hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Red and black tribe americans are the closest cultural match to each other, and are genetically very very different.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
https://www.zompist.com/amercult.html
Of course America has a culture. Both red and blue tribe Americans basically fit in the picture above, maybe one or two exceptions on each side.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
That post deserves a top level post. I mean, yes, toddlers are often trying(and often deliberately trying), but he's not reacting as the received wisdom of parents passed through generations would recommend.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
My last job interview featured a set of technical questions related to the job- I remember being asked about the labeling of specific wires on a walk-in and one set of pressures on r410a, a couple of other things- but also had a bunch of questions that were just obviously about cultural fit, mostly looking for how I phrased particular concerns. People want to live and work around people that 'know how to use the right fork'. Literally, obviously- think about how uncomfortable you'd be if you had to share a table with Zohran Mamdani at a publicity stunt. But also in everything else. How do you communicate? How do you treat the boss- with extreme deference or as a basically-peer who happens to have a leadership role? Do you expect to be friends with your coworkers, or merely friendly? What do you think is acceptable water cooler talk? These things do matter.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Chocolate kills dogs by overdosing them on theobromine(which produces a high in them very similar to cocaine, although in humans it simply makes other stimulants last longer- that's right, a chocolate bar with your coffee makes it last longer). If you're sure you have the dosage and bodyweights right, you can totally give your dog chocolate and it will very much enjoy it.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
The Nazis both a) backed down on aktion t4, although they tended to quietly reinstate it and b) openly referred to the Jews as inferior repeatedly, running a eugenics program that specifically wanted to produce Aryans.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
I find it amusing to point out that, in America, modern day positions on abortion have very little correlation with 1930 positions on abortion, but a lot of correlation with 1930 views on eugenics. Eugenics was, in the American sense, a progressive movement, albeit one which looks kinda strange today- just like temperance.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Depends on the CPA’s specialty. If he does estate planning, trusts, etc then he might.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
What?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The opposition in Iran wants the monarchy.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
You don't have to cower in your home. You can just go about your life, neither interfering in ICE operations nor hiding from them.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Germany is mismanaging its economy in its own unique way, but it's still doing a lot better than Iran.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Is anyone asking for sanctity? Is that even a thing being discussed?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I feel like something that always gets left out of discussions about apartheid is that afrikaaners are not a Northern European ethnicity. They’re a lot more clannish, tribal, and xenophobic than thé Dutchmen they used to be. The British wrote lengthy screeds about how they were impoverished religious fanatics who married their underaged cousins…. A description generally not used for Northern European ethnicities. The simple lack of British universalizing, civilizing impulse is pretty easy to understand there.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Cursing somebody you believe yourself to have killed in self defense seconds after the act seems incredibly normal.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Just curious; what do you think thé German police would have done in that precise situation? Resisting arrest and attempting to flee through a police cordon is suicide by cop.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
This proposal runs into the immediate problem that the constitution says that the state’s representation in the senate is the only part not subject to amendment.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Driving a car at a cop will result in being shot in any country where the cops have guns. Especially if you’ve already hit one. This woman won a Darwin Award.
That being said, I’m sympathetic to the idea that better policing practices could have saved her life, and the agent in question is almost certainly being advised not to speak to the media. We don’t really know what the result is going to be, but both the ‘ice committing cold blooded murder’ crowd and the admin are behaving irresponsibly in their rhetoric.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
We need more insane centrists. There is a Lyndon LaRouche shaped hole in the USA; schizo cult leaders with beliefs to offend both sides of the political compass need to run for president more often. The Cynthia McKinney/David Duke antisemitism conference(no, not conference on antisemitism, there is a difference) cannot replace it.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I would guess OP is a troll, actually.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The answer is that they believe ICE isn't allowed to do anything to US citizens. This is wrong; they can arrest US citizens who interfere with their operations. But they don't really believe this is what they say it is.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Ok, if we think ICE is going around calculatedly murdering people- why this one? AFAICT she was one protestor among many. There are many like it, this is the one unfortunate enough to drive her car directly at an ICE agent while being yelled at to stop.
Obviously, this partner isn't her wife; she has a husband, who she ditched out of ideologically induced mental illness. But getting mad over terminology is... well not exactly the most concerning part of this story, or even in the top ten.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Wolf Totem
I'd always heard that Chinese literature, translated in English, was generally pretty bad- stilted, awkward phrasing, often on an infantile reading level, rather mediocre and meandering, like the worst of Dickens imitated by a third grader. But this is not like that; the prose reads like an American wrote it originally in the midcentury.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
A notionally pro-western government in Tehran will almost certainly get large western loans for the purpose of immediate legitimacy-building options, and Iran can pay those loans back with oil if they need to.
Two weeks PTO(all paid time off) is pretty normal in America. Most of the private sector(banks are notorious for getting more) gets 6-10 holidays per year- typically Christmas, New Years, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, and Memorial and Labor days. Good Friday, the days after Thanksgiving and Christmas, and Christmas eve are also common. Most workplaces will not allow all of their employees to take their PTO at the same time as each other, and time off in popular times of year may be first come first serve, seniority, or certain times might be blocked off altogether with separate procedures for time off.
Two weeks off around Christmas is extremely lucky in the American context, practically unique to schools. But offices shutting down Christmas eve to reopen January 2 is pretty normal, if not the norm.
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