the pair were not exclusive

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MJ would learn on this trip that her partner was seeing other women

…isn’t that was “not exclusive” means?

How much do we want to bet that the law wouldn’t apply if the shooter was black?

Oh surely not. It would literally be illegal to teach a name like that. I’m sure they wouldn’t…

I’ve seen political pundits saying how bad the feeling in the Labour Party is and how no prime minister has ever managed to survive anything even remotely similar

But it hasn’t happened yet, Starmer has historically low polling numbers anyway, and i don’t think that many political wonks believed he would still be leader come the next election anyway

Why does something need to be done with Mexico?i thought there was a big beautiful wall keeping all the drugs and crime out?

it’s pretty much because of that. Mostly through happenstance we had the most advanced navy when there was the cutting edge of warfare and therefore we managed to have one of the largest empires ever. So there’s a deeply ingrained myth of exceptionalism in the British psyche, where a lot of people still believe that we’ve got our position in the world because we deserve it as birthright

See also: Brexit

I think most EU members have looked at the UK over the last few years and gone “know what? i think we’ll stay”

Yeah, that’s the significant thing for me here. Not what’s being said, but which paper is saying it.

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Tall people were born tall.

The tallest baby ever born was 28 inches tall. That’s 2’4”.

I’m not tall, but I’m taller than that.

I put it to you that babies are born short and grow over time.

At Labour conference in September, Mahmood promised to “do whatever it takes” to regain control of Britain’s borders

…except creating safe legal routes for asylum seekers, investing in processing claims to clear the backlog and speed up the process again, or keeping a record of who leaves the country so we can actually know how many people are here. Because for some reason this nominally left-wing government seems to think that their best approach to policy is to try to court Reform voters.

They should also ban tall people from playing basketball. They have a potential physical advantage over short people.

A lot hinges on the exact definition of “limited“. I could launch a limited attack on NATO today.

Yes, I’m sure giving him a gift of money for behaving how he currently is behaving will make him re-think his current behaviour and start behaving differently.

A journalist who is often a regular on a podcast I listen to has a theory on why Musk is seemingly obsessed with the UK - he’s up late (due to ketamine, although she doesn’t go as far as to say that explicitly), and people in the US are asleep so he’s got no tweets to react to. We’re awake here in the UK, though.

I don’t disagree that it’s troubling how mainstream choking is in modern porn. It’s definitely been a huge shift. There’s nothing against it as a fetish, but it being a fetish with potential harmful consequences suggests that it should be in the same category as BDSM - something which can be problematic unless it’s done as an exercise in trust between partners with full informed consent.

And there have been plenty of seemingly not agenda-led studies which suggest that teen boys and girls are both picking up a lot of what they consider to be “normal” about sex from porn.

And not even talking to each other about it. IIRC, there was one such study which had both boys and girls engaging in a particular behaviour (I forget exactly which, maybe even choking), and neither party actively enjoyed the behaviour, they were just doing it because they thought that’s what you do and therefore what their partner wanted.

But is the solution to ban porn which features choking? Firstly, I don’t see how this could in any way be effective. How would you possibly enforce it? Are police really going to raid people’s homes based on suspicion that they’ve got a nowadays-vanilla porn video on their harddrive? The police literally don’t have enough resources to investigate and prosecute everybody creating and sharing child porn. And now they’re supposed to go after everybody who visits PornHub?

Secondly, we’re basically talking about a de-facto porn ban because, as the consultation itself noted, that describes pretty much all porn made in the last 10-15 years.

I’m not sure what the solution is. I mean, talking about the difference bewteen porn and sex is something that should be part of sex education at school. But I kind of assume it already is? It would be weird if it weren’t in 2025.

Perhaps it would be worthwhile to engage with creators themselves? I know that several porn companies used to put disclaimers before their videos saying that there’s a difference between porn sex and real sex and talking about consent. Several BDSM porn producers also have pre and post-shoot interviews with the performers and make sure they talk on camera about safe words & gestures and consent.

But then that’s something that’s probably not going to be terribly effective in any case and which would require absolutely everybody to get on board, which would have been basically impossible back when it was only really studios producing content, and 100% impossible now that OnlyFans etc are the way that most performers make and distribute porn.

I don’t think it’s an easy question to answer, TBH, but I’m pretty sure that “ban all the porn” isn’t the correct solution.

There’s a former nurse here in the UK called Lucy Letby who’s currently in prison for murdering several babies and attempting to kill more. There’s a campaign to get her released based on basically 3 strands.

The first is the fact that there’s no actual evidence that any of the deaths were not of natural causes. The second is the statistical argument. The third is that the police enlisted the help of people who worked with Letby to assess the evidence. As one person put it “how can any fair investigation be even partially carried out by people who the police should actually be treating as potential suspects?”

I have no ideas whether or not she’s guilty, but since i had previously heard of cases like the one you describe I’m definitely of the opinion that there should be a retrial.

I once read an interview with a white hat hacker. He said that people expect him to try to remotely connect to their network and try to brute force his way in. The first thing he actually does is put on a suit, visit the company’s headquarters, walk in the front door, start a conversation with the receptionist, and see how far he can get.

Okay. Commentators have been saying for a while that a victory for him could be a signal of the American left learning that actually progressive policies and candidates can be successful and on the Democrats as a whole actually moving to the left. Let’s hope that that’s actually true, rather than it being dismissed as “New York’s different”.

Hopefully, the recent buzz around AOC will help, too. I’ve been seeing more of Crockett in the news, as well.

We’ll see. This is definitely a very positive move, though.

Maybe Musk should ask them for some tips on how to do this effectively?