hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3hr ago
This was probably something built into the software and not something deliberately chosen by the business.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Doesn’t speed dating have a problem with not being able to get enough men?
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
It’s way easier to follow swing dancing than lead, or at least I had more trouble learning it than the women I danced with did. Either I’m unusually bad at dancing or one role is easier than the other.
It’s worth noting that in my bubble, Woodstock is just some people doing drugs in a desert, including among the elderly.
Edit: it shows how much importance we put on it to not know it was held at a different location from burning man. I don't understand why 'some losers did drugs at a concert' is famous.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
If you sit in the right shooting lane, you’ll get a couple of shots off every 20-30 minutes. The season is usually the longest of any game species except rabbits or squirrels.
A dog is helpful, but you can just sit in the shade watching with a Gatorade and a shotgun just as well without. Dove dogs make great family pets, like duck dogs. The birds aren't very big, but there’s a lot of them, and you can easily stack up enough to have some kebab or dumpling protein for the off-season.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
The most important factor in anyone’s life before a certain age- probably more like 21 for most people, but certainly before 15 or so for the vast majority- is not government policy. It’s parents. And parents in the US are unusually willing to exercise their authority to curtail screen time/electronic entertainments. That they do so imperfectly is a much more eminently fixable problem than screens being bad.
Banning social media before a certain age, for example, will meaningfully convince parents to enact and enforce that rule in a way that Chinese gaming laws likely won’t, because American society is different from Chinese society and the inherently subsidiarist nature of minority allows this solution to work better.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
You don’t need a foolproof system. You need a system that imposes enough friction to meaningfully reduce the fraction of teens on social media.
These are very different things. Notably, the drinking age does not mean 0% of your local highschool goes to a kegger before graduation- does this mean it doesn’t work and should be abolished?
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
But US parents are already unusually likely to set screen time/technology use limits, partly driven by conservative parents’ ideological beliefs. That they often do this in a non-optimal way and it isn’t spread evenly through society are fixable-ish problems.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
While that’s fair, there’s a pretty easy remedy against the classic pump and dump- don’t sleep with him until you have your relationship. The classic pump and dump scenario might include some deception, but it does not typically imply rape.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The farsi and hezbollah aligned nuggets worth sharing will mostly be on memritv er long, I would think.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Because women get a steady diet of fear porn about how men are all out to get them(and to be fair, some are. Not all or most, but certainly some). When they've had 'men are malicious and dangerous' pounded into their skulls they'll not go out of their way to meet men. Simple as.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You're plenty young enough. My grandpa hunted into his sixties and only stopped because he had shoulder surgery for something unrelated and never recovered enough to handle the recoil. My hunting club has guys in their seventies, but they get the young guys to haul their carcasses and skin them for them. They are, to be clear, not rabbit hunting.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Fall Turkey hunting, yes.
Spring turkey hunting is a different animal, you will be calling the Turkey in. This is a very high skill endeavor and you probably need somebody to teach you. You also need head to toe camo; veil, camo boots, gloves, no hunter orange, because you’ll probably be on the ground and turkeys see color very well. On the plus side they can’t smell. IMO you’re better off dove hunting if you want to switch to mostly birds.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Probably pulling overtime to recommend a course of action in the ME.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
‘Teenager’ is a marketing category created by the media, so of course media filters perception of the teenaged years in popular consciousness.
There are definitely people who enjoyed their high school years more than their adult life, because the paradigm of ‘teenager’ as a category that exists creates an impulse in authority structures to incentivize the ‘fun’ parts and not the ‘becoming a grownup’ parts. That’s what this is corresponding to; people remembering their fun as the important part of life, not their responsibilities.
It should be noted that this memory is, in general, rose coloured glasses. ‘Teenager’ is an unnatural category in that it poorly aligns with the telos of these people, hence teens are on average unhappy.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Vietnam was a strategic loss, that’s true. But also the ARVN did stand on its own until political turmoil in the Republic of Vietnam caused coup-proofing shakeup in the army’s leadership post-US withdrawal, leading to a collapse of the front in the face of the north Vietnamese 1975 offensive- the ARVN had been highly successful with 0 direct US assistance for three years at that point. It would be like if Ukraine suddenly fired all its generals and put a rando in charge who proceeded to lose the war in a matter of weeks.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The ARVN was capable of defending Vietnam, they defeated the first invasion following US withdrawal. But the Republic of Vietnam was an corrupt dictatorship which removed their competent generals for political reasons, leading to the army collapsing in a subsequent invasion.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
And with the US withdrawal from the conflict, we left with 90-100% of our war goals accomplished- South Vietnam remained an independent state for several years following American withdrawal, and North Vietnam promising to respect its territorial integrity was a key promise to obtain that withdrawal. That North Vietnam reneged on that promise was perhaps predictable, but when the US agreed to withdraw all of American war aims were met at the time of withdrawal.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There wouldn't be specific laws against "propagandizing the LGBT community" if no one really wanted to propagandize the LGBT community.
LGBT is almost always unpopular among the common people because smarmy effeminate weirdos tend to be their public face. Banning 'LGBT propaganda' doesn't mean that there's lots of people eager to spread LGBT; it means that the government wants to show that it listens to the common people more than it wants to show it cares about tolerance/expanding human rights.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
We left the job done in Vietnam, though- the war goals never included the destruction of the north Vietnamese commie regime.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The USA did not lose Vietnam, although the public thinks we did. America concluded(wrongly) that south Vietnam was capable of fending of a north Vietnamese invasion, and declined to bail them out when this turned out not to be the case- the republic of Vietnam was independent for several years without US troops or support, and the commies had promised not to invade in exchange for American withdrawal. Nixon and Kissinger surely knew that they would go back on this promise, but the ARVN fended off a full scale invasion without US support before reshuffling their general staff due to political turmoil and then losing the next round.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Being opposed to the war is not treason. Treason would be something like assisting Iran. It's conceivably possible that a congressman might do this, but it probably looks more like Bob Menendez-type behavior than a political stunt.
As far as democrats' political behavior, this is pretty normal for late-stage republics. Iran can't really hurt us that much; obviously attacking them was dumb, but we're kind of committed now. The real question is 'is the local allies part of the plan going to work'. I don't have the highest hopes, but Iran is kind of falling apart right now.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Entirely possible, but the context is certainly suspicious given the rest of the article taking pains to try to paint it as an attack by white supremacist islamophobes.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The ayatollah was tweeting about it before he got got.
Or mom makes her put herself out there until she goes out with someone. It happens.
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