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To be fair, it's the Olympic Games, not the Olympic Sports

Surely he's been fired forever right? Surely...

Xethuminra posted...

Did you fact check that, chief?

Well a tiger could definitely take a gorilla, and lions are only a little bit smaller...

It's already killed millions of people and will likely kill some millions more. Definitely something to be concerned about.

An adult male lion could probably take a gorilla, a human doesn't have any chance.

Stupid

Choco posted...

fucking yikes at you acting like that would have been a good thing

Yikes that you think it wouldn't be...? It's just a change to opt-in rather than opt-out for parental controls. Are you the against age verification part, or is this a 'my rights' thing?

Edit: Oh, or is it the classic slippery slope thing?

apolloooo posted...

This shit will never work unless you go full authoritarian like china, even then citizens still able to find a way to bypass the great wall.

It would just be an opt-in though, you're not losing access to anything... well unless you're under 18. With modern indexing, image hashing etc it would be entirely possible.

So has everyone given up on the idea of making porn more difficult for children to access? Like it's somehow not possible (even though it's easier than ever) to incorporate modern parental locks on their devices? Just giving up and making more porn specifically for them sounds like a stupid idea.

Although I remember in the UK few years ago they had a plan for an ISP-side block on adult material you'd have to opt in to on your account, to make this easier, but everyone cried their rights were being infringed as if it wasn't just a slightly better age verification, and it was never done.

Veggeta_MAX posted...

Please let's stick to the point of naming the biggest Respected Loner on this websight

You're gonna need someone real smart to figure it out. There's bound to be an intellectual stoner or two who could help.

The German gymnastics team are also breaking convention by allowing full-body leotards at the Olympics too. The rules are ridiculous - 'you can compete... but only if we can see x amount of your butt'. It's weird.

It varies slightly around the country, but with national insurance considered, it roughly works out to be 32% income taxed on salary above ~12500, and 42% above ~50000. Another 9% over ~20000 if you have a student loan too. And most goods & services have VAT (sales tax) at 20%.

QueenCarly posted...

Did you know the simple act of just going to the store (to the store) is a way you can praise our Queen?

But then we might not see her any more (any more)

Perascamin posted...

That's complete bullshit

I mean, they detail the methodology in the report...

Could argue the accuracy with it being localised and relatively small sample size, but interesting comparison still. Point is both are scumbag things to do, have historically killed millions of people, and there's no real excuse for them.

Shezarr posted...

I'd like to see a source on this.

I saw it on a couple of articles - just tracked down the source (page 53) - https://infrastructure.gov.au/roads/safety/publications/1997/pdf/Speed_Risk_1.pdf

It's actually in 5km/h (3mph) increments. The relative risk compared to sober at the speed limit is interesting/worrying. Doubles at 5km/h above and by 20km/h (12mph) above, the risk is 30 times higher.

Drink driving definitely should be judged and shamed. Speeding too actually - that's weirdly more acceptable, even though it kills more people. Each 5mph above the limit has an equivalent risk to an additional 0.05% blood alcohol concentration while driving at the limit.

ROOTFayth posted...

I think at this point we just roll with it and take the losses

I think that's the so-called prime minister's plan too, along with the new health secretary.

Which is weird, I can imagine like the business secretary arguing for opening everything up no matter how many people get ill, but surely the health secretary out of everybody should be the one arguing to keep restrictions in place a little longer.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Nothing really. I shouldn't be mean

It's the Scottish nationalists who deserve no respect but they're a vocal minority and I shouldn't forget that

You definitely are in the UK - specifically South East England, based on your lack of understanding on the Scotland situation.

It's richer than most people. It's like 95th percentile in the USA, 99th in the world.

It looks like when Sonic Boom was announced and Knuckles was a giant for some reason.

We'll never progress forward if we're always looking left and right. It's not the 20th century anymore.

Well England's had an easy ride so far - Denmark, Ukraine, even Scotland who they didn't beat... Italy's a different level.
Maybe with another couple of sneaky penalties they might get lucky.

It's probably not totally ideal for them, but neither is it a major problem. It seems the stigma about it is still living in the 90s, as if anyone can buy houses for like 2x annual salary these days, and rents are getting ridiculous too. Some places you basically have to buy with a partner, but no guarantee they'd have met the right one by any age.

There's probably plenty people who get on well with their families, would rather stay with them than with some random strangers too.

Because avoiding the most minor of inconveniences is more important than other peoples lives.

It's kinda depressing actually, like you always knew there would be some minority of people who don't care about others, but didnt know till the pandemic how large a minority that actually is.

This says windows down - even at 70:
https://www.businessinsider.com/car-fuel-efficiency-ac-air-conditioner-on-windows-down-open-2013-9

Is this an American thing? Not understanding speed limits.

Like what proportion of American drivers are regularly going 80 - 90?

Dark_SilverX posted...

Jesus was chinese

Chinesus

CosmicShadows posted...

I always forget to do that tbh.

That's good, you shouldn't stretch before exercise, only warm up. Stretch afterward.

Xavier_On_High posted...

Final Fantasy XV

It's such a wasted opportunity.

*FFXV endgame spoilers*

Yeah I got real excited when you jump forward and it's all dark and you get to run around the open world for just a little bit, making you think it's a world of ruin from FF6 situation, but no, it's just final boss, done.

Colonel_Snitsky posted...

