I’m one of those people who reads several books at once, swapping between them depending on my mood and engagement. Currently the great mortality by John Kerry, the salted earth by Jeff Somers, woken furies by Richard Morgan, a journal of the plague year by Daniel Defoe, velocity weapon by Megan O’Keefe, and a couple of others that I may not finish.

It’s to prevent a small child from falling arse-first into the crapper and causing a blockage.

So completely overlooking the overlying political situation and just thinking about this incident - it’s fuckin horrible.

I’ve been at a whole lot of techno parties back in the day and just imagining these events triggers a real wince in my soul. Remember being off your head at a really good party with your mates and your partner and then imagine this shit happening. I mean, a fuckin rave is pretty much the opposite of a military target.

I’m thinking there’s a lot of criticisms to make on both sides of this conflict and a lot of comments here are focusing on that and overlooking the fucking horror of this incident right here.

Yeah, right now I got a big meaty spider with a neat little web up in my corner near the ceiling. She wants to chill there and eat flies and I’m cool with that. But the moment she starts getting frisky and scampering around the room is when she’s getting evicted. Rules be rules.

That looks like an amazing hangover breakfast. I’d go for chicken rather than turkey, but that’s just personal choice. Looks yummy.

I’m in that age range, and I wouldn’t want that type of storyline with a character who looks like a kid to me.

Yeah, it’s a shit-ridden ad hole.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/29/vigilante-murder-paedophile-bristol-bijan-ebrahimi

Yeah, can you imagine trusting that thing to buy stuff for you? Bit scary, actually.

I agree that there are some crimes so horrible that the offenders no longer deserve to live. The trouble is that I don’t trust police and the courts to correctly identify the guilty all of the time. Until there’s a system that can prove guilt with 100% accuracy we shouldn’t have a death penalty.

A while back round where I live a guy was burned to death by a mob of his neighbours because people were saying he was a pedophile. Turned out he had only been taking photos of kids vandalising his garden. Oops.

Oh sure, that shouldn’t be considered a sex crime unless an adult is manipulating a child into sending them pics, in which case only the adult should be charged with anything.

I don’t really think it’s bizarre. Sex crimes and consensual sex are two very different things. The issue here is that some people seem to be facing consequences that last a lifetime for ‘crimes’ that seem pretty insignificant. But if someone raped another person you’d expect them to face consequences even if they are underage when committing the offence.

I enjoyed the soundtrack too.

I know it kinda sounds like a broken record when people say this but it’s still true - the problem is capitalism.

Yeah, but when individual awareness isn’t enough, how can we stop it?

Yeah I did over ten years on reddit. It was fun, but it’s not been that hard to move on. Plus I’m reading more.

I used to use Facebook a lot but gave that up a few years ago. Pretty much quit twitter since it went downhill. Social media platforms aren’t actually as addictive as we think they are.

I did. Said I’d be leaving when they did the API thing and stuck with it. Missed reddit for a week and then moved on. Sync for Lemmy is fine. Lemmy is quieter but there’s also less bullshit.

Isn’t most of that $80 billion in the form of weaponry ordered from US manufacturers? Or maybe I’ve misunderstood. I thought much of the cash hasn’t really left America.

But yeah, musk needs to be stopped. No one person should have so much power, it makes a joke of democracy.

As does my mum, who failed her test over ten times in a manual. She just couldn’t get the hang of the clutch. Me, I don’t like automatics, feels like I have less control.