hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
I'm looking forwards to Harris losing to Vance or Abbott or Rubio because she deserves this.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
White nationalism is in fact getting more popular. It seems to be a very common replacement for religion among male exvangelicals, for example. Go ahead and insert the Douthat quote.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
You know brahmins are a high IQ group, right?
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Men tend to spend less than women, though. Like there's men that are into guns(but firearms companies were never 'woke') and motorbikes and stuff, but few men shop for fun.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
The Greek religion at least did seem to have a moral code- woefully incomplete by our standards, but the gods were believed to punish transgressions against sacred hospitality, certain sexual taboos, cannibalism, etc quite harshly.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
The demoniac theory of possession is gone for all time and has been taken over by neuroscience.
No it isn't. There are exorcists running around today. People go to them.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
which even Nick Fuentes, the new media appointed archdemon, is unwilling to broach - he's on the side of 'Based Blacks
Is Nick an HBD believer? AFAIK he's preposterously antisemitic and quite misogynistic under any possible definition of those terms. But his racism seems generally just... not directed against blacks.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Mass onboard ship has been discouraged in the past, although I'm not sure what the current rules are. In the middle ages there was a specific 'missa sica' performed onboard ship with no consecration of the host.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
The Texas HVAC board revokes a contractors license occasionally- generally for egregious lies to a residential customer about mechanical matters. I don't pay attention to any other disciplinary proceedings.
Requiring an HVAC contractors license is facially reasonable. I won't defend any specific requirements- it would cost me about $1500 and six weeks of my time to get it. Common legend has it that the EPA license literally never gets revoked/disciplined because licensees refuse to inform on each other. I won't stake my criminal record on it, but it seems true enough to be believable.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Trump is just literally ruling by decree, that's what he's doing. This specific issue is small potatoes but there's a million other examples, and it adds up.
Historically, the common people have reacted to government dysfunction by backing strongmen, regardless of their constitutional authority. Other than Sulla, the men who broke the Roman republic were incredibly popular among the common people; the Greeks wrote extensively about the political cycle of partisan polarization breaking democratic functioning until the government morphed into a tyranny, but not much about the attitude of the demos. I predict that JD Vance or John Fetterman will continue this trend, and be loved by the people for it- even as they're hated by the elites.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Just give me windows XP back. Microsoft still supports it for large institutional clients like the US military and the Louvre's security system, why can't it be available to the general public?
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Rightist philosphers and hardcore conspiracy theorists hate AI.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Ah, yes, I look forwards to the universities acquiring translators for a dialect which can only be learned verbally, sending recruiters to deep backwater villages that pay tribute to warlords who themselves owe allegiance to military juntas that don't bother to develop infrastructure to access the deep interior of the country. It might bring universities to develop zeppelins to deliver their recruiters places roads don't reach. Assuming local dictator #500 allows them to do it, and stays in power long enough for it to make any difference.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
A significant percentage of people in community college are also training for things that are not normally four year degrees- some of the less prestigious healthcare specialties(think phlebotomy etc), lots of trades careers, etc. This is simply a different market from what a university is offering, and the alternative to a community college for these things is a for-profit technical school, not a university.
I don't know how much this explains, but the guy working on his ASE certification(automotive mechanical) who has to take a few gen ed credits to get through the program, and the girl working on her LVN who needs to take a few math and general science classes as part of it, would probably not otherwise be going to a university.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The official IQ cutoff to be militarily useful is 83. This is not an indicator that the military requires all of its members to do algebra.
Now it does vary quite a bit by MOS, with high ASVAB scores leading to more desirable ones and lower scores leading to KP, warehouse work, and sentry duty.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Rationalists are basically a doomsday cult dedicated to surviving the chaos of the singularity through human power; it's reasonable to assume they're very concerned with having sufficient human capital to harness that power.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
no steady gf is because divorces and tinder
But is that true? How much of the female withdrawal from the dating market is driven by the incredible level of fearmongering about male bad behavior? I mean, there's the family guy clip about campus sexual assault training, but tiktok is just way way worse at playing up female neuroticism than liability-minimizing bureaucrats.
How much of it is simply that a far higher percentage of young women are unattractive as GF's, mostly due to higher obesity rates?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Just pointing out, the stereotypical gas station owner is a minority immigrant who almost certainly votes D, and both Trump voters hate him(for not assimilating) and lower class minorities(for making them miss the white owner-men), but the hyper-educated parts of the democrat base do not hate the middleman minorities that own gas stations.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There is a sufficient sample size of well connected and extremely wealthy celebrities to say that most of them don't cheat on their pregnant wives with porn stars.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
IDK about that, but Texas has an age of consent of 17 unless you have some legitimate reason for knowing the minor in question, in which case it's 18, and flat out bans school district employees from having sex with the students. These seem like obvious rule patches.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
These are completely different things- promise keepers was an evangelical men’s group which did standard evangelical things. Oath keepers is a veterans right-wing militia organization.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In nature, tough, fecund generalists invariably outcompete long established species in time of environmental chaos. Rationalists note that there is socioeconomic chaos on the horizon, they note that low birth rates are a contributing factor, and rationalists are not tough, fecund generalists.
This is an expression of anxiety about who the feral hogs of future society are. It’s quite reasonable to be particularly worried about that stratum’s biggest weakness.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Depends on the state, but crossing state lines to have sex with a woman under 18 is probably illegal somehow, even if the states involved have a lower age.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
What about those of us who aren't weirdos, can we just take the money and spend on a nice house, a couple cars, and retiring early?
It's not. In the US this is actually a very controversial statement. Most Americans do not think middle schoolers should be having sex with each other, even on birth control, and a significant percentage of the population thinks the same about high school seniors.
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