hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Have you read the Odyssey? It's protagonist centered morality, full of sex and violence, with an approach to the progression of time that isn't particularly keyed to modern sensibilities, and it spends most of the plot in fantasyland.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
The iliad and the odyssey are fine, but nobody wants to watch a movie of a faithful adaptation. It'd be seven hours, nc-17, and an art film all at the same time. The Iliad is better, I guess, but still.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Most adults in the ghetto are not within the justice system. Welfare might be an argument though.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Normie Americans don't drink bud light. The most popular beer in America is actually Modelo.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
From my memories of paying to get deer processed(granted, it's been a few years, I've DIY'd 100% since the pandemic), labor in the packing plant is a relatively minor contribution- I remember it still being a third to half of the price as buying beef in the grocery store.
Not saying raising meatpacking wages won't raise prices. But probably less than you'd think- the price of the animal dominates the price of the meat in the store, not the price of the labor to process it(further evidence- the cheapest meat comes from chickens, then pigs, then cows. For economy of scale reasons, you should expect labor to be lowest per unit of meat on a cow and highest on a chicken).
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Yep. Illegal guatemalan workers in the US don't expect citizenship(they think that if they have retirement savings they'll enjoy them in... Guatemala, whether or not that's true). They work crappy jobs for the higher wages compared to their home countries, not because they expect to bring their families up here(some of them do, but it isn't the draw).
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Why do you think the west is legalizing weed? So the lumpenproles in dire straights don't wreck shit when they demand change. You can deal with stupid hippies by turning on the firehoses, if they switch from beer and pipe glue they're less willing to fight the cops(and cops will be taken care of, governments aren't stupid).
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Public school teachers being creepwads towards their adolescent students is a page five story during a slow news cycle. What makes this case unusual is being a state legislator... but state legislators are pretty much random people who are crazy and have a drive to get elected to something.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
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.
hydroacetylene
1d 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
1d ago
Mamdani isn’t exactly a believing Muslim and won on a dsa platform by promising free shit. Hardly a ‘Muslim’ story.
hydroacetylene
1d 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
2d ago
The jungle tends to have more mammal biomass, not less, than the poles.
hydroacetylene
2d 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
2d 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
2d ago
It’s who/whom. The younger gen/DSA left simply doesn’t group Jews into a ‘historically oppressed’ bucket.
hydroacetylene
2d 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
2d 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
3d 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
3d ago
In Texas concealed carry is often enough not concealed very well.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Uh, isn’t non-commonwealth rugby Union mostly in countries with very heavy British influence to begin with?
hydroacetylene
3d 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
3d 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
3d 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.
In Texas it's spring. All of these people are business owners, and all of them are insane.
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