hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
49m 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
56m 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
2hr ago
Yes beef is high, but nobody ever thought eating steak very often was a reasonable expectation for normal people.
hydroacetylene
2hr 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
2hr 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
2hr ago
The conspiracy theory right is pro cash.
hydroacetylene
2hr 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
2hr ago
I mean have you seen what quarters look like?
hydroacetylene
2hr 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
2hr 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
2hr 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
7hr 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
7hr 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
7hr 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.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Bison are very hazardous and best enjoyed at a safe distance; if an entire herd of them loved you, I suspect you would not be long for the world.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The downsides of fracking are fake. I live in north Texas, where there was a spate of news stories a little over a decade back about how suddenly there's minor earthquakes because we're now exploiting fracking(as if non-fracking based natural gas was new here). But nobody checked- there'd always been earthquakes too small for anyone to care on, we're sitting on a fault line(the same one running through Austin). Likewise the 'contaminated water' stories always turn out to be flint-like mismanagement of completely separate water sources.
One notices the people pushing these stories tend to be anti-fossil-fuel watermelons.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Argentina tried this, there were women who took money to reject marriage proposals.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Most Americans Do Not Know who their rep is, so it seems like they could get away with it… except for the primary voters, and in safe seats these are a very small percentage of the population which tends to have extreme views.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yes, wait ten years. Don't be a male dog mom, sublimating the natural urges into improper and destructive behavior. Foofoo the chinese food dog doesn't like being pushed in a stroller, and doing it is bad for his owner, just the same as sex for pleasure without commitment is bad for both parties- unloving and self destructive by inculcating vicious habits.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
While a fair point, this was largely aimed at the married or dating but not wanting to take the next step(or, very similarly from my perspective, stopping at two).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Because women lack agency and protecting them from predation in time periods when they often have no choice in which authority figures they are exposed to is a worthy goal.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I don't think that's really what he says? I think he's saying that this is narcissism of small differences in action, more than unflattering truth, and that incels lose out by departing from consensus as to their problems(it's not my fault because I'm ugly is a very different explanation than it's not my fault because of capitalist cisheteropatriarchy, even if they both revolve around justifying a lack of agency).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I don't have much sympathy for fornicators running into consequences, even if those consequences happen to be ridiculous.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
People are pretty good at finding the motivation for doing what they've always done in the face of difficulty, as Albert Camus noted- imagining sisyphus happy and all that. People are pretty bad at picking out what they've always done from a large set of equally easy options, as existentialists also noted, even when that's what makes them happy.
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.
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