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I know the usual response is that not all pedophiles are going to actually carry out their fantasies, but really we have no evidence that "non-offending MAPs" or "virtuous pedophiles" (or whatever they call themselves) are a real or significant phenomenon; plenty of those who have claimed these titles have been exposed as abusers.
That's highly debatable. See The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity[1] for a good, detailed counterexample. The reformation and counter-reformation have been likened to a re-Judaization of Christianity with good reason. Based on my reading, though, the pagan roots of Christianity run much deeper; for example, the concept of three gods, separate yet one, is completely alien to Judaism, but integral to Indo-European religion. It's not found in the Bible, but was made use of to explain the relationship between the three divinities found in the New Testament.
1. https://www.amazon.com/Germanization-Early-Medieval-Christia...
edit: I misunderstood you. The statement I thought I was responding to was that christianity absorbed pagan practices but not beliefs.
Assuming "strong", as usual, means uses upper+lower letters, numbers, symbols, etc., this directly contradicts NIST's current password recommendations. They recommend enforcing a minimum length instead, and recommend a "minimum minimum" of 8. They also recommend checking passwords against a set of the most common ones from leaks. The NCSC's top 100k list is good (pre-filtering those under your minimum helps too--only 47k remain after removing pws under 8 chars): https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/blob/master/Passw...
What's more, if one lives in a red state surrounded by people similar to them on the political spectrum, they'll still have their employers harassed to keep them from holding down a job. It's not their peers "cancelling" them; it's a minority of people with wildly different worldviews from wildly different parts of the country. It's not all that different from swatting.
It's not unfounded, but MRAs are purely reactionary; they're the mirror twin of their enemies. They replace the "patriarchy" with the "gynocracy" and call it a day. I prefer authentic harmony between femininity and masculinity, but neither of these movements serves this purpose at all (some will object that they do, but both view their opposite as inherently poisonous--within feminism men can only be "good" by "betraying masculinity", and vice versa).
A couple of years later I wrote a script to consolidate stories from news sites across my state and display them with a nice UI, since I have family all over the place and want to keep up with what's going on. The majority of stories were duplicated across all of them, and local news had become the filler content. Even for stories of national importance, they can be interpreted in so many ways that you'd expect different people in different areas to have different analyses of the facts (which is what used to happen), but that doesn't exist anymore. With the pushback against "fake news", official news sources are the only acceptable source of information, and those are monopolized by an increasingly tiny minority of people. BTW I don't put "fake news" in quotes to say that it doesn't exist, but that it's a catch-all term for propaganda that goes against the official propaganda.
edit: looks like I was beaten
> Now, with this latest ruling, the court has clarified that tribal police can search non-Indians suspected of state or federal crimes in Indian country and detain them until handing them off to federal or state authorities.
Non-Indians who commit crime on the reservation I grew up around are already searched and detained by tribal police until state police arrive. Crimes there do not go unpunished. The article claims this is a new policy, but a look at the syllabus seems to indicate that it's just an affirmation of existing policies that were being challenged in this case.
> As a “general proposition,” the “inherent sovereign powers of an Indian tribe do not extend to the activities of nonmembers of the tribe.” Montana v. United States, 450 U.S. 544, 565. The Court identified in Montana two exceptions to that general rule, the second of which fits almost like a glove here: A tribe retains inherent authority over the conduct of non-Indians on the reservation “when that conduct threatens or has some direct effect on . . . the health or welfare of the tribe.” Id., at 566. The conclusion that Saylor’s actions here fall within Montana’s second exception is consistent with the Court’s prior Montana cases. See Strate v. A–1 Contractors, 520 U.S. 438, 456 n. 11; see also Atkinson Trading Co. v. Shirley, 532 U.S. 645, 651. Similarly, the Court has held that when the “jurisdiction to try and punish an offender rests outside the tribe, tribal officers may exercise their power to detain the offender and transport him to the proper authorities.” Duro v. Reina, 495 U.S. 676, 697. Ancillary to the authority to transport a non-Indian suspect is the authority to search that individual prior to transport, as several state courts and other federal courts have held. While that authority has sometimes been traced to a tribe’s right to exclude non-Indians, tribes “have inherent sovereignty independent of th[e] authority arising from their power to exclude,” Brendale v. Confederated Tribes and Bands of Yakima Nation, 492 U.S. 408, 425 (plurality opinion), and here Montana’s second exception recognizes that inherent authority. In addition, recognizing a tribal officer’s authority to investigate potential violations of state or federal laws that apply to non-Indians whether outside a reservation or on a public right-of-way within the reservation protects public safety without implicating the concerns about applying tribal laws to non-Indians noted in the Court’s prior cases. Finally, the Court doubts the workability of the Ninth Circuit’s standards, which would require tribal officers first to determine whether a suspect is non-Indian and, if so, to temporarily detain a non-Indian only for “apparent” legal violations. 919 F.3d 1135, 1142. The first requirement produces an incentive to lie. The second requirement introduces a new standard into search and seizure law and creates a problem of interpretation that will arise frequently given the prevalence of non-Indians in Indian reservations. Pp. 3–7.
