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Forced penetration: If a woman forces a man to have sex, is that rape?

When a man has penetrative sex with a woman without her consent, that's rape. But what if a woman makes a man have penetrative sex with her, without his consent? That's not rape under the law of England and Wales, but the author of a new study of the phenomenon says perhaps it should be.

[...] Aspects of John's story are repeated in the experiences of some of the other men Dr Weare has interviewed. One of her findings is that the perpetrator in "forced-to-penetrate" (FTP) cases is often a female partner or ex-partner (her research focuses only on forced penetration involving men and women), and that the experience is frequently one element in a wider pattern of domestic abuse.

[...] One myth Weare's research dispels is that forced penetration is impossible because men are physically stronger than women. Another is that men view all sexual opportunities with women as positive.

A third myth is that if men have an erection they must want sex. In fact, Weare says, "an erection is purely a physiological response to stimulus".

"Men can obtain and sustain an erection even if they're scared, angry, terrified etc," she says. "There's also research that shows women can respond sexually when they are raped (e.g. have an orgasm) because their body is responding physiologically. This is an issue for both male and female victims that is not discussed enough, but there is clear evidence in this area."

A number of the participants in Weare's 2017 study reported FTP experiences after getting extremely drunk or high, and being unable to stop what was happening. One of those interviewed for the new study describes going home with a woman after a night out clubbing, and blacking out after being given what he suspects was a date rape drug. He says he was then forced to engage in non-consensual sex.

FTP is not rape, but all PIV is rape (of a female).

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Watching the Everyday Astronaut stream.

Would be a nice palate cleanser after the scrubbed CRS-18 launch.

Oh, here's an official stream.

Edit: Confirmed not happening today.

How deeply will this cut into the president's TV ratings?

Are the two in competition, or are they complimentary? Like, is one a condiment for the other?

Na na naaaaaaa...

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) are teaming up on legislation to reform the nation’s marijuana laws and help victims of the War on Drugs, which disproportionately hurts communities of color.

The bill, titled the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, would decriminalize cannabis and require expungement of prior marijuana-based convictions on the federal level. Such proposals have been floated in the past and are supported by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

Kamala Harris, Jerry Nadler Introduce Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana

ASUS Announces New ROG Phone II: 120Hz OLED, 6000mAh & Snapdragon 855+

12 GB of RAM, 802.11ad wireless. Phone size, thickness, and weight increased significantly.

Also features one of the new ARM DynamIQ core cluster configs, that I think I've seen on at least one other recent smartphone:

1x Cortex-A76 @ 2.96GHz
3x Cortex-A76 @ 2.42GHz
4x Cortex-A55 @ 1.80GHz

I imagine that in 10 years, every smartphone sold will have specs exceeding this and will be intended for use with a dock and monitor/TV so it can be used as a portable desktop replacement. Or forget the dock, and just use a successor to 802.11ad to connect to a display wirelessly, maybe while laying it down on a nearby charging pad.

Never forget.

Corsair Unveils 32 GB Vengeance LPX DDR4 DIMMs, 64 GB & 128 GB Dual-Channel Kits

$150 for 1× 32 GB @ 2400 MT/s, $155 for 1× 32 GB @ 2666 MT/s (price for 3000 MT/s not specified). Basically no additional charge for 64, 128, and 256 GB kits.

That's the equivalent of $37.50-$38.75 for 8 GB, which isn't so awful but shows how DRAM pricing has stagnated over the last decade. If we had scaled down, we might be looking at $1-2 per GB today. Hopefully we will reach a point where 128 GB costs $100-$150, and larger module capacities could help make that happen.

This one from last month is a bit more expensive: Samsung 32GB DDR4-2666 Non-ECC Memory at Retail: $168

So when do we reach the point when all DIMMs have ECC by default? 64 GB modules? 128 GB? We have to protect against all those cosmic rays, right? ?

Patriot Launches P200 SSDs with Maxio and Silicon Motion Controllers: From $31.99

This is a launch of a budget line of SSDs. Not specified if it uses QLC NAND, but it has better rated endurance than Samsung 860 QVO (for the 1 TB models: 640 TB for P200, 360 TB for 860 QVO).

256 GB for $31.99 ($0.125/GB)
512 GB for $49.99 ($0.0977/GB)
1 TB for $87.99 ($0.088/GB)
2 TB for $189.99 ($0.095/GB)

That's newly released products, not sale prices.

A quick Slickdeals search finds:

$85: 1TB Intel 660p QLC 3D NAND NVMe M.2 2280 PCIe Internal SSD
$80: 1TB Crucial P1 3D NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD
$80.5: 1TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive
$80: Crucial 1TB BX500 2.5” SATA Internal SSD + F/S

Looks like $80 is a good sale price right now, with lower than $80 sure to come for drives like the Patriot P200 SSDs.

Even if you don't trust them as far as you can throw them, they might make good portable drives if you can insert them into an enclosure.

Eats the same slop from the same trough

Will we ever rid ourselves of republicans and democrats? Or the financial industry that supports them?