hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2hr ago
There’s a lot of people who are basically lifestyle debtors, their lives are based around moving debt around to cover their high consumption habits. Taking away those people’s toys is probably unpopular, even if probably necessary, and very high home values are the main toy of the more sympathetic bunch of them.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Ok, do you think the quality control inspectors on the Artemis program are DEI hires? I suspect not.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
I don’t think there should be women astronauts. But I don’t think minorities, women, and Canadians on the ship will cause it to blow up mid flight, either.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
There are enough women, Canadians, and blacks that they can find someone competent, and all of them want to be astronauts. Diversity in itself doesn’t mean much.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Just finished Wolf Totem, about a quarter through Man Eaters of Tsavo, thé autobiography of a British colonial officer who killed thé world’s record man eating lions. It makes me wish my son was old enough to read chapter books too; perhaps I’ll revisit in a few years.
Debating between The Doomed City and Alexander to Actium next; this book won’t take me long.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
My financial advisor is routinely shocked that my personally managed stock portfolio outperforms all the managed funds. It consists mostly of commodities, tobacco, blue chips, and mining(which I buy and sell to try to get ahead of metals price changes).
But 5x in two years? That's ambitious.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I know this is a late response, but I want to point out that non-democratic high income countries with fairly robust civil freedoms exist and, more importantly, are not China. Singapore, the UAE, Liechtenstein, are not democracies and are much freer than China. Note that these are not based utopias, either- they're real countries. And they don't aspire to global power. In these places getting arrested for anti-government activities takes being incredibly annoying, not merely irritating. But they're also small countries that know their place in the global order. They have cooperative outside backers, guys. They don't aspire to be superpowers, which necessitates some internal stabilization mechanisms. The record of these in non-democracies is not good.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I have no reason to disbelieve that Trump had sex with the odd 16 or 17 year old. He was a famous libertine in an era when that was much more acceptable. There's no reason to believe he specifically looked for that, of course, and the majority of his mistresses were probably old enough to get plastic surgery on their own.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
the saner approach would be some sort of legalization
Yes, it would, and h2b’s already exist(you can basically get as many workers at regulated wages as you want if you provide housing). The reasons it isn’t a replacement for illegals probably have a lot of blame to go around.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Well Trump’s not an ideologue, though. Thats the whole thing. He wants power for himself, ‘greatness’ for America, etc. He doesn’t have firm opinions on a lot of those things.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
X to doubt.
The pro-life movement’s protest tactics got lots of people arrested, but generally not imprisoned, for behavior that successfully reduced the number of abortion clinics. Antifa members get arrested but not imprisoned all the time too.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
In practice, even in very liberal jurisdictions, church invasions over the Dobbs decision were routinely met with violence and police had little interest in whether that violence was legal- theres a few videos from LA around then.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Or unlawful arrest. But those are all state charges.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
There are laws against this stuff, they were written to go after pro-life civil disobedience and in a few cases against desegregationists. I believe Don lemon is being charged under the KKK act, and the freedom of access to clinics act was considered for him as well.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Conventionally attractive males getting teen girl fanclubs despite being terrible people is… not a new phenomenon; Dzhokar Tsarnaev did, and nobody thinks the Boston marathon bombing was right.
This is more a datapoint in extended adolescence among leftist women than anything else. I suspect that if Dylan Roof had been employed as an underwear model you might have seen some of the same thing in the opposite direction.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
And the hardcore conspiracy theorists are a non-negligible percent, although ‘microchips in thé vaccine’ may not be 100% literal all the time.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Maybe Vance will take the throne by assassination after the mid terms. It would, if nothing else, be very interesting.
It’s unlikely, but we live in interesting times.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Trump has had… lots of appointees that didn't agree with him much. RFK wasn’t someone I would’ve expected to be on the Trump train.
Perhaps Warsh is expected to be more susceptible to political influence?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
If it’s comforting, thé historical pattern in hegemony holding democracies is very clear- real or imagined security threats drive deviations from normal business, which drives polarization that turns inwards(we are here), butchers a good chunk of the political class on both sides, and results in a decidedly not democratic center right government that does a lot of corruption but doesn’t really hold grudges and keeps the economy going. In the long run, we’ll be OK.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Yeah, I deliberately steered clear of ‘as seen on H2’ conspiracy theories.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Following that definition, would it be fair to say that you think a woman whose lifestyle involves walking around in the bad part of town at night in a miniskirt without male company deserves to be raped?
We call these women ‘prostitutes’ and getting raped is an occupational hazard of streetside prostitution.
Now that doesn’t mean they deserve it, but as the vice squad will tell you, they should get normal jobs to avoid it. Their lifestyle is, well, having sex with people who hire shady illegal prostitutes, a much larger percentage of whom are rapists than is normal for sexually active males in any culture.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Pistols are really loud, like ‘agent is now temporarily deaf and probably has permanent hearing damage’ loud. Looking elsewhere doesn’t seem likely.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Hahaha. They can just get paid cash; it’s common enough in restaurants and construction even for citizens, and rent rooms in cash from landlords that don’t give a shit, and drive cautiously as beater #90000 that’s probably not going to pay his ticket so why bother stopping him.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Just one, I believe Dean is a US operative, not Australian. I wouldn’t be shocked if we had one from another country but if so he hasn’t made it obvious.
In practice it probably wouldn’t, I’ll wager thé majority of people doing this are renters.
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