 2023? Despite Epstein being a convicted pedo-rapist, WA - accused of CSA by two of his kids - didn't see that as a barrier to friendship and repeated contact But you keep stanning for him, Else - it's a strong look! www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
All independent US movies, not by major Hollywood studios Hence the story in Variety from June this year variety.com/2025/film/gl...
Or Epstein spotted him, hence the lack of a smile But you keep stanning for the friend of convicted pedo-rapist
What's the box office mojo link supposed to show? Sure, WA never hung out with noted pedo-rapist Epstein. This letter is fake right, and that photo a coincidence? Allen has no issue with pedo-rapists Do you? www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
This summer's BALLERINA (2025) was the first Hollywood movie to be released in Russia since the second invasion of Ukraine You're not very well informed, Else Do you know about Allen's friendship with post-pedo-rape conviction Epstein? variety.com/2025/film/gl...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott...
You're forgetting the two of his kids that accused of him CSA, right? And his friendship with a known pedo-rapist, after he was convicted of pedo-rape Pictured: WA hanging out with a known pedo-rapist But you do you, Else
Aside from the inherent quality of EZ's work, I guess there's also not a lot of "high profile" AI skeptics with a proven ability to break things down for a short segment
Since I looked it up for myself, I'll share it here for others curious 89 years old, born April 1936
Love the way every time he gives a number he revises it up, twice
Map 1: www.bbc.com/news/article... Map 2: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Does this fella not remember when Kitty Kelley's (v fun) THE ROYALS ('97) was effectively banned in the UK, or Peter Wright's SPYCATCHER ('87)? Surely he must know you couldn't even see a stiff dick legally until the Internet!
I think it should be illegal for companies, govt bodies etc to be sexist, racist, homophobic etc, but I don't think you can police private beliefs
A joke about raping a child? Very cool Maybe why Epstein loved having WA over, and he went, even after Epstein had been convicted of raping children Anyway, now muting you
Really, then why does Isaac Davis, when talking about his sex life with a child, say they're probably going to break some records if the police don't stop them? Seems like a joke about statutory rape WA's was certainly happy to hang out with a convicted pedo rapist
No, I think the character Isaac Davis is a statutory rapist But within the world of the movie, he's clearly not presented or condemned as a rapist The big moral speech is against the guy cheating on his wife, not the statutory rapist Very cool
True, WA's wife is only the step-sister of three of WA's kids (Dylan, Moses & Ronan) Who do you think is the real bad guy in MANHATTEN - the man committing statutory rape, or the man who cheats on his wife? And WA still hung out with pedo rapist Epstein after his first conviction Very cool, eh?
How much of this is simply denial that death is real, inevitable, and happens within a predicable time frame?
Block AF There are too many good (and bad) people anyway - can't keep up with them all
Thanks, I should have refreshed my memory of the cases
What about these cases? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_unde...
There's a whole awkward movie in which Allen, dating a high school girl, is the good guy, while his friend who cheats on his wife (with a woman about his own age) is a monster
For others interested, this can be found here, along with other episodes of Play for Today www.youtube.com/@playforfore...
They want the glamor and romance of the Old South, and guilt-free plantation weddings
The lack of friends, too Anyone with a decent social circle, friends and family who care, would've had an intervention by now
a new frontier in pedocon theory
Love this "freedom of speech" nonsense I'm old to remember when Kitty Kelly's THE ROYALS couldn't be sold in the UK, never mind hardcore porn
Of course, and I'm saying the direct experience of ~90% Chinese PhD grads in the US radicalizes them to leave their home country, culture & family networks and live as immigrants
Sure, but research shows direct experience of the US causes the majority of Chinese and Indian PhD grads - some 90% of the former! - to favor life in the US over their home countries That's meaningful
Some data to support my anecdata cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...
Sure, but in the context of the OP I'm thinking about immigrants to the US, and specifically those from China and other places that are less democratic, rule of law, "fair" etc than America They get educated & a good career, they're less likely to think "this sucks"
Or if it highlighted misogyny, harassment, rape culture, domestic & sexual violence whatever the nationality of the perpetrator? The woman who worries about her daughter should be worried about lack of funding for rape crisis centres, kits, & investigations www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/08/30/h...
Perhaps less so if that person then becomes successful (however they define it) based on their education in America? A lot of immigrants started out as students
Legal medical marijuana finally comes to Slovenia, with a vote on recreational likely later this year
Inside the chubby racist was a thinner, even more racist man, struggling to get out
Every response will be seized on by Farage, short of "concentrating" all migrants in tents on an island with minimal food - as Rupert Lowe has called for
Perhaps because a thick, clear line, along with a denial of any spectrum, is GC's central proposition Do any of prominent GC have the equivalent of "some of my best friends are..."? Seems unthinkable It's all or nothing
100% of parents would be financially better off if they'd never had children
Name changed back to St Petersburg in 91 I guess Trump had some memorable nights there on the 80s
Tommy Robinson fondly invoking the days when the East End was run by gangsters and women were in danger of being killed
But not an age of youth and possibility
Probably need more coffee, but reminds of the "do these blue hairs know Palestinians hate the gays" discourse
Wow, a quick scan of the replies to that post and the amount of "lol, u got raped" makes me wish I had a big red block button on my desk Anyway, here's a non-paywalled copy archive.ph/0rvzu
What gets me - and I was diagnosed as autistic in the 80s - is the lack of pushback from when RFK & Co claim that autists (like _them_) can't use the bathroom, get a job, have a good life, etc The absence of advocacy for a community that's perhaps more visible, accomplished & powerful than ever
Although on the techbro side I think the unfit are simply the poor (and thus lazy, low IQ, etc), rather than the poor + neurodiverse But you'd expect Musk & Co to be advocating more forcefully for the value of a neurodiverse future, given that's both the myth and reality of much of STEM
Curious how this MAHA belief intersects with techbros' embrace of being "on the spectrum" - doesn't RFK meet a lot of rich & accomplished neurodiverse individuals?
A way for Americans to fall in love with small, fun "European" vehicles for short trips?
Except ISA* that limits the speed of your car doesn't stop you from driving anywhere en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelli...
Never heard of this, but episodes and clips are on YouTube
Surprised by the number for ethnic Chinese, TBH
For others, like me, who hadn't heard that story about Old Longbeard futurism.com/anti-aging-a...
Have you seen them in recent years? All the YouTube clips make it seem a dismal and depressing experience compared to their early 80s glory, and many disappointed reviewers
I think what redeems Larkin is he knows he's fucked up & broken, and it didn't work out well for him in any of the important ways And he's so good at catching that feeling Today he'd be a porn-addicted incel on Twitter (or Houellbecq, my actual answer to this question)
True, it was more a play on "jailbreak" That said, plenty of nonviolent crimes - e.g. fraud - deserve jail rather than a fine, otherwise they're just the cost of doing business for the rich
I get the point, but $300mn isn't very much for Zuck Google claims he's worth 262.7bn, so a rounding error The more interesting thing is how he can't afford to get to get divorced
But then those people, and their customers, could be sent to jail
This makes me wish Disney could buy the Bible
Mark Geragos?
A happy, well-rounded man would never have written those wonderful lines Which is perhaps why the biography of Pessoa I bought myself for Christmas remains unread I cherish my illusions
Heh, the good Captain's a whole other trip on rereading TinTin as a (possibly) functional alcoholic adult, or at least (p)aa-adjacent...
True, but the anti-migrant folk simply see that as more migrants
