hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
This leaves out the major complication- the kids want to act.
Yes, you can terrorize a child into obedience, you can train them to want different things. But the desire to participate in acting just keeps resurfacing in kids whose parents would much rather have something other than plays to go to- sort of like music. I have no difficulty believing that 100% of child stars originally had a strong desire to act, to dance, to do music. Obviously, stronger limits are needed, but there seems to me no obvious reason that kids can’t be paid for doing something that they want to do.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Those Republican candidates, other than Trump personally, were typically in safe seats. I think we know by now that Trump is a weird exception in a lot of ways, but he’s also done unusually poorly in New England; very plausibly, this kind of behavior still matters in Maine in ways it doesn’t elsewhere in the country, and Me-1 is too partisanbrained to realize it.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Talarico is not a baptist. Presbyterians are lectionary Protestants who baptize babies, use the term ‘saint’, do not do rock concert services, etc.
Now, differences in beliefs and practice are not necessarily off-putting to evangelicals- there are many elected officials who are Methodist, Catholic, Anglican, etc with broad appeal to the baptist masses. Baptist theology holds that baptism is a commandment and not a sacrament(this is why they do not baptize babies), and that gives them plenty of room to count those baptized as infants as real Christians. In practice their non-negotiables are still things Talarico doesn’t have- genuine belief in the historicity of the biblical account(famously genesis but theologically they would put more importance on the virgin birth and resurrection as literal, factual occurrences) and a certain level of conservatism on moral issues. This isn’t Ireland where Protestant theology has real, defined meanings- they don’t have a creed.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
The best BBQ is Miss Tootsie's. Let's pander to (actually)rural voters, black voters, and BBQ-sauce-hating voters all at the same time.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
More to the point, she is a 'committed vegan activist'. I have no doubt that there are plenty of vegetarian women dating men who eat meat- the demographics of vegetarianism suggests this probably isn't even that uncommon. But it doesn't pass the smell test that a 'vegan activist' would.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Always Bet on Susan Collins.
With that out of the way, democrats nominating normal guys seems to be a weakness right now- they've got Graham Platner being Graham Platner, the Islamic anti-israel single issue guy in Michigan, and James Talarico trying to convince people he's heterosexual and not a vegetarian.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Holland and New Zealand tends to give the most ‘neutral but not local’ English accent, so I'm surprised those arent the top two guesses by a million.
I find Philippino accents incredibly grating, far worse than Indian, for what it’s worth- although to flatter our Indian readers, I will say Pakistani accents tend to be worse than standard Indian.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
No, you will not buy a house through extreme thrift- my grandparents could not do what they did back then today, because housing costs are too high. But there really is a strain that thinks people in the past could doordash regularly and take multiple vacations a year on normal working class incomes, whereas realistically the mid to late twenthieth century American experience was, except for the very wealthy, one of extreme thrift to maintain far lower consumption standards than the zoomers feel entitled to.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Those exist, bowhunters are just presumed high-competence enough for nobody to worry if they slip through the cracks.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Texas specifically has a fairly short list of animals that cannot be introduced as exotic game species, under state not federal law- bears, natives considered endangered, elephants, big cats, and rhinos. You can, if you're willing to pay for it, shoot a kudu or giraffe on an exotic game ranch in Texas- oil sheikhs routinely do.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
We should tell them to fit the mold. I benefited greatly from enforced sports, and girls seem to benefit from skirts and babysitting and home economics.
But I also don't remember much tolerance for gender bending. I remember 'that's feminine' as similar to 'that's low class' or 'that's wrong'(and for my sister 'ladies don't do that'). And people, even tomboys, raised that way turn out fine.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Bowhunters are crazy. And I say that as a bowhunter. It doesn't surprise me that if the dentist had previous bowhunting experience, someone had told him 'oh yeah, stalking grizzlies on foot with a 25 lb bow is fine, so bowhunting lions is just a matter of being a good shot' ignoring the fact that Native Americans would vehemently disagree with the former statement.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yes beef is high, but nobody ever thought eating steak very often was a reasonable expectation for normal people.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Bowhunting is a separate, harder sport(and 'tradbow' hunting is even harder) from general rifle hunting, it is true. I'm suspecting in this case that the lion was shot with an arrow by a bushman or something, but it's not ipso-facto implausible that some bowhunter wanted to stalk a lion with a compound bow on foot. Bowhunters are crazy.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There are a surprising number of well heeled maniacs in the world. Bowhunters take fairly large exotics in Texas(and Bison elsewhere in the country) all the time, and I suspect the reason lions and tigers aren't on the list has to do with laws against introducing big cats for exotic game purposes.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The conspiracy theory right is pro cash.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I suspect this is a skewed recounting. My grandparents married as teenagers, and would not have been able to afford the life that they had today(rent prices would be out of reach), but they also describe working long and undesirable hours, eating cuts of meat that contemporary Americans largely consider beneath them(as a minority of the meal; they ate mostly rice and pasta), relying on family and church assistance, etc.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean have you seen what quarters look like?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Considering it'll mostly be used for tax evasion and drug dealing, it should feature Jean Lafitte- the pirate king who lead half the gulf coast into the USA after meeting with Andrew Jackson.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
No tradesman doing sidework will be reporting it to anyone(either his boss who might write him up or to the IRS) if he can possibly avoid it. I've been 100% commercial at my day job for years, but most people I talk to who work for residential companies describe accepting checks.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Groceries have gone up, but every time I see people on the internet quoting some ludicrous grocery budget for a small family it always turns out to be 'well we eat ribeyes and lobster for our meals, drink cokes instead of water and need enough oreos to snack on'. Normal staples just don't cost that much.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I don't really remember that.
I remember new expectations feeling unfair, or intimidating, or whatever. But it always seemed well explained why 'you're a teenaged boy, you don't get treated like a kid anymore, them's the breaks- but you also don't get to be treated like an adult'. Granted, I was a bit of a late bloomer and have been consistently physically attractive.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Trophy hunting big five animals costs the equivalent of over a decade's labour in local salaries and employs far more local servants than you'd expect- in the west trophy hunting would usually be limited to guides and taxidermists(the guide field dresses), but lower African labour costs also justify skinning teams, personal servants, etc etc.
Add to that that subsistence farmers generally do not like charismatic megafauna very much, including apex predators(which eat their stock and occasionally them). Rural folk in the US hate wolves too(and would probably hate mammoth if they still existed), but lions are much more likely to hunt both livestock and humans.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Yes, lots of businesses have signs saying they won't take hundreds or fifties.
Like most people, I've not found out because I use a credit card for most transactions.
An American would call ‘meat water’ broth(not that boiled meat is generally in high esteem on this side of the pond), ‘meat water’ sounds like something vaguely gross.
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