hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Building datacenters is conservative coded in America, even if it's not super popular among either party. Conservatives are also racking up wins on gun rights.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Lol, the winners are strivers at semirural schools. The innercity kids and valley tejanos fail out their first year and get replaced with Catholic school alums that transfer from commuter schools with a specific program for this.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Technically speaking, as I point out over and over and over again, North Vietnam accepted defeat. The US withdrew, then North Vietnam invaded again, and South Vietnam actually won the first time- then they sacked their best general out of paranoia and North Vietnam winning the second time shocked everyone, including the North Vietnamese. The US believed that it had accomplished its war goals of building a functioning South Vietnamese state which could defend itself and preventing North Vietnam from total war.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
The USA didn't do the battle of Berlin, the Red Army did- because they didn't give a shit about casualties(either their own or those of the unfortunate civilians ahead of them), and the wehrmacht was also defeated at that point, reduced to a bunch of ten year old boys.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Not actually true- up until the development of scientific evidence for evolution and an old earth, most Christians, including the apostolic churches, took those passages completely literally. It wasn't dogmatically required, but, like, Matins of Christmas talks about the earth being 4,000 years old at the time of Christ. The Byzantine calendar takes the same assumption. This was the mainstream assumption in 1800.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
That is not how the American elite works.
It's probably true that the Episcopalians wouldn't have taken him, but the Lutherans are not known as a convert church. A convert to Lutheranism would probably look suspicious in American political context, even. Becoming Catholic is a sensible career decision for an aspiring member of the conservative elite- although staying Lutheran or Jewish or Mormon might be acceptable, converting over would not be. These are ethnic religions in America. His real alternative was eastern Orthodoxy, which is far smaller and lower profile(and would probably be regarded as eccentric kinda Catholics by most Americans anyways- including by professional sociographers).
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Going to Latin Mass isn't really a political tail either, unless you're trying to present yourself as a democrat. Desantis and Vance both do, and Abbott has some ties. Mike Johnson even hosted a Latin Mass, and he's not Catholic.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
McKinney is not a standalone city, although like most wealthy suburbs it is much whiter than the metro as a whole.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
A huge chunk of these students are employed in Dallas or Houston- Texas is not a few oil rigs with cattle wandering between them, after all, it has a huge white collar services sector that employs more college grads than it can produce.
UT Austin admissions are also, like most state flagship schools, non-meritocratic in a non-racialized direction- substantial preference for in-state applicants. This manifests itself, in the specific local case, as autoadmit for top six percent of the class at all Texas public schools, surely a much more dot Indian group than the state as a whole(also much whiter and more asian). The losers from that policy are mostly hispanics, who are underrepresented among top six percent students(blacks also don't benefit from that policy, but 'wholistic admissions' benefits them in practice, so this is probably made up for with non-autoadmit spots, at least partially). And indeed, we see lower ranked UT schools with very very hispanic campuses.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Bo French is also much much more moderate than the online groyper right, and he's still way to the hardline right end of the republican party.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Indians and Chinese do seem to broadly believe in abortion and progressive tax rates, and have little to none of the cultural grievances that thé contemporary right uses to avoid talking about economics. India is a deeply socially conservative place, yes, but in a very different way from what a westerner would recognize.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
AADOS are assimilated fully. Not to the stratum you would like them to be, sûre, but they have nothing in common, culturally, with west Africans, and a lot in common, culturally, with poor southerners writ large. You don’t have to like that to note that it’s assimilation.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Ah yes, thats thé exhibit on where man walked with dinosaurs- there’s the proof(human and dinosaur footprints nearby). It also has a variety of dinosaur stuff which is fun for little boys regardless of their(parents’) opinions on the age of thé earth.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The actual history of minority groups in America is to tend to become voters for the most moderate democrats available eventually.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Most educated Christians for most of history regarded the first 11 chapters of Genesis as myths that present theological truths about our identity as humans in relationship with God.
That is not true.
It is true that denominations holding to traditions which predate, roughly, 1650 almost unanimously hold that the first eleven chapters of genesis do not have to be interpreted literally(although they also do not condemn such a belief). But the average educated Christian a thousand years ago believed the stories were completely literal(granted, they weren’t that far off from the contemporary scientific understanding of events either). The dissenters were mostly people like Augustine who held non-literal views but would be categorized as creationists today.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There are lots of YEC people. Mathematically, there are more of them than there are regular churchgoers. DFW is full of people believing it; there’s a creation museum in, I think, Carrollton. ‘People believe this’ is a thing you’d have to be willfully ignorant of, not simply something you never run into. Filter bubble effects might be real, but you work at a defense contractor in DFW.
It seems worth mentioning that that was one part of a stadium holding 100k people- not in itself evidence of an Indian majority crowd- and that challengers to the racial harmony and integration ideal in Texas focus on the (noticeable but small)population of dot Indians rather than the very large Hispanic population. There aren’t objectively very many Indians, but they’re far and away thé most controversial minority group in the state.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Again, thé match or thé person?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There are more Americans believing in literal young earth creationism than who go to church every week.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Best guess estimates is that there’s about 25% of practicing Catholics who don’t intend to believe much in the way of catholic doctrine, and this definitely applies to many democrat politicians, which we know because they’ve said so.
It’s not implausible to me that VP Vance could be in the same category with opposite political valence. It’s not the explanation I’d go with.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean thé point is they can just buy these models(and the labs that built them) in a fire sale when they run out of VC money.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Aren't almost all surrogacy contracts written with that clause, at least commercial contracts?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I think these frontier AI labs are going to be forced to sell by the VC's whose money they're burning for research when microsoft and google are making bucca bucks and these frontier research labs still haven't figured out a way to turn a profit, and the corporate accounting team at these big tech companies will prevent frontier expansion because they don't want to pay for research. AI really is going to be a big part of the future economy, it's not a bubble- but the people who make money off of it are largely going to be the people who already make money off of software, because that's who's figuring out how to monetize it right now(and OpenAI/Claude aren't doing a good job of that), and so they're going to take control of the entire industry among themselves and drastically slow the pace of research because there's no business case in AI X-risk.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That's probably a true model, however. Most Catholics regardless of education are nonpracticing and only partial believers.
Yes, you’re confusing America and England. Anglicanism is a liberal elite religion here- establishment but very much not appropriate for the right wing of the Republican Party. Catholicism covers the whole class spectrum in America and the (relatively small) liberal wing is still more moderate than the episcopal church.
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