Yes. There is a culture of violence in our society.

Why else would someone decide the only way to deal with someone texting in a theater is to blow their fucking head off?

Or to deal with someone who's music is too loud is to put a gun through the window and start shooting?

1 in 5 women will get sexually assaulted in her life time.

1 in 5 homes will not get burglarized in their entire existence.

No one* is teaching boys it's ok to harass and rape. Just like no one says "you didn't lock your doors enough" when a house is burgled.

Blurred Lines hit #1 on the pop charts. The repeated stories about guys who get away with rape even after it's been reported and there's solid evidence for it. Guys like MMA star War Machine(God help me, that's his legal name) telling people that his ex-GF is his property.

There's all sorts of cultural influences telling men that they're entitled to women's bodies. In essence, we're teaching our children that rape is OK. It's called Rape Culture.

Here's Rape Culture 101

And yes, there's all sorts of antisemitic influences in our culture. Including saying someone "Jewed" you out of money. But that's another rant.

If burglary and child abduction are as common as rape, we would be having a MUCH DIFFERENT conversation.

But it's not.

Rape is really common.

And it happens to people who have taken all the precautions in the world. Telling someone to mitigate the risks while looking at all possible ways for things to go wrong and then saying, "You didn't mitigate risks enough!" is ridiculous.

Stop teaching boys it's ok to harass, rape or feel entitled to women's (and men's) bodies. No, persistence isn't going to pay off. It's just creepy.

There was no rape apology there.

Bull fucking shit.

It's far more likely that you know someone who claims that happened to her. She may even believe it. It's far more likely though, that she drank more than she wants to admit.

Which is why people are not allowing you to conflate the two. Some times alcohol hits you harder than you expect. A lot of women think this means they were roofied (because people like you tell them there's roofies around every corner).

Have I said roofies are around every corner? No.

Nice straw man.

If you get hit with a date rape drug, you will not feel like you got overly drunk in the morning.

Here's a great post talking about this particular issue. in short, the notion of "you drank too much" vs "You got date rape drugged." is so fucking stupid it's comical. Well, it'd be comical if it wasn't so fucking tragic.

stop fucking raping people and covering up rape.

That would mean staring at your beverage the entire night rather than socializing.

This is amazing. The message should always be, "never rape" instead of "don't get raped."

Rape apologia on a tech site!? GASP

There's a huge difference between being slipped a mickey and being extremely intoxicated.

Being able to say no to liquor is extremely easy.

Being able to say no to GHB that's been slipped into your drink isn't.

Griefing in EVE not caused by Goon Fleet?

I'm shocked. Like, genuinely shocked.

If you read the article linked, they're doing it with a cellphone camera too.

Not *great*, mind you, but possible. Thus kind of scary.

http://petapixel.com/2014/08/0...

Good lordy.

This would be really cool if the privacy implications weren't scary. However, I can't imagine this being useful or practical wide scale. As a targeted attack, that's really scary as fuck.

you can also tax too. Thus being able to spend with out creating debt.

Funny that, taxes. It's almost as if we spent the last 40 years being influenced by psychopaths who thought the worst thing in the world was the Government taking 10 percent.

Nice diagnosis doctor assface.

Check the research.

Basically, ADHD isn't being able to sit still for a long time, it's not being able to focus on things that aren't fun.

For most brains, being able to get through say, homework, isn't a problem. You just sit down, figure, it's going to take about 20 minutes to do all the math problems and you go play video games.

For someone with ADHD, the brain is constantly craving rewards. So video games, movies, etc. all basically jam a fork into the pleasure centers of the brain. So ADHD kids can sit still and enjoy the fuck out of it. When the gears shift, and into say work mode, there's nothing jamming against the pleasure center and the mind loses focus.

I've known about JTRIG, but I want more details. It's not enough to say JTRIG's a thing and that they've been trying. Have they been successful? Are they even relevant to this discussion?

Where's the beef?

Culture snooping of the 50's and 60's?

Yes, I'm aware of it.

But the sheer number of internet comments and flamewars really makes me think you're really off base here. Given the sheer size of that operation, there would have to be numerous agents handling all of the traffic on the internet. Someone would say something. Conspiracies of that size are really hard to hide.

I love the notion of troll types. Makes them seem SciFi/Fantasy somehow.

The behavior of Type 3 trolls is so vague that I don't think it's relevant. It's like when supplement companies say, "It promotes wellness." What the hell does that even *mean*? Who gets to decide what is and what isn't?

If you think the Government is harassing people with decent points on internet message boards, and that you've been painted as, "crazy"(your words, not mine)... Maybe you should reconsider things.