hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
12hr ago
I won’t grandstand about these woke boardmembers and administrators not deserving to be shot(the teachers are, very literally, just following orders. If those orders were to eat a bucket of shit before starting classes every day- like a five gallon bucket of actual human excrement- they would complain about the necessity of it but it wouldn’t occur to them that the orders are wrong. This is what teachers are like.) but I will point out that kinetic solutions won’t help anything. We’re not there yet.
I do support political solutions that are bad for public schools as institutions, whether it’s schoolchoice, permissive homeschooling, forced budget cuts, whatever. Many of these can actually get done.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
There are a number of candidates. Cardinal Re, cardinal Parolin, and cardinal Farrel are likely to be making the major decisions which can’t be put off.
Which one actually does something about the Catholic version of blagojevich is probably more a matter of personalities than constitutions.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
Afghanistan is wracked by multiple decades long wars and governed by lunatics. It’s not clear to me that Bangladesh is worse and it’s unclear that Pakistan is significantly worse, especially not in ways that aren’t just side effects of geography(mountains+third world is a bad combination).
The last civilized society run by an elite with Indo-European religious beliefs was what, Persia in the 600’s? Abrahamaic religions, Confucianism, and communism have all shown they can run a civilized and technological society. It may not be to your or my preferences, but they can. In contrast Indo-European religions have not.
Hindu supremacy is laughably dumb to me. Hindus didn’t rule themselves for centuries before British budgetary constraints came due for a reason. My ancestors stopped practicing Indo-European paganism under king Clovis for a reason. Some beliefs are just better.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Aguas frescas without sweeteners? Now I've heard of everything.
Pro-tip- put unsweet tea in the fridge, do yardwork and then drink it as soon as you come inside. That's how you develop a taste for it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I sort of agree with you- being a normal person who settles down in a serious relationship became opt-in at some point, so some people got worse at it. But some people got worse at it is the actual mechanics of the thing even if not the root cause. Your hypothetical young man in 1955 didn't have the option to not date a lass seriously but he was also less likely to be addicted to porn, video games, or weed, had better social skills, and also was much more likely to be stably employed. Likewise your hypothetical young woman of the time was thinner, better at home economics(not that fifties cooking was in general very good[it wasn't] but that the women who straight up can't cook or keep a house weren't really a thing), and more pleasant to deal with on average. 'Pass' is a valid selection and for the bottom whatever percent of appealing partners I don't particularly blame them for taking it as regards their opposite sex equivalent.
I'm totally in favor of social/community support for solving these problems, and I do in fact spend time thinking about the problem. But the fact remains that both sexes are less appealing as partners on average- physically, due to obesity, social skills wise, expectations wise(there was no sexting before smart phones, and while I'm not delusional enough to think that courtship between the two sexual revolutions had a high rate of waiting til the wedding night there wasn't much sex on the first date either), in terms of maturity, etc. This is an actual problem that has to be solved in order to make these community support mechanisms functional.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
https://catholicvote.org/record-number-cardinal-electors-logistical-challenge-conclave/
With a conclave coming up(I plan to do weekly updates in the transnational thursdays until it starts), time to cover the first SNAFU- there are more cardinals participating than the number of rooms to house them. See, cardinals are housed in the Domus Sanctae Marthae(you might also see it referred to as the Casa Santa Marta, the Italian name, or more rarely as the St Martha house). There are 129 rooms and 134 or 135 cardinals participating, maybe 136 if the rumors are true about Becciu. But pope Francis had resided in the Casa Santa Marta rather than the apostolic palace, and that space- at least his personal chambers, but possibly more than that- will be sealed off, unavailable to the cardinals.
Likely this will be resolved by having some cardinals either share rooms or sleep in the cells built into St. Peter's basilica for the purpose when the cap on cardinal elector numbers was lower. Cardinals get assigned rooms by lottery, so there's no way to use this for political advantage, but it will make the previous administration look bad.
https://catholicvote.org/college-of-cardinals-holds-third-general-congregation/
The college of cardinals has completed its third(of nine) convocations before the start of a conclave. This is an unusually rapid timetable and the dean of the college of cardinals, Cardinal Re, has been criticized for this by Cardinal Zen, who is influential but not voting. This likely points to starting the conclave at the earliest possible date(May 6 unless all 135 electors arrive earlier- which is highly unlikely).