Im not against vaccinations, but We still dont know long term effects @_@

What long term effects could there be? The vaccine just grows some spike proteins in your muscle cells, that are cleared out in a few weeks. Any allergic reactions would happen in this time, but nothing remains in the body beyond that. For long term effects you'd need some severe damage to occur in a major organ (like what Covid causes), or otherwise some long term repeated exposure to something harmful.

Its strange those websites are like, here's 25 cool hairstyles, but they're all basically the same hairstyle with a different length on top. Where's the variety?

Apparently if the site's users were a country, it would have by far the most unequal income distribution of any country in the world. Only a couple of percent make any significant money, and most effectively make less than minimum wage for the time it takes to produce and manage their content.

100g protein is only like 400 calories, but it also helps there's a greater thermic effect with protein, that it takes more energy to metabolize and rebuild than fat or carbohydrates, so protein calories effectively count less than other calories. Protein rich foods also tend to be more satiating, so you're less likely to overindulge in them too.

Captain_Qwark posted...

Realistically the only thing schools could do is confiscate phones/any recording device as students come in every day and punish students who are caught with them.

But nobody would approve of that

It's kinda annoying cause that's an actual good solution, but you're right, nobody would go for that. They don't seem keen to go for harsher (non-violent) punishments either, or trying to further restrict porn access for children. With all the good solutions taken away, suggesting preventive measures is all they really have left.

There were so many moments in the game I thought would've been perfect in VR like RE7. Hopefully they'll add that in eventually. House Beneviento especially, that would have been an experience

itachi15243 posted...

Kinda sucks that it's kinda okay for your average hot girl to have an effing porn account.

It's not really average. There's apparently about half a million accounts on the site, many with nothing posted, and that's out of 7-8 billion people.

That's probably a smaller proportion of people than would have been strippers or prostitutes at any other time in history. It's definitely not a common thing, it just gets talked about a lot.

All the murder wasn't exactly right, but if it's between your adopted daughter and a bunch of people trying to kill your adopted daughter, and you have the ability to choose...

More so in 2021 actually, cause we can better imagine it now - like 1 year ago some doctors do a Covid test on you and find you've got weird blood and want you to undergo a procedure that would kill you but would also create a vaccine, you would've been like 'no, figure it out another way'. If it was your child, you'd be like 'hell no, figure it out another way'. I don't really buy the point that that's what Ellie would have wanted either - both that it's an unrealistic attitude for a child to have, and also that she is a child, a minor, who wouldn't be able to make that decision now without parental consent.

Also not sure Joel was wrong to lie about it afterward either, cause how and why would you put the weight of something like that on a kid? One who's already seeming a little depressed with a touch of survivor's guilt already.

And also the medical stuff someone's probably already mentioned, that you can't vaccinate against a fungus, no point in killing the host keeping the mutated cordyceps alive, why not just start with a biopsy etc. Fireflies dumb.

That was a good level. Train levels are always good

When Jesus drops in da house, that's when Bible fans cheer like when Captain America appears behind the train in Infinity War.

I mean sex on a toilet is not the way to go in pretty much any situation, even on the fancy Japanese ones. Any hotels nearby?
More importantly though, people can back out of sex at any time for any reason even if they previously agreed to it. It doesn't necessarily mean she didn't like you, maybe she just changed her mind. Probably it was the toilet thing that changed her mind.

pogo_rabid posted...

Isn't Scotland financially insolvent and 100% dependent on benefactor countries to give them financial aid?

No, they've historically had the highest tax revenue per capita of any UK region except for London. Although the UK is a fair bit poorer the the USA overall, so they might still fall short of what the USA would be looking for. Either way they'd never vote to become a state.

Is France even open just now with all the pandemic going on?

MrMallard posted...

I would say that GameFAQs doesn't have as much of a problem as they could be, but there's still some sketchy people who are worth keeping an eye on.

The whole internet has a paedo problem, but yeah, it's probably slightly less so on here compared to like tik tok or youtube where there are blatant pedofiles leaving dodgy comments on young people's posts that don't get removed, or nobody seems to do anything about.

Maybe it's because there are next to no young people on here, or maybe because more people are vocally against the grey areas that people seem to argue about. Either way, you're right that it shouldn't be welcomed.

Endofall posted...

Nope. I didn't post those titles for your benefit because conservatives like you will always act like this

Yeah, I'm definitely not conservative, but you definitely are confused.

Poor Gwen's fiance. I hope he doesn't make it to Gwen's husband. Why is Gwen so horrible?

Endofall posted...

Nope. Topic titles are "So repubs are mainly against abortion because of religion" and "kids I knew who come from conservative families"

So yes, you are thinking of someone else. Either that or you're thinking anything that's not liberal to the extreme is automatically conservative to the extreme?

Endofall posted...

I would just like to alert you that you're talking to a conservative who's anti-abortion and props up traditional marriages and having children.

Are you thinking of somebody else?

AloneIBreak posted...

The idea that sex is bad and must remain taboo does more harm than good and theres no rational justification for it. I wouldnt deliberately expose my 4 year old to it, but it should hardly be some big trauma that shapes their life.

Sure sex itself is good, but there are many ways it can be twisted into something bad - that's why there are so many boundaries around it.

Developing brains can't fully understand all the complexities around this (and some adult brains too judging by this topic), but they do learn from them, so it's best to avoid all developmental trauma and keep children away from anything to do with porn.