“Stranger Danger” is largely a myth as the most likely place for a child to be abused is in their own home and the most likely culprit is a trusted family member.
That’s why I don’t trust family members that would abuse my kids.
I don’t trust myself with my kids either since I’m a close relative, I exclusively only entrust my kids to totally random strangers off the Internet.
Oh no.that’s disappointing.
Is there a bug in my app or is the comment you’re replying to just blank/empty?
The number of transgender people that have been credibly accused of molesting children is minuscule. There are nearly 10,000 Catholic priests and church employees that have been credibly accused of child molestation. Catholic priests and Catholic church employees are more likely to assault children than school teachers (more priests etc. have been credibly accused than school teachers, and there are fa, far more school teachers than priests et al.)
And that’s not even getting into the “youth pastor that rapes teen girls” trope.
my elbow had a small itch a moment ago, so i scratched it.
70% of the worlds surface is covered in water. None of that water is fizzy. Therefore the earth is technically flat…
I’ll be my coat, no need to send the pitchforks.
There are natural mineral springs that make water fizzy. Just saying
Banned for being too fun
Good news, ocean acidification is literally the result of the ocean absorbing more CO2, and thus becoming less flat. Bad news, it’s kinda causing a shit ton of animals to die, especially coral.
Don’t worry. The water might be flat, but we’ve been working on carbonating the air for some time now.
You’re so wrong!
Only 70% of the Earth is flat.
I’m on part of the remaining 30% and feel flat everyday. Explain that, mainstream media!
If the world is round, why are my tits flat? Checkmate libtards!
I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but…
Prove it?
Statistically speaking, 30 of the dalmatians in the movie 101 Dalmatians were deaf.
There is an athropod that will replace a fish’s tongue.
There’s also a woman that will replace my will to live. I call her my ex-wife.
I know this is boomer humor but this got an audible laugh out of me.
I feel like it would be even more boomer if it was about their wife and not their ex-wife.
You should read the John Dies at the End series
Or the Laundry Files series.
spoiler
There’s an eldritch cult that uses mutant cymothoans for mind control. Some of them replace other body parts instead of the tongue.
As I get older I see more unfair aspects of the world
My daughter used to say “that’s not fair” all the time. I would tell her “Life isn’t fair. If you expect it to be, you will only set yourself up for failure and disappointment.”
She never listened to me, though.
The age of consent in Germany is 14.
Also applies to other countries in Europe iirc, but I can’t confirm that because that’s not something I’m willing to put in my search history again.
Edit: It’s more complex than that, read the replies by @Mrs_deWinter@feddit.de and @Turun@feddit.de.
And you can start drinking beer at 15 if at least one parent is around and agrees.
You can do that at 14 actually.
9 in Yemen? 9?!? Even in Germany they would say “nein!”
Lol Tunisia at 20
The Europeans must be asleep seeing that this is still upvoted and the US hasn’t been mentioned yet.
edit: nvm they’ve arrived
Only for kids in the same age range. And quite frankly, I think that’s the right way to do it. As if a law would make horny teenagers not have sex.
Setting the age of consent to 18 years just technically makes them pedophiles if you actually enforce it. And I’m of the opinion that laws should be enforced or removed entirely. Having a law and usually not enforcing it gives rise to a dangerous middle ground where persecution depends on other arbitrary factors. Like income, race or how well the cop likes you.
(If you are interested in German law, just reply and I can explain/translate the relevant parts of the law for you)
Edit: translation is also available here: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html relevant are sections 176 and 182, which combine to give the often cited 14 years. Even though it never says anything about being above 14 years makes something legal! It is phrased in such a way that kids can have sex legally, while also preventing exploitation of minors.
And yet Europe seemingly has less child predators than the US.
Age of consent in Germany is a staggered system. With 14 you’re able to consent under specific conditions (them being there’s no exploitative element to the relationship), but still could file charge against the older person if they’re over 16. With 16 the first rule still applies; from 18 on you’re able to consent, period.
So for example when I was 14 I had a boyfriend, also 14, and neither of us committed any crime under this ruling. The law acknowledges that teenagers are allowed to have relationships with each other while putting every borderline case through a case-by-case hearing at court.
It’s actually a really good idea, so it kinda is a fun fact.
Oh damn, I didn’t know it was that deep.
That’s a great idea.
At 14/15 you want to fool about if you have an equally young partner and there’s nothing really criminal about it - just discovering sexuality.
14 and 30 though really does have a different ring to it and if that’s considered, then credit to the system.
That fairness doesn’t exist, everyone has their own idea of it based on their background, experience and belief system.
I was thinking about this recently. You know the MLK quote about the universe bending toward justice? The eventual heat death of the universe is the only way everything will be equal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
Asimov has a short story I just read while backpacking in the mountains this past weekend. It’s about humanity attempting to reverse entropy. The Last Question is probably my favorite short story ever.
