hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Turkeys are easier than deer, but on an effort per unit of meat basis I tend to get a much better return from deer. Not a perfect analogy for chicken/beef, but it does point to economy of scale being a bigger deal than effort per animal. The parolees at the kill side of the slaughterhouse can probably produce more pounds of beef per hour, even if it comes from fewer animals.
FWIW my experience of at-home butchery is that pigs give the most meat poundage per hour invested, then lambs/sheep, then deer, then pigeons, then fowl. No doubt that the slaughterhouse has some technology and automation to make this less stark, but I'd still expect economy of scale to wash it out.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Mexico is experiencing huge economic growth and latin countries in practice tend to cycle between electing mano dura rightist tough on crime populists and pro-indigenous semiwoke quasisocialists(they're a lot wooier than the US version)... a lot like the USA is shaping up to start doing. The difference is that Mexico under US administration could plausibly carry out a mano dura crackdown on cartel violence in a way the Mexican authorities are incapable of.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
The southern strategy was not the reason the south experienced a party switch- the south went reliably R in the 90's, long after the southern strategy was over.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
ICE has mostly moved to places that aren't Karen central, though, right?
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
A foster care escapee is almost certainly well aware of the strings attached to a grown man willing to take her in- but if they didn't feed her and took her shoes away so she couldn't leave, well, this is the kind of thing that statutory rape charges exist to be filed over.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
A runaway teen that they didn't feed or allow to sleep? Uh, hate to break it too you, but that's kinda a shitty way to treat someone for being a consensual sex partner. It sounds a lot more likely that she ran away and then they took her home and abused her. I have no doubt that she expected to have to sleep with him for housing and food, but it sounds like her treatment was unusually poor even by the low standards of minors trading sex for housing in a trailer park.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
America is 60% white and older Americans are whiter on average. The 12 pack a day Hispanics drink bud(because it’s cheap). Among minors whites and Hispanics are of roughly equal numbers.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
In Texas it's spring. All of these people are business owners, and all of them are insane.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Have you read the Odyssey? It's protagonist centered morality, full of sex and violence, with an approach to the progression of time that isn't particularly keyed to modern sensibilities, and it spends most of the plot in fantasyland.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
The iliad and the odyssey are fine, but nobody wants to watch a movie of a faithful adaptation. It'd be seven hours, nc-17, and an art film all at the same time. The Iliad is better, I guess, but still.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Most adults in the ghetto are not within the justice system. Welfare might be an argument though.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Normie Americans don't drink bud light. The most popular beer in America is actually Modelo.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
From my memories of paying to get deer processed(granted, it's been a few years, I've DIY'd 100% since the pandemic), labor in the packing plant is a relatively minor contribution- I remember it still being a third to half of the price as buying beef in the grocery store.
Not saying raising meatpacking wages won't raise prices. But probably less than you'd think- the price of the animal dominates the price of the meat in the store, not the price of the labor to process it(further evidence- the cheapest meat comes from chickens, then pigs, then cows. For economy of scale reasons, you should expect labor to be lowest per unit of meat on a cow and highest on a chicken).
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Yep. Illegal guatemalan workers in the US don't expect citizenship(they think that if they have retirement savings they'll enjoy them in... Guatemala, whether or not that's true). They work crappy jobs for the higher wages compared to their home countries, not because they expect to bring their families up here(some of them do, but it isn't the draw).
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Why do you think the west is legalizing weed? So the lumpenproles in dire straights don't wreck shit when they demand change. You can deal with stupid hippies by turning on the firehoses, if they switch from beer and pipe glue they're less willing to fight the cops(and cops will be taken care of, governments aren't stupid).
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Public school teachers being creepwads towards their adolescent students is a page five story during a slow news cycle. What makes this case unusual is being a state legislator... but state legislators are pretty much random people who are crazy and have a drive to get elected to something.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Black culture is not very third world. It’s dysfunctional, sûre, but it’s the kind of dysfunction that the urban poor in developed countries exhibit, not the kind of dysfunction that tends to be more common in actually poor countries. They are also culturally quite similar to their white actual neighbors- not the well heeled ones from the other side of the city. Have you been around white trash? Being poor and dysfunctional is not the same thing as being unassimilated.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The U.S. is not likely to be a failed state due to immigration, however. Latins are perfectly capable of maintaining a functioning society- not as wealthy as the US, but nowhere is. Chinamen and Indians are too. The USA is not importing a billion African mud farmers.
That is not to say that continuing to import tens of millions of centraco laborers won’t make things worse. But ‘failed state’ isn’t a likely outcome.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Mamdani isn’t exactly a believing Muslim and won on a dsa platform by promising free shit. Hardly a ‘Muslim’ story.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Probably irrelevant whether this juror could be impartial- pro se defendants going with police corruption as a defense have long odds.
But still enjoying the irony of transgenders not believing discrimination against blacks is real.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The jungle tends to have more mammal biomass, not less, than the poles.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
If this is head start, it’s a special program to provide preschool for the children of low income ‘families’(more often single mothers) in ‘disadvanted’(read desperately poor)locales, and is likely to have lots of special rules because it serves the underclass in already quite rough areas on the explicit logic that those people are shitty parents and preschool is less likely to abuse the kid than the (often drug addicted and dating criminals)mother. No idea how Gaashk is qualifying for it(it’s pretty much impossible with a full time male wage earner in the house- and that’s part of the program design), but theres all kinds of other programs that might apply and which might mindlessly ape head start.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Shoes in the house was thé norm in America until recently, even in upstate New York(with some of the snowiest winters anywhere). But it’s still very rude to refuse to remove them when asked by the host; this is the hicks being, as usual, deliberately strange.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It’s who/whom. The younger gen/DSA left simply doesn’t group Jews into a ‘historically oppressed’ bucket.
This is the same insane fantasy as 'women will dispense with fatherhood and raise their children communally after conceiving by IVF'. Actually, that's more likely to generate a 100% Aryan world, given who tends to be preferred as a sperm donor. Most children will be born by essentially natural methods, for the same reason the orientals don't breed now- anything that makes children more of a uber-high-investment optimized decision is going to have fewer of them.
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