age is only a number, and buckshot is only metal (:
abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Age is only a number. It’s perfectly legal to write those numbers in octals instead of decimals… That would still make it illegal in most western countries though.
populustree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
That would still make it illegal in most western countries though.
It sounds like they started dating when she was 16, which means as gross as it is, it’s not illegal in most places. Unless there was some sort of grooming, which is definitely possible given they first met when she was 15, but nothing we’ve been told in the story lets us determine for sure that it’s illegal.
As for octal, you can’t write 9 in octal, so we know 1984 has to be base 10 at a minimum.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 week ago
You can write 1984 in octal as 3700. But I meant that 16 in octal is 20, most often 18 is the age at which you’re officially an adult. Maybe “age of consent” is something different, but it’s nasty.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
You can write 1984 in octal as 3700
Right, but we’ve read it as “1984” already, so it’s a question of how we interpret those digits. It could be decimal 1984, or if it’s dozenal it would be (3124)~10~, or hexadecimal would mean it’s (6532)~10~. And the post itself doesn’t actually mention an age, that’s just us interpreting it
Maybe “age of consent” is something different
It is, very often. Most countries have it at 16 or lower, as do most states in America, I believe. (I’m not American, and that’s just something I vaguely recall hearing an American say. Never bothered verifying it myself.)
abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 week ago
You’re technically correct, but I was counting on a bit of “poetic freedom”. Write as octal, read as decimal.
The post does mention age, not explicitly, but it is what the post is about.
2000 - 1984 = 16
2000 - 1959 = 41
I don’t care about legality, this is borderline predatory and therefor wrong. Maybe they’re still happily married and (without more context) I’m sure OP loves their parents (so would I), but that doesn’t change how I look at this.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That would still make it illegal in most western countries though.
It’s 16 (it says they started dating “year after”) so perfectly legal in most western countries.
animeeyes@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Age is just a number is also what my mom’s parents said when they found out about their relationship. 🙃
pencil_nerd@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Oof