It’s important to teach children boundaries so that they’re equipped to deal with sexual assault. You teach kids the concept of consent and how to say “No!” and you ask them to tell you if an adult touches them in a way they don’t like. You also make sure they know the names of all the parts of their body.

Then if their uncle or teacher molests them, they’re equipped for the situation. They say no, and afterwards they tell a trusted adult what happened.

Old ladies who don’t respect personal space erode that training. They teach kids that your agency and boundaries don’t matter, that adults know best and it’s no big deal to feel uncomfortable for a few minutes. That might be harmless when it’s their hair, but that lesson helps predators get away scot free, when it’s a child’s genitals or chest. Because kids don’t know the difference between those two things.

I don’t think evil is a mental illness. I don’t think medicalising evil accomplishes anything good.

I don’t like the word “psychopath” because if you look at the etymology, it’s just Greek for “mentally ill person”. I don’t like the association our language historically has between evil people and mentally ill people.

Vealix?

I measure time by the decay of late stage capitalism

Nope, Claude and Gemini both guessed fewer carbs than are in the bread.

Religion is the counter strike of the masses

- Karl Marx

When smartphones were new you used to be able to turn them upside down and the screen would just rotate. Now you have to download an app to do that, and it doesn’t always work.

It’s stuck to a thing that’s in your hand. From the bottom.

Found Samanthan Rutherford’s Lemmy account

Edge of Tomorrow

Let’s fucking go!

The Republicans are keeping people exhausted and scared enough to intimidate them out of organising.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/27/canada-indigenous-women-sterilisation-lawsuit closest I find find in 5 minutes

Agree on rude names and swear words. Disagree on slurs. Slurs always bounce off the intended target and hit someone vulnerable who doesn’t deserve it.

I believe, as does the Death of the Discworld, that after death, everyone is getting exactly what they think they deserve. The Hindus get reincarnated. The Hellenists go to Hades. The Nazi Pagans are going to Valhalla, if they die while shooting up a school. And Donald J Trump is going to be tortured forever in Hell. He said so on TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldAc1rIlA7g

They’re dancers and soldiers at the same time. Dancing and fighting both use up a lot of energy. I appreciate how the movie doesn’t treat women like dolls.

Is this an ad for flushing non flushable wipes?

Cain and Abel.

I dunno what to tell you, this is what I leaned straight from the First Australians whose families have lived here for 65,000 years, at least according to archaeological evidence. These are educated people, experts in the field. They say there’s no record of warfare in this part of the continent before colonisation.

Try naming a war from European oral history. It’s easy. The Trojan war. King Arthur’s conquests. All that stuff Cú Chulainn was up to. Most of those aren’t even factual! But in the oral histories where I’m from, there are no records of any wars, historical or fictional.

Did they hide their past wars? Did the colonisers suppress the war stories? Did the knowledge holders happen to be wiped out by colonisation while a lot of other knowledge survived? I doubt all of these explanations. I think there was just a well designed communist government for a very, very long time. If there were wars around where I live, they’re older than the last ice age. Because we have stories from the ice age, but no war stories.