Yeah, that’s what I meant. Just didn’t say it right

I’ll never not think of Venture Brothers…

Shrinky dinks aren’t science Dean!

What would really help is a way to disable replies… (Edit: meant the notifications)

I don’t make posts here, but I’ve hesitated posting big news articles before, because people keep making top level comments days/weeks later and they keep coming in as notifications.

Some people on here desperately feel the need to reply back to every notification, so I’m assuming a lot of the deletes are just people who feel satisfied with the answers they already got

A “shotgun marriage” was when a man got a woman pregnant and the woman’s family said “either she’s a widow or a wife”.

Because “single mom” was pretty much a death sentence for her and the baby, and few men would marry her with a kid

The Italian example is more a man raping the woman who wouldn’t marry him, because then she’d be forced to marry him

Completely opposite…

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The entire point is that they’re absent from the numbers…

So obviously it wouldn’t be reflected in the numbers…

and lots of victims won’t even try to report.

Especially these days when ICE camps out at court houses and police stations and just grabs anyone who’s not white.

Those stats never tell the whole story.

Lots of cops just won’t take reports, and lots of victims won’t even try to report.

Especially these days when ICE camps out at court houses and police stations and just grabs anyone who’s not white.

2025 numbers won’t be out for months, but now more than ever they’re not gonna tell the whole story.

Like, to be optimistic let’s say an area increases the populations trust of the police, the numbers would show crime skyrocketing, because the percent of reported crime goes up even if actual crime goes down.