Sounds awful.

Women are more likely to harm themselves than others when depressed.

I have actually worked in a store where a person stole alcohol before, I reported it happening and apparently he killed himself after that. It was at that moment I thought to myself, never again and realised the solution wasn’t to punish people but to offer them help in their lives to deal with whatever they were dealing with.

For rape, it is more difficult, but I think it requires serious societal restructuring, teaching people that it is never okay, respecting their consent from a young age and so teaching them to respect other’s consent or lack thereof too, which is something not done enough. I have seen for myself parents that don’t give a shit about children’s consent and then are surprised when the children don’t respect other’s consent either.

As for what to do about it afterwards? Clearly cops, jails, prisons etc do not stop it (and make it worse) so I strongly believe in both restorative justice and communities keeping others safe. Sadly this will be difficult to achieve in ‘the west’ which is based a lot on fierce individualism as we are weaker apart and those in power know this which is why it is pushed so hard, but I believe it is at least a good start. Also we all stop the slut shaming etc, nobody ever asks for rape.

I think dissasociating from, or at least calling out, people who promote/are proud of rape and rape culture is important too.

Abolish jails/prisons already. They do not work for their alleged intended purpose (often just making things worse) and treat people like shit.

LOL one BS technology effectinf another bullshit technology. This is hilarious.

https://owncast.directory/ for current livestreams on owncast

Finding? Mostly through shows watched, games played, recommendations from others, looking through bandcamp and listening to digital radio stations or looking up music we hear on youtube, owncast, peertube etc.

Buying? Mostly digital (DRM Free only, FLAC, manually transcoded to opus). We don’t currently really have a CD or Vinyl player and just use our devices to play music instead, sometimes over bluetooth.

Fair.

I think caregivers and children should definitely sit down and talk about it. Roblox is, for many reasons a predatory company. Just like most capitalists they don’t actually care about people, especially children. This has been shown not only in their lacklustre response to paedophiles, but also in their use of child labour to make them richer. Which they then do not compensate the children for fairly.

Agreed, that might help, I really really want Roblox gone, or controlled by those that actual utilise it for it’s allegedly intended purpose. The youth do need places online where they can be safe until what I talked above is implemented, sadly it seems nothing commercial is actually the way to do it, given the repeated reports of poor mental health, predatory behaviour etc coming from so called ‘child spaces’ on commercial platforms.

Yes. It’s a symptom of paedophile culture, which is based on patriarchy, toxic masculinity, racism, beauty standards, and rape culture etc.

Edit: And that children are largely seen as not people, or property by a lot of people, especially in the US as they never ratified the UN’s convention on the rights of the child.

This isn’t the only way to help, but a big one would be giving children freedom, rights etc as laid out by the Youth Liberation movement. The more children are controlled and have no say, aren’t taught how to have boundaries and to consent or not, and have those boundaries and (lack of) consent respected, and what sex etc is the more they will fall victims to these predators.

Of course there is more that needs to be done, but it is a good start.

Children are people, it’s time we started treating them like it.

There are no good countries, there may be ‘better’ ones, but a country existing is inherently exclusionary and creates hierarchy.

Is that picture AI generated?

Ah, I guess this is why I prefer other ttrpgs.

How realistic is romantasy in how it represents creatures and their mythologies, or does it just basically make them human but with wings, fangs, claws etc?

Basically how Blue and Orange morality and outside of the morals, ethics, thinking and ‘romance’ of humans does it make them/allow them to be?

[Sarcasm] Totally shocked!

Fair but it can have lasting effects afaiu.

Yup!

I mean, good, because fuck prisons, there are mountains of evidence they do not help.

Sounds like he needs to be kept away from planes whilst high though.

Good luck.

A lot of military folks are taught to never question orders from their direct superiors, so good luck convincing them.

How did we get here?

Capitalism, racism, and other systems of oppression and hierarchy.

People finally fighting back against those systems.