DebatableRaccoon
@DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 1 day ago:
This is where I can only speak broadly since every country (and state/province) has it’s own laws but from a legal standpoint, minors need parental consent to do a great many things. Dating in the broad term such as a young couple going to see a movie with each other would likely be seen as an innocuous activity and not worth a court’s time. Where laws get involved are when it comes to physical intimacy and they can be loose or draconian. Just in the US alone, there are laws that dictate minors of the same age are able to do as they please, some have the “Romeo & Juliet law” otherwise known as the close-in-age law, and others deem physical intimacy between minors as strictly illegal meaning if 2 minors of the same age had sex, they’d both be committing sexual assault against a minor. To put the power of parental consent into perspective though, in the UK it was possible for a couple wherein one or more of the two were 16 or 17 were legally able to marry with parental consent. This was true until as recently as 2023 due to child abuse issues but that’s incredibly recent for such a thing.
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 3 days ago:
I know what you were asking but your question reads as “So you don’t like waffles?”. No-one was saying anything about anyone under the age of 18, only what minimum age is appropriate for anyone who’s already a legal adult. I think 15-17 are fine dating amongst themselves but that’s an age where parental consent is concerned in a lot of places.
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 4 days ago:
That’s not what’s being said. From the context of an adult dating some, 15/16 is too young unless the older person is really close to that age (18, 19 at a push and I only think like that because I’m from somewhere with an age of consent of 16. Places with AoC of 18 would obviously be skewed older).
When one of the people is on the younger side, the old rule of thumb (age of older person/2+7) is a best practice for what would be considered inappropriate.
- Comment on Japan’s national library says it won’t be preserving Switch 2 Game-Key Cards | VGC 6 days ago:
I also can’t say I know for sure, but given how grubby Nintendo is and the crap they get away with, it wouldn’t even surprise me if they’re somehow an exception to such a rule.
- Comment on Japan’s national library says it won’t be preserving Switch 2 Game-Key Cards | VGC 1 week ago:
Makes perfect sense since there’s not really any media on them, not to mention being a massive waste of public funding.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
Very true. I realise I should have picked my wording better in my original post that was meant to be little more than a quick summary. When I said ‘feminist side’ I did not wish to refer to all feminists but specifically the new generation type otherwise known as the ‘feminazi’ or ‘those loud unempathetic bitches you see on Tiktok’.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
I can’t say I’ve encountered that. I don’t doubt there are reasonable feminists out there but the ones I’ve encountered have been the “all men are trash” type.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
From the feminist side, there’s a lack of empathy towards men because “they did it to themselves” and from most other camps it’s “men are supposed to be tough, stop being a pussy”.
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 1 week ago:
Also a good point.
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 1 week ago:
Precisely this. The more people come here, the more of the judgemental shitheads are going to come too. I’ve encountered a few on here already but nothing like back there.
- Comment on Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté? 3 weeks ago:
Because the world is ruled by sociopaths.
- Comment on Why do people like the Punisher comics? 3 weeks ago:
Now that you mention it, I do like my superheroes next to a themed jukebox!
- Comment on [Lextorias] The Secret War To Censor The Internet 4 weeks ago:
It is from those not paying attention (see: most people)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Learn to be more like Liam Neeson.
- Comment on Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands 1 month ago:
Of course not, that’d be madness!
- Comment on Who discovered/"invented" fire? 1 month ago:
Wang Fire. Just don’t ask where he got it from, Hotman.
- Comment on If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people? 1 month ago:
And they’re usually elected so it’s perfectly legal.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Because of My Cousin Vinny, I know ‘Ma’ to be very New Jersey but I suppose it could be southern too.
- Comment on Can I learn how to "photoshop" images without PhotoShop^TM and also on my iPhone? 2 months ago:
I can add that on Jerboa it displays properly in the text body but not the title.
- Comment on Can I learn how to "photoshop" images without PhotoShop^TM and also on my iPhone? 2 months ago:
I believe that’s an attempt at formatting superscript.
- Comment on when is "cool" fine and when is it rude? 2 months ago:
Then it’s context. If you’re going for the excited delivery, try throwing in a ! other it could be misinterpreted as uncaring or dismissive.
- Comment on Button fly's 2 months ago:
Once. By accident. Just grabbed a pair off a shelf that were labeled with my size and that was it. Hated them. So impractical.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And taking that a step further, I believe it was Blackberry that was proliferating the free text messages thing at the time (so long as it was to another Blackberry) so that could even have led to not enough market room for third-parties like WhatsApp and Kik to dominate the way they did.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And often acts like a bunch of 3-year-olds.
- Comment on I want a chav boyfriend. Where can I find adult chavs? (If you don't know what that is, they're called bogans in Australia and rednecks in the US) 2 months ago:
Check your local council estate.
- Comment on The Last of Us Part III: Joel of the Dead 3 months ago:
Still sounds like more fan-forward than what ND thought was a good idea for Part II.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game [404 Media] 3 months ago:
This is why we don’t support games with malware in them.
- Comment on Fortnite now lets you chat with Darth Vader using generative AI speech [Eurogamer] 3 months ago:
The bar was on the floor already but they still felt the need to bring a shovel.
- Comment on Can the Internet be an ethnicity? 3 months ago:
Not to mention determine which watch list you’d get put on.
- Comment on After Years of Struggle, Blizzard Has Found Itself in Uncharted Territory: Overwatch Players Are Having Fun Again 3 months ago:
ActiBlizzard is a lootbox.