hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2d 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
2d 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
2d 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
2d 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
2d ago
Islamic states with western spec equipment still underperform- eg gulf states with f-16’s.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean isn’t Venezuela’s crime problem and failed-statery pretty well known?
hydroacetylene
2d 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
2d 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
3d ago
Iirc the Supreme Court has ruled that narcotrafficking could be tried as treason. It just takes 20+ years to execute someone.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Of course, Iceland, Britain, etc have much higher rates of prenatal testing.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Didn’t the lawful commerce in arms act predate gun control as a political fault line? It basically codified that guns are inherently hazardous and so manufacturers aren’t liable for misuse, the same standards exist for cars.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The US white homicide rate is still higher than anywhere in Europe except for the Balkans, Baltics, and Russia. State level homicide rates are still really really high outside of DC and Illinois(which is what I’m assuming the two counties are). Highest murder rate is usually Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, and DC- and even outside of that top tier, murder rates are still much higher than comparable populations.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
This was the late 2010’s. His wife was vegan, they were pretty into environment and animal stuff and they were homeschooling for partly that reason.
Plenty of eccentrics in the trades. Usually more of the white nationalism and a pet monkey version, but still.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Their purchases of US military equipment at sticker price is probably some subsidy to the military industrial complex. They also briefly stabilized Somalia, until the USA made them stop, and Yemen, before the USA made them stop.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Yes, during the Cold War extrajudicial executions in Latin America were largely outsourced from the USFG to local governments.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Venezuela has weaker rule of law, transshipment wouldn’t surprise me.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I mean, what makes terrorists special?
The origin of a ‘special category’ of criminals was pirates as hostis humani generis, followed by slavers in the 19th century, and terrorists after 9/11. Adding narcotraffickers doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I mean Iraq is, currently, a petrostate. That is the main sector of their economy. Making it US owned is… very possibly not an improvement.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Shipwreck survivals in tropical water are a thing that happens; theoretically they could make an improvised raft out of wreckage and float to shore. Of course realistically dehydration or drowning would get them and their body would be eaten by sharks, but eh.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
FA-18’s have autocannon and can just shoot them on-site.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Probably, to make them less biased. I'm not saying it's a good plan or that it'll work.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
That's British English, though, an American would not say that. An American might say 'retard' or just 'tard' or 'downie'(not always a slur). An older American might say 'moron' or 'idiot' as a slur but nowadays that wouldn't be used for an actually retarded person, it's used for other drivers.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
He has to have some measure if he wants to use leverage on the media.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
I mean, on the bright side, advertisements mean there is a significant oversupply- more people wanting to offer them than people wanting to take up those offers.
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.
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