You seem quite angry with me. You didn’t even stop to proofread.

Drinks were drunk, and editing on mobile with my fat fingers is a pain 😅😂. Also, not angry, sorry if it came across that way.

As for the rest of your comment, I disagree about the consent being ok based on the age difference, but agree about the power imbalance part. The acceptable age difference in my opinion is:

If both people are underage, a 2 year difference sounds reasonable as you said (but only if both are underage at the start of the relationship, otherwise grooming). If both are adults, have at it, get with a 70 year old the day after you turn 18 if you wish.

My point is Im personally staunchly against separating and mixing different ages for being legally able to do different stuff. While not how nature works, laws need to be written in such a way that they apply the same to everyone, so even if I mature/develop my brain 5 years after you do for example, we both need to have the threshold age be the same for adulthood. Once thats understood and agreed upon, we now need to determine what said threshold age will be. I brought up the example of the USA in my comment above, where they are legally allowed to drive, die/kill for the government, and drink at different ages. I believe youre either an adult or not, at least in the eyes of the law (or at least thats how it should be)

So where do you draw the line? What if a 19 year old dates a mature 14-15 year old? Is that OK in your book, assuming theres jo significant power difference (if you agree its ok, explain your system of measuring ‘power difference’)?

Just because the specific number 18 is a social construct doesnt mean it should be a free for all. We do live in a society after all, and need to draw the line somewhere. Also, because in most countries (sans the US where you can drive at 16, go to war at 18, but only drink at 21) there is a definite line between adult and non-adult(the specific day you turn 18). This is necessary, even if it is a bit ridiculous that im not allowed to do certan things 24 hours before my 18th birthday.

In my country, and most if im not mistaken, if 2 underage people are dating, no one expects them to “pause” their relationship as soon as the older of the 2 crosses the threshold of adulthood, until the younger also crosses it. But if an adult starts a relationship with someone underage, thats not OK, abd you beed to have a cincrete definition of what ‘underage’ is, abd when exactly that is.

In my country (Cyprus) you’re technically supposed to use the crosswalks as a pedestrian (in classic Mediterranean fashion, no one really does, or rather doesnt care about that particular rule), but theres an order of priority for right-of-way that goes as such:

Pedestrian > Bicycle > Car/Truck

So even if not at a crosswalk, if a car or bicycle hits a pedestrian, its the car’s fault, pretty much automatically. Makes sense in terms of children playing in smaller streets in front of their homes.

It looks good, ive wishlisted it for when i have the money. Thanks :)

Beat me to it :)

Yes. I avoid the big brands, and try to research as much as possible. For clothes in particular i dont go clothes shopping often, but for groceries, I use the NoThanks app to see if the product is owbed by a company contributing to world suffering. If its a obe time purchase of somethibg like a mouse/keyboard or other such item where you biy it once but its meant to last, I do my best to avoid the same things, but if there is no choice I have to go with the less ethical version sadly.

Would you (personally) trust me to build a bridge you cross everyday on your way to work, as someone who has never built anything before (other than software)?

Haven’t celebrated a birthday since I was 5, I hate it.

I think on my 18th I just got up and went to school like normal. Didn’t tell anyone it was my birthday, so everyone acted like regular, then I went home and probably did what I did every evening back then, which is either youtube, games, or coding (one of those, i dont remember which specifically).

Looks interesting, but sadly its not available in my country, same as Quobuz :/

Edit: Why are these platforms only available in certain countries?

As someone from a country that Quobuz doesnt support, and someone not willing to give money to a US owned company (Tidal), what are my options for streaming music? Something that has playlists obviously, and allows me to save the stuff I like. Possibly being able to add downloaded songs if theyre not available in the services library(?)

Is there anything like this? Most suggestions here on lemmy seem to be for Quobuz or Tidal

I dont want to repeat since that may just get my comment also removed, but I dont know if you can see the comment contents in the modlog or not.

That whole series is great, I rewatch it every so often

Whats wrong with slavs? I agree with you about tha yanks part though.

Someone who enjoys being out at sea, or in the woods might find those occupations fun 🤷‍♂️