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/the-cardinals-becciu-test
Disgraced cardinal Becciu is now insisting that he will participate in the conclave, despite having resigned his voting rights in 2020 due to criminality. It is unclear what the cardinals will do about it- his cartoonish corruption was a scandal for Pope Francis in his pontificate, so it's not like he's popular, but who's going to actually deal with him is unclear.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Sometimes it’s just edgy incongruity. Not granny approved, but not purely sexual and/or relating to other male/female differences.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Didn’t drag queen story hour predate trans as a culture war battlefield?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It seems like a lot of the NYC stuff legitimately can’t be moved, though. Like the economy is based off banks that have to be located in NYC.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Maybe, sure. But parents in 0 AD mostly weren’t encouraging their wanted prepubescent children to experiment sexually either. So whatever. The point was that there are plenty of not-religious people who object strongly to this.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Because one undermines the parent-child relationship and the other one doesn’t. When these people make gaffes and tell us what they really think it’s almost always family abolitionist thought- the same reason they’re inherently skeptical of heterosexual sex.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Because they’re public school teachers. ‘The experts being wrong’ is to them like ‘a triangular circle’ or ‘a purpley sort of orange’- not so much wrong as making so little sense that nobody could believe it.
They just don’t realize not everyone thinks this way.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There have been plenty of edgy comedians who cross dressed in nonsexual but still not exactly child-friendly ways.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Has he ever been a Republican?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There are no priests involved in the median Catholic school these days, except watching over at great remove and theoretically being responsible but more in a ‘has the automatic right to interview new principles in one of the rounds’ way than a ‘actually running the place’ way. Most Catholic schools are basically public schools with more competent teaching, some pro-life stuff shoehorned in, and a requirement that prospective parents be tithing at the local church.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The school board wasn’t thinking. They’re teachers and they were going with the flow. It is literally incomprehensible to teachers that ‘the experts’, however defined, can be wrong. Like if you suggest it they’ll stare at you blankly, literally not understanding the words you just said. And the experts suggested kids should be taught this stuff, so teachers concluded ‘parents who want to shield their toddlers from learning about BDSM should lose custody of their kids’ instead of ‘the experts should be shot’.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
That's certainly possible- I don't interact with any professionally black activist blacks, but I do interact with middle class and below ones- I wouldn't be too surprised if Elie Mystal or Ibram X Kendi donated to this.
I would, however, dispute your characterization of these as 'the upper crust of blacks'. If the US went to Ottoman-style rum millet(oh there's a fun hypothetical) the AADOS community would elect rappers and athletes to lead them, not grifters. These people might not do a better job overall, but they would manage race relations in a more calm, reasonable, and antisemitic manner than Oprah and the boys. They're also generally much richer.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Other religions are wrong, simple as that.
Vatican II was a pastoral council, meaning it did not define any dogmas. This means it did not overturn extra ecclesiam nulla salus. I suppose it is possible to say that the documents developed the understanding of it, but I hold to the opinion that they simply add weight to the understanding the magisterial organs of the church turned in favor towards before the council, particularly with the corrections issued towards Fr. Feeney. I believe 'subsistit in' can be taken as a synonym for 'est' in this context.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Churches may come up with feet hiding devices
It's called a (non-French style)cassock.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean, half the teens these days don't get their license until eighteen anyways. People are just more risk averse than they had been.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Skyscraper window cleaning dodges the whole 'guild' issue simply because so few people are able to handle being suspended hundreds of feet up in the air.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The answer to inceldom is not a tractable problem; the incels today mostly would not have been successful romantically/sexually in 1955 either. Granted, he would have been a different young man in 1955, and that young man would have done ok with the ladies, and probably would today too.
Seriously the incels' problem is with their behavior/attitude and that's unfixable. It's not because they're short.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Has it ever been different? The change in Scott's attitude is pretty clearly because liberals(ok, progressives[ok wokes]) were the main people who could hit him and then Trump started going after progressives, which he is and always was.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It's worth noting that there's an analogue- the AFL-CIO used to be incredibly pro-democrat, this cycle the teamsters president spoke at the RNC, Trump has been winning the union vote, etc. Democrats kept the union vote long after the rest of the white working class abandoned them due to machine politics that may or may not have been corrupt deals with union leadership; a lot of what African-American community leaders are getting from the DNC for their support certainly doesn't look very aboveboard and unanimous support from black community leadership is what keeps the AADOS on the plantation.
Wasn’t there a New Mexico judge too?
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