The point about puberty meaning a girl is “mature enough for sex”.

Menstruation isn’t a sign of sexual maturity.

Being pregnant as a teen is a serious health complication.

I feel like the argument they were making was that if the girl has went through puberty (started menstration) she’s old enough and it doesn’t count as a child anymore.

I was pointing out that this process occurs at age 11-12 for most girls.

Girls.

Menstruation or puberty is an irrelevant factor.

Honestly I think age of consent should be set to 20. With exceptions made for a 2 year age difference.

We don’t let people buy alcohol until 21. Don’t you think making a baby is a bigger responsibility than having a drink ?

They said that about a black president. So. No. I don’t agree. AOC is very popular.

The average girls in the US get their period around 11-12 years old.

Yes. But we have to just keep this information too And not forget it.

No. I’m not a eugenist.

You are seeing things in black and white. That’s not how reality works.

I do not support endeavours like creating someone like khan.

I do however support endeavours to remove genetic diseases.

Not the same things.

Also. Lots of people are genetically superior to me in various ways. Healthier. Better brains. More athletic.

Humans are not equal. Genetically.

That’s just objectively a fact. .

However, we have to clarify that specific races are not genetically better.

Mostly because race is a social construct. But even biologically, specific ethnic groups are not superior to others.

Though some may be more predisposed towards specific diseases.

That’s a complicated area of research tho because diet and environment are bigger factors for many diseases.

My point is. Yes. Individual humans are different in traits. Both behaviorally and biologically. And some are better than other humans at those things. Making them superior. Like how an NBA player is superior to me in basketball.

It’s not eugenics to acknowledge that.

I think you need to read up about what eugenics is.

Understanding biology is not being pro eugenics.

"Eugenics is a discredited, immoral pseudoscience based on the belief that the human population’s “genetic quality” can be improved by selective breeding and the elimination of individuals or groups deemed “unfit” or “inferior”. It is strongly associated with scientific racism, ableism, and human rights abuses, culminating in the atrocities of the Holocaust. "

It’s still relevant.

They won’t swear in the gal from Arizona. Until TN elects a red seat.

Everyone in Illinois is just waiting to get rid of durbin. Pos. He voted for the BBB too.

I kept dying. And I couldn’t figure out how anyone dies in a narrative game. I couldn’t really figure out how to play the game and gave up after dying 2x in the same conversation.

I’m still so confused how one dies from conversation.

Instead I watched a video about the game.

I play a lot of games but nothing like this one. I wanted to like it but I’m too dumb to figure out the mechanics. And I even tried watching videos and found them convoluted and confusing.

Meh.

Loved the art style tho.

I really liked and the story. But after taking a year break and then playing the dlc phantom liberty. I kinda was over it. Just felt like work. Not really fun.

So idk. Maybe you just have to be in the right mood for it.

Well just fyi. The end missions are currently, still today, broke. So only one ending available that is regardless of whatever choices you made.

I loved the first one. I like this one but they made some bad changes.

But mostly they need to fix the mission bugs.

First one you could change the armor and weapons on the companions.

Also I really liked the vicar and Parvati. Vicar was like a snarky gay guy and I loved it. I will admit the other 3 were blah. But the new companions on OW2 are kinda bland.

I don’t really like any of them. Niles and inza had potential but wasn’t developed.

And I straight up dislike Tristan’s personality. He’s just awful.

Aza can be entertaining. If they made her more impulsive I think that could have been fun.
For instance if you take too long in negotiations and shes present. She just starts attacking people after some time limit.

Or randomly attacks strangers she doesn’t like the look of.

They could have done something interesting with her.

But mostly they need to fix the damn quest bugs so I can finish the game.

Also there was a quest in ow1 where some sketchy dude asks you to do some sketchy thing. And you realize this during the quest. You can go back to him and get the reward. Or sucker punch him.

I wanted more of that in ow2. Didn’t get it.

Where’s the doge checks ? From like February. ?

I think that’s kind of a stretch. I mean. I acknowledge khan was genetically superior. He literally was designed to be smarter, stronger, and healthier.

I think there are other traits that are more valuable in humans.

But those are pretty big ones. Especially the health one.

I’m not for eugenics. But I admit khan is superior to humans on those traits. Kinda seems like an objectively true statement.

I also do acknowledge your point about the culture at the time the episode was made. But I still don’t think that one line from Kirk supports he thought eugenics was a good thing. I think he was pondering it’s usefulness and ethics.

Eugenics today is used for people with generic diseases to not have offspring with those diseases. Is that not a good thing?

It has a place. It just shouldn’t be applied broadly. We need diversity in humans.

Fyi, death by guillotine is actually incredibly ethical and humane.

Infact, in modern research, rats that are used in research and then killed are done so via a guillotine.

A friend was a pharmacologist researcher and told me that they gave them a little ketamine so they were out of it then cut their heads off. It’s quick. They die within a few seconds.

Contrary to popular belief. Breaking the neck or even cutting it through does not result in instant death. Only paralysis. Though severed head is faster death. (Fastest death is obliteration of brain stem).

Many of the nerves that control the face actually run down into the neck and enter the spine there. So cutting off the head, at the base of the skull, also paralyzes the face.

It’s sort of how people think that since fish can’t scream they don’t feel pain. That’s stupid.

Just cause the head can’t scream, Don’t mean it’s dead. I suspect that’s why so many think breaking someone’s neck or cutting off their head is “instant”. It’s definitely “certain death” but it’s not instant.

