hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Nazi collaborators are so old that it's a waste of time to bother with anything else.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
You can reduce the number of women going to college pretty substantially without actually getting it below the male rate.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
While the historical double standard is real, it was supported by widespread prostitution, not a one sided hookup culture. Seduction was literally a crime in these societies.
Yes, there were a handful of artists and very wealthy men who got away with it. They get away with statutory today(see Epstein et al), which is the actual equivalent(remember, the concept of a 'teenaged girl' as a box a young woman might fit into is actually very recent- most historical languages had equivalent terms which meant 'unmarried young woman' and they had similar legal rights and protections).
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Except that spinsters lived, yes, but in poverty. So did domestic servants, prostitutes, etc. Women had a far smaller range of jobs available to them and earned far less from those jobs than men working them.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
I have a theory that collapsing social norms play a big part in this- in the eighties and nineties single people were expected to go out dancing(etc) even if it wasn't their cup of tea. Nowadays only the very extroverted/promiscuous/partying do this. And, well, 'not a huge partier' is a legitimate preference to have(which most people share for their long term partners, on both sides of the gender divide). It's a whole thing where evaporative cooling of the normal modes of social interaction make those modes of social interaction less appealing for normies.
I've seen guys on twitter lament that the only women at bars, dance halls, etc are 'washed up party sluts' or whatever, with boomers wondering why guys think this way all of a sudden. And I have a sneaking suspicion that shy second grade teachers in the eighties were a lot more likely to go out dancing anyways than they are now- do you think they liked the club much back then? It's loud and it's after their bedtime and there really are a bunch of sleazy guys out to get them there. Phones and occasional hinge profiles are so much safer, even if they don't work.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
It seems relevant to note that an American man who isn't top of the market, income height etc wise in the Philippines is, uh, probably not able to travel to the Philippines. I don't think 'mail order brides' tell us anything because the bargain is pretty simple- she gets a much higher standard of living with a husband who's less likely to be a violent drunk and her children live in a much wealthier society, he gets a wife. That's not a deal that the domestic dating market will likely have.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Now be getting passed on those undivided country roads while going above the limit.... Texas, man.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
You can't produce a similar video about church based daycares in the Texas suburbs, because 1) Texas provides very little childcare funding, it's simply not a priority to subsidize moms to work(help for low income mothers through state-funded private charity does exist, and I suspect some of it probably is misdirected- but you'd need to prove it through boring accounting auditing of the center which provides diapers to low income families, not showing up unannounced, and pregnancy resource centers are already a maximum progressive target so if it was anywhere near as widespread as seems to be happening in Somali communities there'd already be a media expose) and 2) church based daycares in Texas have an intentionally much laxer licensing regime. Comparing the licensing documents to physical evidence onsite is simply not doable in the same way.
Indeed, we do occasionally see some culture warsing ire over pregnancy resource centers(which mostly exist to give free items to low income mothers), but the progressive position is that it's unconstitutional because they are Christian and opposed to abortion and the conservative position is that progressives being upset about it proves that they want to maximize abortion and not actually help women. Very little arguments over what group is being railroaded.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
This expose sounds like it's risky and high effort for a traditional journalism outfit to carry out. That probably explains more than ideology does. In contrast youtuber citizen journalists with poor rigour are... well the people you'd expect to pull high-risk high-reward high-effort exposes. Especially twenty three year old males.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a real faction of the left which is actively opposed to competent center-left government on the basis that a reactionary backlash creates the necessary conditions for their own ideology to succeed? I'm not aware of this having ever worked out, but 'well grounded in history' is not a criticism that can be levied at anti-capitalists(which is well established among the activist portion of the labour party) anyways. It seems like 'intentionally leading to a far right government' is a thing which theory would expect lefty activists to occasionally do, and Keir probably doesn't have the party discipline to stop it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Argentina is big and seemed to have an entrenched deep state. It's poor, sure, but that's not a structural difference.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The puritans did kill 21 people in Salem over witchcraft.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
While I don't always agree with Yarvin's extremely pessimistic take on right wing politics, I have to admit that the app idea is incredible!
It already exists. Greg Abbott has one that's off the ground and the RNC has a beta-testing version. Presumably the DNC is trying to decolonize one.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
In a preschool? No, preschoolers are not given independence to go about the halls.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean, you can just hire a nanny and have her take the kids to do stuff with the SAHM kids. Daycares prefer the government paying the bills to other non-nanny affording parents because the government always pays; there might be a few that don’t, but the government is the best client there ever was or will be.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
A single pool of PTO would be a high side of average deal in the trades- the alternative is usually to have no paid sick time at all(vacation needing to be scheduled in advance, in one day increments, often counting the weekends in between vacation days as part of it).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Two generations ago there were balogna sandwiches.
I beg people to actually talk to their grandparents and great-grands about how life changed in their lifetimes. Everyone in 1970 had wonderbread and lunchmeat at home all the time, and ate it regularly. Yeah nobody preferred it but it was how life was that sometimes you ate what you had available instead of what you wanted- remember this was a society as poor as Russia or Mexico is today.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
For personal medical stuff? I use pure galenism until I'm at death's door. I might take an anti-emetic if I'm worried about dehydration, or an aspirin for a bad headache, but other than that, I don't do 'medicine' because I don't need it.
I won't typically leave the house when throwing up, but I do move around it. I won't call in if I feel safe to drive(which is at least 25% of my job), don't have a high fever, and haven't thrown up.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
They will be kept in their classrooms with the doors locked and the windowshades drawn.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
A huge percentage of covid stimulus was passed out as more-or-less universally acknowledged fraud(google 'shaniqua llc' if you'd like). There's tons of anecdata that lots of the covid institutional support was completely wasted as well. 'Fraud prevention' for this particular set of programs was not only not a priority it was literally not considered at all- it was intended as plausibly deniable handouts.
The autism and childcare scams almost certainly had a votes for political cover quid pro quo going on.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Ok, American education(which daycare regards itself as) does not prioritize the needs of the parents in any way shape or form. They probably have a generous winter break, because the 'educators' who work there prefer it.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There's probably massive fraud involved, but a twenty three year old man knocking on the door of a daycare asking to see the children will have the police called on him, and not see any kids(they will be locked down). This video doesn't show anything at all.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean the California laws banning Catholics from running adoption agencies are almost certainly very similar- it's all down to interpretation. The difference is that Arkansas CPS or human services will have the speaker of the state house call them in for a stern lecture and some veiled threats if they discriminate against conservative Christians.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
IIRC there was a Michigan scandal where a low income daycare scheme got shut down because some native blacks were just registering each others children and collecting paychecks. It happens pretty regularly in the US and the answer is often ‘corrupt machine politics’.
There is already a thumb on the scale in favor of women getting more educated uber alles. Obviously removing it is difficult in se, but we should probably start there.
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