BlameThePeacock

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[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

Sandstorm by Darude has a song right before it on his album called "the calm before the storm" and I actually enjoy it quite a bit.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 30 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The easy answer is by spending all their money before they die so that their kids/grandkids don't really have an inheritance.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

It's funny, I've never been shot or stabbed.

However if I check the news, there's going to be people that has happened to despite them not doing a damn thing but being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I've also never been killed by a drunk driver.

Just because something hasn't happened to you yet doesn't make it impossible.

There are more than a few false sexual assault/rape cases that have occurred and later proven to be either malicious, or due to social pressure afterwards.

You might not be worried about going to jail after sex, but thats what each of those people likely thought too.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago

The problem with your statement is here:

'a woman in a room of at least 5 large men intimidating her to consent is not consent"

You assume it isn't, but it 100% can be. Your bias doesn't make you right.

There are plenty of completely consensual videos of this exact situation online if you'd like to check. Both professional and amateur.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, you say hockey is the problem, but people will literally fight you over coffee, a parking spot, or some invisible force in the sky.

It's not the sport that's causing problems, it's just humans being humans.

We like to think we're evolved beyond such stupidity, but we aren't even close.

Anyone pretending that "changing the culture" will magically eliminate the problem entirely is just as stupid as the people they're complaining about.

People are always going to do bad things, and that's why we have a legal system to deal with those situations.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Sexual assaults have been covered up by literally every organization that has ever had people in it. This isn't a sport issue, the Catholic Church has been doing it for thousands of years. Hell even families have covered up this kind of thing by paying people off for all of known history. Why are you surprised it exists anywhere? Fining people isn't going to stop that either, even if you started jailing executives from organizations if it happens all you would see is organizations shutting down, there's nothing they can do to prevent it 100% of the time no matter how much they "change their culture" .

So what's your solution? How do you prove something that happens only inside someone's mind?

You could video tape every single sexual encounter from start to finish, require both drug and alchohol tests prior to ensure competence, have the people involved make sworn statements before and every 5 minutes during, and it still wouldn't hold up if one party said they felt pressured because they thought the person would hurt them (physically, mentally, emotionally) outside the encounter if they didn't go through with it.

The system doesn't work.

So either sex has to stop entirely, people need to risk going to jail every time they have sex, or we need to change the system.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (5 children)

What part of any of this was boys will be boys?

What part of any of this was hockey related?

It's a problem with sex and consent and how consent is an impossible legal concept to prosecute except in obvious situations where it is actively revoked.

It's currently impossible for anyone to know they have the consent of their partner if the partner can always revoke it while saying nothing, or even while their partner is actively saying yes and then claiming duress later. If consent is impossible to know for sure, having sex is a huge legal liability for everyone participating.

That just isn't legally tenable as a situation unless the goal is literally to prevent everyone from having sex. That's a terrible idea, so the better options is to pick a different method of defining consent.

It may not be what some people want, but unless we want to change our legal system's requirement for "beyond a reasonable doubt" I don't see a better option.

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MMO Game by one of the original creators of Star Wars Galaxies, game already playable for Alpha testers, Beta testing expected after Kickstarter for funders

 

Sizeable earthquake just off the coast.

 

The party of fiscal responsibility ya'll

They say it will be caught up to with growth, which they've predicted to be above 5% per year... no way that happens, major banks are predicting sub 2% growth.

 

He stands by the party member who made derogatory comments about indigenous and Muslim people.

Please judge him and find him wanting.

 

The title is a bit misleading and makes it sound like it's a one time payment. It's very different, he's promising to exempt up to $3000 a month towards your housing costs from income taxes. Starting at $1500 a month in 2026 and going up $500 a year for 3 more years. At the max, it would be a $36,000 a year tax deduction which is absolutely massive, that's half of the average family income.

Great idea? It's complicated, but probably not a good idea.

When you make something "cheaper" for everyone like this in a supply constrained market, all that does is drive up the prices of rents and housing sale prices since people can now use that freed up money to pay more for those.

Also, his plan to pay for this multi-billion dollar plan is:

“Obviously, we need to take a look at this reckless spending that David Eby has put in place in terms of how to sort of rein in some of that spending,” said Rustad.

So that's not really "fiscally conservative" at all.

 

This asshole is literally a conspiracy theorist. He says it was about controlling the population, not stopping the spread of the virus.

Which countries (and even provinces) had the fewest covid deaths per capita? Oh.. the ones with the highest vaccination rates.

Everyone with a brain knows vaccines reduce illness, that's why we have the fucking things.

 

Uber's reply to the new laws.

 

Surprise surprise, a Conservative who's got a past full of hate.

 

This is the true Canada, open to all ideas. Let's keep it this way.

 

Personally, it seems stupid not to have a liaison in high schools. This is where teens establish "bad" patterns, and every single one they manage to save early is one less problem for decades in the future.

 

Extremely unfortunate situation.

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