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[Vector]

If they're non-offending they should stay deep in the closet. It's literally impossible for me to not treat them like trash. They disgust me to my very core. I can't explain why. If I found out my friend was a pedo I'd cut off all communications.

Maybe something's wrong with me, I don't know. But I can't talk to a pedo without wanting to throw something heavy or sharp at them through the computer screen.

I'm gonna maybe really regret saying this, but I knew a guy and was in a social circumstance where I was obligated to make small talk with him 3-4 times a week. I found out about his proclivities when he offended and got sent to jail. I felt so guilty for not having figured him out. There were loads of other people around him/us who didn't figure him out either, though. That was about 5 years ago.

I'm completely sympathetic to your point of view, which to the best of my knowledge is the majority point of view. But it's also really hard for me to wish nothing but ill on someone who I knew for a while. He's going to lose a decade of his life, anyway, which does mean something. So I did some reading because I wanted to understand what the fuck was going on.

I think the most important thing to remember is that most people who hurt kids, actually don't have a paraphilia. They're just "normal people." And they hurt kids anyway.

[EuchreJack]

Friend of mine got pepper sprayed by the cops.

Worst thing is that I've been arguing against the very cops who pepper sprayed my friend even having the damn stuff.

I hate being right sometimes.  And it had to be someone I know.

There is limited recourse for holding individual law enforcement officers responsible.  In order to single out the bad cop, the victim is identified, opening them up to police harassment.  Best advice generally is to just walk it off, not make it worse.

[Eric Blank]

Was enjoying a nice afternoon out on the lawn with my dog and my podcast and a goddamn wasp decided to come over and sting me in the back of the knee. Little militant asshole got stuck in my skin and I got to yank it off and toss it across the yard  but I got all that lovely venom to enjoy now.

[Loud Whispers]

Shit man. What the hell can you do, who do you report the police to?

[Vector]

quis custodiet ipsos custodes

[Naturegirl1999]

quis custodiet ipsos custodes

what language/code is this?

[Frumple]

Latin, iirc. Google thinks so, too. It's a fairly famous saying, heh.

[Naturegirl1999]

Thanks

[Rolan7]

quis custodiet ipsos custodes

My best guess after my mostly forgotten Latin:

Quis.... I want to say "those who are" but that's mostly by syntax.
Custodiet, Custodes are police.  Oh right custodes appears after ("custodes" is common in Latin).  So what does "custodiet" mean?

And ipsos.  I should know ipsos!  It's like, ipso-facto, right?  Ironically I don't remember anything about ipso from my 3 semesters of Latin education.

So...  We have a statement that's about the Custodes (enforces) twice but with two different meanings.  That should be easy... *breath*

Ohh, ohoh.  I think I know.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Who watches the watchers?

[Magmacube_tr]

Turkish web is booooriiiiiiing! It's dull, simple, uniform, overly serious, and has no distinct web cultures formed inside it. Fanart? Fanfiction? Forum games? Memes that are actually funny? Nope. All of the fun and creative things that are fairly common here are seemingly alien to them. No nuance, no creativity, nothing. Just mundane things, conversations and questions. Not even the most basic of text-based games, like word association.

My parents are all like ''Why don't you spend time on the internet in you main language, instead of spending time with the foreigners? We can't understand it.'' I can't share thoughts with people I can't relate. They also can't relate with me. I will come out as weird. Most things I write here will come out strange and clumsy in Turkish anyways.

I am not worked up about it as I may seem, as I have the entire English speaking web at my mouse range and couldn't care less about there, yet it kinda sucks to not have a place on the internet to use you first language and have fun, you know?

The thing I am sad about is that they aren't dumb, or flawed or anything like that. In fact they are a very varied and diverse group of people. They easily could have a healthy and fun online culture developed. Yet no such thing happened for like more than two decades as far as I am aware.

Why are they like this?

[Kagus]

You could put your abilities to good use by criticizing the grammar/pronunciation in Age of Empires representations of Turkish!

[Magmacube_tr]

You could put your abilities to good use by criticizing the grammar/pronunciation in Age of Empires representations of Turkish!

See? I can't relate.

[dragdeler]

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[scriver]

Turkish web is booooriiiiiiing! It's dull, simple, uniform, overly serious, and has no distinct web cultures formed inside it. Fanart? Fanfiction? Forum games? Memes that are actually funny? Nope. All of the fun and creative things that are fairly common here are seemingly alien to them. No nuance, no creativity, nothing. Just mundane things, conversations and questions. Not even the most basic of text-based games, like word association.

My parents are all like ''Why don't you spend time on the internet in you main language, instead of spending time with the foreigners? We can't understand it.'' I can't share thoughts with people I can't relate. They also can't relate with me. I will come out as weird. Most things I write here will come out strange and clumsy in Turkish anyways.

I am not worked up about it as I may seem, as I have the entire English speaking web at my mouse range and couldn't care less about there, yet it kinda sucks to not have a place on the internet to use you first language and have fun, you know?

The thing I am sad about is that they aren't dumb, or flawed or anything like that. In fact they are a very varied and diverse group of people. They easily could have a healthy and fun online culture developed. Yet no such thing happened for like more than two decades as far as I am aware.

Why are they like this?

Because nobody has started it yet! You can start it!

quis custodiet ipsos custodes

My best guess after my mostly forgotten Latin:

Quis.... I want to say "those who are" but that's mostly by syntax.
Custodiet, Custodes are police.  Oh right custodes appears after ("custodes" is common in Latin).  So what does "custodiet" mean?

And ipsos.  I should know ipsos!  It's like, ipso-facto, right?  Ironically I don't remember anything about ipso from my 3 semesters of Latin education.

So...  We have a statement that's about the Custodes (enforces) twice but with two different meanings.  That should be easy... *breath*

Ohh, ohoh.  I think I know.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Who watches the watchers?

it's actually "who cleans the cleaners"

[Naturegirl1999]

It was also read as “who guards the guards” as another possibility as well as “who watches the watchers” from the top website blurb Google gives