hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Even assuming they’re real, which they may not be, there’s plenty of jobs that would be OK for his conditions.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
No. The pope is not infallible on scientific matters.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Only half of self identified evangelicals attend church weekly.
Oh it’s worse than that. There’s three methods of counting church attendance-
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is survey data- just asking people how often they go to church. For social desirability reasons, this tends to be biased upwards, but it’s probably close enough for government work to the monthly rate, or the Christmas and Easter rate.
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is checking attendance counts at the churches themselves, which suffers from poor and inconsistent methodology. There’s also usually no way to tell which people are going to church here.
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is cell phone tracking data. This is almost certainly an undercount for a wide variety of technical reasons- notably reception tends to be worse in church buildings and attendees tend to ping less than elsewhere because of behavior at church(lots of people have their cell phones off, for example).
So basically we have no way of knowing what actual church attendance rates are, except that the ‘official’ rates are overestimates.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
I mean if he could finish law school he could have a nice career as an accountant or teacher or something.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
No, Americans openly refer to ‘7/11 Indians’. Owning gas stations is a stronger stereotype for them than computers.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
I suspect you having a large Pakistani population makes them look good by comparison, and we’re probably more exposed to memes from Canada. But also Americans are less used to a class hierarchy; snooty Brahmins rub average Americans much worse than they likely do Brits.
I also wonder what economic niche Indians fill in Britain- middleman minorities are virtually never popular, although Indians are far less popular than eg Koreans.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Most Americans probably think of it as middle eastern.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
In Texas there's a hard ban on harvesting roadkill, for poaching-prevention reasons. But in Oklahoma you can call a game warden who can issue a special tag. It varies a lot.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
It strongly depends on the state. If you would actually like to do this, your state fish and game or wildlife department likely has it in an FAQ on their website. Texas hard bans private harvest of animals hit by a car- you're supposed to make a police report for it to be disposed of, either fed to the lions at the zoo or thrown in the landfill depending on how quickly they get to it.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Immigration from Africa is almost completely uncontroversial in America. Most people would think a nice Nigerian family moving in next door to be quite alright with them.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Given that anti-Indian hate is disproportionately pointed towards the H1bs
Anti-H1b hatred is visible, true, but white, black, and Hispanic Americans of every social class tend to dislike the Indian immigrants they come in contact with due to cultural frictions- and for most of them, those Indians are not software engineers. Indian motel managers and liquor store owners and 7/11 operators are unpopular with the broader public, just like H1bs are with American tech workers. Tech workers just have very visible complaints because they're rich and highly online(and, uh, did you think they were going to welcome extra competition for jobs?).
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Mexicans, Filipinos, and Vietnamese are the best major groups of immigrants. There are some black groups which number among the same. This isn't a straight race thing- south Asians rub a lot of people the wrong way. Superiority complexes, difficulty assimilating, it doesn't matter how good they are for the economy. I just dislike the median Indian immigrant for being a rude, snooty pagan with a different attitude towards the truth than better immigrant groups like Latinos or Southeast Asians, while also being less willing to assimilate. As Indian immigration becomes more visible, expect more of this.
Dominicans are darker than Indians while not bringing nearly as much personal distaste. It isn't a race thing, although it probably doesn't help that you can tell Indians very easily by looking at them. Among actual IRL Trump voters immigration from southeast Asia, other parts of the new world, etc is far more acceptable than from India. There may be demand for lower numbers overall, because widespread bilingualism is not popular, but there's no personal resistance to Mexicans.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Technically speaking the current Catholic definition of meat requires the animal to be both land dwelling and warm blooded. Older Cajuns will think reptile meat is vegetarian, including things like rattlesnake. It makes sense from a culinary definition, if not nutritional.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Roadkill doesn't necessarily mean it's been sitting out in the sun for days. In fact most larger animals struck by a car are left crippled and then need to be shot- the police will donate it to the zoo for lion food, but if legal it doesn't really make much difference if you/your redneck neighbor shoots it and takes it to the freezer.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Bewarned- in most of the bigger states this is deer poaching. If you hit a deer with your car, you're supposed to call a police officer to come dispatch it humanely.
In practice, you may not get caught, and the main penalty(loss of hunting license) is irrelevant to non-hunters. But it is de jure illegal.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
As I keep saying, if you have a 'disability' that makes it difficult to do well in school, your grades should just reflect being bad at school. Unfortunately, parents really want their kids to have high grades, and teachers serve the system(which cares about its own internal numbers, not whether those numbers reflect reality). C'est la vie, it's a clearly ridiculous example of the iron law, but it's far from the worst.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It seems like the best definition of ‘third world country’, what people actually mean, is places where a sufficiently large percentage of the population lives at the subsistence line for deaths from want(lack of food, shelter, etc) to be the biggest societal concern. Places like South Sudan, Tajikistan, Haiti, etc.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
A radical Islamist technological society would be… Saudi Arabia circa 2010. Yes, a lot of their tech was imported, but if they can figure out oil they can probably figure out most branches on the tech tree(Saudi actually does much of the oil extraction themselves). They don’t need to be good at inventing tech, just using it.
Of course they still underperformed militarily but that’s not because they didn’t have jet fighters.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Islamic states with western spec equipment still underperform- eg gulf states with f-16’s.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean isn’t Venezuela’s crime problem and failed-statery pretty well known?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
No. While the trump base is rapidly souring on immigration from India, most normie republicans think there are many legal immigrants from places like Mexico, Nigeria, and the Philippines who are a great addition to the country.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You will notice that the countries sending the most immigrants are not third world. Mexico, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, the Caribbean and Central America, etc are industrialized countries. They’re sucky, poor industrialized countries. But they’re literally not third world the way most of Africa is.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Iirc the Supreme Court has ruled that narcotrafficking could be tried as treason. It just takes 20+ years to execute someone.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Of course, Iceland, Britain, etc have much higher rates of prenatal testing.
It makes perfect sense for ethical vegans/vegetarians to see roadkill as different from butchered meat. I disagree with their perspective strongly, but it has considerable internal logic, and is endorsed by PETA(albeit in typical clown show fashion).
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