Widespread contraception (the pill) turned procreative sex into recreational sex that fractured the relationship between men and women that led to promiscuity that led to no fault divorce that led to abortion that led to the destruction of the family that led to societal chaos and our current moment.
@baroncoleman I was struggling to get a good look at the picture (an eye test is long overdue) so I brightened it a bit. Did he have something strapped to his rib cage, like a body pack transmitter or something? It looks like there’s a rectangular outline with swelling right in the centre
@LeilaniDowding Didn’t a whole load of accounts get deleted in the last year because they were created when the person was underage? How does the saying go? One rule for me and another for thee or something like that
I wasn’t sure whether I’d be able to breastfeed because I have a liver condition and need daily steroid medication.
After discussions with my midwife and obstetrician, it was agreed that I could.
But when my daughter was born 11 weeks early and admitted to neonatal intensive care, I couldn’t breastfeed her directly. I expressed milk instead.
There were careful discussions about whether my milk was suitable for her and whether any surplus could safely be donated to other premature babies.
That’s how seriously infant feeding is normally treated: careful assessment, evidence and the baby’s welfare coming first.
Yet we’re now expected to applaud giving healthy men drugs to produce a few drops of milk-like secretion and treat it as equivalent to breastfeeding.
And this is before we even address the fact that many people would find the idea of a man wanting to breastfeed a baby deeply unsettling - and believe it raises legitimate safeguarding questions.
When did protecting adult feelings become more important than asking sensible questions about what’s in a baby’s best interests?
While Baron is technically correct here, the flight records for this specific plane were previously available on the FlightRadar24 app. They were no longer there around the time of the University of Georgia event (the one EK ‘skipped’, AK looked homeless & VP attended) someone made the active decision to remove them I’d assume
The elevation of Burnham is probably the most obvious spook coordinated game-plays I have ever seen in British politics (possibly more obvious, even, than the suiciding of David Kelly). There is not a scintilla of credibility left in British democracy. If anyone even suggests that this choreographed bullshit bears any relationship to 'truth', call them out. Because they're part of the problem.
“We have taken the steps to ban your children from watching YouTube but if you would like to sign up for them to be chemically castrated, go right ahead.”
Being governed by Starmer's Labour is like being trapped in a taxi with a man driving you full speed in the wrong direction, and pretending not to understand when you protest
Digital ID; abortion to term; mass digital censorship; euthanasia. Who asked for any of this?
@writtenoff_mufc Two reasons:
1/I use parental controls on my kids phones, and a VPN at home which blocks malware, viruses, and inappropriate websites. I consider this a decision for parents, not the government.
I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.
The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.
There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.
What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.
Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.
This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.
That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.
What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.
Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?
No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.
I have put restrictions on my kids phones so they can’t use them before 7am or after 8pm except to make calls/send texts.
They can’t download apps without me approving and they’re not allowed:
WhatsApp
Instagram
TikTok
Snapchat
X
It’s called parenting, some should try it.
@AnaEscobarShow@RealCandaceO Has anyone found out why one of the FBI-linked jets visited Salt Lake City on Sep 8th? It landed here roughly half an hour before SAM702 landed in Davis-Monthan AFB (Tuscon)
@Sargon_of_Akkad: “The moral inheritance of liberalism is purely Christian without the actual metaphysical structure that makes it work.”
@firasmodad: “Exactly. Without the scaffolding of natural law that allows you to actually operate it.”
It's just a cult isn't it. Western Europe is in the grip of a full on ideological cult that is completely immune to reason and lashes out at anyone who disrupts it.
The religiosity of it is spot on, it completely explains the denialism. This is a cult.