They knew they could get away with this.
One of them is said to have informed herself on the Internet about the legal situation regarding her age. src in German
Why would someone respond to me when I mention them in a tweet? Must be a burner account!
It was a decent show with a simple story that was well told.
And that is enough in today's age where writers try to one up everyone else, the original creator and their audience. No hundred plottwists that make no sense, no characters acting out of character to push a writer's agenda into the face of the audience.
that obviously hasn't worked out for a multitude of reasons.
Russia under Putin wanted to join NATO and/or make a NATO like alternative with Russia in it. NATO refused.
So Russia looked elsewhere while NATO continued to encroach on Russia's neighbouring countries more and more.
China would fuck up North Korea if they ever think about uniting with SK and allow US troops like SK does. The US fucked up Cuba for getting close to the Soviets.
Russia fucks up Ukraine when they get too close to NATO.
Everyone with half a brain knew this was going to happen. Yet somehow it was still pursued.
Men who do ballet can lift a person up, because it's not hard to lift a small & light girl up. Muscle strength is also not directly related to muscle size (of course there's correlation) - there's a reason why you train differently if your goal is one vs the other.
I played football (soccer) as a kid and when I went to the gym for the first time the trainer also said "Oh, judging from your calves you play/played football".
None of those things is relevant until you do it professional and earn money with it. If I were a football player at my age (30s) I would probably have torn multiple ligaments & muscles. Ibrahimović mentioned he played 6months with pain killers due to a torn ACL. Only after the season he got surgery.
Yes, professional athletes destroy their body. Just like trans people can destroy their body - as soon as they're adults.
Kid athletes don't destroy their body. They lay good foundations for general fitness.
The ones on the upper arm look really stranged positioned.
The ones on the lower arm are "okay".
In general you cannot generalize cutters, since it's just a symptom and coping mechanism for an underlying mental illness. Some cut, because they deal with emotional pain and the physical pain is a more welcome alternative. Others like to punish themselves, because they feel like they should be punished.
People also like to hide their wounds, that's why I think those locations are strange. (inner) thighs are a way more popular area as is the torso.
Cutter.
Impulsive and risky behavior, such as [...] unsafe sex, is a symptom of borderline.
The religious stuff was a bit much
I don't think so.
1 is just "Hey, we are Christians, don't insult us & our religion while we are present". I think that's fine.
"Don't manipulate your siblings with those thoughts" - depending on how old those siblings are - fine.
"Don't bring in occult stuff into the home" is basically an extension of 1, or the parents would "randomly" find ton of stuff in their home which the troon just "forgot" to put away properly (read: intentionally insulting the parents' belief).
The troon is to believe, practice and say whatever it wants. Just not in their parent's home & in front of their siblings.
for the incredible majority of border hoppers, the answer is no.
Honestly I am even fine with some of the border hoppers. "I have family here, look my brother - who sits outside - has been living here for 5 years and is willing to stand bail for me and help me."
We have such a system (standing bail / "Bürgschaft") in Germany. Tons of idiots (random Germans) did it for many asylum seekers - thinking they were only responsible for the people until they got asylum. They organized flights to Germany, paid rent & food.
Well of course they didn't read the fine print (which means: read anything at all). You are required to take care of the person after asylum is granted. Pay for their rent, pay for their monthly "unemployment money" (Hartz4).
Woops.
The article I'm reading to refresh my knowledge mentions a Syrian who has been in Germany for 20 years.
He stood bail for his parents, 2 siblings & their families. He works in a drugstore (difficult to translate, not a pharmacy, but cleaning/beauty products and stuff like that).
And his opinion about this all?
'The Syrian is angry: "If my family had come via the Balkan route with smugglers, I would be fine. But because I'm an idiot and chose the official route, I have to pay the price.'
Okay - after reading about stuff like this again - I changed my mind. No exception for country hoppers due to family.
Them winning isn't a shock; they seem to have popular support. Them being allowed to win is surprising though.
Not Dutch, but German and I can comment on our voting system: It's way harder to fuck with numbers.
We are in a single time zone. Voting starts in the morning of a Sunday (work free day for almost everyone, except essential workers like police/hospital and stuff like parks/restaurants). It ends at 6pm. In the last years (couldn't find 2021, since the article was written before that) the final result was announced at the following times: 2017 5.25am, 2013 3.15am, 2009 3.35am.
Basically less than 12hours from the polls closing every vote has been counted and no one can start counting before polls closing (same for mail-in ballots, only opened at 6pm).
While we do have mail in voting they have to be there before we get any numbers. You cannot just discover a random bag of uncounted votes.
And we don't use electronic voting. Piece of paper and then everything is counted by hand.
Of course we do have vote manipulation, but it's usually a single person doing shit.
“Write me a Python script, that uses the TrustPilot API to identify up and coming consumer companies, and then provide me with a step by step of how to run it on @replit”
"1. Take a startups website URL as an input 2. Scrape the website copy and store the result 3. Use OpenAI Davinci to summarise the website and provide an overview of what the startup does 4. Output summary 5. Provide steps on how to run in @replit"
"Takes a GitHub Repo URL, and generates a summary of what the repo does in a way that a non-technical person can understand."
Are given as examples in his tweet. So ... not hard stuff.
It's just another case of cancel culture mentality.
Instead of seeing sports & olympics as an option to keep/establish diplomatic relationships and show people "We are still the same race - humans" blanket banning of countries leads to the opposite. Dehumanization of the enemy is huge thing in wars.
It's what I love about video games. You can play with people hundreds/thousands of miles away and realize "that guy is the same as me, even though he is from another country. he has way more in common with me than some politicians in my country - why should I fight him?"
Not sure about the UK, but here in Germany it's not legal to film a person in public.
Of course it's a bit more complicated as in you can be in background shots and have no right to complain.
But as soon as you become the focus (which was the case in the situation) you need to get consent to film. Especially if you are doing it publicly (which a livestream anyone can watch is) and commercially (she probably gets money/incentives for her blog post).
And which role models did boys have 20-30 years ago? It's honestly not that different.
I don't recall thinking any famous man was a good role model for me. The men that were I knew from private stuff (family, friends, sport clubs, ...).
I think the difference is that there's now active sabotage of young boys & men. As soon as someone doesn't follow the party line they get ostracized.