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Just for context, Lindsey Graham asked the escort his age and the escort said he was 18. This also occurred back before real IDs that got scanned and when people 18-21 often had fake IDs for drinking. In other words, it's not like if Graham asked for Kelvin's ID that it would have proved things.

“I just need you to tell me how old you are,” Graham allegedly said at one point, according to Kelvin’s account.

“I said, ‘OK, I am 18 years old,’ ” Kelvin recalled.

It was also still constitutional to ban gay sex and gay people couldn't get married. He was also an older gay person, not particularly good looking, and still wanted to have sex, which meant paying for escorts, which was illegal already. I don't think this really shows that Lindsey Graham was some sort of evil person. He grew up with his very existence being illegal, he still couldn't legally get married, and so existing inherently meant violating laws he had been taught one way or another. He at least tried to make sure this victim was an adult.

I'm not saying Lindsey Graham wasn't horrible. He often voted against LGBT rights. But... he made something of himself as a closeted gay person during a time in which it was nearly impossible to be out. If he had come out at some point, he would have lost his career, been a public joke among conservatives, and ultimately he chose to stay in the closet.

I'm not saying it's true or not true, but what exactly would she need to show to prove it's credible? Like what would be the credible version of this if a similar situation occurred and it was completely true? How would it seem different?

It makes sense the case was dismissed if she wouldn't do the examination.

But plenty of people would avoid a psychiatric exam just because of fear of psychiatry. In order to commit someone or give them a new diagnosis, a psychiatrist has to meet with someone. It's also possible that the independent examiner could also request all her private psychiatric records and that those could include personal things she didn't want disclosed. She could have told a therapist she didn't like a parent or told a therapist one of her friends is a kleptomaniac and didn't want people to know.

She also, based on her online posts, clearly is afraid of being killed and someone making it look like she was just unstable. And this is in the shadow of that open AI whistleblower mysteriously "committing suicide" when everyone who knows him thinks he wouldn't do that. I am just saying she may have valid fears, like such an examination being used to try to commit her when that isn't appropriate. Keep in mind, psychiatry was awarded the Nobel Prize for lobotomies less than 100 years ago ago (or technically a psychiatrist was, but lobotomies were widely praised and embraced by the profession for decades). It's not exactly a profession that is a paragon of ethics that admits to being wrong when it is.

I don't know what her experiences have been, I just think we can't know her reasons for not doing this exam.

This happened so long ago. What clear proof should she have from back then that she doesn't? It also seems like her family was helping her financially and she was in a position to get a lot of financial help and filing suit might make that less likely. You're also saying this is about a pay day, but given the length of time, it's not like she could file criminal charges that could get prosecuted. A civil suit was all she had.

It's very easy to believe "oh, if I were raped I would fight back and if it still happened I would report it." It's only after something like that happens that a person thinks (possible trigger warning) ::: spoiler spoiler "hmm, there were drugs involved, I don't know if I want to report this. I had a chance after my clothes were taken off at one point to run out of the place naked and screaming and didn't... how do I explain that? I've always hated mass incarceration and police... do I really want to be a part of reporting something?" ::: etc. I don't know if it's actually malicious when some people don't believe victims; it's just some people can't envision not reporting things immediately.

What is ironic is even when a victim is "perfect," by the time they realize they want to report what happened, that perfection may be gone.

Wait a minute... There's something bothering me about this place...

The real problem is avocado toast.

Innocent until proven guilty is a criminal standard. This was a civil case and was just about what was more believable. Some people found her credible, apparently.

I think if you made up a rape claim that had no basis in reality to target someone rich and white, you probably wouldn't have credible details about what happened, a history with that person that seemed credible, or a history of being an honest person. But yes, it is sometimes hard to know who is telling the truth.

Not every claim is true. Personally, I don't know enough to know if it's true or not.

dumb conservative Utah hicks make up special Utah internet rules not even understanding how the internet works.

what a waste of time and resources by a bunch of morons.

You know what would help this situation?

AI

Lots and lots of AI.

Also more religion.

I can't believe Microslop would do something like this to its loyal customers!

How can this be anything other than rage bait when the woman on the right is so pretty and the language is so gross and offensive?

There are so many speech restrictions and humans rights violations in China that scare the hell out of me, but then I see rulings like this and their progress on robotics and tech and I think "Well, they are doing something right..." I hope one day there is more free speech for people in China who deserve to be able to say what they want.

It's a great ruling because companies that would normally favor efficiency and profit increases are in a better position to take these existing workers and utilize them in different ways than just have everyone fired en masse and then somehow the market will sort it out. Even under classical economic theories, governments are supposed to regulate externalities and AI displacing workers too rapidly could be considered a type of externality.

The last woman I messed around with before realizing I was gay was essentially perfect. She was nice, healthy, great smile, genuine, fun... My lack of sexual attraction feelings for her were what convinced me I was gay. It was like "Well, if this isn't doing it for me, there's no bisexuality in my future." Your wife probably really liked you and thought were perfect, and probably someone other woman will think you're perfect too in the future. Your wife was just gay, and probably wished she liked you because you're so perfect, probably felt like maybe she could make it work because you're so great.

When shopping, I like to make it seem extremely likely I am stealing to help poor people who actually need to steal to survive.

For example, when picking up a soda, I furtively look to my left and right to make sure no one is looking and crouch my head down. I pick up things and make it seem like I may be putting it in a pocket at times before putting it back. When security guards say hi, I don't make eye contact or reply back and put my head down as if hiding.

I never actually steal and haven't ever shoplifted anything.

I have been kicked out stores many times for abnormal behavior, but never while stealing.

Then this may be happening only with certain distributions or operating systems. It is definitely happening for me, I checked it over and over. "You have visited once." I close Tor Browser, restart, come back to fingerprint.com. "You have visited twice." I also did try this with safer. I did multiple tests. This impacts at least some operating systems or distributions. It may not impact Qubes. I didn't test that, but I am sure it impacts at least some users.

Are the parties young people have nowadays just less wild because everyone has cameras? Or do people mostly party at clubs and bars and so they expect it to be on camera? Or do people not party as much?

When I was younger and before cell phone cameras of high quality were everywhere, parties were filled with debauchery and drugs like out in the open.

Is this why Gen Z thinks hedonism is cringe?

This information goes right to the US government.

Anyone who doesn't think Facebook is an arm of the US government is naive at best.

All of these religious people who say horrible shit about trans people and make their lives hell embolden and enable this sort of violence, then try to wash their hands of it: "Oh, well, we just didn't want them to use certain bathrooms or read stories, we love Jesus and didn't want this." Fucking hypocritical assholes. All of Christianity is a cesspool of uncompassionate illogical dross.

It's shocking to me someone would want to watch this.

Harry Potter was never good. Why would someone even want to read a Harry Potter book obtained before 2020???

The TERF stuff didn't make Harry Potter bad. It always sucked, and people only realized after the TERF stuff.