Topics created by cteavin

Very weird, felt like I lost a part of me

A huge step forward, people who were still classed as sex offenders all because they loved a man are now free of that brand they were given.

Scotland has followed in the UK governments footsteps who did the same a few months ago.

I haven't noticed anything strange like that recently…

Either scrambled eggs with some ham if its possible or just boiled 5 eggs with mayo and maybe a toast. That's for protein-fat. If I go for protein-carbs that's oat meals with milk. A lot. If I don't have much time to eat that much I will just reduce and add cashew with cranberry as a snack to fill calories

@Aurra:

My celebrity crush is Evan Peters. He's just so cute and he seems nice in interviews. He was especially cute as Quicksilver in the X-Men movies.

I love him, too!

Are you watching him in American Horror Story? Cult is…um, interesting, but his performances are fantastic. Loved his look as Tate in the first season and the owner of the hotel in Hotel.

As I already pointed out, CIS came out of the textbooks and into the mainstream as a way of abusing normative people.

You can go back about 5 or so years and see it explode on to the scene and used a weapon against people whose identity matches their sex.

@cteavin:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/31/media/russia-facebook-violence/index.html

These types of articles are multiplying. The investigation seems to me, in part, about not accepting responsibility for 1) blindly believing, 2) not having critical thinking skills, 3) being unwilling to admit the US is not (insert superlative) enough to chose the best candidates, 4) losing.

What I have yet to hear/read is someone saying something along the lines of  "I should have checked that story my friend forwarded me on FB", or "Dammit, I should have known better" or even "Trump voters need to learn how to fact-check". Instead, "Russia made them do it" is all we're hearing. No. People made a choice because they're irrational. They're irrational because we don't value education and expect good teachers to work at retail wages while cutting funding for education programs and focusing on tests rather than the practical. In short, the US is getting what it refuses to pay for: An uneducated public without critical thinking skills.

Thoughts?

It's strange that almost all the "fake news" was attacking Trump.. yet the left is complaining that "fake news" cost Hillary the election.  Just what fake news was posted about Hillary?  There is so much REAL shit that Hillary did that why would someone bother to make anything up?

@JohnAllenson:

Under Canadian Law.

14 year olds are capable of consenting to having sex with older people - providing there is no relationship where the older person can exploit the younger one:  his teacher, his hockey coach, his boss, his doctor, his landlord (or the parents landlord.)

If Kevin Spacey had asked Anthony Rapp to have sex it would have been legal under Canadian law.  They were acquaintances.  Grabbing someone, throwing them on a bed, then jumping on top of them without their prior knowledge AND consent is assault no matter what the age.

Hearsay. It's possible Spacey did that but he doesn't remember it and was a drunkard at the time.

Memory doesn't work like videotape. Our memories change over time. We add details, change perspectives, layer on feelings and meanings. This is one of the reasons I can not give credence to someone coming forward 30 years later to say X did Y, especially in a culture where we trust the victim first and try the alleged perpetrator without a trial. This way of conducting a trial creates a positive feedback loop for the purported victim that encourages abuse with no consequence.

Here are the facts as we know them: Many people say Spacey is a dirty old man. There are plenty of images of Spacey dating younger men. One man said he picked him up and threw him on a bed and that was it. A woman came forward and said Spacey had a reputation.

That's it.

Unless you have a video of him doing something then he's just another person who likes people much younger than him who may or may not be lecherous. Neither is a crime. And if there were incontrovertible proof of Spacey picking up this young man there is still no crime, the statute of limitations has run out, so what is it people are expecting he do? If Spacey apologizes it should be to Rapp himself, as in, it should be a private affair. What people want is a public apology because the mob is angry and wants blood wherever it can get it. That mentality is wrong and we shouldn't encourage it.

Sounds whacky, but I still think the entire thing was just a media distraction from the REAL news.  :crazy2:

I hate social workers.  They don't give a shit about the people they are supposed to help.  They only care about their power over people.

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I have mixed feelings about this.

While I support free speech, as defined by the US Supreme Court, I want equality in that concept, which is something that Europe doesn't have.  If I can't slag you off, then equality says you can't slag me off.

You can freely deny the Armenian genocide committed by The Young Turks (recognize the name?)  but disagree with the official narrative of the WW2 holocaust and your ass is going to prison in most of Europe.    You don't have to deny that the WW2 holocaust happened, just disagree with the official "facts".

In Scandinavia, you will go to prison for being critical of islam and muslims.    Slag off christians and nothing happens.  Hypocrisy, is the word of the day.

In Europe, causing offense is a crime.

@cteavin:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/27/japanese-student-sues-over-schools-order-to-dye-hair-black

I know this exists but here in Tokyo, the students have a special marking on their ID's indicating they have naturally brown hair.

And you think they're worried about North Korea.

I'm both surprised and not surprised by this tbh. Japan is an unusual country.

