hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3hr 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
3hr ago
To be fair, you do live in San Francisco.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Dysgenics works far more by suppressing high IQ female fertility. Perhaps we should send the girlbosses home so they have to get married, instead.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Are whole cows available in the bay area? You might be better off buying a whole/half a cow directly from a rancher and getting it processed to eat over time.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
While overwrought, it is entirely possible to have a perfectly functional society with much more modest tax burdens.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Housing, healthcare, and education costs are real things to complain about. For Catholic k-12 education specifically prices have risen because bishops no longer wish to subsidize it, despite the many downstream effects of not doing so, but higher education, healthcare, and housing are all multivariate problems which are expensive because no one in positions of influence really cares about keeping costs down. That's reasonable to complain about and seek policy changes over.
Rising food costs are not real, however. Grocery inflation is much slower than wage growth. What drives rising food costs is poor spending discipline- doordash is certainly the most visible example, but ordinary families didn't use to eat steak very often and Americans now think it's unhealthy to eat carbs.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Yeah, according to my parents and grandparents, when in the seventies nobody thought about running to a local restaurant for food because you didn't want to cook. You ate a sandwich or you cooked, and that was that.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
The answer for normie middle class families having the woman of the house out for whatever reason in the 60's and 70's was not 'and we go to a restaurant'. It was 'dad handles food'. That food might have been bologna sandwiches(and everyone in midcentury america ate bologna sandwiches and thought that was an ok and normal thing to sometimes have for a meal), but, like, just talk to older people- men were expected to feed themselves rather than starve or eat out.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
In 1920 most single men lived in accommodations that did not include a kitchen. We are now a wealthy enough society that bachelor pads have kitchens.
Single men in places with kitchens were generally expected to cook for themselves, albeit with less complexity(but we shouldn't overstate that; old timey housewives were not making elaborate 5 course meals like tiktok tradwives today), unless they were rich enough to have a housekeeper. The real shift in gender roles around cooking is that it's no longer seen as an insult to the woman of the house for a middle class family to go to a restaurant- which it would have been in 1920(the upper class in the days of having servants did not cook for themselves, regardless of gender).
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Sure- that's generally true of societies with rising wealth. You see the same exact thing in Mexico, China, Japan, etc. US per capita protein consumption is perhaps rising because Americans believe they need to way overconsume(Americans ate far more balance meals with a lot more carbs in them in the nineties) protein while minimizing carbs(which are cheap). But rising food budgets in America specifically are probably much more driven by eating more expensive cuts rather than more meat per se; steak was considered a treat by most people when I was growing up, not something you ate every day.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
There was never a program to subsidize beef or housing for all or nearly all American consumers, however- although red meat subsidies have been a thing in Argentina.
There simply wasn’t a single policy choice that drove up housing costs in major metros, or healthcare costs more broadly, or education costs everywhere. The Catholic church’s decision to stop subsidizing the education of its members is a single cause problem, unlike these things.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
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.
hydroacetylene
11hr 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
11hr ago
Blue collar workers have gotten some pretty big raises recently, but not enough to keep up with housing.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
DFW is a surprisingly expensive fast(or fast-casual) food market nationally.
hydroacetylene
11hr 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
11hr 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d ago
Progressive white women are trying very hard to enforce a consensus in a very stereotypical and annoying way, however.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In the bush era they were risqué and not the default.
hydroacetylene
1d 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
1d ago
Splendid colonnades and grand entrances with beauteous manicured forests stocked with parrots and wallabies… yes, thé people will appreciate.
Men also have much dirtier homes. This isn't just about food.
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