I think it’s actually more complicated. Things like sexual orientation, absolutely, some parts of desire are clearly hardwired in. But also there’s plenty that’s able to be induced or changed for any number of reasons.

My primary example is that when I was younger I found tattoos to be a hard turn off, piercings too. Anti tattoo sentiments were part of my family’s form of classism, but over the years I got more positive experiences with people who have them and wound up sleeping with people despite them and eventually through exposure and changing of biases got to the point that I now rarely find one to take away from someone’s beauty and often find them to add to it.

In general it’s rude as hell to assume some aspect of someone else’s tastes can (or should) change, we can’t know them particularly well. But we can challenge our own biases and be open to changes in our tastes coming from those challenges.

Now, as for pedophilia, it’s worth trying to change it if possible, and regardless building safety systems to ensure that it’s difficult for these people to offend. But also, I do suspect that the rise of the rich and powerful engaging in pedophilia is something that at least some of them are inducing. They begin by fetishizing youth as a display of power and creep towards the hard line our culture places at 18, and eventually they cross it. I simply cannot believe, until given evidence to the contrary, that such a large portion of the rich and powerful engaging in sexual abuse of minors is unrelated to the fetishization of youth, the trend of the rich and powerful chasing young adults, and the fact that they can get away with anything they want.

Makes sense, I guess bosom is an excellent translation then lol

USA USA USA! But for real, we started the war, yes, but we had reasonable cassus belli (embargoing our trade with france and kidnapping our seamen into the british navy) and the poem is about a defensive battle.

I still think our national anthem should be a secularized version of the battle hymn of the republic.

And it’s important to add, one of the cassi belli for the war of 1812 was the british impressment of sailors on American vessels, including American citizens.

Yeah it seems like it began meaning chest, became a polite way of saying boobs, and eventually the latter edged out the former. Mind you this is in English and the line in question is Portuguese so maybe arguing English semantics isn’t helping us get close to the truth.

If anyone here speaks Portuguese I’d love to hear if that word has any of these implications in Portuguese.

I have liberty in my tits. They demand freedom!

Not all machines can use dishwasher salt and not all areas need it. It’s apparently for built in water softening. In the US for example areas with hard water typically have whole home water softeners.

I live somewhere with soft water so dishwasher salt isn’t needed. I used to live in Ohio where the water is generally fairly hard, and there every house had a water softener. That said if you don’t have a water softener or soft water (or you just get mineral buildup in places with water) check if your dishwasher has a salt compartment

Oh easy answer: freedom, bitch. Get on board or get out of our country

Ah, I’ll eventually play undertale lol

Well I already transitioned, so congratulations Scotland and Wales

I’ve never heard of cat in this context before. Also sadomasochist means either, not necessarily both

I’ve met the sort of people who’d try with a vulva. But they probably wouldn’t be the first to do this. They might try after seeing it’s only against the rules to use a penis

I’d very much like both governments to lose and the Iranian citizens to win

Yeah, my heart aches for the Iranians oppressed by their government. I hate their government for doing such things to them

Or they have other issues that make maintaining healthcare vital.

It’s super easy to make, it’s called simple syrup and it goes great with whiskey and lemon juice

And yet even when I’m part of the ruling class I manage to get screwed… It’s not my fault I only want to socialize about things I like

Unfortunately the perverts I hang out with are largely programmers and nurses and I’m neither, which really kills my networking options

Ok fair, it’s almost certainly a factor here, but may not be the only cause

Assata Shakur was a supreme badass