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[abbey1227]

May 30, 2022 14:49:42 GMT merh said:

May 30, 2022 14:13:05 GMT abbey1227 said:

Because you are cautious and careful..........does not mean that others won't be stepping out into traffic without looking expecting others to keep them safe at all times.

Drivers are always supposed to be aware of traffic & stuff popping up. 

Or is rear ending the car ahead ok in Wisconsin?

There's the Rule/Expectation of what's supposed to happen........and then there's the REALITY of what happens when some moron just steps out in front of a car expecting it to stop without making sure it was safe in the first place. You feeling me?

It's OK with the sheer amount of Illegals we now have. 

[abbey1227]

May 30, 2022 14:51:40 GMT merh said:

May 30, 2022 14:13:41 GMT abbey1227 said:

Business Insider
A researcher's avatar was sexually assaulted on a metaverse platform owned by Meta, making her the latest victim of sexual abuse on Meta's platforms, watchdog says
Weilun Soon Mon, May 30, 2022



Imaginary crimes

You are using the avatar so you are attached to it. 
Its like saying it's not wring for a guy to masturbate during a zoom meeting because the women could just not look & they aren't actually there.

Which one took place in REALITY, though?

I will admit it musta taken some effort on the part of the virtual rapist, though. I'm reminded of all of the funny and inventive memes Dracula seems to think up

[merh]

May 30, 2022 15:21:00 GMT abbey1227 said:

May 30, 2022 14:51:40 GMT merh said:

You are using the avatar so you are attached to it. 
Its like saying it's not wring for a guy to masturbate during a zoom meeting because the women could just not look & they aren't actually there.

Which one took place in REALITY, though?

I will admit it musta taken some effort on the part of the virtual rapist, though. I'm reminded of all of the funny and inventive memes Dracula seems to think up

A zoom meeting is more real than playing a video game with a group?

The whole Meta this is supposed to be reality. 
You've seen the ads.
You meet up with friends, only its online so maybe your friend is a giraffe avatar.

So this gal entered that "reality" where guys & gals are supposed to mingle & her avatar is sexually harassed.

It's like that article I posted about the shooter where he behaved like that but a lot of gals didn't report him because that's what it's like with guys online. Threats to rape, etc. 

Because it's "not real" so they can "joke" they want to blow a girl's brains out which is just how people are online.

Only he did it in the real world, didn't he?

Parents let their kids online for hours. 
Unsupervised.
Did you see the one girl's phone went off & she tried to stop it so the shooter came back & killed her?
4th graders have phones.

Damn.

My kid got a job & got a phone at 16

[abbey1227]

May 30, 2022 17:02:12 GMT merh said:

A zoom meeting is more real than playing a video game with a group?

The whole Meta this is supposed to be reality. 
You've seen the ads.
You meet up with friends, only its online so maybe your friend is a giraffe avatar.

So this gal entered that "reality" where guys & gals are supposed to mingle & her avatar is sexually harassed.

It's like that article I posted about the shooter where he behaved like that but a lot of gals didn't report him because that's what it's like with guys online. Threats to rape, etc. 

Because it's "not real" so they can "joke" they want to blow a girl's brains out which is just how people are online.

Only he did it in the real world, didn't he?

Parents let their kids online for hours. 
Unsupervised.
Did you see the one girl's phone went off & she tried to stop it so the shooter came back & killed her?
4th graders have phones.
Damn.
My kid got a job & got a phone at 16

A business meeting is certainly a more serious collection of adults, imo........whereas even adults playing video games, I'd suspect they'd behave more childishly overall while interacting. Not like it's work related.

Oh, those furry giraffes. 

But again, my point is simply IF you're so damaged by harassment online.......then you're likely nowhere near prepared for the REAL world. Online you just close the window, go someplace else at the click of a button.

I know........but it's just another example of how all this talk of monitoring, reporting, networking, etc etc is really gonna solve anything? Clearly not.

Yes, he did. And the more we learn, there were PLENTY of actual red flags that all involved just plain ignored. In a school setting......can you believe it? I can. Clearly even the relatives were barely cognizant of their own flesh and blood. Cuz people care soooooooooooo much about the babies they wanted to have, right?

I did not see that detail. She wasn't playing it nearly as smart as others, huh? Patiently waiting for help to arrive?

THAT's the trend......as young as 6.........cuz the parents just gotta be able to get in touch at all time? What a weird culture we've turned into. George Carlin mentioned that with this whole bizarre child worshiping.

