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Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 days agoYou can write 1984 in octal as 3700
Right, but we’ve read it as “1984” already, so it’s a question of how we interpret those digits. It could be decimal 1984, or if it’s dozenal it would be (3124)~10~, or hexadecimal would mean it’s (6532)~10~. And the post itself doesn’t actually mention an age, that’s just us interpreting it
Maybe “age of consent” is something different
It is, very often. Most countries have it at 16 or lower, as do most states in America, I believe. (I’m not American, and that’s just something I vaguely recall hearing an American say. Never bothered verifying it myself.)
abbadon420@lemm.ee 3 days ago
You’re technically correct, but I was counting on a bit of “poetic freedom”. Write as octal, read as decimal.
The post does mention age, not explicitly, but it is what the post is about.
2000 - 1984 = 16
2000 - 1959 = 41
I don’t care about legality, this is borderline predatory and therefor wrong. Maybe they’re still happily married and (without more context) I’m sure OP loves their parents (so would I), but that doesn’t change how I look at this.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 days ago
That’s what I was responding to.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Haha you got me there XD I’m talking in circles.
My sister started dating someone of 40 when she was 23. That was already a bit of a shock in my family, but it’s okay. I just can’t imagine anyone feeling fine with the situation OP describes. But yeah, it’s probably not technically illegal.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 days ago
I mean yeah, morally speaking, the half+7 rule works shockingly well. It’s just not entirely reasonable for the law to encode something like that though, so there’s always going to be a line somewhere. 16 seems reasonable to me (but then, I’m also a supporter of lowering the voting age to 16…)