hydroacetylene
No bio...
User ID: 128
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
To be clear, 'we' referred to more of a collective opinion of my coworkers/class peers/whatever.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
The US largely broke the unions for the lower construction hierarchy jobs- roofers and the like. But the pipe trades and electrical unions are going strong. They’re not the norm in my state, but they’ve got their own niche.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Fair, but I do think that I speak a tad bit better for the specific group of ‘normie red tribe blue collar maga’, which rarely sees prostitutes positively the way many people see athletes or rock stars, but also doesn’t hate them.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
No he won't, the fortune will be divided along the way.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Every culture has catchy songs everyone knows. This is now one of those.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Wait, why would we? Russia is our enemy.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Yes. California is progressive, it is very much not libertine.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
If they're anything like US unions, they will not do this.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
In the west, traditional courtship might not be romance by modern standards, but they would usually have considered themselves as 'in love' on their wedding day for hundreds of years. Upper class arranged marriages were the exception.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
The medieval catholic church allowed sex in front of witnesses as a proof of consummation in annulment trials.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
I think the answer is that attractive, smart women who are plausibly these guy's class peers are very rarely willing to have sex for money.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
We dislike certain white collar occupations(consultants, ambulance chasers, etc) but recognize the masses of accountants and customer service representatives as having real jobs; we see prostitutes in the same category as drug dealers, loansharks, and other dubiously legal occupations. You're correct that we don't particularly resent them, although we might resent obviously overcharged clients if they're seen as doing things that provide no value to the world for having the money to spend.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Most sex workers make very little, the fact that a woman can now earn a solidly average salary as a teacher is a genuine change.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
There have always been sex workers who out earned me. Not very many of them, however, the typical prostitute does not earn very much(and her job is crazy dangerous, has terrible hours, and is likely extraordinarily unpleasant for much of it). Most sex workers live in poverty, the OF numbers are crazy.
These ladies are capitalizing on the fact that there is a limited number of young, attractive women with master's degrees willing to be pleasant to shy nerds making little effort for them, and very few of those will do so for money.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
‘Satyress’
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Very little progress on Blood Meridien, I don't like the nihilism and general darkness induce audience apathy. The prose is masterful despite shorter sentences than I'd prefer, though.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The name of the website wasn’t a clue?
hydroacetylene
7d ago
Yes there are many things that we do not let children do despite their desire to do so- but acting in contexts where they aren't getting paid is largely uncontroversial. I don't see why paying them to do so is categorically worse, even if stronger limits are necessary.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
He already has a presence in NZ, right? Deciding he wants another plan B seems in character- and Argentina has a lot of upside, it's running pretty close to the minimum possible society it could have, difficult to see how it doesn't become a bit of a nicer place to live over the long run.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
Maybe a dialect difference, but I'd still call it 'broth' if I used it as a cooking liquid.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
An American would call ‘meat water’ broth(not that boiled meat is generally in high esteem on this side of the pond), ‘meat water’ sounds like something vaguely gross.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
This leaves out the major complication- the kids want to act.
Yes, you can terrorize a child into obedience, you can train them to want different things. But the desire to participate in acting just keeps resurfacing in kids whose parents would much rather have something other than plays to go to- sort of like music. I have no difficulty believing that 100% of child stars originally had a strong desire to act, to dance, to do music. Obviously, stronger limits are needed, but there seems to me no obvious reason that kids can’t be paid for doing something that they want to do.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
Those Republican candidates, other than Trump personally, were typically in safe seats. I think we know by now that Trump is a weird exception in a lot of ways, but he’s also done unusually poorly in New England; very plausibly, this kind of behavior still matters in Maine in ways it doesn’t elsewhere in the country, and Me-1 is too partisanbrained to realize it.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
Talarico is not a baptist. Presbyterians are lectionary Protestants who baptize babies, use the term ‘saint’, do not do rock concert services, etc.
Now, differences in beliefs and practice are not necessarily off-putting to evangelicals- there are many elected officials who are Methodist, Catholic, Anglican, etc with broad appeal to the baptist masses. Baptist theology holds that baptism is a commandment and not a sacrament(this is why they do not baptize babies), and that gives them plenty of room to count those baptized as infants as real Christians. In practice their non-negotiables are still things Talarico doesn’t have- genuine belief in the historicity of the biblical account(famously genesis but theologically they would put more importance on the virgin birth and resurrection as literal, factual occurrences) and a certain level of conservatism on moral issues. This isn’t Ireland where Protestant theology has real, defined meanings- they don’t have a creed.
As I understand it, the loyalist paramilitaries have turned into something like truly outlaw biker gangs in the USA- they aren't particularly religious or nationalist anymore, despite the exclusionary membership rules, and more exist to skirt the edges to society, dabble in organized crime, etc- and that the non-actual-hard-communist branches of the IRA are now more or less totally defunct, the 'real IRA' and continuity IRA are tiny fringe groups mostly made up of true believers in the hardcore versions of extreme lefty ideologies.
More options
Context Copy link