Hockey is globally perceived as the winter white privilege sport. Tennis is the summer counterpart though I’d argue tennis is less homogenous.

And he was detained for all of 11 hours. Lot of weird misinformation going around regarding this.

I think you touched on how social pressure can make it toxic.

By no means advocating for a change in how we define adulthood but a recent paper looking at topographical turning points in the brain identified adolescence as extending from 9 to 32 years of age which explains a lot in my view.

Might be a good time for them to learn about the curry leaf.

The core issue is population distribution. Most governments are designed to run with a certain proportion of people in each age bracket. Japan and much of Europe is headed towards being essentially old age communities. Governments are not effective at saving money to provide for the needs of a majority elderly population elderly. They typically make use of resources coming from the productively employed segments of society. With an elderly skewed population, there would need to be major institutional overhauls to meet the needs of people.

Colonial legacy. One has to remember Europeans spent the 1800s and much of the early 1900s dabbling in “were civilized, they’re not” brainrot ie. phrenology, race “science”, eugenics, forced sterilization and most Western education essentially ignores the cultural legacy of white supremacy. Some Western countries (including the US) continued race based apartheid into the mid to late 1900s. It’s why Western countries can never seem to completely shake Nazism. To a degree it’s imbued into their very foundations.

She has refused to acknowledge Japan’s war crimes during WW2 and wrote the preface for a book promoting Hitler’s election strategy.

Anti LGBTQ sentiment is undoubtedly not uncommon around the world. I live in the West and it was not even 15 years ago that insinuating homosexuality was a way men insulted each other and there are many that still do. If anything it’s gradually getting worse here, with more and more countries electing far right governments. We are a long way from acceptance.

But Takaichi is more than your everyday mild bigot.

Digital nomads in Mexico City

https://youtu.be/km4QYxOlJgM

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/26/394339284/how-snobbery-helped-take-the-spice-out-of-european-cooking

I don’t mean this in a disrespectful way at all but this is a very white perspective. No minority (including myself) would default to that option and even many white people are wising up.

It gets engagement from all sides. Advertisers dream come true.

Most people don’t really know what they want until they’ve had their perspective is broadened.

Filtering people out based on specific physical attributes is wild in my opinion. So glad I found my partner before that became ‘normal’.

That being said I’m speaking for full fledged adults. We have research now that suggests adolesence extends to age 32. I wouldn’t be suprised if people in their 20s were overly focussed on the concept of a perfect physical match in their search for a partner, just from my memory of living through that age.

The University of Taxila predates both Plato’s academy and the instiution in question. The meme makes a somewhat dubious claim. It may be more accurate to say it’s the oldest still operating place of higher learning.

1. He was detained for “misuse of public office” ie. leaking sensitive information to Epstein, not for child sex abuse.

2. He was released from custody 11 hours after being detained.

3. The British state covered up child sex abuse at the Kincora Boys Home in Ireland. You can read more in “Kincora: Britain’s Shame” by Chris Moore. Andrew’s great uncle Louis Mountbatten (the one that incompetently drew the India-Pakistan border) allegedly raped boys at this school and never faced consequences in his lifetime.

Thanks for that. Always interested in hearing different perspectives.

Kerala India achieved developed nation level performance on HDI (human development index) indices in a few short decades with expansive land and policy reforms under a democratically elected communist party.

Communism is an extremely effective tool at shaking off feudalistic old world tendencies but, as a system, it is extremely economically handicapped in a world where the wealthiest nations are capitalist.

Which is why China has had to adopted a hybrid “state capitalism” / mercantilism to achieve its rapid economic ascent.

If we’re going off election results it would be nearly two thirds of white men and more than half of white women so YMMV depending on which part of the country you’re in.

For which party and why? I would contend many people enjoy sex most when their partner is someone they respect, provided they’ve developed to a certain level of maturity. Perhaps you have an alternate rationale.

Even within dom/sub and other BDSM variations I would hope both partners respect each other because without that you’ve entered a very toxic and destructive space.

By respecting their agency.

Unsurprising, including the fact that it took a couple white folk becoming victims for the issue to get national recognition. One can only wonder how many others ICE/DHS has killed along the way.