There are some subs on Reddit dedicated to finding botnets on Reddit.

By now, there are a wide variety of reasons to have a botnet, mainly tied to curating some public opinion.

My family time shifted Christmas one year to deal with divorce related scheduling issues. That meant that, as an adult, I would be alone on Christmas but that the family would celebrate Christmas later.

For me, it wasn’t a big deal since I would be able to celebrate Christmas, just on a different day. It was hard to get co-workers to understand it.

I don’t know your friend. Your friend may be ok if she has a Christmas with her kids at a later date. She may be depressed enough to not want to talk to anyone so she could pretend it is just a normal day. She may want Christmas with friends but doesn’t know how to communicate it.

If your friend told you that she wanted to spend Christmas with anyone, I would agree with you. However, given the circumstances, if you are really worried about her, just call her on Christmas, wish her a Merry Christmas, and let her guide the discussion.

In greater context, I can see the judge engaging in shady dealings.

Or the judge is just ruling based on the morals and laws of the society he is living in. As horrific as the interpretation is in this case, it may be how the law is written and understood.

Maybe I missed it, but OP didn’t state which country she is from. It is possible that she is from a country with civil law, where judges are much more constrained on how they can rule compared to American common law. Also, that there is a division between rape and sex with a minor shows that the legal system is making a distinction between the two cases, not just the judge husband.

I would expect that having repeated sex with a minor should bring jail time, but I don’t know enough about this country’s legal system to know if this is common or not.

They do understand it. They just believe the number of people who will do it are small enough to be worth it.

Not the most that I did, but I needed to help out a friend in college.

A friend wanted to get out of a group for a class because he was doing a lot of the work. I helped him come up with a strategy.

He was able to pull together a group of friends in non-responsive or disintegrated groups into his. He could then sell to the professor that he was being proactive in getting this group made as it would be easier for the professor than handling the fallout of these people not having groups. He could then leave his group while focusing on pulling together this group; that other group totally did enough work that they could go off by themselves.

He was able to get the professor to approve the change a day before a major due date.

Apparently, one of his group mates was able to figure out that I had to be involved because of how slick this went off.

I’m not going to single out a movie, but 1999 had the best slate of “fuck you, cubicle” movies ever.

I find that most of them hangup when they hear Google Assistant pick up.

I’m not surprised. The fallout from the property collapse is still going through China and the national government has planned out a next phase for development to focus on fewer industries.

It feels like China is entering its lost decade.