BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[First Aspect]

I think possibly your definition of ethnic Germans will differ from Elon's. As might the mechanisms of cleansing.

 

[Dorset Boy]

Was it the second crusade that got no further than eastern Europe, an massacred about a million jews instead?

 

[BoldonLad]

I think social media sites just for under 16s is a non starter. If kids under 16 can bypass systems restricting their access to adult social media, adults can (and will) bypass restrictions aimed at excluding them from under 16's social media sites. You would have to moderate such sites so heavily in order for them to be safe it wouldn't be worth doing financially imo.

Exactly. The whole point of being a teenager is to do what you are not supposed to do!, or, at least it was when I was a teenager.

 

[Pross]

My memory about history is a bit hazy, but this is ringing a bell somewhere. Maybe it was just a film I watched.

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Those damned Romans driving out the Franks and Goths

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Exactly. The whole point of being a teenager is to do what you are not supposed to do!, or, at least it was when I was a teenager.

I don't have kids, but from friends and family, I don't actually think it is these days. I think parental relationships have changed and certainly kids seem a lot less independent now, and teenagers less prone to the types of shenanigans we got up to at that age.

 

[icowden]

I don't have kids, but from friends and family, I don't actually think it is these days. I think parental relationships have changed and certainly kids seem a lot less independent now, and teenagers less prone to the types of shenanigans we got up to at that age.

I think this is fair. I don't know of any kids who pop round to their friends house to see if they are "coming out to play" as it were. There certainly isn't the notion that we had when I was a kid, where you just told your mum you were going round to a friends house, usually followed by a "make sure you're back for dinner / before it gets dark". If you were lucky your parents would know which friend it was, but more often than not if the first friend wasn't in you'd go to the second friend.

In a similar vein, every child that went to my kids Brownies was walked or dropped off by a parent. I used to cycle to cubs once I was 9.

 

[Beebo]

A very rare whole life sentence given to man who murdered and sexually abused his adopted son.

This partner gets 25 years for allowing the sexual abuse.

This will just give more attention to the “all gay men are child abusers” nonsense. And reopen the debate on same sex adoption.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4gyrewq8xkt

 

[Pinno718]

Didn't know where to put this: @briantrumpet


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwJHkXKvzwU

 

[Pinno718]

More... (fascinating)


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkeWV7L0a_s

 

[Psamathe]

I mean, it is utterly ludicrous that Starmer is *still* defending using X as a communication vector when that vector is actively trying to make the UK ungovernable. They should stop using it at the very least, if not threatening to ban it, as Brazil did, if it insists on fomenting violence.

Trawling my last weeks news feeds and interesting report

UK attorney general tells department to stop using X amid disinformation concerns
Exclusive: Richard Hermer’s office understood to be first in government to restrict use after recent riots

The attorney general for England and Wales has told his office to no longer post on X, making it the first UK government department to stop using the Elon Musk-owned platform amid increasing worries about its use to incite violence and racism.

Richard Hermer’s office last posted on X on Friday, and it is understood that officials have been told to no longer use the site, unless for the specific purpose of combatting disinformation there.