hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
9hr ago
The U.S. is not likely to be a failed state due to immigration, however. Latins are perfectly capable of maintaining a functioning society- not as wealthy as the US, but nowhere is. Chinamen and Indians are too. The USA is not importing a billion African mud farmers.
That is not to say that continuing to import tens of millions of centraco laborers won’t make things worse. But ‘failed state’ isn’t a likely outcome.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Mamdani isn’t exactly a believing Muslim and won on a dsa platform by promising free shit. Hardly a ‘Muslim’ story.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Probably irrelevant whether this juror could be impartial- pro se defendants going with police corruption as a defense have long odds.
But still enjoying the irony of transgenders not believing discrimination against blacks is real.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The jungle tends to have more mammal biomass, not less, than the poles.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
If this is head start, it’s a special program to provide preschool for the children of low income ‘families’(more often single mothers) in ‘disadvanted’(read desperately poor)locales, and is likely to have lots of special rules because it serves the underclass in already quite rough areas on the explicit logic that those people are shitty parents and preschool is less likely to abuse the kid than the (often drug addicted and dating criminals)mother. No idea how Gaashk is qualifying for it(it’s pretty much impossible with a full time male wage earner in the house- and that’s part of the program design), but theres all kinds of other programs that might apply and which might mindlessly ape head start.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Shoes in the house was thé norm in America until recently, even in upstate New York(with some of the snowiest winters anywhere). But it’s still very rude to refuse to remove them when asked by the host; this is the hicks being, as usual, deliberately strange.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It’s who/whom. The younger gen/DSA left simply doesn’t group Jews into a ‘historically oppressed’ bucket.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The virgin birth was seen by contemporary pagans as being less believable than the resurrection. It was definitely out there weird- and Romulus and Remus's mother was generally understood to have had normal intercourse, just with a god.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Because hygiene is taught to teenaged boys- or was, up until recently- in large part through sports. Nerds don't participate in them, thus they don't learn many of the normal hygiene rules.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Something, something, building trust, Head Start, maybe the norms of black Americans?
Entirely possible. Publicly funded preschool is dealing with a different crowd- and unlike many crowds, this is one where the institution often knows better than the parent(s)(and this is a very different thing from knowing best).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
In Texas concealed carry is often enough not concealed very well.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Uh, isn’t non-commonwealth rugby Union mostly in countries with very heavy British influence to begin with?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It got Mbappe the golden boot and it’s consistently one of the better games of the tournament. This year was a really good game for watching.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
One does not ‘bring back’ mexican coke, one pays a price premium for it in any store. It doesn’t make enough of a difference to really be worth it, but for those who would like to, you can simply pay more from normal mainstream retailers.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Ok but academics can’t actually do anything about that(Trump is ruling by decree, even if it’s greatly exaggerated). They are, in fact, making the problem worse, by pushing democrats to nominate people who believe their theories.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
‘People’ don’t watch 37 seasons of cops. People watch cops when they’re bored, they don’t follow the franchise.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The worlds major sporting powers probably could. Lots of rugby players on it, of course, but American football isn’t completely unknown over there either.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
American football is expensive but it’s within the realm of what Western Europe could afford- after all it took off in America when we were a lot poorer than they are now. Could Europeans fill out a full team? Probably, a number of those countries are very competitive across a range of different sports.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
College quidditch is also notable for being ridiculous and inane as a sport. They run around with brooms held between their legs, even.
Like ultimate frisbee is not that.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
And then people unfamiliar with sports tried to make quidditch real, giving ammunition to ‘JKR made a fictional sport, not a real one’.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
American football is ludicrously more expensive and has more specialized players. But typically rugby(and Canadian football) players find more success slotting into American football teams than the reverse, and I struggle to believe that high income countries can’t afford to build NFL teams.
But the other thing to point out is that the NFL is not, primarily, a sporting organization, it’s an entertainment platform. A limited number of teams isn’t going to expand, because the NFL’s success formula is celebrities+tabloid fodder+a big show that’s easy to televise- and thats a lot harder to replicate. Hardcore sports fans in the US are pivoting away from the NFL and towards things like hockey and soccer(college football is also huge, but it’s a class/cultural phenomenon).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Cuba being right next to the USA brings in lots of investment, they’re mineral rich, and they were probably destined to have at least some shipping income.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
What is ‘traditional anthropology’? Margaret Meade’s work was mostly based on lies. Early anthropologists said all kinds of crazy shit. The field has been ideologically driven fan fiction, sloppy research techniques, and actual lies since the beginning.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
No, whatever is done about academia will cause lots of collateral damage to things like medical and engineering research.
Black culture is not very third world. It’s dysfunctional, sûre, but it’s the kind of dysfunction that the urban poor in developed countries exhibit, not the kind of dysfunction that tends to be more common in actually poor countries. They are also culturally quite similar to their white actual neighbors- not the well heeled ones from the other side of the city. Have you been around white trash? Being poor and dysfunctional is not the same thing as being unassimilated.
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