hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
23hr ago
But French infrastructure is also much cheaper than Anglosphere infrastructure; it’s possible that the graft and corruption is a form of paying thé piper due to it being much cheaper than delays, or the whole problem is way overblown.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Well, it does have to be said- thé easy way to make female characters unattractive is their weight. But implying that fat girls are ugly is verboten in woke circles. The government’s own propaganda efforts are hamstrung by political correctness.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
December has 31 days.
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1d ago
About halfway through Wolf Totem. So far, I find the Mongolians to be relatable and people like me. The Han students are sympathetic outsiders- despite being viewpoint characters. The Han officials come off horribly. The wolves are portrayed as a bit like fairies, more than like real animals. The dogs are portrayed like, well, dogs. I continue to be impressed with the quality of the prose, and it significantly increases my opinion of the ability to translate Chinese into English without making a hash of things.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I'm more than happy to become brutal dictator of Germany. I suspect, however, that the relevant institutions in Germany strongly disagree.
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1d ago
Europe’s persistent fake befuddlement over why the party of Reagan doesn’t want to support a pack of deracinated, satanist, bioleninist bureaucrats over the (nominal) defenders of autocracy, orthodoxy and nationality isn’t helping.
Uh, you know Ukraine is a country of based and trad ethnic nationalist religious conservatives, right?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The red guards don't, uh, care very much if they make the revolution look bad, because the revolution cannot be criticized. It doesn't occur to them that not everyone thinks this way.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
How so? Trump's Big Beautiful Bill was going to give the gun lobby the biggest win in a generation, before that provision sank in congress. Trump has done virtually nothing else about the question.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Asian/Arab owner you need to ask for a cash discount. Asians give you one calibrated to the amount they save; Arabs give you a bigger one for the sheer thrill of tax evasion.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Nobody actually enforces explicit cash discounts in the US, and everyone knows that's for tax evasion. You think the credit card companies are better at checking up on that shit than the IRS?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
At the end of the day credit card companies know how to make money. They probably make money off of people like you and I by charging merchants fees, they make money off of financially illiterate people by selling debt to collections agencies, and the median American somewhere in between.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Taking them at their word is pretty wild considering we literally have FBI memos noting that there are no non-ideological reasons for targeting the people they've been sicked on. That's what the 'FBI targeting traditional Catholics' memos were about- the agents mostly wondering why they were supposed to be doing this, considering they're infiltrating people who are not white supremacists, dislike white supremacists, and have no affinity for terrorism. Or considering the novel theories like the Doug Mackey prosecution.
Let's flip this- the right wing twitterati is frustrated with Trump for being too moderate with his priorities, slow walking immigration enforcement, etc. Is that, uh, objectively correct?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Nine figures gotta come from somewhere. You got a million bucks lying around to throw into a project that cribs the intellectual property of the most litigious company on earth?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Disney could easily have used the well-received parts of legends to make prestige TV. That would have been the logical thing to do in the 2010's, and it's what I expected them to do when they bought Lucasfilm at the peak of Game of Thrones. You could quietly drop the slop, which you've already identified, and make GoT level money off of Thrawn. They chose not to do this because they wanted a 'fresh fan base', I guess, but it's literally Star Wars. It's popular enough that you can assume anyone who doesn't like it already isn't going to like anything bearing a passing resemblance to it.
They passed up the safe bet and gored the franchise. Oh well. Kinda sucks for them that they gambled and lost.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Any store that would cut prices if processing fees weren't a factor will already give you a discount for debit.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Ok, we've seen what the institutional left in the US trying to target the right looks like before. It was... the Biden admin. Not Biden personally, he was sundowning for most of it. But figures like Ron Klain and Merrick Garland are pretty core to the DNC apparatus- if 'democrats take the gloves off' has a face, it's one we've seen. Their attempt at internal repression was largely a fizzle. They lost a domestic hard power confrontation before they were even halfway through!
One thing to remember about democrats vs republicans is that- not for every case of right vs left, but for this one- their failure modes are different. It's optimate vs populare, in the original meaning of the term- how they derive their sense of internal legitimacy, of deserving to win. The democrats are representing the class that should be in charge, simple as. The republicans are representing the thoughts we all have but which the experts won't entertain, simple as. Republicans thus have an internal telotic pressure to move and then take the gloves all the way off. Democrats have an internal telotic pressure to focus group and study the issue until they can issue new regulations.
Now, the process of stasis is well advanced in the American republic, but it's important to remember that optimate choleric lashout to enshrine the mos maiorum virtually never works, and the next attempt at Sulla won't work either. Progressive elites talking out loud are quite open about their views that the mos maiorum of democracy is progressive institutionalism, damn the voters. It's been published all over The Atlantic. The unwritten constitution, in their view, is a set of values. A set I'm sure we've all seen before, which puts self expression- especially over gender and sexuality- above ancient rights. They'll lash out, impotently, it will fizzle, and the backlash will enthrone the caudillo. All this has happened before, and it will happen again. As a matter of fact I wouldn't rule out that Trump is that caudillo and Biden was the Sulla. Stasis can't be stopped at this juncture.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
For what it's worth, having seen homeschoolers extensively- the most impressive specimens homeschool through early highschool, but if male they switch to some sort of hybrid system after that(community college/homeschool hybrid is the best). Girls are approval motivated enough to keep themselves on track without a formal class structure. Boys are not. Not self motivated- approval motivated.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Amusingly, I’ve spoken to Latino H1B’s who were offended at the implication of being underprivileged.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
It’s actually lower in most cases.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Haven’t you been offered wives from the old country(who want citizenship)?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Lower class native men get in relationships all the time. To the extent that lower class women are less desirable partners, that does go both ways.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Walmart pays $20/hr in a second tier city- entry level. So do amazon warehouses. Waiting tables is pretty similar, and has advancement opportunities to bartending, classier establishments, etc, which pay significantly more. Construction starts out in the upper teens with rapid(often twice a year) increases as skills improve.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Iirc human parasite vulnerability is mostly an immune response to innoculation below thé infection threshold- your dog isn’t less vulnerable to trichinosis from raw pork, his immune system is just trained to recognize when the spores aren't a huge danger. Dogs, pigs, and bears get parasites all the time.
Humans tolerate ethanol unusually well, but HFY to the contrary, not capsaicin- dogs are just unable to learn to like it.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Except almost none of these people are making minimum wage.
The situation in Minnesota is due to a genuine sudden system shock, not free time. Renee Good died due to FAFO, but she wasn’t supposed to. See, opponents of the U.S. state ideology arent normally allowed to enact their agenda when in power. Well guess what’s going on in Minneapolis? Then someone died. It’s a shock to these people. They’re lashing out because they believe they’re losing.
In contrast, many of the people most vulnerable to AI-driven layoffs are accustomed to poor job security. Losing their job to automations won’t come as a shock.
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