hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
33m ago
Yes. In America it is generally possible for bright high schoolers to take college and high school classes simultaneously- sometimes literally the same class. In Texas community college classes are free for high school students who meet academic qualifications, for example.
hydroacetylene
35m ago
Texas gas prices were much much lower than the rest of the country(in October they were only about $3.50/gal, on the high side of average rather than notably above it), and white nationalism was unusually prominent here because of Bo French. We also saw 1.8 million voters who'd never voted before(Texas has low voter turnout), most of whom were Hispanics voting for democrats.
I agree that deportations and a strict border policy are not necessarily losing issues... but the largest immigration crackdown in history which the admin allowed staffers to claim was aiming for 100 million deportations is. Running on ethnic cleansing is unpopular with basically everyone, but for obvious reasons much more so with minorities.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
The gangs were basically unorganized crime. MS-13 didn't suppress random street-level violence the way actual mafias do and did. They're just big gangs.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
To be fair, it is very very common in the US for republicans to run on illegal immigration crackdowns and then send a strongly worded note requesting that jail wardens refer undocumented prisoners to ICE, before then calling it a day.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Illegal immigrants purchase commercial services from generally rather sketchy people to get around their legal disabilities. Yes, there are people who are an 'underground railroad' of a sort in providing regulated services to illegals, but they are not doing it out of charity.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
The most beautiful women in the world are white, but it is true there are far more very ugly white women than ugly orientals.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Not a porn consumer but I suspect that most viewers are, uh, not paying attention to those parts.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Thomas Aquinas would agree with you.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Pick a philosophy that involves direct instruction and a peer group you can put up with for primary school and, if you are a motteizean, look at dual enrollment/hybridized/etc schooling for secondary.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
The strictest gun control in the US is similar to the loosest regimes in Europe.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
I take it the fire using hypothesis is less mainstream than I had assumed it to be.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Again, I am not a white nationalist. I care about the rights of social conservatives to continue to exist, a sane macroeconomic environment, and keeping the government out of my business personally. All of those would take more than a single democrat admin to destroy.
If my neighbors are all mestizos its fine.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Mainstream science says, optimistically, that intelligence arose at most twice- hominids and troodontids, with the latter being wiped out by K/T before being able to make much of an impact on anything and being doubtful anyways. A 1/100 million year event, roughly, once life reaches the conditions that can develop intelligence. Not entirely implausible that there's tons of worlds stuck at jurassic levels of development, or even below.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But non-Europeans invariably hate each other more than whites.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
My ideal would be Abbott 2032, sacrificial lamb in '28. He's effective, smart, good at politics, and seems to actually care about second order effects. I do not care about demographics as long as me and mine aren't discriminated against- although I have an aesthetic attachment to phenotypical Europeans, we're not going extinct anytime soon and have stabler demographics than any other group.
But that's not going to happen. He lost, and he's in a wheelchair. As an all powerful veep he's plausible. As a powerful domestic policy role he's plausible. I guess it's Desantis.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Is the Fermi Paradox Debunked?
A new paper is out(https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404) concluding that the Drake equation is poorly designed and humans are most likely alone in the universe:
When we take account of realistic uncertainty, replacing point estimates by probability distributions that reflect current scientific understanding, we find no reason to be highly confident that the galaxy (or observable universe) contains other civilizations, and thus no longer find our observations in conflict with our prior probabilities. We found qualitatively similar results through two different methods: using the authors’ assessments of current scientific knowledge bearing on key parameters, and using the divergent estimates of these parameters in the astrobiology literature as a proxy for current scientific uncertainty.
When we update this prior in light of the Fermi observation, we find a substantial probability that we are alone in our galaxy, and perhaps even in our observable universe (53%–99.6% and 39%–85% respectively). ’Where are they?’ — probably extremely far away, and quite possibly beyond the cosmological horizon and forever unreachable.
TDLR the Drake equation is wrong by dramatically overrating the probability of other intelligent life. We are more likely to be alone than we thought, and my take on this has been for a while that if life was common we'd have experimentally demonstrated abiogenesis by now. But this in turn debunks the great filter arguments people(mainly liberals) make about all sorts of pet issues- the great filter is already behind us.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
No, do not vote for the most right wing candidate in every election. Vote for the most right wing candidate who can win. Learn from the Arizona GOP(Texas was mostly sunk by this being a very very blue year, but the TxGOP not learning this lesson is a legitimate possibility going forwards).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The immigration hawks gave us Texas bluer than New York. Zoomers speaking of 100 million deportations turned out 1.75 million non-voting but eligible Hispanics because they don't want their technically-illegal abuelita sent back.
And there is no benefit to deporting abuelita. Her three children and 10 grandchildren were born here, deporting her doesn't change their legal status. She doesn't have access to social security, if she didn't work for cash she probably doesn't know whose stolen ID she worked under- the company she worked for took care of all that. The only thing it does is make US citizens that zoomers Trump hired to be mean on twitter dislike for failing a paper bag test upset.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Not-trad social conservatism is genuinely popular in America and most Americans don't think of it as meaningfully opposed to libertarianism- and MTG is dramatically better at lowest common denominator appeal.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Candace Owens seems weirdly less controversial because she doesn't talk about race. Batshit crazy stuff yes, but it's not any more out their than broadly typical normie woman slop like horoscopes. It's dramatically less offensive than Fuentes and the Fuentards.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
it's probably because they're spies.
Oh, I would imagine the majority of women OK with being a CEO's concubine are better described as 'golddiggers' and are happier knowing absolutely nothing about his work beyond what he's willing to buy them with the money he earns from it.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It's called the Khazar hypothesis and it's fairly common albeit fringe.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
They won by way less than anyone expected because woke was unpopular.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Fuentes has more influence among GOP staffers than actual voters, who have mostly never heard of the guy.
Some primitive mammals have a cloaca, so I would assume so.
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