hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
6m 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
9m ago
It’s who/whom. The younger gen/DSA left simply doesn’t group Jews into a ‘historically oppressed’ bucket.
hydroacetylene
20hr 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
20hr 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
21hr 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
1d ago
In Texas concealed carry is often enough not concealed very well.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Uh, isn’t non-commonwealth rugby Union mostly in countries with very heavy British influence to begin with?
hydroacetylene
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d ago
‘People’ don’t watch 37 seasons of cops. People watch cops when they’re bored, they don’t follow the franchise.
hydroacetylene
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d ago
No, whatever is done about academia will cause lots of collateral damage to things like medical and engineering research.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In fairness, Spain had 12 goals blocked, which only happened because Argentina has the best keeper in the world.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There are lots of countries that are wealthy enough to play American Football- but soccer got to Africa from France, not the other way around.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, you should vote. But if you want something higher impact, volunteer with local campaigns that oppose flock cameras. Many local elections are nonpartisan and people are simply lost as to who to vote for; a door knock or a phone call can replace the all important (R) or (D).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Folding knives are extremely normal for Americans to have in their pockets for opening boxes and the like; even if it's technically illegal nobody cares outside of the sorts of places that already have metal detectors.
Then again, this is the country where a day long class and a background check entitles people in most states to carry a firearm anywhere they go.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That's actually not true- the handful of sports whose ancestors were clearly documented functioned as a substitution for war. A lacrosse match substituted for a battle.
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.
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