You may have a point, but I'm pretty sure Flynn and Horvath are talking about the same phenomenon. Flynn is talking about teens in 2008. Horvath is talking about a phenomenon that started in the mid-2000s. The problem is that because newspeople are obsessed with using generation-based language now, they would rather insert nonsensical implications into their reporting than actually give the starting date Horvath uses in his written testimony.
To be fair, even Horvath brings up "Gen Z" in his speech - but he's bringing it up to a bunch of politicians in a speech. At least he doesn't bring this specific framing up in his written testimony.
If it really was a 4-year-old dating a 7-year-old, I unironically feel like that would be more comfortable, probably because "dating" between little children is kind of silly in my mind.
Overall, my take would probably be "An adult who deliberately gets into a relationship with a minor (like the friend's ex) is kind of weird, while an established couple with a 3-year age gap (like Jessica/Vitor herself) is fine."
I hope this isn't part of a larger trend of human labor being devalued because companies pretend it's just machine labor. I hope that's literally impossible.
To be honest, I was thinking about ones where people uploaded short stories to the platform. I guess if you want a community focused on the act of writing, you have !writing@slrpnk.net and !furrywriting@pawb.social, which are about discussions about writing generally and writing furry stories respectively, and there are probably others that I'm too lazy to find.
Anyways, I am not the best person to find writing communities in general. For example, I literally found this post today, which lists a bunch of communities for short stories. I'm going to list them in order of most to least active, as well as adding my own findings (of communities of short stories where fiction could be appreciated).
Overall, it seems like I probably should have remembered literature.cafe as a whole existed when I made the first post. It also has a community for writing prompts.
I feel like most of the writing communities are also pretty inactive. I'm not sure why. I liked reading short stories on Reddit, and I don't like looking at memes. I'm not sure whether it's a good thing (because I don't use Lemmy as often that way) or a bad thing.
I guess I could spam them with public-domain stories or reposts or something, but I feel like that's just losing the plot.
self-reported rates of cheating remain at a constant 25-35% of the student body over large periods of time.
I've tried for hours, but I can't figure out where you got these numbers. I can mostly find sources implying that far more people admit to engaging in cheating, not to mention sources which imply more people engage in cheating than those who admit to it, and sources that imply that the figures for cheating vary based on many factors even within places of learning, and vary based on what kind of cheating you're talking about. Perhaps I'm just in a filter bubble. Can you tell me where you got these numbers?
You may have a point, but I'm pretty sure Flynn and Horvath are talking about the same phenomenon. Flynn is talking about teens in 2008. Horvath is talking about a phenomenon that started in the mid-2000s. The problem is that because newspeople are obsessed with using generation-based language now, they would rather insert nonsensical implications into their reporting than actually give the starting date Horvath uses in his written testimony.
To be fair, even Horvath brings up "Gen Z" in his speech - but he's bringing it up to a bunch of politicians in a speech. At least he doesn't bring this specific framing up in his written testimony.
To be fair, I might be wrong.