Sarmyth

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There's some rights and privileges granted to minors at 15 or 16, about driving and working. Age of consent tends to hover around 17 or 18 aside from a handful of states.

Edit: LOL @ the downvote.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Age 17 and below.

Edit: oh but wow I just read the order and it defines child as anyone under 19. I'm surprised they chose to just add a year of childhood in this instance. That is not typical.

You are usually considered an adult at age 18 and granted a degree of autonomy (and the right to vote). Notable exceptions being controlled substances like alcohol and nicotine that require you to be 21.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I wonder what all the outcomes will be from all the aid cutting. Obviously some will suffer from the loss of health aid but will people learn they don't need US aid? Will they learn they were entirely reliant on it? Will it all just collapse or will a different superpower step in?

I feel bad for the people that lose in these games our governments play, but I am very curious what it'll look like in 4 years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Sounds like military spending is gonna have to go up then!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, I think that the kid cages is much worse. The kids didn't make any of the decisions that put them in that position. They should be treated far better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, if they are flown there, take them no matter the circumstances. What else could I have possibly meant by that?

If they're your citizens and they've been nabbed off the street in a hostile foreign country (USA) don't make them suffer for your principles and let them end up in some camp or holding cell, because that's what these nuts are gonna do. They 100% will be abused if they get rejected back out of Columbia, because that's a clear sign no one cares about their well being.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Why? What's that got to do with anything? It's not what happened in the article. You're just making a strawman argument.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

If the Nazis have grabbed your citizens, please take them back. Leaving them in the hands of Nazis is a cruelty of its own.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Huh? What are you talking about? That's not a statement trusting Trump. The headline implies the flights were rejected. They weren't. Drink more coffee dude. It's Trump's propaganda that they were rejected.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I mean... he didn't ban the flights in the first place. He just declared he would not accept his countrymen being treated poorly on return. I think the objection was packing them all in military planes instead of normal commercial flights your average person travels. It had more to do with mistreatment of their citizens in the process of repatriation, which is valid.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No. Part of it was whether she was making the comment based on race. Don't move the goalposts now that I gave the examples you asked for.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Well it does matter, because it's reality. You exist in the real world, not just an online world made up of echo chambers to your liking. People are going to make jokes not to your taste and they aren't monsters because you don't have the same sense of humor.

It's not like I'm saying it's an appropriate thing to say to a child in a classroom, just that it's an established joke and not a default "this person is a racist" kinda comment.

 

I've noticed that every product I've bought in the past year with a zip-lock seal is destroyed with common use. I actually think the zip-lock itself has gotten stronger. The bag rips before the seal opens on half the bags now and whenever I try to opens bags I had no issues with before, I find myself stretching/warping the plastic before the seal eventually opens.

It's pretty frustrating and I am seeing it across many products. Cheese bags, storage bags, snacks etc...

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