I’m working on a side project studying variations in human facial features. It’s been helpful to study celebrity faces because it’s easy to find numerous reference photos. I’ve actually got a fairly good range of weird looking white men, turns out Hollywood is pretty flush with those, but it’s been harder to find...
We had some sex education in primary school at age 9.
It told the girls that they’re going to have periods. At age 9 some of them will be so I think this is a good idea. Parents were able to opt their kids out if they wished.
It told the group as a whole that puberty is a thing, and we might start it soon. Some changes might happen like body shape changes, voices getting deeper, hair growth etc.
None of it was about how to have sex, or how children are made. It was simple stuff that kids that age would benefit from knowing.
I don’t understand why anyone would even be on the fence about their kids knowing this stuff.
Rebecca Joynes allegedly became pregnant after having sex with one of her victims, known as boy B, Manchester Crown Court heard - she denies the allegations against her....
It’s not the best source obviously, but according to Wikipedia this is incorrect, women can be charged with rape (if I’ve read this correctly):
Under section 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, the use of the phrase “his penis” is a misnomer as all laws were previously written using male pronouns. It does not exclude those who are legally female from being able to be covered from the definition of rape.[12]
The last time I pasted a Wikipedia link on a world news community I was banned, so mods please just delete this comment if I’ve done something wrong. [Edit] note it was a different world news community, I’m just trying to be extra careful.
This was the other world news community which is much more eastern based. I was questioning what somebody had said about a certain subject. Not saying they were wrong. Just asking if everything on the Wikipedia page was nonsense (I used stronger language which I won’t make the same mistake of doing here).
For some reason this was justification for a ban. I guess I don’t want to be part of a community which is policing itself so much as this will obviously lead to a scewed comment section.
Yeah that’s the one. I hadn’t noticed they were so ban-happy and I did enjoy getting some, definitely not all of them, different takes on world events.
What I really don’t like is over policing though as it means you can unintentionally be stuck in a bubble.
Maybe there are stats on the number of bans a community has. That’d be interesting to have an idea of how much a community is policing.
I like the concept of the iOS/Android app BeReal. Your app tells you randomly during the day that you have to take a combined picture (frond and back camera). So you don’t have much time to prepare. Then this pic is uploaded and friends who follow you can see it....
Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....
It’s taken a lot of tanking for people to wake up.
Also these are just council seats. I can only hope it translates to the GE. The past few years however has taught me to hold no expectations for how the public will vote.
Listen to those funny accents (lemmy.world)
Most unique looking celebrities?
I’m working on a side project studying variations in human facial features. It’s been helpful to study celebrity faces because it’s easy to find numerous reference photos. I’ve actually got a fairly good range of weird looking white men, turns out Hollywood is pretty flush with those, but it’s been harder to find...
Plan to ban sex education for children under nine (www.bbc.co.uk)
Teacher accused of having sex with two students says she ruined her 'dream job' with stupid 'mistakes', jury hears (news.sky.com)
Rebecca Joynes allegedly became pregnant after having sex with one of her victims, known as boy B, Manchester Crown Court heard - she denies the allegations against her....
Let's do micro service (sh.itjust.works)
"BeReal." FOSS alternative? Yes please! (programming.dev)
I like the concept of the iOS/Android app BeReal. Your app tells you randomly during the day that you have to take a combined picture (frond and back camera). So you don’t have much time to prepare. Then this pic is uploaded and friends who follow you can see it....
Dirty, dangerous, and failing: Crisis in UK prisons revealed | openDemocracy (www.opendemocracy.net)
There’s going to be an Urgent Question on the prisons crisis after PMQs today, so I thought I’d share this for some helpful background info.
Amazon Customer Service has become awful (www.dedoimedo.com)
Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens (www.pbs.org)
Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....
Conservatives crushed by ‘worst local election result’ in years (www.theguardian.com)
Spread of Tory losses leads former minister to say there’s ‘no such thing as a safe seat any more’...
Clean Energy is not enough (quotefancy.com)
Thank goodness (sh.itjust.works)
Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz (lemmy.ca)
Prompt was the full lyrics to a song. Test your lyrical knowledge out and try guessing the title of this song. The genre is Rock.
Anon revisits early youtube (sh.itjust.works)
Once you reach a certain age, all hairs are pubes because you grew them post-puberty
Swiss parliamentary committee backs plan to deport asylum seekers (www.swissinfo.ch)
Tesla Fires Guy Who Slept In Car, Showered At Work, Embracing The Elon Musk Dream (www.carscoops.com)
[General question to the Android community] Have you given up on the audio jack, or do you still only buy devices that have it?
(Posting this here rather than !askandroid as it’s a quite general question)...
The US loses to Russia and China in popularity across Africa (africa.businessinsider.com)
China and Russia surpass the U.S. in approval ratings in Africa....
Every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man (lemmy.world)