matt

I have to wonder what seismic event caused the shift from boomers' top fantasy being "what if a sexy lady had dark hair" to gen-xers' top fantasy being "what if I shoved my whole hand in her pussy".

Millennials just searching for “fetish” is extremely millennial coded

Completely voluntary! (Under threat of sanctions)

The major downside of this scheme is that it massively disincentivises companies to take on junior level staff. Because why would they when they can have someone do the same job for - literally - negative cost. So this will only make the employment gap larger in construction.

It’s not forced! You’re simply punished for not taking up their offer. So you can totally turn them down, you’re just punished if you do. So it can’t be forced labour if you’re free to not do it (with punishment). It’s like an offer you’re not able to refuse (without punishment)

But since this is posh Labour, they are going to assume “jobs in construction” is bricklayers, painters, plasterers, etc, and not like, Designers, CAD techs, PMs, Estimators (hey that’s me!), and all manner of pre-con support staff.

On the one hand, the construction industry is suffering from a major, years long, employment shortage (at all levels, this isn’t a FBPE post) so there is a need for more people joining the industry.

On the other, is it really an “offer” if you are punished for not taking it?

Libs be like “we really need to find a final solution to the Palestinian problem”

I think my grandmother is glitching out, I’m pretty sure when she was alive she hardly ever talked about white genocide and the boer.

Like, can we all pause for a moment and reflect on how society treats “lying to a woman to trick her into having sex with you” is treated as a harmless oopsydoodle in the grand scheme of courtship instead of a massive violation of her trust an safety?

After a Wikipedia deep dive on this: apparently rape by deception is completely legal in this country if you are a straight cis man. Vile country tbh.

“Our undercover police are so good, they routinely rape women”

there's a trans woman in prison, a man's prison, right now bcos she gave a blowjob to some guy and he claimed he didn't know she was trans.

they sent her to prison for that.

this guy lied to two women for five years, raping them all that time, but it's fine bcos it's state sanctioned.

Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

I think it’s pretty clear what I want

My secret is that I always drunk type, that way no one knows if I’m drunk

You get to eat those who have been made redundant?

Ok, first of all, fuck you google AI overview.

My favourite part of the story ngl

Under 16’s and, of course, everyone else who refuses to do the age verification nonsense. Wonder if they’ll try this before or after they attempt to make private VPNs illegal?

The left needs to spring from the womb fully formed with perfect politics and have never changed their mind on any topic, whilst the right and centre are just smol baby boys learning the world and have endless opportunities to rebrand

Inshallah the vein does its thing before then, tho

At some point (assuming a vein in his head doesn’t pop) he’s going to murder a trans woman and they’ll all be like “how did we miss the signs!?”, “nothing could’ve been done to predict or stop this”

It’s like a switch in some of them, as soon as you mention payment plans etc, they’ll say to you in their most caring voice that your pet has to die because you don’t have enough money. So I love the idea of that mindset being brought to the NHS (Brought to you by Netflix Virgin Health)

So, uhh, thanks for that Mr Human Rights Lawyer and the briefcase gang.

You don’t have to do too much research to see that a disturbingly large percentage of Andrew Tate’s fans are young Gen Z and Gen Alpha lads. So mix that mindset with the only type of porn they now have access to, boy, it’s going to get pretty grim pretty quickly for young girls and women.

“We want to protect kids from accessing porn that depicts violence against women” well, great news, that’s all they have access too now. Great job lads. I’m sure that won’t have any repercussions in gender relations in 5/10 years time.

Who could’ve foreseen this, etc etc etc

The only result of this porn ban is that only the “respectable” porn sites have blocked non-vpn access, the really dodgy ones, which is to say the really fringe ones, have not bothered to comply. So the only freely available porn has grim corners.

So, uhh, yeah, really protecting those kids there.

I have never read them, even when I was the appropriate age to read a kids story I found it’s fans cringe, then when the last books were coming out i was in uni and found it deeply embarrassing for my housemate to be a big Harry Potter fan.