Yeah that’s the best part. If you watch the vid, it’s clear that the police did most of the damage, but the senator was right in the way “helping” trying to get the “good PR” and he caught all the blame. Absolutely beautiful turn of events!

Except for the marine… Having your hands broken for telling the truth is brutal. No one wants to die for Israel’s wars of aggression.

ACAB

Except the whole point is that it’s free and you’re not selling anything anyways.

Somehow, the idea that Trump would sacrifice his chances of winning a manly bigly war to own the libs, is just the right combination of idiotic and hate filled that it feels plausible.

Yes, let’s arm only the liberals with the best weaponry American tax dollars can buy. I’m unironically down for that!

You can have a lot of fun in a relationship with no future. But you can’t have fun in a relationship with no future when you want there to be a future.

You can either enjoy this relationship for what it is, or find a relationship that meets your needs!

Porn isn’t something with a victim, it’s something a person gets off to. Sexual abuse material is a picture with an abuse victim whether or not someone is getting off to it, because that’s not the part that matters. It’s not porn because the fact someone gets off to this picture isn’t the important thing about it.

That’s like if you called someone a cannibal was eating “human meat” … Like no, meat is meant to be eaten as food, this is the “murdered remains of a person”.

I don’t even know if you’re being serious at this point. The distinction should be pretty clear.

It’s not about consent. Porn in its usual context is sexual media people use to get off. With CSAM the main subject is children getting abused, the fact that pedophiles use it to get off is a secondary consideration.

The victim should take precedence in nomenclature.

When it comes to stories about Trump, any evidence that he’s being portrayed as anything but a child raping felon implies that the story is purposefully biased to help him.

No reasonable person would hold a differing opinion.

Now whether I give those same people the benefit of the doubt concerning non-Trump matters is a different story.

Reverse Hanlon’s razor applies to Trump and has a transferable property regarding anything related to Trump to at least 1-2 connections.

I know we’re all programmed to give people the benefit of the doubt. To try to find sense in any situation. To use Hanlon’s razor.

When it comes to Trump, please stop. He doesn’t deserve this excess of leniency. He’s a child rapist and murderer running the country. Do not try to find sense when there is nothing but cruelty and abuse. It makes a lot more sense when confronted by evidence of cruelty and malice at such a staggering scale to use a reverse Hanlon’s razor with Trump.

They’re called women to purposefully obfuscate the fact Trump beat and raped a little girl. One of many.

This is an absolute bullshit take. We have a huge pile of evidence that Trump and Epstein raped tortured and killed kids. We also know that of the evidence that’s hidden, it’s hidden BECAUSE it includes the details of torture and killings. Your default position for a testimony that Trump was involved in rape, torture, or killing of kids shouldn’t it be to suspect the witness is lying and has ulterior motives, and that Trump is innocent. There is no reason to doubt the witness, they’re describing witnessing exactly what we already know to be true!

It’s not “taking down” the elite in Europe though. Frankly losing your job is a completely inadequate punishment for raping and torturing kids.

But from the point of view of “at least they’re getting SOMETHING”, it’s better than nothing.

http://andywibbels.com/privacy-email-cloud/

Back when email was new, server storage was tiny and you downloaded your emails frequently. That’s when this law was passed.

Nowadays with gmail etc… no one downloads their emails. They stay on the server forever, and government agencies are free to take them without a warrant.

If you seriously think the doctor’s notes about the patient’s symptoms don’t include the doctor’s diagnostic instincts then I can’t help you.

The symptom questions ARE the diagnostic work. Your doctor doesn’t ask you every possible question. You show up and you say “my stomach hurts”. The Doctor asks questions to rule things out until there is only one likely diagnosis then they stop and prescribe you a solution if available. They don’t just ask a random set of questions. If you give the AI the notes JUST BEFORE the diagnosis and treatment it’s completely trivial to diagnose because the diagnostic work is already complete.

God you AI people literally don’t even understand what skill, craft, trade, and art are and you think you can emulate them with a text predictor.

LLM gives correct answer when doctor writes it down first… Wowoweewow very nice!

I have no idea how you’re deciding they’re all false. I can see that you’re deciding to believe that Trump has any decency over victims… Which I just don’t understand. These stories are extremely similar, span many years, and include dozens of victims… What is convincing you that Trump didn’t have child sex auctions??

If you’re looking for inclusive spiritual community you can look for Unitarian Universalist congregations. They’re all over Europe and North America. They’re based on progressive values instead of Scripture so you bring your own deity/pantheon/no deity. They’re basically a spiritual community for the left from Pagans to Christians/Jews/Muslims to atheists and agnostics and everyone else.

In my area there are a lot of ageing hippies and a lot of millennials and Gen Z looking for community for their children which is a delightful mix. Lots of LGBTQ+ representation as well.

Could be a useful place to look!

Fundamentally this gift is replacing something that has sentimental value to OP. That’s not usually a desirable gift. If someone got you a gift that replaced your favorite [thing] in a way that replaces it you wouldn’t want it either.

Cheerfully accepting a gift you don’t like is dishonest. Other replies have great honest and tactful ways to accept or reject a gift you don’t like. Op’s approach was hurtful to their partner which isn’t great.

Returning a gift is normal, that’s why stores issue gift receipts. However, it is a situation that requires tact since it’s easy to hurt someone if done poorly.

In the long term, it should be easy for you and your partner to do something special for each other where no one has to fake enjoyment. In OP’s case, effort spent communicating now will bring a lot of enjoyment in the future and save a lot of pain.

Nobody is a bad person here and both of your feelings are valid.

As others pointed out, your partner likely put significant effort into the gift and is hurt that the effort was in vain. Compounding that is the fact that you didn’t seem to acknowledge their effort or treat their hurt as valid.

Your hurt is valid. You got given something you don’t want and now you feel pressured to accept it to appease your partner. It’s in certain ways worse than getting nothing.

The situation sucks and you’ll both be hurt regardless of how you resolve it.

It’s probably going to be very important for you two to work out gifts or gift giving occasions. What do you like to do, for yourself or with your partner. Maybe the answer to that question can be part of the solution.

For the time being you have a few options. You can keep the gift like the others have said, maybe as a backup. Or you can return it. I suggest that if you return it you spend the money on something you both enjoy, maybe a nice date to sooth the hurt.

Let your partner know that you appreciate the effort that went into this gift. Let them know that you know you’re a hard person to buy for, especially because you’re not very consumerist which means that the things typically for sale won’t appeal to you. Let them know that it’s important for you that you’re both able to express love towards each other and that you want to make sure that the next time your partner expends significant effort for you that they’re able to create a situation which is rewarding for the both of you.

Then sort out what you’re going to do with this gift. Maybe explain your feelings about using the old device and how the new one can’t do that for you.

Then make a plan to work out the line term goal of how you’ll give each other gifts/experiences in the future. And actually do it. It might be a lot of work, but it will probably create a lot of joy in your relationship in the long run where there might have been even more pain.

There are always people defending these creeps who seek out the youngest most vulnerable sexual partners they can legally fuck. You don’t realise that in saying “he didn’t know she was 17” you’re claiming this behaviour is otherwise okay.

An old man, fucking an 18 year old is like a fast food boss paying his employees minimum wage: if you could legally get away with less you would. Finding these creeps “accidentally” fucking children is like the manager “accidentally” entering fewer hours on your timesheet every week. You have to be a real dope to believe it was an accident.

Even if the Senate Republicans vote for the bill, the house Republicans can just choose not to have a vote because the speaker chooses which bills are voted on.