Yeah dude, guest is just being an ass. Well my personal experience is quite different but that's why it's called personal experience, nobody treats it like empirical evidence or the ultimate truth anyway. Actually good on you for speaking up even though it goes against the opinions of most people who comment here.

As a girl, I'm irritated by sexualization of people in ads/movies/games etc. in general but not because of any "boo hoo it's sexist" reason. I'm irritated by it simply because putting a bunch of half-naked people in your product is a cheap and easy way to get attention without really putting any substance in it at all.
I imagine it like this: remember the terrible poster presentations you had to do in elementary school, when you and your group made a big poster with some text about a certain topic you had researched? Sexualization is like writing down only three sentences about the topic and then covering the entire paper with glitter. When you present it, all the kids are gonna be like "yay glitter!" but the teacher, a person with critical thinking, is just gonna see through it and give a better grade to a poster with a lot of interesting info. That's how I see it, anyway. It's not a perfect analogy but you see what I mean, right?

I think it might've been like 2012. Yeah I think it was 2012 because the fiction I wrote was slightly inspired by the whole "end of the world" panic that happened back then.

"Millenials freak out over opposing opinions" yea I remember that one time when I visited my grandma and we went to see some of her friends (who are about the same age as her, aka around 60 years old), and they started talking about gay people and how they should not be able to adopt children because of some "mother/father figure" stuff. I decided to chime in and said that the kids of single mothers don't have a father figure either yet it's been a thing for a long time and nobody complained, and also that being raised by a loving family of two dads or two moms is a lot better than being raised by a heterosexual family where one parent is an abusive alcoholic and the other is a junkie.
You wouldn't believe the shitstorm I had to endure. And of course I don't want to generalize, I am by no means saying that all old people are like that but holy shit I have never ever met a millenial who would provide such a strong reaction to an opposing opinion as I have with these 5 or so old people.

Yeah I know about this thing too. Luckily none of my teachers use it, but I checked a paper on it once just out of curiosity and it told me it was about 80% plagiarized, even though the sources I used were in a different language. And of course it highlighted the words you mentioned like "the" and "of" and "it", and also fixed expressions and specific terms which you quite obviously cannot paraphrase. I got more curious and pasted in a short story that I wrote, 100% work of fiction and of my own imagination, and it told me it's about 40% plagiarized.
But that was some time ago and I hoped they improved it since then but as I read the comments I'm becoming more convinced that they didn't.

I'm torn on the issue tbh. On one hand, the media might have left out the fact that they were playing on the street while waiting for the bus, on the other hand it says it right in the title that the car that hit them was speeding. Maybe the kids knew their street well and relied on their judgment and reflexes to jump out of the way, but the driver was going too fast for them to react. Also, as a guest already mentioned, old people have slow reflexes which is probably why the driver didn't stop upon seeing kids. Pushing someone out of the way takes a lot more time to do than slamming on the brakes, so I guess the old lady had such bad reflexes she barely noticed any kids on the road.

That's amazing.

Conservatives tolerate religion when it's THEIR religion, aka Christianity (at least in the US). When it's another religion or the lack of religious beliefs, they do not tolerate it. Did you know that in some states it's written in the doctrines that you can't run for office if you're an atheist? Of course these laws are not in effect because federal law overrides state law but it's kind of jarring to know that it is still in the books.
Crimes should be punished but there should be a balanced amount of punishment and help, if punishment worked by itself then medieval torture techniques would still be used.

@pokethebear My maps are no solid proof of anything, but there seems to be a correlation between high religiousness and the presence of death sentence in the US states. So there you go. My stance on death sentence is quite unsure, on one hand yes there are special circumstances and yes as you've mentioned it's used far too often. But inmates wait for 15 years before being executed so it's not like death sentence saves that much taxpayer money since you use it to feed the criminal for 15 years anyway. When it comes to abortion, yes it's immoral to use it instead of contraceptives but stuff can go wrong, actual contraceptives can fail and you can get pregnant on them anyway. And even if someone uses it instead of contraceptives, would you let that extremely irresponsible person have a child? That way, many children would live in abusive homes with alcoholic/junkie parents. To me this seems like a worse fate than a completely painless death.

Nothing wrong with wanting kids, a lot wrong with telling women that they SHOULD want kids because of some biological clock bullshit and that they're freaks if they don't. (Yes my grandparents actually called me a freak when I told them I don't want kids.) Let's just leave others the freedom of choice, eh?

Omg yes it's like the world's biggest "mind blown" moment

LOL u guys, that's fucking hilarious. Anyway maybe you have a downvote troll on your back because you dared disagree with them on something, happened to me a few times, some people can seriously be sooooo petty.

Looking for a debate, not a fight. And yes you have a point there but let me remind you of the fact that time zones are a thing that exists. Also they apparently did find the time to downvote me, so it's not like they just left fs and had no idea about my attempt to spark a discussion.

That's a thing?

Huh, no counter-arguments, just a bunch of downvotes. Looks like fundamentalist conservative christians can't even stand their ground in a debate so they just stone you with downvotes and then have the nerve to call everybody to the left of them dumb.

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Just putting this out here. Food for thought maybe?

I'm guessing it's like a pizza with both a cream base and tomato base? Might try it someday too.

That's exactly what I do as well. The fact that your skin is warm thanks to the hot water makes you barely feel the cold, also you're not cold when you get out of the shower. Plus, apparently it helps with acne because you open up your pores, they get nice and clean, then you close them so that no bacteria can get in and make a mess.