hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
9hr ago
In Texas there's a hard ban on harvesting roadkill, for poaching-prevention reasons. But in Oklahoma you can call a game warden who can issue a special tag. It varies a lot.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
It strongly depends on the state. If you would actually like to do this, your state fish and game or wildlife department likely has it in an FAQ on their website. Texas hard bans private harvest of animals hit by a car- you're supposed to make a police report for it to be disposed of, either fed to the lions at the zoo or thrown in the landfill depending on how quickly they get to it.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Immigration from Africa is almost completely uncontroversial in America. Most people would think a nice Nigerian family moving in next door to be quite alright with them.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Given that anti-Indian hate is disproportionately pointed towards the H1bs
Anti-H1b hatred is visible, true, but white, black, and Hispanic Americans of every social class tend to dislike the Indian immigrants they come in contact with due to cultural frictions- and for most of them, those Indians are not software engineers. Indian motel managers and liquor store owners and 7/11 operators are unpopular with the broader public, just like H1bs are with American tech workers. Tech workers just have very visible complaints because they're rich and highly online(and, uh, did you think they were going to welcome extra competition for jobs?).
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Mexicans, Filipinos, and Vietnamese are the best major groups of immigrants. There are some black groups which number among the same. This isn't a straight race thing- south Asians rub a lot of people the wrong way. Superiority complexes, difficulty assimilating, it doesn't matter how good they are for the economy. I just dislike the median Indian immigrant for being a rude, snooty pagan with a different attitude towards the truth than better immigrant groups like Latinos or Southeast Asians, while also being less willing to assimilate. As Indian immigration becomes more visible, expect more of this.
Dominicans are darker than Indians while not bringing nearly as much personal distaste. It isn't a race thing, although it probably doesn't help that you can tell Indians very easily by looking at them. Among actual IRL Trump voters immigration from southeast Asia, other parts of the new world, etc is far more acceptable than from India. There may be demand for lower numbers overall, because widespread bilingualism is not popular, but there's no personal resistance to Mexicans.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
Technically speaking the current Catholic definition of meat requires the animal to be both land dwelling and warm blooded. Older Cajuns will think reptile meat is vegetarian, including things like rattlesnake. It makes sense from a culinary definition, if not nutritional.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
Roadkill doesn't necessarily mean it's been sitting out in the sun for days. In fact most larger animals struck by a car are left crippled and then need to be shot- the police will donate it to the zoo for lion food, but if legal it doesn't really make much difference if you/your redneck neighbor shoots it and takes it to the freezer.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
Bewarned- in most of the bigger states this is deer poaching. If you hit a deer with your car, you're supposed to call a police officer to come dispatch it humanely.
In practice, you may not get caught, and the main penalty(loss of hunting license) is irrelevant to non-hunters. But it is de jure illegal.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
As I keep saying, if you have a 'disability' that makes it difficult to do well in school, your grades should just reflect being bad at school. Unfortunately, parents really want their kids to have high grades, and teachers serve the system(which cares about its own internal numbers, not whether those numbers reflect reality). C'est la vie, it's a clearly ridiculous example of the iron law, but it's far from the worst.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
It seems like the best definition of ‘third world country’, what people actually mean, is places where a sufficiently large percentage of the population lives at the subsistence line for deaths from want(lack of food, shelter, etc) to be the biggest societal concern. Places like South Sudan, Tajikistan, Haiti, etc.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
A radical Islamist technological society would be… Saudi Arabia circa 2010. Yes, a lot of their tech was imported, but if they can figure out oil they can probably figure out most branches on the tech tree(Saudi actually does much of the oil extraction themselves). They don’t need to be good at inventing tech, just using it.
Of course they still underperformed militarily but that’s not because they didn’t have jet fighters.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Islamic states with western spec equipment still underperform- eg gulf states with f-16’s.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
I mean isn’t Venezuela’s crime problem and failed-statery pretty well known?
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
No. While the trump base is rapidly souring on immigration from India, most normie republicans think there are many legal immigrants from places like Mexico, Nigeria, and the Philippines who are a great addition to the country.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
You will notice that the countries sending the most immigrants are not third world. Mexico, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, the Caribbean and Central America, etc are industrialized countries. They’re sucky, poor industrialized countries. But they’re literally not third world the way most of Africa is.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Iirc the Supreme Court has ruled that narcotrafficking could be tried as treason. It just takes 20+ years to execute someone.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Of course, Iceland, Britain, etc have much higher rates of prenatal testing.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Didn’t the lawful commerce in arms act predate gun control as a political fault line? It basically codified that guns are inherently hazardous and so manufacturers aren’t liable for misuse, the same standards exist for cars.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The US white homicide rate is still higher than anywhere in Europe except for the Balkans, Baltics, and Russia. State level homicide rates are still really really high outside of DC and Illinois(which is what I’m assuming the two counties are). Highest murder rate is usually Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, and DC- and even outside of that top tier, murder rates are still much higher than comparable populations.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This was the late 2010’s. His wife was vegan, they were pretty into environment and animal stuff and they were homeschooling for partly that reason.
Plenty of eccentrics in the trades. Usually more of the white nationalism and a pet monkey version, but still.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Their purchases of US military equipment at sticker price is probably some subsidy to the military industrial complex. They also briefly stabilized Somalia, until the USA made them stop, and Yemen, before the USA made them stop.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes, during the Cold War extrajudicial executions in Latin America were largely outsourced from the USFG to local governments.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Venezuela has weaker rule of law, transshipment wouldn’t surprise me.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, what makes terrorists special?
The origin of a ‘special category’ of criminals was pirates as hostis humani generis, followed by slavers in the 19th century, and terrorists after 9/11. Adding narcotraffickers doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch.
Most Americans probably think of it as middle eastern.
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