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Its important to the people deciding whether to give them more money.

WDYM you’re still using them all?

You don’t have e any green ticks?

The paper loss is still critically important though.

“Oh don’t worry about that 64 billion. That’s just something or other the accountants dreamed up. You know what those buzz-harshing assholes are like.”

This has always been a thing. Who knows if it’s moreso now or not.

If you don’t like your situation then it’s kind of natural to romanticise some great upheaval that would shatter the status quo.

Metric allows you to convert between length volume and mass in your head. Someone smarter than me could probably take a reasonable estimate of how long a kettle will take to boil just by knowing it’s wattage and estimating its volume.

You’re right that “pounds” may have e been a practical measurement back when people didn’t have calibrated and everyone’s hand weighed a pound. However, that advantage ceased once everyone standardised those measurements.

A metre is equally divisible by 50, 25, 20, 10, 5, and 2. There arr numerous advantages to a base 10 system.

That’s kinda my point.

Relationship was certainly “weird”, but not “rape”.

I had wondered why /c/mop@quokk.au is suddenly dead.

That’s what I initially thought but I did some reading and it’s not really the case.

Firstly, the age of consent in france is 15, and the attitudes of the French people are much more relaxed in this area, and I can respect that.

However, it’s likely there was some kind of relationship when he was 15 and she was 39. There’s no evidence that it was sexual but I kinda assume that it was. His parents sent him to a school in Paris to break them up. I can’t be bothered linking the source but it’s mentioned on the wikipedia page and you can click through to read the references.

On balance, it seems no laws were broken and it seems unlikely that either party was harmed. However, the early years of their relationship were certainly dubious ethically.

I have change my mind somewhat since making these comments.

While Macron was at school they were certainly testing societal boundaries, even if French notions about such things are more relaxed.

You’re right, if my 15yo daughter was spending time with a 39yo guy I would be murderous.

However, I’m not French, it’s not the 90s, they’ve been married for 20 years now. By all accounts it’s been fulfilling and satisfying marriage…

Everything?

Anyone who’s ever removed carpet can attest to how much fine dust gets trapped. Its gross.

I’m sure it is, but what “some cultures” think isn’t really relevant, is it.

Yah. Turtally.

That’s true, but “grooming” is a question of morality. it’s a specific term involving people are under the age of consent. It’s not “grooming” just because you find the relationship immoral.

WDYM sticks and paper are not appropriate building materials ?

Again, impossible to clean.

He was already over the French age of consent when he met her.

Vacuuming doesn’t achieve much.

Yeah carpet is nuts.

Why would you not want to cover your floor in something to trap all the dust and soak up any liquid which is impossible to clean.

They had some kind of relationship while he was at school. It’s not clear whether it was sexual.

Age of consent in France is 15. So he was already an adult in this context.

He was of age?

Do you think he feels like he was raped?