hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
6m ago
If they're anything like US unions, they will not do this.
hydroacetylene
7m ago
In the west, traditional courtship might not be romance by modern standards, but they would usually have considered themselves as 'in love' on their wedding day for hundreds of years. Upper class arranged marriages were the exception.
hydroacetylene
12m ago
The medieval catholic church allowed sex in front of witnesses as a proof of consummation in annulment trials.
hydroacetylene
24m ago
I think the answer is that attractive, smart women who are plausibly these guy's class peers are very rarely willing to have sex for money.
hydroacetylene
26m ago
We dislike certain white collar occupations(consultants, ambulance chasers, etc) but recognize the masses of accountants and customer service representatives as having real jobs; we see prostitutes in the same category as drug dealers, loansharks, and other dubiously legal occupations. You're correct that we don't particularly resent them, although we might resent obviously overcharged clients if they're seen as doing things that provide no value to the world for having the money to spend.
hydroacetylene
29m ago
Most sex workers make very little, the fact that a woman can now earn a solidly average salary as a teacher is a genuine change.
hydroacetylene
31m ago
There have always been sex workers who out earned me. Not very many of them, however, the typical prostitute does not earn very much(and her job is crazy dangerous, has terrible hours, and is likely extraordinarily unpleasant for much of it). Most sex workers live in poverty, the OF numbers are crazy.
These ladies are capitalizing on the fact that there is a limited number of young, attractive women with master's degrees willing to be pleasant to shy nerds making little effort for them, and very few of those will do so for money.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
‘Satyress’
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Very little progress on Blood Meridien, I don't like the nihilism and general darkness induce audience apathy. The prose is masterful despite shorter sentences than I'd prefer, though.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The name of the website wasn’t a clue?
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Yes there are many things that we do not let children do despite their desire to do so- but acting in contexts where they aren't getting paid is largely uncontroversial. I don't see why paying them to do so is categorically worse, even if stronger limits are necessary.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
He already has a presence in NZ, right? Deciding he wants another plan B seems in character- and Argentina has a lot of upside, it's running pretty close to the minimum possible society it could have, difficult to see how it doesn't become a bit of a nicer place to live over the long run.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Maybe a dialect difference, but I'd still call it 'broth' if I used it as a cooking liquid.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
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.
hydroacetylene
6d 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
6d 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
6d 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
6d 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
6d 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
6d 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
7d 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
8d 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
8d ago
Those exist, bowhunters are just presumed high-competence enough for nobody to worry if they slip through the cracks.
hydroacetylene
9d 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.
Yes. California is progressive, it is very much not libertine.
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