hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3hr ago
"Bob believes America is the greatest country in the world and is the single key to preventing the global triumph of communism. He probably believes democrats have stolen elections before; depending on social class this can variously include 1960, 2020, and various congressional by-elections. He thinks further expansions of welfare for specifically the low income are subsidizing underemployment. He follows football; if wealthy, this is college football, not NFL, usually the team of the school he went to(but not always), and also follows another sport- often baseball, but sometimes whatever his nearest city happens to be best at, or hockey if he's into contact sports, etc. He spends more energy on this than he does on politics. He believes that black culture is mostly a negative and that things like hip hop are very bad, but supports freedom of speech rather than measures to discourage them- he can't understand why his black neighbors insist on doing things wrong, when their culture is so obviously bad. But they're good people. He also believes that Islam is a bad culture, and may well believe that measures need to be taken to discourage it or keep it out of the country. He will probably clarify that more people should go to church, he's not racist but Islam has bad teachings that need to be discouraged- have you seen how they treat women? He believes that if the US doesn't stand with Israel God will punish the country, but does not think that it is possible to bring about the events of the book of revelation through human action.
He is very upset about rising prices, and depending on social class may blame taxes, government regulations, China, immigrants, or environmentalists. One thing he probably doesn't blame is boomers. He has some sympathies for young people struggling to get established, but also thinks they should get good- maybe those dastardly environmentalists/bureaucrats should get out of the way, but there's no excuse not to try. He 100% believes there is no replacement for fossil fuels, and thinks climate change is example #9000 of unhinged democrat hysteria. It's got to be a mental illness at this point, why else would they arrive at the conclusions they've come to about gender? Come on. He is very confused as to why his black neighbors continue to vote democrat when they have common sense."
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
I live nested inside filter bubbles where the fertility is above replacement and they're all pretty post-industrial? This sounds like a skill issue.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
The average datacenter, from my vantage point in the skilled trades, seems to employ ~10-15 maintenance people full time, plus 2 ish HVAC techs from contractors, 2 electricians and an apprentice from an electrical contractor.
It's also worth noting that the most reliable way to get HVAC techs of the appropriate specialty is by signing a contract to use only union labour. There are only a small number of pipelines for training these guys(datacenter HVAC is not a standard commercial package unit), and the union runs the biggest, like 'probably half or more of the total' biggest. Trane(the factory) runs the second biggest, and it's a lot slower. Most HVAC companies willing to extensively retrain their technicians do so for refrigeration instead, because refrigeration is 1)easier 2)very urgent and 3)easy to find clients for. Plus you can hire a refrigeration only tech- he'll be an odd duck, but you can find one pretty easily- to run that training, without having to sign on with some external guild-like organization.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
MLS and Saudi pro are generally the top non European leagues because they have the ability to make athletes very comfortable playing for them.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Technically speaking, the USA did win in Vietnam- it withdrew in exchange for a promise by north Vietnam to respect the south's independence(our actual war goal). The first time it reneged on this promise the ARVN repelled them. The second time the ARVN collapsed in a fit of coup-proofing paranoia at around the same time and commie tanks took Saigon.
Pinkos like LBJ and Nixon were unwilling to invade the north after the liberal Eisenhower overthrew the Ngo family's regime and that made the US position impossible in the long run, but we achieved our actual war goal before withdrawing.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
American professional soccer actually plays better than South American pro soccer these days- the Argentine team that made it to the finals was made up mostly of players whose day jobs are playing for big five European league teams, but were originally from Argentina. MLS could go toe to toe with top teams from Brazil and Argentina, never mind the cub league.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
I mean it is technically true that elements within Germany betrayed the German army. Germany was not winning and these elements included things like 'other parts of the German military', but the German revolution really happened.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Well, that's not Lauren's DSA. Her DSA just wants the obvious, basic things; free healthcare, free education, a living wage! Like, hello, why are we evening talking about this in 2026? Lol!
That shit already free, nigga.
People who cannot get a living wage in 2026 America are mostly people who are deeply unsympathetic, or have very high expectations. We have clunky expensive universal healthcare that people who can't afford it just don't pay for, and the system works fine.
