Hidden, my ass - or, only by way of the NSM ignoring it. I have heard and read dozens of stories, not looking for them, of US service men having been told to ignore obvious trafficking, public raping, and more, of children, especially boys, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, for political reasons. I doubt that's more than a bit of snow on the tip of that iceberg.
The Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel should have let Warren Zevon pay his bill, so that California could slide into the ocean.
No one, which is why manga eats their breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Recently, new indies are popping up, and having success, too. That really hurts, because it largely invalidates their arguments about nobody wanting comics, anymore.
Last time I put my trust in Bill Gates was Longhorn. TBF, though, even that turned out better than 11...
And of the 23% remaining, how many give them the finger?
OT, but honest question: what about the Passion of the Christ made you cry? No one I knew did, so that seemed to be an internet/TV thing. It was a well-made interpretation, but also seemed like something any Christian should be quite familiar with, already.
But, why did he have a gun? Oh, right, because he's part if a class above the rest of us. If this happened to anyone forced to be using government services, rather than police or judges, they wouldn't have been able to return fire.
Or scanner. For several hundred bucks, you can buy scanners that will eat through those boxes like they were nothing, send the results through OCR software, and give you easily searched PDFs. An intern could scan and organize it all in a few days.
If true, this us a poor way to do it. Rake them, then distribute copies to leaks orgs, archive.org, etc., so that anyone can have copies.
Low mutational load, long telomeres, good diet, and good mental health?
I have a great x ? uncle, that's nearing 100. He has definitely gotten to looking his age, now, so is probably on the downward slide towards the end. But, until just a couple years ago, he looked like a good 70, he ran, he worked on cars, etc.. In old photos, when he was around 70, he looked maybe 40.
The father of a friend of mine is the same way. He's about 60, but all he needs to do is have freshly-dyed hair, and he looks about younger than some of his own kids - his wife, OTOH, looks older than she is. Lucky husband, too: his daughter, said friend, has clearly inherited those genes, still looking about 25, despite going on 40, with multiple kids.
Some people got it. Most people don't. Not saying there aren't people in power doing unethical things to retain youth, but it doesn't defy any science or laws of nature, right off.
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Is there any good data on rape rates? You're generally at lower risk, as an adult man, outside of prison, sure, but that is not a small number of men, in context. Women definitely have privileges of after-rape support that men do not, and attempts to organize such things for men end very badly.
Men have no more opportunities for leading roles. At lower levels, they have fewer, today, as women are preferred. At higher levels, there are more men capable and ambitious than there are women. That is (a) not a lack of opportunity, and (b) not anything that 99.9% of men have access to, either, and (c) not something that most sensible people envy (IE, to most people, it would be an oppressive burden). Companies go for whomever looks to offer better profits, if they're not woke.
Men may have less of their worth tied to appearance, but that's why many work themselves into disability or death by old age, because only a small amount can coast on good looks. OTOH, for the top maybe 10% of men, and a good 50% of women, that can work, and is a privelege. But, those so privileged often don't learn skills needed to handle aging well. In addition, it's only such a social detriment to women, because other women fiercely compete with each other on looks, to their own standards of beauty, while men just watch, knowing better than to get involved.
It's not a privelege, overall, for either sex, but just how sexual dimorphism and sexual selection work. Women have their greatest value in their signs of fertility and health, which peak a few years after the onset of puberty, then fall off at varying times and rates, while men have their greatest value in signs that they can defend and care for those women and their offspring. Stable agrarian societies commonly, independently, developed monogamous marriage (for commoners, anyway) as a core social contract for good reasons.
It recovered, to a degree. Nothing like the pre-recession days, but it's at as good as the other sit down chains, now. The few years after the great recession, it was bad.
I noticed the last time I was there (biscuits and gravy in the middle of the day is great), they had added Impossible meat sub options. I figured this would come next.
It's really not that. Many kids learn masturbation on their own, very young. It's also not too rare for siblings to experiment with sex, until puberty. They turn out fine, usually.
When things are harsh, or chaotic, we, as there is evidence of, enter puberty earlier, and have greater sex drives. This comes with reduced nurturing, and social responsibility. Early sexual activity can have similar, and even more extreme, effects, especially as it concerns being able to emotionally bond with others, which is a much more important part of our sexual natures than pleasure seeking. It is not merely that it feels good (and, physical pleasure doesn't mean matching emotional states, either), but that it primes us for deeply evolved environmental responses, that are inappropriate except in the most extreme population collapse scenarios (like if generations are longer than 12 years, we die out, kind of extreme). The sane among us aren't deeply repulsed by this sort of thing just because. Even if it involves zero pain or emotional trauma, it will mess them up as adults, as it concerns living in, and supporting, a society.
If you want a society that is fundamentally selfish and anxious, that will have trouble living in nuclear families, and is biologically not prepared to live past their 30s without going nuts (you're supposed to die, to leave resources for the fertile and strong, not stick around and guide the young), this is probably good way to get there very quickly.
OTOH, recent history also shows that it's a good way to gain support for a mustache man, and get a large portion of others to look the other way. And, you know, up until the point of disarmament, I might be convinced to be one if those that looks the other way, with all that's been going on, lately.
Mmmm, lectins.
Look at how your nearest poor black neighborhood works. Now, imagine an entire country with a similar average IQ, but a bit lower testosterone. You would have Ukraine.
It's a shame Walter E Williams passed, before all this Ukraine business. He'd have some great quips about it. RIP.