A persistent heatwave has been lingering over parts of Europe, setting record high temperatures and turning typically green landscapes brown.
The United Kingdom experienced its driest first half of summer (June 1 to July 16) on record.
These images, acquired by our Terra satellite, show the burned landscape of the United Kingdom and northwestern Europe as of July 15, 2018, compared with July 17, 2017.
Peter Gibson, a postdoctoral researcher at our Jet Propulsion Laboratory, examined how rising global temperatures are linked to regional heatwaves. “If the globe continues to warm, it’s clear we will continue to see events like this increasing in frequency, severity and duration,” Gibson said. “We found that parts of Europe and North America could experience an extra 10 to 15 heatwave days per degree of global warming beyond what we have seen already.”
Unpopular opinion: straight people using “partner” to refer to their SO actually helps normalize the term so that lgbt folx can use it without automatically outing themselves to strangers. It also helps other straight ppl get comfortable with the fact that strangers aren’t entitled to information about other people’s gender or sexuality.
Give op their hard-earned notes
Tbh I hear “partner” and assume gay, I didn’t know straights used it. Very fair point, OP
I hear ‘partner’ and think ‘gay’ too. A girl at work used it for months and I just went with it. When she would say ‘he’ I even thought maybe he was trans*. Anyways, someone using partner makes me more comfortable and I came out to her. She was just an intelligent straight girl that liked the term and was knowledgeable in human sexuality so definitely someone I should have felt comfortable coming out too. It’s a good sign of a straight person uses it IMO.
As a mental health clinician, this is actually my blanket term when discussing any romantic relationship. I agree it normalizes it, but I also think it’s a relatively safe term to use to describe most romantic relationships without making any assumptions about the person’s orientation or identity. I also use the word “partnered” when describing a monogamous relationship status.
The term “partner” also removes the implied hierarchy of boyfriend/girlfriend vs husband/wife. This is relevant both to non-monogamous people, and unmarried individuals for whom the importance of their relationship isn’t dictated by its legal status.
also you can make cowboy jokes
Also people in “straight” relationships may be bi and/or one partner may be trans and not out. Just so people don’t assume. Not that that’s the point of this post but thinking of people I know in what look like standard male female relationships who use the term partner, and some really are cis and straight but some are not and you’d never casually know the difference unless you knew the people involved.
The first time I heard straight people say partner btw was in the nineties. I was surprised but have never been offended. It’s a legit term it’s not like we own it.
Kids who sought out sexual/romantic interactions with adults…
because they were lonely and needed human interaction/attention
or had emotional needs not being met
because they thought it was the price of being treated with care
or because it was a way to understand/reenact/overwrite/escape previous trauma
because they thought it was normal
or because they had picked up the message that this was how to be daring and cool and sexy/mature
or because they didn’t really understand how it would affect them
because they felt like they deserved it
or because they thought there wasn’t a big difference and “age is just a number”
or because being sexual around adults was the only time people said nice things to them or seemed to like them or notice them
or for any other reason
… still did not deserve the abuse they suffered.
Kids who initiate flirtation with adults still don’t deserve abuse.
Adults who aren’t abusers will not take advantage of a kid’s crush or advances. It’s the adult’s responsibility to set clear boundaries and enforce them. It’s an adult’s responsibility to not become sexually or romantically involved with a child. Adults who do are abusers.
Children did not cause those adults to become abusers. Children cannot tempt nonabusers into becoming abusers. Children are never responsible for adults deciding to abuse.
Even if you feel like you made it really easy for them to abuse you, being vulnerable to abuse around a nonabuser doesn’t result in abuse. Your vulnerability wasn’t the cause of the abuse. Their choices were.
It’s not your fault, it was never your fault.
I knew a girl growing up 13 years old already been molested before that who was convinced “dating” 35 year old men showed her “maturity”. SHE WAS GROOMED. THESE WERE RAPISTS. IT WAS NOT HER FAULT. Yet she was put into forced psych treatment for her “poor life choices” and the men raping her didn’t get squat.
The backlash against Ocasio-Cortez for saying it’s good to deport literal concentration camp guards shows how you can’t campaign in slogans alone, because everyone has a different interpretation of what they mean. A hell of a lot of people were under the impression that abolishing ICE meant abolishing the entire practice of deportation, and no politician saw it that way. I’ve heard activists on the left say policy details don’t matter at first, because it’s all about energizing people. I get the logic in that, but there’s the reverse side: a generation that becomes turned off from voting because they perceive major promises being broken. And this little dust up is nothing, wait until people learn that Medicare doesn’t resemble the single payer of popular imagination.
I’m guessing that will happen about the same time people realize that Medicaid is also not like that, and is actually run by extremely profitable insurance companies.
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