Because soccer is left coded but it's also a sport and sports mean hot guys might be around
Not quite. Soccer in America has a left-coded fanbase, yes, because 'soccer fan' in America is implied to be a premiere league fan, and liking English stuff as better than American is a weird blue tribe tick, MLS or Liga mx fandom isn't nearly so political. Internationally soccer is not a left coded sport, at all, and FIFA is real cuddly with Trump, Qatar, etc, and clearly making a play to get the American red tribe into soccer.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Yes, they ate fewer calories of lower quality food, a higher portion of it carbs.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
The typical single person before the war boarded rather than renting an apartment, and boarders were fed as part of their rent.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
In practice this woman's goal was probably to find an American husband to switch her au pair visa into a greed card, but she got caught before she could seal the deal.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It sucked and the portion sizes were a lot smaller, and their plates had a bigger portion of carbs. They are pasta, potatoes, bread, rice, casserole etc in huge portions, compared to today’s preference for mostly meat diets.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Men also have much dirtier homes. This isn't just about food.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
You ate steak for a single meal a week for fifteen years? Totally disproves my point that expectations have risen in the general public.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
To be fair, you do live in San Francisco.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Dysgenics works far more by suppressing high IQ female fertility. Perhaps we should send the girlbosses home so they have to get married, instead.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Are whole cows available in the bay area? You might be better off buying a whole/half a cow directly from a rancher and getting it processed to eat over time.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
While overwrought, it is entirely possible to have a perfectly functional society with much more modest tax burdens.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Housing, healthcare, and education costs are real things to complain about. For Catholic k-12 education specifically prices have risen because bishops no longer wish to subsidize it, despite the many downstream effects of not doing so, but higher education, healthcare, and housing are all multivariate problems which are expensive because no one in positions of influence really cares about keeping costs down. That's reasonable to complain about and seek policy changes over.
Rising food costs are not real, however. Grocery inflation is much slower than wage growth. What drives rising food costs is poor spending discipline- doordash is certainly the most visible example, but ordinary families didn't use to eat steak very often and Americans now think it's unhealthy to eat carbs.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yeah, according to my parents and grandparents, when in the seventies nobody thought about running to a local restaurant for food because you didn't want to cook. You ate a sandwich or you cooked, and that was that.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The answer for normie middle class families having the woman of the house out for whatever reason in the 60's and 70's was not 'and we go to a restaurant'. It was 'dad handles food'. That food might have been bologna sandwiches(and everyone in midcentury america ate bologna sandwiches and thought that was an ok and normal thing to sometimes have for a meal), but, like, just talk to older people- men were expected to feed themselves rather than starve or eat out.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
In 1920 most single men lived in accommodations that did not include a kitchen. We are now a wealthy enough society that bachelor pads have kitchens.
Single men in places with kitchens were generally expected to cook for themselves, albeit with less complexity(but we shouldn't overstate that; old timey housewives were not making elaborate 5 course meals like tiktok tradwives today), unless they were rich enough to have a housekeeper. The real shift in gender roles around cooking is that it's no longer seen as an insult to the woman of the house for a middle class family to go to a restaurant- which it would have been in 1920(the upper class in the days of having servants did not cook for themselves, regardless of gender).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Sure- that's generally true of societies with rising wealth. You see the same exact thing in Mexico, China, Japan, etc. US per capita protein consumption is perhaps rising because Americans believe they need to way overconsume(Americans ate far more balance meals with a lot more carbs in them in the nineties) protein while minimizing carbs(which are cheap). But rising food budgets in America specifically are probably much more driven by eating more expensive cuts rather than more meat per se; steak was considered a treat by most people when I was growing up, not something you ate every day.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There was never a program to subsidize beef or housing for all or nearly all American consumers, however- although red meat subsidies have been a thing in Argentina.
There simply wasn’t a single policy choice that drove up housing costs in major metros, or healthcare costs more broadly, or education costs everywhere. The Catholic church’s decision to stop subsidizing the education of its members is a single cause problem, unlike these things.
Maybe it's a class distinction, but republicans mostly have some opinions, even if poorly formed or informed ones. Of course, Bob is implied to be older than Lauren. Possibly by a lot, possibly by a little.
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