They wouldn't be able to collect semen. Can someone be prosecuted without that? Sure, but the rape kit would sure help. Especially if the family says it's all a lie.
Someone I know was flat out forced to recant what she had told a teacher. Getting a rape kit before someone can be forced to recant would be huge in a case like that.
This is more about denying the state evidence of who assaulted the child. As one might do if the attacker were a family member that the parents wanted to protect, such as a brother or the father himself.
We both volunteered in future years of the convention until it fell apart. So we didn't stay in touch, but we ran into each other maybe 3 or 4 times over about 8 years. We lived quite far apart so that was about it.
I do get emails from his bank, though, because I got first initial last name @ gmail.com.
I have a common first name for my age. And common middle name. But my last name is pretty unusual. Based on previous research I'd be shocked if there are over 1000 people in America with the same last name.
My wife and I were traveling out of state to a very niche convention. There were maybe 200-300 people there. And we ran into trouble with the hotel because also attending the convention was another man with my exact same first middle and last name. And his wife has the same name as my wife.
We are similar ages and work in roughly similar fields. This convention had absolutely nothing to do any of those similarities, though.
Do I really want to click on this? It's going to be full of utter bullshit... fuck. Edit follows
Jesus fucking Christ. Abandon all hope, ye who enter! I've lost brain cells. It's a wild fucking orgy of buzzwords.
Here's what I've got: light based computation has been around since the 60's. Yet somehow it hasn't supplanted electricity-based chips. But now someone has made a chip for training AI out of it. I guess that would just be a GPU? Anyway it's more efficient because light. Furthermore, maybe someday this will be relevant to the quantum through some as-yet unimagined mechanism. But this is awesome because light is faster than electricity. It. Just. Is.
Humanoid robots? Uh... probably not. I'm picturing a real doll skinned over a general dynamics dog with a voice like Siri and a penchant for long lectures and lying to you about dinner being in the oven (it's either in the fridge or a blacked husk, 50/50 chance).
You just jumped in front of the bullet. We were all thinking it. Or... at least I was. I was busy when I saw this question pop up or it would be my name up there under the spotlight of shame.
My wife is religious. I'm sure what to say about it. It's a non issue in our lives. She thinks what she wants. I think what I want. Kids were a little tricky, but we worked through it. They got introduced to the idea of religion when they were younger and I made no bones about not believing and we agreed they could decide for themselves. AFAIK they are both atheist but who knows when they experience significant loss - a lot of people turn to religion then. The older kids from her first marriage are all believers I think but also pretty casual I think. I think my oldest married an atheist, but the truth is I just don't have reason to talk about religion or lack thereof with anyone.
ETA: we were married by a pagan. I also married my daughter dressed as Darth Vader after dueling her husband for her hand. So it's just not a big thing.
It feels awfully political when I know my job is supporting a company that donates heavily to causes and people I despise. Fortunately, I'm not in that position currently (but I have been), but I'm looking hard for jobs and one of the companies I applied at asked if I've ever previously been employed by Koch or its affiliates and I have to say it's a hard fucking choice between putting food on my family's table vs. supporting fucking Koch. Not that most of them don't donate to bad people but those fucking guys?
Well, if you start with a handful of creamy ranch dressing you can... wtf am I even doing with my life right now?