hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
I mean, the percentage of modern day Geocentrists is above the lizardman’s constant(upper teens percent in most western democracies IIRC- weirdly this is the one time thé US isn’t an outlier). It seems fair to round off anything under ~20-25% as a fringe in most contexts and that’s not a massive underestimate of SJ popularity, at least.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
You don't have to have the same interests as your soulmate. You have to get along and cooperate on tasks and share values.
The happiest couples are ones who know when they bore each other to tears, not ones who never have to worry about it. Because the latter are imaginary.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
It's better to go on zero dates than on one date which goes nowhere.
No it is not, for morale if nothing else. If you're single and looking go on dates. Take the chance.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
The RCC, excepting perhaps the most liberal fringes, was generally very anti-trans consistently throughout the period; beyond that the Francis pontificate was basically a cold civil war(which came very very close to going hot, more than once) that kept the guns pointed at each other and sucked the oxygen out of the room.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
Epstein got his big break by being a private school teacher who seduced his students and blackmailing their dads by threatening to reveal their daughter was no longer a virgin. We should probably assume someone like that was running intentional blackmail.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
Ok, if we take the 'Epstein was murdered in prison to prevent him spilling the beans' hypothesis seriously, and assume that the Clintons/Mi6/Mossad are competent actors, this is exactly what we should expect. Prison guards are cheap to bribe and want lakehouses/retirement, not notoriety(they're also not going to cop to a felony like accepting bribes because of what would happen to them on the inside), and 'leaving a detailed list' defeats the point of murdering him.
I'm not too fussed about it; everyone who went to it could have a different bikini model spend the night with him on her eighteenth birthday every day if he wanted to, there's no evidence they picked Epstein's girls because they wanted 17 1/2 year olds instead, more like because escorts were provided as part of the island experience, and the pimp is dead(deservedly so).
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
I'm continuing to register my prediction that AGI will prove useless due to being deranged, and this problem will prove unfixable. The singularity will be a million copies of Chris Langen refusing to do anything useful when they could schizopost instead.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
I can remember a time when males with long hair were… seen poorly, and usually tilted progressive. But beards seem to have been just unfashionable and not particularly lib coded.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Contrarily, high social trust societies are notorious for calling for scams a lot- Mormons in particular.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Religious leaders pushed back against LGBT in the Catholic and evangelical cases; mainline Protestants no.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Part of adversary proof production for the modern U.S. would almost certainly be near-shoring; Mexico has one of the largest manufacturing sectors in the world and it’s probably easier to convert a pickup truck factory into a humvee factory than to build a new factory.
The other thing that seems often left out of these discussions is diversion of civilian goods(probably through rationing). Civilian boots, food, fuel, mechanical parts- it can all get diverted to the army. This is part of why I think it unlikely the modern U.S. will engage in a full blown war anytime soon- thé cuts to civilian standard of living would be a no go.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Given the contents of Twitter, it seems clear that if US social media is suppressing Palestinian content they’re doing it poorly.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Mexico has western-standards dental work and elective surgeries for cheap. Cash only.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Impassionata
hydroacetylene
1d ago
condos that are too small for kids.
? Kids don't take up very much space. Certainly less than normally sized dogs(not counting the small ratlike creatures which seem inexplicably popular these days).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Try it in Boudin.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Liberals do not want healthcare costs cut, whatever gave you the impression that they did?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It sure seems like all the liberal examples of 'women dying because of abortion bans!!!' were, well, obviously not that, but the thing they actually were seems to be mostly EMTALA violations. Hospitals obviously violate EMTALA if they think they can get away with it.
IIRC there was a pilot program in parts of Texas to guarantee EMTALA care gets paid for, but it was canceled because illegals were benefiting from it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
which was way more effective than any attempt to build a black-only community in the US or elsewhere would have been.
Indeed, this experiment has been run. Black supremacists are just schizophrenic antisemites and black separatist experiments are gigantic failures that always seem to have justifiable- and usually banal- reasons for getting shut down when the authorities intervene.
If you'd like a separatist enclave in the US, start an insular religious community and make sure the girls wait until 18 before they get married. Society is fine with it that way.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Orania and the USA are very different because there are approximately seven zillion conservative towns with an all white population in the USA because no blacks or asians bothered to move there.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This is because all-white rural communities are a dime a dozen in the US. Seriously, if your goal is 'avoid blacks', it's just a lot easier to move to the towns which just... don't have them. 100% of people who moved there were making an intentional political statement.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Sure, willing to believe that. But the point is the government is going to start adding non-catastrophic care they cover, often through rational cost-benefit analysis(vaccines etc) and then expanding the list will become a political issue with a ratchet that only goes one way.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The reasons this is unworkable are political- the ‘thé government should cover ozempic/IVF/whatever’ platform is always going to be more popular than the ‘keep universal healthcare only for catastrophic’ platform.
My preferred solution- all children on Medicare, hospitals get guaranteed reimbursement for EMTALA care, low-coverage plans and low-risk pools are legal again.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Ah, but medieval Europe was monogamous, and even if bastards clearly existed they probably had a much lower survival rate than legitimate children, and lower odds of reproducing even if they survived. The medieval European social structure tended to result in more eligible women than men in most social classes for long stretches at a time.
I mean, LoTT might not be the most reliable source, but it has enough documented instances to say this is at least a thing that is happening and relatively widespread.
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