And that’s why I’ve stopped paying taxes. I’M A SOVERIGN CITIZAN DAMNIT!!!

Even when a walkthrough told me where this motherfucker was I couldn’t find her

His story checks out - he did add you on Roblox! Sounds trustworthy.

As a non-child, I ain’t afraid of no paedophile!

I don’t have enough disk space to be using flatpak, jeez

Immediate thought: “there are naked pictures of this character somewhere”

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My partner is a lot younger than me. But when we meet we were at similar life stages: she was starting a first career, and I was changing mine. Our age gap then was smaller, both absolutely and relatively, than yours.

Anything can work, but each red flag makes it less likely. If you’re not after something serious, who gives a shit. If you are, be on high alert. Is he a man child? Is he controlling and finds young people easier to control? The latter is hard to find out before it becomes a problem.

I went on some dates (before I met my partner) with more similar gaps to what you’re talking about, though still none so extreme (university town - more than half the people I dated back then were staff or students at the university). It became obvious to me that while these people were nice and smart and funny, it was going to be difficult to have a long term relationship, practically, because of that difference in life stage.

I would cry

No, that does not seem to have any relevance to bets placed on the thing. What connection do you think is there?

What I mean is, if you can correlate bets with the activities of specific groups, then you have something. If all you have are bets, why the fuck do you assume they’re insider bets?

Here’s a good way of looking at it: if you didn’t know that the US attacked Iran but could analyse the bets taking place, would this group of bets make you confident that the attack would take place? Or would it be lost amidst the noise of people betting each way? Can you find other cases where big bets were placed that didn’t pay off?

Yeah, on top of the car free fantasy, that may come to pass in a few decades, we may as well imagine that professional drivers will somehow stop driving terribly as well.

It was pretty clear about a day before that it was going to happen. If I’d had to bet one way or the other I would’ve bet on an attack.

It’s not sus that people make bets that pay out. You need to compare them to the knowledge at the time and look for patterns.

Do you buy anything, ever? Then you have money, and can be swayed by advertising in terms of what you spend it on.

Lol. Plenty of people who have money and don’t.

Yeah. I kind of get it though, and some historical facts do have a material impact on your understanding of that cultural backdrop, while also being much easier to test for. (And I think it is reasonable to have some kind of check on integration, even if imperfect, for naturalisation)

In this example, if you know that the Acts of Union were 1542 for Wales, 1707 (huzzah) for Scotland and 1800 for Ireland, that tells you something about the relative strengths of the bonds between the different countries in the union. It gives you historical context for why Scottish Independence is a stronger movement than Welsh Independence, and helps you navigate interactions with people from the different countries.

So a test that asks questions of that character can be objective, concise, and still encourages prospective citizens to learn things which are useful from the point of view of integration. In these topics people often bring up queuing culture (but I’ve never invited someone to go in front of me at a checkout that I remember), tea culture (but loads of people don’t drink tea, disagree on milk/tea order, etc), sports (I don’t follow any) that all have significant problems.

It’s actually because they’re not making any attempt to record self-reported age (such as “I am over 13”) on signup, while there is adult content on there, and did not want to cooperate with Ofcom on it.

I’d rank that information as more significant trivia than the height of the fucking London Eye.

It was 1707 wasn’t it?

Non-american here but I truly believe it’s too late for them.

They have too many guns, too much of a gun culture and a bunch of other problems that mean they’ll genuinely have a much harder time enforcing any ban

If there weren’t cars, there’d still be buses, vans, trucks.

What I read today is that Iran deployed twelve mines. Twelve.

Presumably the US was striking their missile launches, and a couple more than twelve were launched… it’s consistent with all that that their ability to lay mines is heavily degraded.

The Lords should represent all views, including religious ones. Creating a secular society isn’t done by getting rid of bishops from parliament, because religious MPs and Lords will still be there. Secular society is only created when those in power agree not to let religious belief of one group restrict the behaviour of another.

But with that, there is nothing wrong with having bishops and imams in parliament. They bring an important perspective on ethical matters. I don’t agree with the position of the church on assisted dying, but many people do, and having that perspective reflected is good, even if I would rather it didn’t win out.