hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
9m ago
The working poor will not starve in the US(and I’m given to understand that groceries in the UK are cheaper, not more expensive)- rice is too cheap to meter.
hydroacetylene
10m ago
In the west, what we tend to see is migration from low wage work into gig work in response to welfare reductions- because Walmart gets you eligible for TANF and Medicare, uber does not.
hydroacetylene
14m ago
He, uh, reads like a sheltered(probably by the school system more than by his parents) twenty year old, not a troll.
hydroacetylene
15m ago
Nation of Islam is pretty close to defunct(because it’s schizo fundies who can’t get along with anyone, including the police), but there’s plenty of black ‘Bible believing’ churches not much different from their white fundie peers, who do about as well, and the black Hebrew Israelites seem to have pockets of functional subcultures.
hydroacetylene
19m ago
AIUI graffiti artists are mostly doing graffiti in places where it is intentionally tolerated, and tend to get arrested quite fast if they do this stuff in nice exurbs.
hydroacetylene
21m ago
Girls mature faster, so I suspect age cutoffs make a big difference in why so many of those programs are majority female.
hydroacetylene
23m ago
I have seen women in the trades, and black women are not overrepresented as successful compared to women writ large. You know who is? White lesbians. There are tons of black women in stuff like dispatching, purchasing, parts houses, etc, but they’re not actually trades- they’re staff hired from the existing pool of functional but lower skilled labor.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
That is pretty clearly not the definition in practice. Your bitch-dog, if she's large enough not to get eaten afterwards, can have coyote puppies, which can themselves breed- and there are breeds of hunting dog with partial coyote ancestry. There's a breed of cat which is partially bobcat. Most bison have ancestry from domestic cattle.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
To be clear, being able to pull off the art museum as a date idea is very very good for your love life if you are a man. But at the end of the day, yes, a man's marriageability is mostly defined in economic terms- not always cash based, but economic.
You can be ruggedly masculine and kind and gentle and loyal to women(or, as we would like to encourage, one woman). The black idea of rugged masculinity doesn't happen to line up with that, of course, but it's not like ideas that do line up with that have never existed. Chivalry is pretty clearly an example, for example- knights were supposed to be good at fighting first and foremost, and treat women well, and spend their free time hunting, and the courtly graces were often things very directly relevant to being a knight(the dancing that they're expected to do originated as practicing footwork for swordsmanship).
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
Military service members having a guaranteed income that massively increases upon marriage seems pretty directly relevant to the marriage question, especially given their female class peers' poor economic prospects.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
Our civic norms under a diadochic presidency... will the mos maiorum actually deteriorate? The 60's were bad, but, I mean, we, you know, survived.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
It's worth noting that neither of those Empires looked like a powder keg ten years before they detonated.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
??? No, the left's wins on Israeli immigration policy have tended to be recognizing as valid Jewish ethnic groups those with sketchier claims, conversions have pretty consistently been very difficult.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Thanks, this is almost exactly what I’m looking for. There’s no shortage of information on ‘how to get a gun in Germany’ freely available on the internet- the experience of actually doing it is less represented.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Almost every range has A Policy on ammo, and enforcement varies. Generally steel case ammunition is on the no no list, tracers are flat banned and will get you banned from that range, and some ranges don't like FMJ.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
In practice, this almost certainly looks like lots of mid-levels and generic drugs, so @throwaway05- what does that look like? More unnecessary tests, probably, but are generic drugs worse than name brand often enough to matter?
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
‘Bloody’ is supposedly the descendent of a minced oath for ‘by Our Lady’. I don’t know if it’s true or not.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Most Americans would be familiar with that use of ‘bugger’, although it sounds like an old person, or ‘to pull’ in that sense. Slag sounds like a British insult for a loose woman, but I didn’t already know it, and I’ve definitely heard ‘spunk’ used as a noun for the same term in American English, but not a verb.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
There is lots of immigration into Israël, and ‘who counts as Jewish’ is a thorny question that the left has taken W’s on in the past.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Ironically, the use of archery is itself assimilating- the aborigines didn’t have it until introduced by Europeans.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
This is the Israeli equivalent of a rural interest party, is my understanding- they’ll coalition with anyone as long as they get their way, but that don’t make em left wing- even when that coalition is with labour. They’re also not pacifist, they just don’t want to personally fight.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
The genus Canis is such a taxonomic mess that almost everything about its classification is almost certainly wrong, though.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
I don’t see how British colonization made the aboriginals horrifically violent and rapey to eachother but Ireland remains fine despite centuries of colonization and harsh treatment
Aboriginals being the most savage primitives in the world may well be true(although they have some competition). But as our resident ‘some cultures just suck’ enthusiast, this may not be entirely generic- do aborigines adopted by white families have similar incarceration rates?
They’re called tarpans and they survived into the 19th century, we actually have a pretty good idea of their behavior.
Australian soil is, as far as I know, the worst in the world on average, and farming there requires fertilization techniques that require preexisting agricultural traditions to bootstrap. No comment on the kangaroos argument, but even today there are two domesticated species from Australia- macadamia nuts and a single kind of fruit, both of which are expensive luxuries rather than something that could be a staple.
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