It takes a little bit of time for oxygen to be deprived from the brain enough to cause unconscious and then death.

Breaking the neck or severing the head isn’t immediate death. Someone with a broken neck (even if it causes face nerves to be severed) may stay alive/conscience up to a minute or two. Just paralyzed. Knowing they can’t breathe. Knowing death is coming.

Terrifying.

So the gallows it is for the traitors.

I think we can agree only some of them deserve the guillotine.

Emergency fund account empty. It’s all been spent. Maybe ice. Maybe Elon. Who knows. It’s gone.

Ended up working at Pizza Hut for 2 years. Impacted molars motivated me to go to a job fair to try to find work with insurance. And I did eventually get a better job. Paid $10 starting out. Data entry.

3 months, in, as soon as my insurance kicked in, I got those damn teeth removed. Even with insurance it was over a grand up front.

I tell any teen kid I know (nieces, nephews, neighbors kids, etc). “Get those wisdom teeth out before you lose your Medicaid or parents insurance. Seriously. Don’t fuck around”.

So that’s where the snap emergency funds went.

So a story. Loosely related to topic. And I’m feeling like giving it.

Firstly I don’t smoke and never have. And if you have ever had service jobs or any number of other jobs, you probably realize that a lot of the times, only smokers get actual breaks.

So I was working for this western shop. Small family owned.
Literal 3 generations of “men” worker there. The grandpa , who thought he was boss, the dad, who was probably actually the boss. Definitely thought he was. And the son. Who was like 30. He thought he was running everything. He wasn’t. The wife of the dad also was a frequent visitor. They went to some fancy church in st. Louis. (A 3 hr drive away) And constantly told everyone what great christians they were.

Anywho. That’s just flavor for the story. Not super relevant.

So when I worked my 8 hrs doing repair work (boots, bags , leather stuff) I was told I got 2x 15 min breaks (paid) and 1 half hour lunch. Unpaid.

Since I don’t smoke I would go to the break room and read. This was like 20 years ago. So I brought in a paperback.

Well one day the boss dad’s bitchy wife came in. She also thought she was the main boss.

She saw me in the break room reading and was like “what are you doing back here !?!”. I explained I was on my break, Reading. Not bothering no body.

She said “if you are just going to sit back here. You don’t deserve a break.”

She talked to dad-boss. Next day, boss dad says they aren’t required by law to give me those 2x paid 15 min breaks and that I wouldn’t be getting them anymore. And to suck it up.

But literally every other co worker smoked .

So they still got their breaks. Only I was no longer allowed my breaks.

I said this to boss man and told to get back to work. And said legally it was a privilege to have given me the breaks in the first place and I should be grateful I ever even had them.

Honestly dealing with the 3 men who all thought they were my boss. Telling me to do 3 different things. Then getting bitched out by each of them telling me not to listen to the other two and constantly threatening to fire me. … was not great but I needed the job.

But after the break b.s. I think I just had enough.

Plus one incident kinda tipped me to the breaking point. I was working at my station and concentrating and didn’t hear a customer come in to the store (the front of the store sold boots and Western crap). And the dad boss came up behind me. Leaned in and whispered in my ear that if I failed to notice a customer walking in , one more time, and didn’t go out and help them immediately,I was fired. Because the floor girl was on her smoke break. Of course. And I was supposed to do both jobs during her break.

I waited until Thursday, pay day, and then said , for all to hear. I wouldn’t be coming in tomorrow but I would be back in 2 weeks for my last check.

And the three boss guys had the audacity to ask me why. Had something happened? What was the problem?

It really put me in a bad place financially because I had no family or anything to lend me money but I did survive until I found a new job.

Also I made minimum wage. Was like $6.50 at the time I think.

No insurance. No dental. I did miss a few days of work due to my wisdom teeth being impacted. Which I could not afford to remove. And bosses gave me shit about that until I said if you paid me better I’d get them removed but it was $1400 upfront. (Took me 3 more years before I could afford to get them removed with regular abscesses and near constant discomfort).

The title of this post reminded me of how “no break” or “no prayer” is actually likely just a way to punish a specific person or group.

I doubt it applies to Christians.

Just like the smokers still got their break.

Also fuck the lack of labor laws in this country. And how dental care is considered a luxury. (20 years ago and I still remember how much my mouth hurt all the time and how fortunate I found a dentist that would keep writing me prescriptions for antibiotics for 3 years without going to his office cause he knew what situation I was in).

Oh and how reading a book makes people insecure about their intelligence so they punish you for their shortcomings.

One of the worse places ive ever worked. Not the worst. But up there.

Not going to name the company but it’s located in the small city of Quincy IL.

I don’t live there now so I’ll drop the city name. The dad boss had these goofy commercials that ran on TV all the time. People were surprised when I told them that the goofy guy in the video was a serious POS.

Also I wish I knew my skill value more when I was younger. Not too many people can sew or do leather repair work.

I should definitely have been paid more.

As someone from poor rural Midwest, I can tell you from first hand experience, that people have usually ran out of food stamps about 3 weeks into the month.
Meaning, most people on snap are waiting for the first to get groceries because they don’t have anything.

And now we are going on week 2 of the month.

So for many. It’s now getting close to 3 weeks without food money.

And with the rising food costs, I wouldn’t be surprised if people are running out of snap money closer to the midpoint of the month.

So for them. It’s been 4 weeks

Uh. Kirk was not.

Oh, or . Do you mean Charlie Kirk?
Yeah, he was.

KHAN!!!