hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Ok, but what do people who can't afford a down payment but want to live in a house do? Someone has to own a house in order to rent it out.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Bubbles:
Fellow tradesmen, coworkers and the like- above replacement. Hard to say what 'generation' means here though.
Extended family scattered across half of Texas and part of Louisiana- fertility definitely declined since the seventies but not seemingly since the nineties. Above replacment.
Actual IRL tradcaths- fertility is slightly rising over the generations. It remains to be seen if the next generation will achieve Sahel-level TFR, but it's already above Israel.
Neighbors- Gringos maintain above replacement fertility over the generations. Hispanics seem to decline generationally.
A few of these people are farmers, but none of them engage in unmechanized subsistence farming, and most of them have normal waged labor jobs.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
A lawyer almost certainly has someone on hand who can help a client access financial records, no?
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Agree that becky was very stupid and chad was reprehensible. But what bias would you expect a woman who got the exact deal becky thought she was offered to have?
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Yes, Chad needed to get a bill. It does sound like the $22k she helped herself to ought to be deducted and the karens on the jury weren't willing to consider that?
More to the point, this is a real ESH. Chad is an irresponsible manchild degenerate. Becky, uh, should've known this going in- it doesn't sound like he's hiding anything.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
The Spanish royal family, like other European royal families, is not ethnically Spanish.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Last year I got called for jury duty. I showed up to Frank Crowley courtbuilding, went to the assigned courtroom and checked in. The defense began its voir dire by explaining the definition of statutory rape and continuous sexual abuse of a child, and then asked if I would consider mitigating circumstances.
My answer was something along the lines of 'either this guy did it, and needs to go to jail for a long time, or he didn't, and needs to go free, I don't have the evidence to say. But I'm not sure what the mitigating factors are for sexual abuse.' When the jury was finally selected it was made up of all men, and one black woman who didn't use the words 'white women be lyin', but it was pretty clear she did not consider the sisterhood to encompass white girls. I don't know how the case turned out, I got dismissed for saying there wasn't a mitigating circumstance for having sex with a thirteen year old.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
You put stuff in someone else's name and then rent it out anyways.
Maybe it's a class distinction, but republicans mostly have some opinions, even if poorly formed or informed ones. Of course, Bob is implied to be older than Lauren. Possibly by a lot, possibly by a little.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
"Bob believes America is the greatest country in the world and is the single key to preventing the global triumph of communism. He probably believes democrats have stolen elections before; depending on social class this can variously include 1960, 2020, and various congressional by-elections. He thinks further expansions of welfare for specifically the low income are subsidizing underemployment. He follows football; if wealthy, this is college football, not NFL, usually the team of the school he went to(but not always), and also follows another sport- often baseball, but sometimes whatever his nearest city happens to be best at, or hockey if he's into contact sports, etc. He spends more energy on this than he does on politics. He believes that black culture is mostly a negative and that things like hip hop are very bad, but supports freedom of speech rather than measures to discourage them- he can't understand why his black neighbors insist on doing things wrong, when their culture is so obviously bad. But they're good people. He also believes that Islam is a bad culture, and may well believe that measures need to be taken to discourage it or keep it out of the country. He will probably clarify that more people should go to church, he's not racist but Islam has bad teachings that need to be discouraged- have you seen how they treat women? He believes that if the US doesn't stand with Israel God will punish the country, but does not think that it is possible to bring about the events of the book of revelation through human action.
He is very upset about rising prices, and depending on social class may blame taxes, government regulations, China, immigrants, or environmentalists. One thing he probably doesn't blame is boomers. He has some sympathies for young people struggling to get established, but also thinks they should get good- maybe those dastardly environmentalists/bureaucrats should get out of the way, but there's no excuse not to try. He 100% believes there is no replacement for fossil fuels, and thinks climate change is example #9000 of unhinged democrat hysteria. It's got to be a mental illness at this point, why else would they arrive at the conclusions they've come to about gender? Come on. He is very confused as to why his black neighbors continue to vote democrat when they have common sense."
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
I live nested inside filter bubbles where the fertility is above replacement and they're all pretty post-industrial? This sounds like a skill issue.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
The average datacenter, from my vantage point in the skilled trades, seems to employ ~10-15 maintenance people full time, plus 2 ish HVAC techs from contractors, 2 electricians and an apprentice from an electrical contractor.
It's also worth noting that the most reliable way to get HVAC techs of the appropriate specialty is by signing a contract to use only union labour. There are only a small number of pipelines for training these guys(datacenter HVAC is not a standard commercial package unit), and the union runs the biggest, like 'probably half or more of the total' biggest. Trane(the factory) runs the second biggest, and it's a lot slower. Most HVAC companies willing to extensively retrain their technicians do so for refrigeration instead, because refrigeration is 1)easier 2)very urgent and 3)easy to find clients for. Plus you can hire a refrigeration only tech- he'll be an odd duck, but you can find one pretty easily- to run that training, without having to sign on with some external guild-like organization.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
MLS and Saudi pro are generally the top non European leagues because they have the ability to make athletes very comfortable playing for them.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Technically speaking, the USA did win in Vietnam- it withdrew in exchange for a promise by north Vietnam to respect the south's independence(our actual war goal). The first time it reneged on this promise the ARVN repelled them. The second time the ARVN collapsed in a fit of coup-proofing paranoia at around the same time and commie tanks took Saigon.
Pinkos like LBJ and Nixon were unwilling to invade the north after the liberal Eisenhower overthrew the Ngo family's regime and that made the US position impossible in the long run, but we achieved our actual war goal before withdrawing.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
American professional soccer actually plays better than South American pro soccer these days- the Argentine team that made it to the finals was made up mostly of players whose day jobs are playing for big five European league teams, but were originally from Argentina. MLS could go toe to toe with top teams from Brazil and Argentina, never mind the cub league.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean it is technically true that elements within Germany betrayed the German army. Germany was not winning and these elements included things like 'other parts of the German military', but the German revolution really happened.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Well, that's not Lauren's DSA. Her DSA just wants the obvious, basic things; free healthcare, free education, a living wage! Like, hello, why are we evening talking about this in 2026? Lol!
That shit already free, nigga.
People who cannot get a living wage in 2026 America are mostly people who are deeply unsympathetic, or have very high expectations. We have clunky expensive universal healthcare that people who can't afford it just don't pay for, and the system works fine.
Because soccer is left coded but it's also a sport and sports mean hot guys might be around
Not quite. Soccer in America has a left-coded fanbase, yes, because 'soccer fan' in America is implied to be a premiere league fan, and liking English stuff as better than American is a weird blue tribe tick, MLS or Liga mx fandom isn't nearly so political. Internationally soccer is not a left coded sport, at all, and FIFA is real cuddly with Trump, Qatar, etc, and clearly making a play to get the American red tribe into soccer.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes, they ate fewer calories of lower quality food, a higher portion of it carbs.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The typical single person before the war boarded rather than renting an apartment, and boarders were fed as part of their rent.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In practice this woman's goal was probably to find an American husband to switch her au pair visa into a greed card, but she got caught before she could seal the deal.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It sucked and the portion sizes were a lot smaller, and their plates had a bigger portion of carbs. They are pasta, potatoes, bread, rice, casserole etc in huge portions, compared to today’s preference for mostly meat diets.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Men also have much dirtier homes. This isn't just about food.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
You ate steak for a single meal a week for fifteen years? Totally disproves my point that expectations have risen in the general public.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
To be fair, you do live in San Francisco.
Yes, yes it does. But a pre-paid card seems like how you’d handle giving money to someone who can’t control spending.
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