Nigeria is not “the West”

Child marriage in the US is rare, in sharp decline and is heavily skewed towards poverty and Native Americans. Numerous political movements exist to raise minimum marriage age to 16-18.

So again, name a mainstream Western political movement where marriage at 9 is not insanity

[citation needed]

State a single mainstream western political movement in which marriage at 9 is not complete insanity

Collapse of post war consensus -> deregulation of financial markets -> complete failure of political parties of all types to build and maintain social housing -> the present suffocating cost of accommodation

Nothing to see here guys. All cultures are equal and thinking the West has a better way is colonialism

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Even now and then it just catches me how absolutely insane it is how long the planet sustained complex life without any humans whatsoever. We’re an evolutionary accident. A footnote consequence of unlikely circumstance. Were it not for a number of unlikely destructive events this planet might have quite happily continued ad infinitum with only dinosaurs on it. Can you imagine that, if this whole universe had happened and this one random blue marble had dinosaurs on it and not a single minded being anywhere to appreciate the magnificent insanity of it all?

Wow, amazed I’ve never come across this before. Thanks

More of this sort of thing! State shouldn’t be involved in the market of choice. But in the market of “no choice” it should absolutely step in and give people basic quality options to help prevent them being gouged.

I think they should do it and print breastfeeding class info on the container if they really want to

“is it fit for purpose?” is a better question because if you don’t know if it’s reliable you have your answer already

eye of sauron frantically watches base of tower give way

Problem with one line of data? Better shutdown the airspace.

Amazing this hadn’t happened before with a strategy like that.

Also, duplicate waypoints are allowed, just not in the same region. But also exit points don’t have to be explicitly indicated and the system will just look for the nearest waypoint in another region.

Sounds like the whole thing was a needlessly hacky messy standard. I’ve dealt with quite a few of them, but to tolerate it in air traffic control? Good grief…

Me: doing a once in forever disk task, types Disk Management in start menu search

Windows: opens link in Bing searching for “Disk Management”, brings up results in browser including ads

Me: what the actual fuck

Citing this as an example of racial capitalism is a weird take when the cladding report found hundreds and hundreds of similarly vulnerable buildings all across the UK, the majority of which were actually private residential blocks (ie not social tenants)

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/971659/30_Building_Safety_Data_Release_November_2019_revised_.pdf

Grenfell didn’t happen because the residents were BAME, it happened because profit driven developers will screw you over whether you’re black or white.

Stone age Thag would be proud…

Relevant part of Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (UK)

Section 65 (regarding what “child” means in the context of indecent images)

(6)Where an image shows a person the image is to be treated as an image of a child if—

(a)the impression conveyed by the image is that the person shown is a child, or

(b)the predominant impression conveyed is that the person shown is a child despite the fact that some of the physical characteristics shown are not those of a child.

(end quote)

In other words, an image can be treated as an indecent image of a child if the “impression conveyed” is that the person is under 18, even if that person has older “physical characteristics”.

This legislation is more directed at non photographic imagery (so hentai / CGI etc) and the reference to physical characteristics is apparently a reference to a large breasts or “1000 year old vampire teeth” not being viable as an excuse that the image doesn’t give the impression of a child.

I can’t recall specifically what legislation was used regarding the age play couple I referenced. I can’t find a specific law that says it’s wrong for a photograph of an adult to appear underage. So it may just be that they were reported to police because they shared their images online without context. I don’t know if they were subsequently prosecuted.

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Any sexual representation of a child is illegal in the UK whether it looks real or not. In fact I believe it doesn’t need to even be a child, it’s a illegal if a reasonable person would believe it was depicting a child. This came up when adults who were into age play got into trouble distributing their images because it looked convincingly underage.

Bound to be tested in court sooner or later. As far as I understand it one is “in possession” if they have access to a set of steps or procedures that would recover an image. So this prevents offenders from hiding behind the fact their images were compressed in a zip file or something. They don’t have a literal offending image, but they possess it in a form that they can transform.

What would need to be tested is that AI generators are coming up with novel images rather than retrieving existing ones. It seems like common sense but the law is quite pedantic. The more significant issue is that generators don’t need to be trained on csem to come up with it. So proving someone had it with the intent of producing it would always be hard. Even generators trained on illegal material I’m not sure it would be straight forward to prove that someone knew what it was capable of.

A good article that includes symbol resolution in context

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6463