While I agree, an outright ban on a specific category of porn, especially when there seems to be no evidence that it actually encourages problematic behaviour, seems rather silly. Seems more like a personal vendetta than well thought out policy.
I mean, those seem like pretty good laws. They have carve outs for consent, but still punish reckless behaviour, even in a consensual setting. I’m not sure how this is related.
Speaking in the House of Commons, Dame Diana Johnson told MPs: “We know that the increasing prevalence of this kind of content… is fuelling violent sexual encounters.”
I find this somewhat dubious. If you know this, why not show your work? Show us a study on the matter. Lots of people enjoy sex involving their own pain or humiliation in a healthy and consensual way. Banning a specific type of porn because it makes you feel uncomfortable is puritanism, and has a pretty poor track record of success on actually curving negative outcomes.
If you’re really concerned about people getting the wrong message from porn, then why not require porn to have pre/post checkins with the actors/actresses to affirm that it was made with enthusiastic consent. Seems to me this would do more to stop some of the real problems the porn industry has.
“They put a tax on companies that were American companies that they shouldn’t. A very, very severe tax,” Trump said. “And, yeah, I guess they could remove it. They will. But I mean, it doesn’t matter to me.”
“We have all the cards. We have all the cards,”
So, if I’m understanding this correctly, you hold all the cards, but it’s up to Canada to decide whether or not they remove the very, very severe tax, and you have no idea if they will or not? How is it that you hold all the cards? 🤔
Man, my life is kinda sad, but at least it’s not “join a community specifically to hate on stuff” sad. What hosers.
It doesn’t if you don’t connect it to the internet. Fortunately most smart TVs still have HDMI inputs so you can use them as dumb TVs with a PC.
After Trudeau self-sabotaged electoral reform, I decided to never vote for them again until they fulfill that promise. Lying is the norm for the Liberals, so fuck em.
Could we maybe focus on infrastructure that makes people’s lives better, like robust public transportation and cycling infrastructure? Is it crazy that maybe we could focus on reducing our oil dependency before building more pipelines?
“Look what you made me do!”
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Pretty sure they’d give them a standing ovation and a medal. The American right seems to loathe cyclists.
the bear was in much better condition than we expected it to be
Alternate title: Thieves Anaesthetise Bear to Steal Prized Fashion Accessory
(Good job, humans, though. ;)
The GHF was established amid Israeli accusations that Hamas is stealing aid in Gaza and profiting off its sale but the organization has been controversial from the get-go and criticized by multiple international aid agencies.
Multiple aid workers were killed after a bus was attacked in Gaza on Wednesday night, according to a US-backed humanitarian aid organization
Holy… Fucking scum.
The cop point blank shot her in the head, which is against policy, and probably gave her brain damage then the horse trampled her.
I hope she survives as she got some serious brain trauma there between the two assholes.
That’s fair. Nobody should be suggesting we do ignore those risks. Obviously wash all your veggies well. But its still important to inform people that intensified animal farming is the source of a myriad of wide scale human health risks.
You know you can get salmonella from plants too, right?
That’s a little disingenuous framing. The salmonella usually gets on the plants from contaminated water, and the water gets contaminated by waste runoff from sick animals.
No matter how you look at it, mass animal agriculture is the main culprit.
Yeah, so give Palestinians right of return. There’s plenty of land there to share. Make Israelis pay reparations.
Like how is the land I’m living on not functionally stolen? My entire country used to be Indigenous land, and it became as it is because it was “allowed” (forced).
The Jewish children who were born there aren’t colonists, and they shouldn’t have to suffer for their parents’ colonial acts.
The main imperative is to end the ongoing colonialism and genocide.
I’m firmly against the Palestinian genocide, but, isn’t this a little ridiculous? Shouldn’t we just focus on ending the killings and stopping further colonization?
Like, as a 4th generation Canadian, do I need to go back to Ireland to make up for my great great grandparent’s generation’s gross history of colonial genocide?
You don’t need to evict Jewish people to end Zionism.
Appreciate the correction. Happen to know of any whitepapers or articles I could read on it?
Here’s the thing, I went out of my way to say I don’t know shit from bananas in this context, and I could very well be wrong. But the article certainly doesn’t sufficiently demonstrate why it’s right.
Most technical articles I click on go through step by step processes to show how they gained understanding of the subject material, and it’s layed out in a manner that less technical people can still follow. And the payoff is you come out with a feeling that you understand a little bit more than what you went in with.
This article is just full on “trust me bro”. I went in with a mediocre understanding, and came out about the same, but with a nasty taste in my mouth. Nothing of value was learned.
This is a problem that’s been brewing for a long time. Their business model is untenable at the scale they’re at without relying on near slave labour. Their massive profits come more from scale, than absolute margin, so if they actually payed a living wage they’d be in the red.
So now y’all will have to wait until the coming food shortages drive up prices before the pay is enough to interest other Americans that’d otherwise have no interest in those sorts of jobs.
The owners won’t play ball without getting their pound of flesh.