Well, let's elaborate a bit on the picture, catalonya has always been autonomous to a degree, since this social rift has millenia, centuries and centuries, however during Franco depotism the region (state) suffered a lot of repression in terms of language etc… had to that mix a spanish central government which inherits Franco ideology and has not a solid standing (3 elections to form it and no majority), had to that silence from the government for several decades over this matter, had to that the fact catalonya is supporting almost solo the debt of more than half of spain... and finally sprinkle in top of the cake the fact rajoy is a fucking bastard that ordered police brutality on people voting...

Yes it's secessionist all the countries divides are by norm inconstitucional, what is that point worth aniway in the matter?

This either goes slowly and calm down noone does nothing, either goes smart and catalonya destroys it's economy and makes Spain go bankrupt forcing the EU to make it solve the issue or get expelled, either goes really bad and some groups start agitating things and they get civil war.

Any of those things are not that far fetched seen the history of the place.

I support free speech, but I also support the other "rights".

I don't have a problem removing people from the immediate area to prevent the face to face harassment or blocking the entrances.  Across the street doesn't bother me.

@cteavin:

@Frederick:

@flozen:

Separately, I'm concerned about his recent moves to "play to the base," including the push for puritanical religious freedoms that are rolling back LGBT protections:

Now, when you mash these ideas together, and I see Trump feeding on the adulation from his core supporters for these recent "victories," I feel some unease that he will, on the topic of preemptive war with North Korea, think about pleasing the base one more time:

If anybody can explain what lesbians have to do with North Korea, let me know.

What Flozen is saying is that Trump's base, which includes the religious right a.k.a. people who are gunning for the gays, wants Trump to escalate the situation with North Korea as diplomacy has only enabled Kim. Flozen, I assume, is anti-war and would like to prevent the deaths of countless North/South Koreans. (There's no chance of N. Korea attacking the US, though they could have spies who could cause some mayhem.)

Meanwhile, over here in Tokyo, there's very little fuss over the Korea situation. Generally, people seem happy with the tougher stance as no one seems convinced that Kim will actually attack anyone. The news analysis seems to agree that people are happy with Abe's policies towards North Korea (siding with Trump) while all of my students want negotiations.

Me? I've had flashbacks to the early 80's and see the whole thing as bravado, not much different from when Regan and Gorbachev were in a war of words and justification for more military spending.

Flozen is against anything Trump does.

As for negotiating with North Korea… what is there to negotiate?  They already have nukes, they already have ICBMS that can reach any city in the USA within 40 minutes of launch.  Kim Jung Un has repeatedly said he will attack US cities, Guam, and sink Japan into the ocean.  At what point do we stop North Korea?  AFTER they kill millions of people and disrupt the economy of the world?  Already, North Korea is victimizing millions of people... it's OWN citizens in North Korea, and South Korea.  I'm glad that Japan is so confident that the USA will protect them, but consider this.. Kim Jung Un doesn't even need an ICBM to nuke Japan.. he can simply load a nuclear bomb on to a plane or one of his standard rockets and faster than you can say "Hiroshima"  POOF!    Kim has ALREADY sent 2 missiles flying over Japan in the last year.

Again.. negotiation... to negotiate what?  NK has already said it will not negotiate with any country other than the USA.. and now they say they will not negotiate with the USA either.  (there is nothing to negotiate).

@cteavin:

@Frederick:

Trump has incredibly energy, and doesn't seem to neglect anything.   He might be taking some sort of meds to give him stamina.  I'd like some of what he's taking!

Maybe but what about her observation that what's wrong with the world will continue to be wrong after Trump, so just spend that energy focused on the US?

Have you seen Apocalypse Now? By the end, we meet a man who'd been hiding in the jungle for twenty plus years and when finally caught shows him magazines from twenty, thirty, forty years before that. It's all the same news. Today, it's still the same news. Different names but mostly the same.

She is correct.. the USA is going downhill.  Obama worked very hard to make that happen, but didn't finish the job.  Trump's presidency will delay the failure of the USA.  In fact, his changes might have an effect for decades to come - delaying the inevitable.  Had crooked Hillary won that election, the USA would be in very deep doo doo NOW.  She would be under impeachment for very solid, real reasons.

:police: :cheesy2:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/scottish-barmen-banned-wearing-kilts-drunk-women-keep-groping-their-penises-1510817

You'll find countless articles like this on the internet.

You will also find countless articles, by feminists, declaring it's ok for women to do this because it's empowering women.  These cunts will justify the double standards with all manner of mental gymnastics.

@Frederick:

@cteavin:

Thoughts?

Youtube Video

That you know that song endears you to me.  :hug2:

But to topic, change the wording to what I wrote just a bit and we get:

1. S/He was underage drinking in a country where alcohol is forbidden.

2. He touched a woman/man on the hip – who decided to bring the police into the situation isn't stated.

3. He's already been condemned by the people.