I agree, the sooner the better.

Sex ed is what makes children mature enough to have sex once they reach the age of doing it.

But what's the point of raising the age of consent?

My point is there isn't any if sex ed is done well, it only makes sex more taboo.

Conversely, if you want to raise it, maybe it's because sex ed wasn't done properly, making teens not able to be mature enough for an activity they are gonna do anyway.

For driving, I would agree in general we aren't good at driving, but changing our means of transport isn't easy, despite being the best solution. That wasn't really the topic though...

Thinking people in their late teenage years and young adults aren't mature enough to do some of those things is just a big tell of how bad we educate them rather than their brain not being "developed".

Consent is the most obvious example, teenagers are gonna have a sexual life no matter what you want them to do. Removing consent just remove yourself from the responsibility of educating them and entice them to stay hidden.

Driving is also just necessary to anyone working, again being safe just need to be taught, plenty of adults are just as immature and stupid.

The same can be said for drinking or smoking, prevention is so much more effective than restrictions.

However, for voting or joining the army that's when i agree. Because the system is built to prey on them, making sure they stay uneducated and vulnerable. So only then does having restrictions make sens to keep them safe.

Well recently the news in France had the same effect for me. The fascists won the European election, then our president dissolved the National Assembly. And the fascists just seems to be more and more popular recently...

Not sure I share that viewpoint for the US, the history of the indigenous is the story of the people, not the nation.

And the US has many more populations that have great history, from EU and Africa.

But the beginning of its history is founded on the gathering and interaction of all those different cultures.

So for me saying the country is young doesn't quite have the same connotations of erasure from colonialist, it mostly makes me think of how current the melting pot of all those different cultures are.

I still agree we shouldn't diminish the importance of indigenous people in it.

One side? I would have said any sides, the whole system of election is nonviable.

Maybe since most of Antarctica is claimed by Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

But more pragmatically because most of the population is researchers, which you can expect knows english, the international language.

Even better is, we casually drop the "Comment" and add the accent of a question instead, so it can go like : "Ça va?" "Ça va."

Note that in French we can make the meaning of it vary from roughly 'not great' to 'good' just by how enthusiastic we are. It's really only when we want to express radical emotions that we might stop using it.

(Although someone depressed might not want to express their distress and use it like the expressions in this meme..)

It is, and it doesn't mean i don't love them, i do.

Cats are more manageable to love because they don't lick you, their fur still triggers it but not as much.

I think i got the allergy alongside my love of pets from growing up with the nicest cat ever.

So i'm honestly thinking about trying something to lessen the allergy, that or a hairless cat.

Come on he would definitely be cute with a mini shopping cart!

To suggest where the meme was taken from (if it wasn't abundantly clear already...)

I'm allergic to cat's and dog's saliva, and to everyone like me he may stay a good boy, but he can't be a good employee.

P.S. One solution is to give him a little cart

It was intentional, honestly i'm proud of it x)

And I just put mine on the shelf and pick it up when i use it.

Nowhere, not American is a foreign concept to them.

You know beauty isn't just the word we use for aesthetic beauty, we also use it for concepts, such as this one.

It's too good for AI, but photoshop, maybe AI in photoshop idk...

Flies are not an enemy, and are fren food so they are ok.

Mosquitoes are the enemy, diseases, infernal sound and itchy bites. No purpose that flies aren't here to do.

Another example, mosquitoes, they need to go extinct and all burn in hell. That and also bed bugs, fuck them too.

I also wish ants were not that invasive, I love them but hell they can be annoying.

Elitist entail their is a technical reason behind it, otherwise it's only gatekeeping.

In music it can be some music theory, prodigious playing, complex sound design etc...

I did fall a bit into this idea of elitism too at first. It's easy when you are just starting to educate yourself and only see the technique.

But then at some point you gotta start having opinions and preferences that goes beyond rationality, or your not really enjoying an art form.

You can still be a bit elitist, but then it's only personal and you stop gatekeeping.

That said the technical aspects can be very interesting.

Moreover I also love the way anyone passionate about music describe what they like.

I love that linear extrapolation you know is only there to lie even more on a graph that's already a baseless correlation.