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There are different kinds of abuse of position of trust, for instance if there is a threat or strong element of coercion, for instance promising promotion or threatening to fire someone. Then it is definitely rape.
I see it more as a position of trust as in parents must be able to trust the school and the teachers.
I don’t see the teacher promising better grades, hack I don’t even know if she was really his teacher?
But personally I was never one to give in to authority, maybe it’s different for other teens that age?
So maybe it was technically rape?

But they have not been enforced since Trump became president. And obviously Russia doesn’t give a fuck, they are already sanctioned. And Hungary doesn’t give a fuck either, they have shown that very clearly, and Orban and Trump are pals, and I’m pretty sure Trump would be very happy to give Orban permission if he asked.

But in the end US sanctions against Russia have been void since Trump became president because they have not been enforced.

I agree that age difference should be a factor, and as you can see from the Wikipedia page I linked above, there are countries that have additional limits based on age difference.

I have known about the age of consent since I was around that age myself, because we were informed about it in sex education in school.

If you don’t know these things, it’s because your school sucks, or maybe because you are stupid, or maybe you are not old enough?
Admittedly I didn’t know the difference in age in American states, because I’m in Europe, but it was extremely easy to find the page on Wikipedia, that has everything laid out very clearly.

But thanks for the implication that it should somehow be suspicious to know basic facts. You must be very special, since you suspect people for knowing things!

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It would also have been legal in my own country, but of course the teacher would be fired.

It only works if either party gives a shit. But Russia doesn’t give a shit about sanctions, if they can find a willing fool to either buy or supply they don’t care. Hungary doesn’t seem to care either, and that’s the reason it doesn’t make sense.

Apart from that there are no US threats against anybody dealing with Russia since Trump became president. All American sanctions against Russia have been void for half a year now. Which makes the story make even less sense.

Congress is trying to change that except not really, because they are waiting for the go ahead from Trump, which allegedly he gave yesterday. Or did he? We don’t really know, because American politics are all about gas lighting.

No not really, only defined so legally in Michigan because rules are stricter than the 14+1 states I listed above. Had it been 1 of those states it would have been perfectly legal.

Yes it’s completely insane, I have no idea how that is legal? AFAIK it clearly isn’t legal under the American constitution , where you are considered an American if you are born on US soil. And the base in Germany is AFAIK US soil.

But AFAIK the treatment of everyone is illegal if they don’t see a judge before being expelled.
It’s absolute insanity, and it’s insane Americans are allowing it to happen.

This is actually legal in many countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_by_country

In USA it’s legal in many states that have 16 years as the legal age of consent: Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia, Puerto Rico.

In many more states including Michigan it is 16 unless restricted by authority, which would have made it legal if she wasn’t his teacher or another kind of person of authority to him.

So why are people so quick to call this rape? Obviously it’s unprofessional as a teacher. But the moral age limit is definitely not as clear cut as some here seems to think.

So IMO this is not really newsworthy, She will probably be punished by the law, and lose her job, but this is not a huge scandal of pedophilia as some seems to liken it to. She abused a position of trust, and that’s about it.

This story sounds very strange, how would American sanctions determine whether Russia can deliver anything to Hungary?
On the other hand EU has strict regulation for nuclear power-plants, which last I heard, Russia does not live up to.
Also it is pretty common knowledge that USA has not enforced sanctions against Russia since Trump became president.
So the whole story lacks details about obvious questions.

Anyways, if this is true, EU must quickly sanction it so EU doesn’t buy nuclear tech or any other form of infrastructure from Russia. Why would we work our ass off to stop Russian gas in 2 years, if we allow Russian built nuclear power plants?

Well IDK about that, but they are not sent to prison in Venezuela, they are being sent to their home country.

To be fair they have also expelled people who are as white as can be from Germany, Norway and Denmark that I have read about.
The Dane was married to an American woman and had American born children, and had worked in USA for many years.
But without the right paperwork, you get thrown out, also if you are white. Maybe the risk is smaller IDK, but nobody is safe.

He also claimed he wanted to make self driving safer than humans. You can’t do that well if the car has the same visual limitations a human has.

Religion is just organized superstition. And all of Christianity is a mental cancer on society.

I hope you find a way. 🤞

But we’re pre-dating the common distro hopping discussions

No we aren’t, Linux fora were full of them even before Ubuntu more than 20 years ago. Debian, Suse, Fedora, Mandrake, Mepis, PCLinux.
Distro hopping was always a thing people debated.

The rest of that sentence is a bit confusing, who are we? And how am I supposed to read minds? And going back was kind of where we started, because you claimed it was a new thing for Debian. Debian was definitely recommended to general users, for many good reasons. Stability and huge repository among them, but also user friendly install procedure, and good package manager, that handled dependencies way better than Suse and Fedora.

I think this points to the idea that knowing why an answer is correct is important.

If by knowing you mean understanding, that’s consciousness like General AI or Strong AI, way beyond ordinary AI.
Otherwise of course it knows, in the sense of having learned everything by heart, but not understanding it.

Debian was never talked about as a serious contender in distro hopping

Back in 2005 when Ubuntu was all the rage, the first alternative to Ubuntu was almost always Debian. Only later when Mint became a thing, that was also an obvious alternative, because it was similarly focused on being easy to use.

Good summary. 👍

Debian. I do see Debian mentioned now a lot more than it has been in years.

I haven’t noticed much difference, Debian has always been the go to distro if you wanted reliability and repositories that cover almost everything. Debian has always been an excellent choice for productivity. It’s not by accident that Debian for more than 20 years has been the distro with by far the most derivatives.

By that standard Arch is the only distro that has achieved something similar, and it may be somewhat telling that SteamOS switched from Debian based to Arch based. Arch is way smaller in scope, and more nimble and easier to maintain. But AFAIK they do not have the democratic process Debian has, so I’m not sure it can really be called community based distro like Debian. Arch has more of a top leadership.
Debian is probably the most true to the Free and Open Source ideals among the big distros.

it doesn’t know or understand

But that’s not what intelligence is, that’s what consciousness is.
Intelligence is not understanding shit, it’s the ability to for instance solve a problem, so a frigging calculator has a tiny degree of intelligence, but not enough for us to call it AI.
There is simply zero doubt an AI is intelligent, claiming otherwise just shows people don’t know the difference between intelligence and consciousness.

Passing an exam is a form of intelligence.
Can a good AI pass a basic exam?
YES.
Does passing an exam require consciousness?
NO.
Because an exam tests abilities of intelligence, not level of consciousness.

it can only guess at the next statistically most likely piece of information based on the data that has been fed into it. That’s not intelligence.

Except we do the exact same thing! Based on prior experience (learning) we choose what we find to be the most likely answer. And that is indeed intelligence.

Current AI does not have the reasoning abilities we have yet, but they are not completely without it, and it’s a subject that is currently worked on and improved. So current AI is actually a pretty high form of intelligence. And can sometimes out compete average humans in certain areas.