hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yes, boiling vegetables tend to reduce the nutritive content unless you drink the water with it. But not necessarily by enough to worry about.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Blue collar workers have gotten some pretty big raises recently, but not enough to keep up with housing.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
DFW is a surprisingly expensive fast(or fast-casual) food market nationally.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
People think groceries are more expensive because Americans are increasingly switching to carts full of items that have always been more expensive- like yeah, steak prices went up, but Americans weren’t eating ribeye very often until pretty recently.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Housing, healthcare, and education have real affordability problems, but food prices consistently lag general inflation. The grocery unaffordability really is mostly lifestyle creep- potatoes and pasta were once the staples, nobody ate prime cuts of steak very often, etc. Casseroles, spaghetti and meatballs, etc are still cheap if you have even a little bit of flexibility in ingredients.
Now it is annoying that some specific items- like beef- have gone up in price. But it is not proof of general grocery inflation.
my kids go to the same Catholic school I went to
This, specifically, is much more expensive because bishops in the US have generally embarked on a policy of reducing subsidies towards catholic schools and have entirely failed to realize that this means dramatic price rises and fewer people going to them. Catholic school in the eighties often charged only a nominal tuition to tithing parishioners because the diocese ate most of the bill.
Almost everything in the chaos in institutional Catholicism is due to that single policy trend.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The enemies of western civilization are allies and I'd rather they at least be honest about it by naming the more alien and savage one as their public face.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Sure, but law enforcement is a lot of paperwork and this is unlikely to be a high priority case(entirely possible that this went to the bottom of the pile because there's no pending trial, for example).
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Registering a prediction that silencers are, in the end, generally legal- but machine guns remain highly restricted. Very possible the supreme court rules that the hughes amendment can stand on its own while the NFA is unconstitutional.
But, uh, conservatives get policy wins all the time. School choice, abortion restrictions, right to carry, the list goes on and on. If you are a based white nationalist and expect white nationalism as a policy win you will be disappointed more often than not, but there's lots of conservative policy W's recently.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Progressive white women are trying very hard to enforce a consensus in a very stereotypical and annoying way, however.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
In the bush era they were risqué and not the default.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Thats a roundabout way of saying progressive white women are Karens, but there’s basically two roles progressivism allows for women- bimbos and Karens. For whatever reason progressive women of colour are more likely to pick the former and progressive white women almost always pick the latter. Thé attempts at divorced aunt role progressive women(eg Marianne williamson) have crashed and burned, that’s a conservative woman role now(eg Lauren Boebert).
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Splendid colonnades and grand entrances with beauteous manicured forests stocked with parrots and wallabies… yes, thé people will appreciate.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Rural communities are worried about flock cameras, yes, but they’re also worried about the pace of technological-cultural progress. They can remember when rap music was deeply controversial and bikinis weren’t thé norm(this is, literally, something middle aged people can easily remember, it was that recent). They may not want those trends reversed but they also don’t want them accelerated and they can easily draw the connection between big tech/entertainment(and they don’t see the difference between the two- their exposure to AI is mostly on social media) and cultural change- there’s a reason thé gays in Disney movies are such a visible there, there. The fact that they correctly identify the new computer doohickeys as associated with cultural change and controlled by their enemies is a much bigger factor than specific predictions.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Data centers need to be beautified. Have competent representational artists and classical architects work on the facade, so they don’t look like an ugly blight on downtown. Make them a thing people don’t mind seeing.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Of course, AOC apparently didn’t recognize that the tax incentives weren’t something they’d get to keep if they didn’t approve the deal- they were an offer to just not collect some of the taxes that would be owed, but aren’t due to Amazon not building.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The most recent actual news on data centers is that Greg Abbott’s data center plan is polling at +70.
For those who aren’t familiar, his plan is basically ‘let them build data centers, but publish data on it’. People don’t trust Silicon Valley nerds to be honest, that’s why there’s all this backlash. It’s entirely possible to invert an 80-20 issue by just framing it at ‘someone accountable to the people is checking the deal’.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
El-Sayed won. This is good news for the Republican Party, and the primary reason I supported him.
What I make of it is that dem infighting is a very real albatross around their neck. Abdul El-Sayed is not the right candidate to nominate in a swing state.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
It's very unlikely, for the simple reason that Asian cities are very OK with ruthlessly minimizing labour costs in a way NYC is notoriously not. Wages in these places are a lot lower for the sorts of people who work selling hot food(and Asian style food is also typically cheaper per serving than American style- rice is a lot cheaper than burgers), and this is accepted because orientals think renting a closet to live in is ok for low skill workers.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Oh dear trying to imagine DSA leftists running a grocery store when they cant manage a coffee shop…
hydroacetylene
4d ago
In New York these people are called thé guardian angels and they’re loyal to Curtis Sliwa, an opponent of Mamdani.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
How command economies with fixed price levels actually work is shortages- there’s simply none of whatever item is popular and unprofitable available. Grocery net profit isn’t high enough for this to be a short list, either- thé grocery stores will feature lots of empty shelves.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
I’ve never heard twilight criticized as porn. There was criticism of twilight as dangerous for adolescent girls on the basis that much older men are bad news, but I don’t remember a moral panic about OMG all the sex and violence. 50 shades, yes, it definitely had that.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Men are not, generally speaking, complaining about the hot guys being shirtless a lot in popular movies and TV shows.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Twilight is probably not, like, good literature. I've never heard it seriously defended as anything more than the appeal to a woman's inner sixteen year old fantasies... but I've also never heard it seriously criticized as anything worse than that, either. It definitely isn't porn- it's about a teenager being special and chosen by a much older man who keeps his hands to himself before marriage and having babies quickly. Not the most likely sequence of events, but fantasia, not pornography.
My prediction is short barreled rifles get legalized because nobody really cares about them, any other weapon gets legalized, but short barreled shotguns and high caliber rifles have some BS made up to restrict them.
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