AvocadoPanic
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AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
Wiseacre or wisenheimer
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
"maybe we should think pragmatically and build a better system that actually cares about the needs of non-elites
I'm hopeful this would be the eventual outcome after all the patricians are dead.
I agree it doesn't seem to be on offer, currently.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
seems like the news media, social media, Blinken, and the former intelligence officials mostly or entirely sincerely believed it had a good chance of being Russian disinformation
You believe this is more likely than the deep state and political actors working in unison to protect their preferred candidate from the truth?
Have any of the 'intelligence officials' retracted their letter?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your meaning.
As I read it, your main concern of Trump winning is that if he loses he'll claim he won and Kamala only won via fraud.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
Recently in Oregon is an example https://www.opb.org/article/2024/09/13/noncitizens-registered-oregon-error/
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
“having their fun” and then turning around and telling you not to have yours
This is based on a misperception.
The sin and degeneracy I was mired in for a decade wasn't really fun, if it were I wouldn't have needed to be so drunk to do it.
The truth is I was deeply unhappy and unfulfilled. I wouldn't tell you not to have fun, I would tell you that sexual degeneracy alcohol and drugs are a false fun. They cannot lead to a lasting happiness, peace or fulfillment. They're distracting and numbing.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
It's not just that the employees are less skilled, they're less capable.
Seleting for someone higher skilled may also select for someone capable of stretching. A competent person can be competent in many situations and scenarios with minimal training.
School used to do a better job of selecting for competence, graduation rates were much lower but graduates could pass competency exams.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
Afghan bug out
Was this an example of success?
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
The difficulty is the 'decision makers' have often moved on before the pigeons come home to roost.
Even highly repeatable processes will often have edge cases / or odd failure modes that while rare if the process is very frequent will throw errors often enough to cause problems.
Also these jobs tend to suck which presents other challenges.
I'd rather interact with someone competent than an idiot with a checklist. I'm sure there's an appropriate Idiocracy clip.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
government competency crisis
It's not just government. Lots of orgs have tried to replace expertise / experience / competency with process and procedure.
You can sometimes see how well this works in practice. It's like when you've a cashier that can't make change and you try to give them 2¢ so you get $1 and not 98¢ in change.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
Poaching deer sure. Squirrel and racoon may not even be poaching. Some states have no limits on varmit animals though you'd need permission from the landowner on private property.
It doesn’t seem like a big stretch that it would be, the locals were saying it was, and Trump repeated their reports.
This seems the most likely to me. Combined with the Canton women who ate the cat.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
If the claim were Europeans are using cat pelts as a traditional remedy for arthritis?
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
Trump would (allegedly) collude
Do you believe this claim? I believe we've high quality evidence that this was manufactured at the behest of those working if not on behalf of the Clinton campaign, working independently while also working for the Clinton campaign.
This still sounds like boo-outgroup. That dastardly Trump is the sort to collude with Russia to win.
Poor Hatians would never eat a cat.
At best I'm reasonably confident a Hatian in Springfield, OH hasn't eaten a cat it the trailing 6 months. I would be less confident that no Hatian has never eaten a cat anywhere.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
You seem particularly upset by the Haitians in Springfield eating pets story. We're you also upset by the Russian collusion, or pee dossier stories?
I think there were a couple elements to the Hatian story that gave it the legs it had. There was a woman arrested while apparently eating a cat, though in Canton not Springfield and she isn't Hatian. There was a 911 call reporting 4 Hatians stealing geese from a park. There was a viral Facebook post purporting to describe 3rd or 4th hand about a lost cat found field dressed hanging from a tree. The memes of Trump saving kittens and ducks were sharable because cats and the internet.
It seems to me that this is one of those misinformation stories that's only horrible when it's my evil out-group doing it. When it's the righteous and good in group repeating Russian collusion, pee dossier or Hunter Biden laptop is Russian disinformation, disinformation it's OK.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
I hadn't considered that it was the Classic / New Country mix of 105.1 FM in the 80's that led me to marriage, family and church ~30 years later. I owe a debt to Uncle Dave and Lisa K in the mornings.
Pop-country isn't a genre I've much experience with. Any recommendations of songs or artists that encourage young women to ditch school, marry young and have children? Or that are popular amongst the cohort of women that do?
I'd expect schools to need to push hard amongst non-responders.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
I suspect it's horrendous in an absolute sense and average, maybe low average in a peer group sense.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
I think it would go down well and I'm always keen to read first hand accounts of peoples day jobs.
Though I'd ask horrendous compared to what, horrendous compared to someplace that actually exists in current year?
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
Since beginning food. He'd refuse to eat and demand milk. He's 9 now.
He's unpleasant (more than usual) when he's not eaten, though so are many people. Longest he's gone recently is 36 hours or so, when he finally ate some toast. He's specific about the french fries too, no ketchup, only salt.
He's also complained and avoided the Fanta here in Germany saying it tastes different. Sprite has been less ubiquitous and he's not liked the alternative lemon / citrus soft drinks. Doesn't like the UHT milk.
Our other kids have not had any trouble finding things they like on menus or trying new things.
Lego Land, Play Mobil Fun Park, the local trampoline park all serving beer in the food court / canteen. Most museum cafes too. Unlike the USA when you do find beer at these sorts of places it will be something mass market and expensive for a .33 l can, here it tends to be something local and cheap in a .5 l bottle.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
USA
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
I'm in Germany with the family. Visiting family and doing touristy stuff. This is the first time we've traveled with all the children. It's challenging when one of the four only eats french fries. Many museums and other attractions have family pricing that admits two adults and 4 children, though typically not places the children would choose to go.
It's also strange being back somewhere you've not really been in ~20 years. There's been plenty of culture war topic noticing. Some of this is seeing all the change at once that was paced over years for everyone else.
There are still many things Germany does better. The ubiquitous availability of beer, still being one. Food quality and price being another.
You can see that new populations have replaced existing populations in archeological DNA.
The manner or method of replacement is likely lost.
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