It’s among my favorites as well. It’s a 28 minute listen on youtube, for anyone who doesn’t have access to the book.
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The universal definition of “fair” is “everything is bent very slightly in my favor”.
Also called values if I’m not mistaken
Several (if not all) of the astronauts who died in the Challenger explosion probably didn’t die immediately. They likely remained conscious and aware for at least several seconds, and died on impact with the ocean surface.
You’re never more than eight feet away from a spider.
8 feet = 2,438 meter
I’m pretty sure 8ft is less than 2.4km
Europeans use a , instead of a .
It’s really weird when they do it while speaking English though because then they’re just wrong
I actually knew that. I was just trying to make a funny. But it failed.
I thought it was funny lol
What about if you’re on an aircraft or boat? If there are no spiders aboard, you’d be more than 8 feet away.
My partner owns a boat. It has more spiders than any place I’ve ever been.
Did you know that arachnids’ legs are hydraulicly controlled? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid_locomotion
I wonder if this fact was any part of the inspiration for the Spidertron.
Every time you blink, your eyeballs roll up into the back of your eye socket and roll back to the original spot quickly
I see we got a lizard person here
You don’t actually believe this right?
The page literally says it does not occur when blinking lol
Read your source next time. Lmao.
Then why can I feel my corneas through my eyelids?
Fanta’s creation was a result of American companies cutting off business with Germany during WWII. Coca Cola stopped sending ingredients to the local bottling plant in Germany but the ones there still wanted to work and make money. They took the ingredients they still had access to and made a new drink, Fanta! Once the war was over and Coca Cola made contact with them again they liked the new drink and just made it part of their brand.
I had to stop telling this normally as it tends to make people hate me for making them feel bad about drinking Fanta. I tell them it’s fine. I drive a Volkswagen. But they still feel gross about it so I stopped telling people or at least tell them that they may not want to drink Fanta anymore and give them the choice.
This makes me want to drink Fanta more than Cola though.
I don’t blame the workers for wanting to continue earning their money. I wonder whether they provided the new drink freely to Coke once the contact came back, or if Coke just took it…
Coca-Cola never gave up thier german subsidiary Coca-Cola GmbH and they never willingly stopped sending syrup.
Syrup was stopped by the allied blockades. They ran out of stockpiles in 1943 and so the owner created Fanta with apple cider scraps.
The Dutch Coca-Cola plant had similar supply issues and they sent the Fanta branding up there as well but used elderberry.
After the war Coca-Cola regained their subsidiaries and the Fanta branding.
Fanta would be discontinued in 1949.
The current Fanta we know today was created in Italy in 1955 to complete with an unknown Italian PepsiCo product.
Everyone is eventually going to die.
And your pets are most likely to die before you do.
That’s only an unfun fact if you make it one.
Well, basically. Everyone has a different sense of humour.
At the rate of advancement of tech it’s conceivable that there is life alive now that may never die.
There are more Panda Express restaurants than there are pandas.
Damn, that’s depressing. But considering the pandas sense of self preservation, it makes total sense.
There was once a study to test the amount of “poop particles” (feces based bacteria) on everyday objects. The study consisted of putting objects in places that would be more or less likely to have feces and a control group which was isolated from any source of feces based bacteria to the best of their ability. The microbiologists running the study were unable to tell which group was the control.
This is written to the best of my memory and some details may be wrong but the meaning is the same
That can also mean we’re doing pretty damn well just with toilets.
In graduate school I swabbed a public toilet seat and wiped the specimen in a Petri dish. My cohort swabbed the bottom of their shoe and did the same. The public toilet specimen grew virtually nothing. The shoe specimen grew the equivalent of a rainforest in bacteria.
I can’t believe Americans wear shoes inside.
Me neither it weirds me out when people do this
Some do. Most don’t (in my experience).
I live in California. The only people I know who wear shoes in the house are those with neurological damage making it painful for them to walk around in socks, slippers, or barefoot. CRPS sucks.
Americans also don’t eat off the floor.
You expect us to step on our bathroom carpet in our bare feet?
LMAO, I was like what the fuck is bathroom carpet, then I got the joke. It’s a joke right? Please.
Unfortunately not, some areas of the US have nasty ass carpet all the way up to the toilet.
Hey! You leave my extensive-rug-of-back-hair out of this!
2 of the rentals I’ve lived in had bathroom carpet.
Rentals.
Student accommodation…
They were probably 40% vomit, 25% filth, 25% jizz and 10% actual carpet.
“No shirt, no shoes, no service”. You get kicked out of most places if you don’t have shoes.
I’m obviously talking about inside houses.
Toilet seats are naturally smooth and bacteria have a hard time staying on the surface. Most public toilet seats have an additional antimicrobial coating.
