The “male loneliness epidemic” conversation keeps getting reduced to sex, and while that’s part of it, it’s not the whole problem.
A lot of men aren’t lonely because women won’t date them. They’re lonely because their lives have no real-life infrastructure. Fewer friends, fewer nights out, fewer groups, fewer hobbies that put them around people. Just screens, anonymous “friends,” and a whole second personality built for the internet.
And it’s not even male-only. Everyone is more isolated than they used to be. The crisis is less “no one loves me” and more “I don’t have a life that makes me feel needed, known, or useful.”
@average_mostly@Evertxn Is it? The "do not implement digital ID" petition got nearly 3 million signatures, one of the highest on record. They've already pushed it back multiple times as is.
I think parents want the u16 social media restriction but the way that is implemented will effectively need ID
>do nothing materially to stem the tide of right-wing populism
>associate left-wing government with a censorious nanny state that will bind but will not provide
>leave
@ChrisTDickson Yeah that's fair. I think in Hirez's case specifically, where we know for a fact they downsized quite heavily as a company not too long ago, that it shouldn't be a surprise if they're using AI to facilitate their product quota. It's quite understandable imo
One of the craziest things about the UK rape gang scandal is that it's largely considered a 'right wing' concern.
In a sane, serious country, it would be completely bipartisan. In fact, it wouldn't even be seen as a political issue, but one of basic justice and morality.
Honestly if this nation is held up by this gross neglect, infrastructure complicit in systemic rape and abuse and pussyfooting around legitimate concerns, it deserves to fall
You ppl will never forgive Gilroy for giving u a serious well made show that shows the political and societal decline and the brutality of the empire and the overall background of the rebellion instead of glup shitto rebel pilot fights the evil empire with his frens
Heads should roll for this. Both the perpetrators and anyone complicit in covering this shit up
Monumental failure in safeguarding the welfare of vulnerable people
The victim testimony of Chloe from the rape gang inquiry is horrific
- Abducted by a Muslim abuser
- Raped her at 12 years old in a graveyard
- Raped her with a whiskey bottle which broke off in her vagina
- NHS removed the pieces but asked NO questions
- Plied with drugs and drink
- Told police she was having sex with adults but was dismissed as a child prostitute
- Passed between men daily for years
- Police found her with abusers but released men after no investigation
- Chlamydia in throat/vagina, gonorrhea, warts, PID at age 13, clinic said NOTHING
- A social worker suggested she audition for a TV role as a grooming victim instead of helping.
As she got older:
- Gang invaded her home, orally raped her on her sofa in front of others.
- Raped with objects (cans, keys, baseball bat)
- Forced to house and witness abuse of other children.
- Spiked with heroin, leading to addiction and anorexia (weighed 5 stone/~70 lbs at 18).
- Coerced into Islamic conversion and "marriage" to an illegal migrant abuser who beat her daily
- gave birth to a child with health issues from her damaged body.
This all happened in Britain
In our country
To our girls
@NoMoneProd@PalmyrPar I don't think you understood the image if you're taking it as anything other than a commentary on how pretentious Andor fans are. As you have displayed
Read this open statement by Signal and your jaw will hit the floor.
Govts always use “protecting children” as their guise for more control and censorship.
I interviewed a prev Govt minister, who wrote the Online Safety Bill, and asked if they could tell me how a VPN worked. They couldn’t. These are the people writing these laws.
This new tool is another dangerous form of silent oppression that once again uses children’s safety as a guise to control the masses.
We can protect children online, but that starts at home, with parents, not in the Home Office, GCHQ, Apple, Google, Microsoft or Samsung.