Good news: gravity assists going down hill, if you acquire the knowledge and technique to use it. Well, if not, going down hill wrecks your knees, and falling down cliff potentially even more.

Pedophiles won’t be attracted to 14 year olds. Pedophiles are only sexually attracted to kids before they reach puberty. Most 12 year olds are safe from pedophiles for biological reasons.

It’s not the pedophiles you have to guard your adolescents against – it’s sexual predators. And you cannot just assume someone is safe only because they turned 18 and lost all legal protection.

So, are 17 year olds adults?

Biological speaking, yes, and for a couple of years already.

Culturally speaking, no, and they’ve got a couple of years to go before they become adults – there was a reason why comming of age used to be at 21, not 18.

They are in between biological adulthood and cultural adulthood.

There is a term for this stage of life: adolescence.

17 year olds are neither children nor adults. They are adolescents, adults in training.

On jerboa, it just shows the link to the picture. In most posts with images I see on Lemmy, the posters provided a description of the image in the text part of the post.

It’s a style of writing German used primarily in ich_iel. The name is a word play on tongs (German Zange) and tongue (German Zunge, or, as a synonym to language, Sprache). Zangendeutsch uses as many English words as possible, but translates them in the most ridiculous manner possible. The word Zangendeutsch itself is a nice example: die deutsche Sprache = the German tongue => the German tong = Zangendeutsch. There is a tiny community reverting this principle, using English vocabulary with German phraseology: i_itrl. Check it out to get an idea of the effect.

Only problem is that we are the next mass extinction event. can we survive us?