> The results of the current study suggest that all individuals, not just highly sexually prejudiced individuals, may experience a physiological response indicative of stress when witnessing a male same-sex couple kissing.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19419899.2017.13...
> publishing extremely personal and private nude photographs of you without your permission for all the world to see
The photos were originally published by Hill and her husband for all the world to see.
> a tiny tattoo of a run of the mill iron cross on her hip
Given that ordinary citizens lose their jobs for the OK symbol and other such innocuous things, it feels like a throwback to another time to hear the phrase "run of the mill iron cross".
> homophobia, as the “shock” factor comes in part from her being naked with another woman.
I don't think so. Straight people, particularly men, have a strong physiological reaction to male homosexuality that doesn't really exist with female homosexuality. There's even evidence that the latter has historically been strongly selected for as a socially acceptable outlet for female sexuality (it "didn't count" as losing one's virginity or cheating). Hence it was often tolerated in countries that strongly prohibited male homosexuality (i.e. Nazi Germany), and when not tolerated was less fervently repressed. It would have been more shocking if the photos were of her and a male staffer.
(I'm aware that this was a stage name, but it is a legal name in the US)
Then my daughter was born. She's extremely low-functioning with only basic non-verbal communication (pulling me to the door means "let's go outside"; pulling me to the kitchen means "I'm hungry"). We've done PECS boards, AAC devices, ASL, etc, and she'll use them occasionally but they frustrate her. She has almost no instinct of self-preservation and a fascination with water, so will eagerly jump into a body of water if she has the chance; likewise when we go for a walk she doesn't understand that she can't just run out into traffic. Screaming and self-injury are constant and extreme.
Which is to say that I don't think she and I have the same condition. Maybe there's a common genetic basis, but her quality of life is unimaginably worse. I get annoyed often by the 'disability advocates' who more resemble me and want to speak for people like her.
Fair enough. Only 4% are known to be provable.
>Not provable != false
I neither claimed nor implied this. My point could be summed up as not provable != true.
Complaints is the key here. Obviously, we can't say much about the incidents that don't go reported. If one looks at the conviction rate for rape complaints it's around 2%. So if we take the lower estimate for false complaints, it still means that only 4% of cases are provable one way or the other, and that those which are have a 50/50 chance of being true or false complaints. (I'm looking at '92 stats, at a glance it appears the the rates for both rape and false rape convictions have risen a fair bit since then).
Interestingly, a 2% conviction rate is on par with that of robbery.
https://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2017/07/how-often-do-rape-...
> white, male, middle class, suburbs, nuclear family, single income, etc
You have next to nothing in common with a poor, rural white male with a single mother, so why shut them out based on your own privilege? Since poverty is already seen as a proxy for race, why not just start programs in poor areas without explicit focus on race? It has the same general effect without shutting the door on other underprivileged people.
If you're going to start with web dev, better to teach teach plain HTML and CSS, and enough JS to make something small happen, then let them run with it and help them customize it. Something like an in-browser alarm clock would be interesting. Show them how to change the font, colors, sound, background image (maybe even a background slideshow), and some animations.