hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4hr 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
4hr 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
4hr ago
They will be kept in their classrooms with the doors locked and the windowshades drawn.
hydroacetylene
4hr 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
4hr 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
4hr 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
4hr 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
12hr 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’.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
Arab Christian’s have globally normal rates of cousin marriage compared to the very high ones among Muslims, yes. There’s a few HBD just so stories(sub-Saharan African DNA in the Muslim population and jizya forcing conversions among the poor), too, but they seem like just-so, and also it’s a pretty even spread; Maronites who lived in enough isolation to get away with stuff aren’t any dumber than Copts who didn’t.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
Well yeah, this law is written to address unregulated adoptions not dotting their I’s and crossing their T’s. Most of those adoptions are done through well-meaning church groups, because that’s where trailer trash usually turns. To say that they sometimes have ugly ends is… well that’s all I’m going to say, but this law is probably intended to make sûre sweet church secretaries get somebody to do due diligence, not address child trafficking.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Just your daily reminder that in the US, the average Roman Catholic Sunday mass is tacky, and does not particularly follow unified style guides. That isn't even trad griping about things which aren't my preference like altar girls and the like; I am the Lord of the Dance Said He is a much more common hymn than anything like Faith of our Fathers, let alone the lovely classical music that inspired so many composers. Mass prayers may differ much less in verbiage, but when sung they are often set to cheesy folk music, or evangelical praise-and-worship light. Guitars are more common instruments than organs. Catholic churches vary strongly in architectural quality but the average Catholic goes to mass in an uninspired pseudo-amphitheatre decorated with designed-by-committee religious art that has nothing in common with the historical churches of Europe that nobody goes to, in a brutalist style if they're unlucky. The typical vestments look, literally, like burlap sacks. The 'ornate gravitas' that you speak of is uncommon enough in America to have special names for it(and is far less available than the other common strong liturgical preference- 'charismatic style' which apes evangelical worship services much more strongly. The majority of deeply religious Catholics in the USA imitate Evangelical outward forms). It's popular with Hollywood because it's easy to show on a screen looking and sounding cool. Most American Catholics have never heard Gregorian chant in a church service, see incense a couple of times a year, and dress worse for mass than protestants do.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I understand you don't hold to the same interpretation of Christian morality that I do. I'm not going to pretend that from a deontological perspective I think this is ever ok.
But an angle I've not seen addressed directly in the comments- are you really OK with your kid growing up without a dad in the house? Really? Are you OK with having a kid and not being dad? Are you really OK with that?
The other commenters have addressed the... abundant... practical issues. A few have touched on the moral issues that apply under a more conventional Christian morality. But are you really just... accepting of the possibility, nay, probability, that you might could be unable to fulfill your duty as a man to the next generation, more or less on purpose? You don't gotta be Thomas Aquinas to see how that just ain't right.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It appears that they were charged under 'accepting payment for adoption' not child trafficking. The former is, yes, a crime, but normally addresses 1)running adoption agencies without proper licensing and 2)paperwork violations to enable fraud(relating to taxes, parental rights, custody disputes, etc). It's entirely possible it just has low sentences because they got charged with 'sketchy shit' and not 'heinousness'. As for why they were charged that way, probably because the DA thought it would be easier to prove.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Crucem Santam Subiit
I don't play videogames or watch anime, so no.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean if you want to keep it even simpler- the wage premium for legal workers is actually pretty small, the lack of healthcare/hr overhead is what makes illegals so attractive. Just remove employment regulations. Prevailing wages and working conditions in the vast majority of the USA are already governed more by supply and demand than by regulation, you're mostly cutting red tape.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Confessional protestantism and fundamentalist evangelical-adjacent protestantism are going strong, and they don't restrict the internet anymore than hardcore Catholics do. They're hard to track and more geographically constrained but they do exist.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
And in point of fact, Israeli Christians are local version of orientals, in having incomes and educational outcomes that handily best the majority. Jews do better than Muslim Arabs or Druze but behind Christians. Basically nobody disputes that this is for IQ reasons- Arab Christians are a genuinely high IQ group.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Schizo podcasts help pass the time better.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Mexico already has one of the largest industrial sectors in the world.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Episcopalians are still going- shrinking congregations that skew much older than the average church, but they're not about to die out, there'll just be fewer of them. Methodists are still there, albeit older and slowly shrinking, PCA has managed to avoid full collapse even if it's got hard times for the forseeable future. ELCA(mainline lutherans)- famously not a waspy denomination- are the real mainliners who won't be around when their current congregants kick the bucket(which won't be that long).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The African American female church attendance rate is much higher than any other demographic sees; the male church attendance rate is not. ‘The men need to go to church more’ is a criticism of black culture that most black people themselves would agree with, and the usual red tribe elite formulation is that blacks should go to churches with stronger family values moralism anyways(the black church is not that).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The conservative true elite is increasingly Catholic, but evangelical megachurchianity is more common for the masses. Episcopalians and Presbyterians are… not common, and don’t go to church anyways.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Pivoting to buying cheap Mexican and Brazilian and Argentine stuff isn’t that hard.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The thesis on disparate impact is 'they're uncivilized, and they should be more like us'. That is what normie red tribe elites think. The ultrapolitical ones not so much, but they're a small fraction. The fuentards are far outnumbered by people who think blacks should go to church, study, and work harder and they'd achieve white outcomes.
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).
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