[abbey1227]

U.S.
Asheville Citizen-Times
Opinion: Madison Cawthorn’s bittersweet defeat: Homophobia might have been the culprit

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I love, love, LOVE the spin on this one.

www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-madison-cawthorn-bittersweet-defeat-090043715.html

I wanted to be elated at Madison Cawthorn’s primary defeat, but as a gay man, there’s a bittersweet element. It feels like the trio of homoerotic leaks that seem to have been his final death knell. A photo of Cawthorn wearing women’s lingerie and two videos of him suggestively interacting with a male cousin were picked to intentionally court the homophobia I can occasionally fool myself into thinking we’ve moved past.

It’s weird because I don’t even blame those who spread the content. I believe Cawthorn is a specific danger, and it’s time the left played as dirty as the right. Still, for me, it dampens this victory.

I’ve diligently followed (some might say stalked) Cawthorn’s social media since his tenure and noticed a marked shift in the interactions after the lingerie photos surfaced. Prior, the comments were mostly sycophantic, mostly fellow right-wing, radicalized Americans telling him how great he is.

Now? Your occasionally sanctimonious commenter says how disappointed they are. They thought they’d elected a Christian — but the comment section at large feels like a roast, with people from both sides of the aisle gleefully taunting Cawthorn for wearing women’s clothing and humping men. No other controversy energized commenters this much, not his pathological lying nor helping cite an insurrection that killed five Americans.

Now, I was initially delighted by Cawthorn’s “gay phase” — texting friends and tweeting nonsense myself — but I fear most of the other commenters weren’t mocking the Republican ethos of “do as I say, not as I do” as much as they were making light of being gay. It pains me how long I convinced myself this kind of homophobia-lite was something to accept because of its prevalence.

[abbey1227]

U.S.
HuffPost
One Of My Students Asked If I’d Stand Between Them And A Gunman. Here’s What I Said.

"That day, I was running my first active shooter drill."

[abbey1227]

Agatha could morph into Alex and threaten Florida

The National Hurricane Center said there is a 70% chance that the remnants of Agatha would re-form and possibly take aim at Florida as the first named storm of the Atlantic season.

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wow..........even the storms are now reassigning their genders

[merh]

Pro-Trump Lawyer Lin Wood Loses Appeal Seeking to Block Georgia Bar’s Mental Health Probe
ADAM KLASFELDJun 1st, 2022,

[merh]

Marjorie Taylor Greene Proposes Trading Democrats for Canadian Guns
BY AILA SLISCO ON 5/31/22

[merh]

TIL that one of the most elite army units in ancient Greece consisted exclusively of gay male couples, making them fight harder because they knew that their partner would likely die as well if they lost the battle

[abbey1227]

Jun 3, 2022 20:49:19 GMT merh said:

TIL that one of the most elite army units in ancient Greece consisted exclusively of gay male couples, making them fight harder because they knew that their partner would likely die as well if they lost the battle

There's a Menstrual Brigade joke in here somewhere

[merh]

Jun 4, 2022 0:23:28 GMT abbey1227 said:

Jun 3, 2022 20:49:19 GMT merh said:

There's a Menstrual Brigade joke in here somewhere

How often have we heard gays in the military would destroy our military?

[abbey1227]

Jun 4, 2022 0:26:02 GMT merh said:

Jun 4, 2022 0:23:28 GMT abbey1227 said:

There's a Menstrual Brigade joke in here somewhere

How often have we heard gays in the military would destroy our military?

Separate would be fine........ just like the females.

It's the mixing that creates avoidable problems, imo

[merh]

Jun 4, 2022 0:32:32 GMT abbey1227 said:

Jun 4, 2022 0:26:02 GMT merh said:

How often have we heard gays in the military would destroy our military?

Separate would be fine........ just like the females.

It's the mixing that creates avoidable problems, imo

National military service is mandatory for all Israeli citizens over the age of 18, although Arab (but not Druze) citizens are exempted if they so please, and other exceptions may be made on religious, physical or psychological grounds (see Profile 21). The Tal law, which exempts ultra-Orthodox Jews from service, has been the subject of several court cases as well as considerable legislative controversy.

Until the draft of July 2015, men served three years in the IDF. Men drafted as of July 2015 and later will serve two years and eight months (32 months), with some roles requiring an additional four months of Permanent service. Women serve two years. The IDF women who volunteer for several combat positions often serve for three years, due to the longer period of training. Women in other positions, such as programmers, who also require lengthy training time, may also serve three years.

