I doubt it alters the rules for statutory rape for an unmarried teen. But Payne probably won’t face legal repercussions, regardless. I’d be shocked if this happened within the statute of limitations.

That’s not what the word “can” means, but I’ll leave you to it, champ.

So we’ve just given up any semblance of sensible reporting around these kinds of things, huh?

It’s not “semantics.” The cited report does not say that the food is contaminated, full stop. Anyone who reads it as saying that is a fucking idiot.

Except that’s not how “toxic” materials work. Anything is toxic, depending on the dosage.

This is a propaganda piece paid for by an advocacy group. It’s junk science, which is exactly why the “report” doesn’t mention any actual consequences of the wrapping materials.

Funnily enough, that was one of the main drivers behind the Prohibition movement in the United States. How’d that go?

Not that alcohol is *good* for you (it’s literally poison), but your post (or whoever’s post you copy-pasted) is extremely misleading.

First, the term “class 1 carcinogen” sounds really scary, but it includes things like sunlight. So that classification very clearly doesn’t mean that any exposure at all immediately…

I feel like maybe I should have been into the comic to appreciate the show, because I couldn’t get past the first episode. Wooden performance from the lead, and some of the most stilted dialogue in a modern show. And for a show that’s supposed to be all about subverting religious tropes, it doesn’t seem to understand…

It’s extremely weird that this is being tied to the current discussions (and endless mea culpas) on racism, since *being Muslim isn’t a fucking race.*

It certainly *is* unique to Islam within the Abrahamic faiths. Last I checked, extremist Calvinists aren’t declaring holy war on cartoonists for depicting Jesus in any light.

I really wish that people would stop using quotes from defense lawyers (or prosecutors, for that matter) as somehow indicative of the justice system’s opinion on certain behavior.

Their entire job is to prevent their client from going to prison or paying a fine. Of course they’re going to raise arguments in favor of…

While “Gloria” presented Betty as a garrulous radical, “Betty” presents Gloria as almost oblivious, especially when it comes to Phyllis Schlafly’s influence on a specific audience.

“Humans are pretty obviously ‘uniquely violent’, like, you ever see a chimp build a bomb? Ever see a tiger invent the rifle?”

There it is. The stupidest fucking argument I’ve ever seen on the internet.

Like, you can’t hug your pacifist chimpanzee baby with nuclear arms, man. 

You have an odd definition of “naturally occurring,” given what humans have had to do to fruits and vegetables to make them edible.

But more importantly, you don’t understand the first fucking thing about chemistry or agriculture. So maybe you (and the rest of the fucking halfwits who propagate this anti-scientific…

And this is still the first time I’ve heard anyone try to sell plant-based meat products as “healthy.” They were developed to cut down on red meat production, which is primarily an environmental concern.

It’s the same as a vegan diet. Cutting meat out of your diet isn’t inherently healthy if you still eat a shit-ton of…

Not on a chemical level. The fact that you don’t understand the process doesn’t make it evil.

Fortunately, that’s now how food production works.

Food, you dipshit.

The chemicals in an apple sound like a chemistry major’s homework.

Or you could have stayed awake in chemistry class. That probably would have saved you a lot of heartache.

Except “organic” at least has a regulatory meaning. That meaning has nothing at all to do with health or nutrition, but it does have a meaning.