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volvoxvsmarla

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  • Maybe somewhat like a mandatory exam that you have to take at 18 (+/-) would help. It would, however, exclude a chunk of disabled people.

    As a side note, I'd argue if you have lived in a country for 5 years and have no intentions of leaving (i.e. you have a job, your kids are in school) you should be able to vote for the country you are residing in.

    And vice versa, if you move away, you keep your voting privileges for 5 years, no more. I still cannot believe that voting based on citizenship is a thing in the 21st century tbh.

  • Slingshot is a nice detail 😁

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  • Yay, now I can open the first image and zoom in! The lil' heart on Pluto 💜 thank you!

    I was using standard firefox btw. The two other pictures that are cut outs can't be zoomed or opened, in case you want to know!

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  • If it's of any use to you, I cannot zoom in on the website (in mobile mode), neither on the pictures, nor on the text. My guess was that this was a feature to not copy your work? On my phone, this ends up being too small to be readable. But I'll assume you did my boy Pluto justice.

  • Greece's ex-finance minister Yanis Varoufakis charged over use of MDMA decades ago

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  • The only acceptable finance bro

  • Slingshot is a nice detail 😁

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  • This is so lovely! I can't read everything the dwarf planets say unfortunately but it is cute nevertheless.

    I laughed at Neptune being so happy about having the strongest winds. Truly a gassy planet.

  • GOP Sen. Ted Cruz says, "Let's stop attacking pedophiles" during Congress speech

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  • I'm so glad documentaries like that exist. It was documentaries like the one you mentioned that I stumbled across and that made me realize that "locking up all the pedophile monsters" was a narrative that would harm my children, not protect them. I can barely imagine how lonely and cruel such a fate must be and the bare minimum we can do as a society is to offer the help, support, and compassion to these people.

  • GOP Sen. Ted Cruz says, "Let's stop attacking pedophiles" during Congress speech

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  • It's not, which is why OP put "technically" in the first sentence. And I think they did a great job differentiating the matter. It's clearly not what Ted Cruz meant, yet his sentence in itself - taken out of his context - is correct. Pedophiles, as in people who have this attraction, are human beings. They deserve proactive help and support. People who abuse children are criminal( human being)s. They deserve to be treated as the human garbage that they are and be prosecuted. There is a venn diagram style overlap between child rapists and pedophiles. But it is not a necessity to have pedophilia in order to molest children (a lot of criminals assault children not out of sexual attraction but because of power dynamics), nor is every pedophile a molester or plans to eventually assault children. We need to focus on prosecuting child abusers no matter their sexual orientation, while helping people with pedophilic attractions without stigmatizing them in the meantime. Their lives suck as it is already.

    The Epstein case has drawn a lot of attention to pedophilia but we need to be really careful to not get lost here.

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  • Sure, somewhen like 7000bc at least

    Jokes aside, I do believe in a better future. As bleak as everything looks, I strongly want to believe that all the amazing people I've met who want change can achieve it. Even if chances aren't great, I do believe it is possible. After all, what life is left inside you if you decide to not have hope?

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  • I assume you didn't get new ones because there is no replacement for the band of 7 that you initially had?

    I had that with my cat. He lived for 21 years, we got him when I was in kindergarten. I could not imagine getting a new cat. I miss him, but I don't miss having a cat, I miss this cat. I'm not sure if it is better or worse the longer the lifespan is, I imagine losing a beloved pet after 3 years is brutal.

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  • I love this statue! It's in Novosibirsk. I've always wanted to go there and see it in real life. Once the war is finally over and Russia is free again I'll pay a visit to that little rodent.

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  • I absolutely envy every family that has you in their lives. Please never stop thinking that way because we desperately need people like you. Not as a free baby sitter or lunch provider, but as a role model and influence. We really cannot do it all by ourselves.

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  • And may I add, you probably had more patience and more energy having had kids young.

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  • I second that. The time when their interests bore you to death is so damn small. The time they need a diaper or breastfeed is so damn small. It is intense and hard, but then, just some steps down the road, you just sit there rewatching Sailor Moon instead of Peppa Pig and spending time together becomes actually cool and interesting and it feels like you have a great person around. You read great books together instead of looking at books that go like "this is a caterpillar. It likes apples. The caterpillar bites into an apple." You make up stories. You draw together. You roughhouse. You just... hang out.

  • What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?

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  • So if you ever get a random headache that is just a pinching pain in a random spot then try breathing there. I don't mean breathe deep or breathe into that spot but actually concentrate super hard into that spot and imagine this is where your lungs are. Concentrate when you breathe and think about how the air goes exactly into that spot directly from your mouth cause this is where your lungs are now, and how you breathe out from there. Keep concentrating and breathing there.

    I don't know why it doesn't work if I just take deep breaths but this is legit the only way I can stop the pulsating stabs until they are gone. Concentrate hard tho because once you stop the pain returns unless the attack is over.

  • What's the stupidest thing someone has ever done in front of you?

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  • I had a fight with a dude who stood next to his car and threw an empty vodka bottle in the bushes, across the street of a kindergarten and with the bushes being in a private house area. It was morning. I am still baffled that he somehow assumed he is in the right because he forgot his keys. Eventually his girlfriend came, equally aggressive towards me, and picked it up. I am to this day scared of running into them at night but man, wtf what excuse to litter in your own hood is this. Forgot your keys my ass.

  • Whats a good hobby to get into, as someones whos home alot with a laptop?

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  • It's unclear if you want to have a hobby on a laptop or whether that doesn't matter.

    If it doesn't - mending is great. Some people have already recommended knitting and crotcheting, and while mending clothes is usually a mix of these two and sewing, I find it easier and faster paced than making something anew. Also regarding the sustainability aspect - buying new yarn and making something that you possibly might not need or enjoy vs repairing something you own and might otherwise throw out (and if you end up messing up you have hardly any losses. It was a try to save something from the landfill). It's in a way a gateway to knitting, sewing, crotcheting, embroidery, but it is great on its own.

    But it doesn't have to be just clothes. Trying to figure out how you can make broken stuff last longer or adapt it as necessary is also great.

    The only downside is that if you work a lot on your computer or something desktop-ish, then you might want to choose something outside to give your eyes a rest from focussing on something that is rather close.

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  • What happened in your life that this has become your lucky number? (Genuine question)

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  • Thank you for taking the time to write this

  • What improved your quality of life so much, you wish you did it sooner?

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  • I was never obese, but damn did I lose weight when I stopped smoking, drinking, and reduced my meat intake to about once a month. I even started drinking sodas and eating much fattier stuff, candy, carbs, but for my body it was the alcohol, meat and smoking that kept me fat.

    I also wish I stopped drinking much sooner.