Women serve in Israel

[abbey1227]

Jun 4, 2022 1:42:07 GMT merh said:

Jun 4, 2022 0:32:32 GMT abbey1227 said:

Separate would be fine........ just like the females.

It's the mixing that creates avoidable problems, imo

National military service is mandatory for all Israeli citizens over the age of 18, although Arab (but not Druze) citizens are exempted if they so please, and other exceptions may be made on religious, physical or psychological grounds (see Profile 21). The Tal law, which exempts ultra-Orthodox Jews from service, has been the subject of several court cases as well as considerable legislative controversy.

Until the draft of July 2015, men served three years in the IDF. Men drafted as of July 2015 and later will serve two years and eight months (32 months), with some roles requiring an additional four months of Permanent service. Women serve two years. The IDF women who volunteer for several combat positions often serve for three years, due to the longer period of training. Women in other positions, such as programmers, who also require lengthy training time, may also serve three years.

Women serve in Israel

As a culture they seem a bit more mature than US people these days. Maybe it's been that non-stop threat of annihilation that makes it so?

Meanwhile, as soon as actual battle breaks out for US troops? the pregnancy rates among the enlisted soars. 

[merh]

Jun 4, 2022 1:54:19 GMT abbey1227 said:

Jun 4, 2022 1:42:07 GMT merh said:

Women serve in Israel

As a culture they seem a bit more mature than US people these days. Maybe it's been that non-stop threat of annihilation that makes it so?

Meanwhile, as soon as actual battle breaks out for US troops? the pregnancy rates among the enlisted soars. 

Because passion?
Or rapes?

[abbey1227]

Jun 4, 2022 2:25:23 GMT merh said:

Jun 4, 2022 1:54:19 GMT abbey1227 said:

As a culture they seem a bit more mature than US people these days. Maybe it's been that non-stop threat of annihilation that makes it so?

Meanwhile, as soon as actual battle breaks out for US troops? the pregnancy rates among the enlisted soars. 

Because passion?
Or rapes?

Odd how you went there.

Why not simply an aversion to actual combat?

[merh]

Jun 4, 2022 12:07:29 GMT abbey1227 said:

Jun 4, 2022 2:25:23 GMT merh said:

Because passion?
Or rapes?

Odd how you went there.

Why not simply an aversion to actual combat?

Military rape law did not begin until the late 1980s. Publicized sexual assault scandals brought the topic of military sexual assault to the forefront and forced legislation, task forces, and commissions to change the military justice system. The DoD issued the Department of Defense Sexual Assault Response policy, now Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO). However, the most dramatic changes in military justice has occurred in the past ten years.

Within the DoD, official epidemiological surveillance of sexual harassment and assault historically has been conducted via periodic administrations of the Workplace and Gender Relations Survey (WGRS). This survey was first fielded in 1988 and has undergone several revisions but has always included measures of sexual harassment and assault. Data from the WGRS over the approximate period of the War on Terror (2002–2012), about 8% to 9% of women and 1% to 3% of men reported coercive sexual harassment (e.g., quid pro quo promises of job benefits or threats of negative consequences). In February of 2004, the former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld directed Dr. David S. C. Chu, the former Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, to review the DoD process for treatment and care of victims of sexual assault in the Military Services

Maybe it's more of a topic of discussion in San Diego with all our military bases.

We moved to Mira Mesa in 1990

This was soon all over the news

The Tailhook scandal was a military scandal and controversy in which United States Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aviation officers were alleged to have sexually assaulted up to 83 women and seven men, or otherwise engaged in "improper and indecent" conduct at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada. The events took place at the 35th Annual Tailhook Association Symposium from September 5 to 8, 1991. The event was subsequently abbreviated as "Tailhook '91" in media accounts.

Probably because then it was Naval Air Station Miramar. It was transferred to the Marines in 1993 during that realignment thing Clinton did.

[merh]

TIL parasitoid wasps, which inject their eggs into caterpillars and eat their still-alive hosts from within when they hatch, so disturbed Charles Darwin that it shook his belief in a benevolent and loving God.

[abbey1227]

Jun 5, 2022 2:57:59 GMT merh said:

TIL parasitoid wasps, which inject their eggs into caterpillars and eat their still-alive hosts from within when they hatch, so disturbed Charles Darwin that it shook his belief in a benevolent and loving God.

imagine what he'd think of many of the people roaming around these days