hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
7hr ago
The majority of Ancient Greek learners are religious Christians, although in a classroom setting it’s much more split. If you search for Greek lessons the majority of it will be ‘read thé New Testament’. Latin is significantly more driven by academic needs(and there are academic disciplines in which Latin is indispensable), but this is often subsidized by seminaries.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Hungary, thé one without the brutal civil war, checks out.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Traditionalist isn’t really a boo word. The stereotype of traditionalists among other conservative, self consciously orthodox, Catholics(and there are many tribes of very serious Catholics in America) in the USA is more ‘very strict, politically conservative, probably a smoker, maybe a bit eccentric, but 100% serious. Probably a bit full of their community but, like, there’s reasons for that.’ than as a fundamentalist stereotype. It’s more like nonzionism’s theory about the hierarchy of Jewish observance in Israël than intertribal warfare- despite many of these people absolutely not wanting to go to mass in Latin, follow a strict dress code, stop eating meat on Friday full stop, accept censorship of their media diets, etc.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
And to note- school vouchers may not be your priority, but they are a thing that the Catholic literati considers very important. There are obvious institutional incentives, but robust religious freedom laws favoring Christians and expanding school freedom are what you would expect Catholic literati to do with the ability to make tweaks.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
While legal in some states, you probably can’t do it as a practical matter; thé bullet isn’t big enough.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
The polite way would be to refer to ‘ladies’ or ‘girls’. Some people don’t like the latter but it’s not controversial with the normies.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
No? ‘Girl’ implies unmarried, but referring to a woman as a ‘girl’ would be uncontroversial and normal outside of liberal bubbles, and ‘lady’ is a perfectly normal polite term to refer to a random woman or girl in third person. ‘That lady waiting in the cafe’.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Again, belief in election fraud is just baked in with republicans, has been for a while, and the normies don't really care.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Abbott and Desantis are officially ‘not sûre’ who won the 2020 election.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
There are still people who keep old English learnable(indeed, you can get some pretty good online courses)- and unlike Latin, Greek(Greek programs would barely exist anymore if it wasn’t for evangelicals buying ‘New Testament Greek’ lessons to cover expenses), or Hebrew, this isn’t due to religious necessity.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Im wondering if these books are ones nobody wants to store, rather than being priceless treasures- IIRC libraries destroy books almost constantly as part of normal inventory management. That’s also probably the lowest cost provider.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
You are supposed to use hollow points for big game, although it’s not necessarily the law in every jurisdiction.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
I hunt with an AR-10, but it is indeed correct that you cannot deer hunt with an AR-15- although they are wrong about the mechanism.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Arent the poor parts of America still a lot richer than their Australian equivalents?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You could visit the Balkans to check that right now.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
For industrial uses? I’m not sure what they do in chemistry labs.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Texas law is Like That, because the dominant party is dominated by Germans trying to regulate Mexicans and Scots-Irish, and has been for a long time.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Why would the Chinese bother when selective breeding with 145 IQ parents is so much easier?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Most alcohol poisoning in the US is using homebrew that was messed up somehow. Sometimes this is a fungal contamination and sometimes it's making methanol instead of ethanol. Industrial alcohol contains something to render it undrinkable, but this is normally gasoline rather than methanol.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In a US political context, 'widespread voter fraud favoring democrats which sometimes changes election outcomes' is not a lunatic fringe belief. It is the belief of normie republicans and everyone knows it, and it's not a deal breaker for swing voters(who often do believe in shady electoral chicanery on a limited basis, like in specific cities).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It's the belief of a minority of American Evangelicals that supporting the state of Israel can bring about the events of the book of Apocalypse.
Most Evangelicals do not believe this, although they often believe that supporting a Jewish state on that particular plot of land is commanded by God and the country which does not do it will be punished for it, with no strong eschatological matrix for that belief.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Italian and Irish Americans are also not in any particular beef with MAGA.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The Catholic Church is not as pro-immigration as many claim, and it does allow positions that code as conservative on immigration(there are cardinals saying this, even). But Catholic conservatives not being thrilled with anti-immigrant politics is probably why it hasn’t seen the same success as many other conservative policy crusades.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The reason what is a woman was so effective is that the activist approved definition raises its own questions in a way answering ‘trump’ to ‘who won the 2020 election’ doesn’t. That is what redefining known categories into metaphysical abstractions inherently does. The ‘who won the 2020 election’ question is an effective way to tie the opponent to Trump, but most of these people don’t need that- they tie themselves to Trump plenty on their own.
It is quite normal to refer to ‘the girls in the office’ referring to secretaries and the like in my dialect, or ‘girls trip’/ ‘girls night’.
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