hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Electricians are not particularly ‘dumb’- thé really stupid tradesmen tend to be welders. Electricians and commercial HVAC techs tend to be noticeably smarter than other trades and generally slightly smarter than average.
I mean if you mean that they’re merely above average as opposed to geniuses, sûre, but that applies to most jobs.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
IIRC thé forklift and pallet jack are already automated and could be purchased by the warehouse right now; but handling produce by hand impossible to automate in practice, that’s why farmers use Hondurans instead of machines- robot hands would bruise it.
Having been around big blue collar employers like this one- almost certainly those guys were there legally, although possibly with some funny business in getting there(eg fake asylum claims). If they were illegals then either all of the workers would be them(employed as contractors working for a staffing agency) or none of the workers would be. Large companies won’t hire illegals directly.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
How does the unintelligent person who isn't good at logical or moral reasoning tell the difference between a good church and a bad church?
By looking at the behavior of members.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
This was also kerouac’s secret, and as roustabout illegal day laborers show it’s still doable today if you’re willing to be poor.
Yes yes I know they speak Spanish. Do you think the guys picking people up in Home Depot parking lots are hiring Guatemalans because they’re racist against whites? Or do you think it’s because they’re cheap and actually willing to be day laborers?
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
I wonder how many of those firms are getting $10k/month of productivity boost?
I have no difficulty believing that many jobs can do that, but as Uber shows, adding AI isn’t automatically worth the giant bill.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Why is there more stress and suffering now that would lead to the tripling of teenage suicides? Ask the random person on the street, they'll just point everywhere and tell you to look around and say: "everything is so hard now". I think what is so hard about life in the US, and I guess the modern age, is complexity
I don’t think it’s complexity per se. I think it’s that mediocrity is no longer OK. In the fifties it was totally OK to live in a 1000 sq ft home, work at the local factory on an assembly line, only have one car, wear hand me downs and eat leftovers. Not so today. Expectations have risen faster than outcomes- due more to TV than social media, because most of this predated social media. This was a trope for most of the latter half of the twentieth century, ‘I don’t want to be like my lame-o parents’. That isn’t the cultural norm. Most people in low-media cultures want to be like, if not their parents, favorite aunts and uncles, or parent’s friends, or prominent members of broadly the same communities. That is, average people- because most people are by definition average.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
You can just regulate the marine vets and let their journaling remain teenage girl crap.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
“Shauntai” (what kind of spelling is that?); and the name of the dude who took him out is “Kaylub” (what the fuck?).
Welcome to working class red tribe naming conventions.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
The big tribe is the successful tribe, and the successful tribe is good for its members. The culture war is fundamentally about trying to offset the red tribe fertility advantage.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Because for twenty years, there has been one stable replacement fertility rate in a developed country- partisan republicans. That's why SEC and pop country became fashionable over the late 2010's, because the percentage of teenagers embracing republican culture started rising precipitously.
So the great replacement is real- the blue tribe is being replaced by the red tribe. But both are, for now, essentially cultural identities. The head of the Texas GOP is a red tribe Indian American- he's a Christian convert who likes to wear cowboy hats and thinks high schoolers should be well-rounded instead of test scores minmaxers. And obviously blue tribe non-whites are a dime a dozen. So blue tribe values need to be imposed as a means of counteracting the demographic advantage, because the blue tribe is close-ish to an elite group. Otherwise the blue tribe will die out; once the teens and young adults are supermajority red(which does not necessarily entail hard right morality) then all the blue offspring will defect, because they want to hang out with their bros, they want peers. Like in premodern societies the culture war is essentially zero sum- the reds are defending their own offspring from blue tribe values being imposed by the government, yes, but the blues are doing this to defend their own offspring from the imposition of red tribe values by their peer environments.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
There are two named characters who are squibs, at least according to my memories. I haven't read it in a while, but I can remember both the neighbor crazy cat lady and the janitor being born to wizard parents and not having powers.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
It's Harry Potter fanfiction. It was never cool. Malfoid is just way too online to matter. It's literally Harry Potter fanfiction. It doesn't mean anything more than My Immortal or HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
I get targeted ads that aren't even in one of the top ten most spoken US languages, in addition to the usual targeted ads for senior citizens and other groups I'm not a part of. The algorithm just hallucinates and misfires all the time.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
When I went I thought it was one floor of interesting spread across six floors, and they needed to have a bigger cafe and movie theater to use up space.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
He made a bunch of alt-right edits of disney songs. Likes the hard right but doesn't like their attitude towards sexual morality.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Franco’s government was a compromise party including basically the entire right wing of Spain and which spent its later years run as a de facto catholic theocracy.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The punishment for not voting is a $10 fine next time you renew a government document. But still, mandatory voting means ‘turnout’ isn’t the main factor.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Mexico uses the marine corps as ordinary police quite regularly- in fairness mostly because they take fewer bribes.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Ish it depends. Teachers usually reflect the average educated and slightly nerdy introvert with a female peer group in their area- and that’s going to be much bluer than the general population.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Spain was still a great power at the time.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yeah, but it’s politically doable.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I think a big part of it is that disturbed, weird loners just dropped out of school and lived live as relatively poor people- when their urges surfaced, school wasn’t at the top of their mind.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
No it isn’t, thé teachers won’t carry.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Everyone in the US does routinely speed.
They sell explosives in small town grocery stores here.
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