hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Trophy hunting big five animals costs the equivalent of over a decade's labour in local salaries and employs far more local servants than you'd expect- in the west trophy hunting would usually be limited to guides and taxidermists(the guide field dresses), but lower African labour costs also justify skinning teams, personal servants, etc etc.
Add to that that subsistence farmers generally do not like charismatic megafauna very much, including apex predators(which eat their stock and occasionally them). Rural folk in the US hate wolves too(and would probably hate mammoth if they still existed), but lions are much more likely to hunt both livestock and humans.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Yes, lots of businesses have signs saying they won't take hundreds or fifties.
Like most people, I've not found out because I use a credit card for most transactions.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Bison are very hazardous and best enjoyed at a safe distance; if an entire herd of them loved you, I suspect you would not be long for the world.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
The downsides of fracking are fake. I live in north Texas, where there was a spate of news stories a little over a decade back about how suddenly there's minor earthquakes because we're now exploiting fracking(as if non-fracking based natural gas was new here). But nobody checked- there'd always been earthquakes too small for anyone to care on, we're sitting on a fault line(the same one running through Austin). Likewise the 'contaminated water' stories always turn out to be flint-like mismanagement of completely separate water sources.
One notices the people pushing these stories tend to be anti-fossil-fuel watermelons.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Argentina tried this, there were women who took money to reject marriage proposals.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Most Americans Do Not Know who their rep is, so it seems like they could get away with it… except for the primary voters, and in safe seats these are a very small percentage of the population which tends to have extreme views.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yes, wait ten years. Don't be a male dog mom, sublimating the natural urges into improper and destructive behavior. Foofoo the chinese food dog doesn't like being pushed in a stroller, and doing it is bad for his owner, just the same as sex for pleasure without commitment is bad for both parties- unloving and self destructive by inculcating vicious habits.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
While a fair point, this was largely aimed at the married or dating but not wanting to take the next step(or, very similarly from my perspective, stopping at two).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Because women lack agency and protecting them from predation in time periods when they often have no choice in which authority figures they are exposed to is a worthy goal.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I don't think that's really what he says? I think he's saying that this is narcissism of small differences in action, more than unflattering truth, and that incels lose out by departing from consensus as to their problems(it's not my fault because I'm ugly is a very different explanation than it's not my fault because of capitalist cisheteropatriarchy, even if they both revolve around justifying a lack of agency).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I don't have much sympathy for fornicators running into consequences, even if those consequences happen to be ridiculous.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
People are pretty good at finding the motivation for doing what they've always done in the face of difficulty, as Albert Camus noted- imagining sisyphus happy and all that. People are pretty bad at picking out what they've always done from a large set of equally easy options, as existentialists also noted, even when that's what makes them happy.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
This woman isn’t ’innocent’ although she’s also not a rapist.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yes but also no- I don’t consider the boy being a teenager a relevant factor even if they both did a bad thing.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
This is due to the American mania for consistency in stupid beliefs- in this case, that men and women are the same.
I, once adjusted for differing sexual morality standards, don’t particularly disagree with your point that statutory rape of a young man by an adult woman isn’t a thing thé same way it is of a young woman- although it remains disqualifying for a youth-oriented position. But in America treating transgeessions differently depending on the sex of the victim is not a stable equilibrium, and most people would rather overpunish unprofessional teachers than under punish rapists.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Why would you even want a pool when you don’t have kids?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yes, thé people should get to vote on how often congresscritters are in DC.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
This sounds like clickbait. And… sûre enough.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Again, I am not saying that social activities for the graceless should be conducted with the intent of meeting women, they should be conducted with the intent of improving social skills, and then go to book clubs or something.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
When I was in eighth grade, my history teacher- young, female, quite pretty in retrospect- had a crush on me and it was blatantly obvious, she never did anything but it was incredibly awkward and I was not a fan of the experience.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Safe seats tend to have expensive primaries- thé US has two rounds of election.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
That's a severe lack of confidence in your kids. Are these people marrying the weakest partner they can find? Is this more blue tribe weakness-as-status-symbol, like ARFID and long covid?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I live in a filter bubble with a median age of 12(not a typo). If you want children badly enough, you can have them. Economic reasons? I know people supporting double digit numbers of children and a SAHM, without obvious signs of poverty, on salaries of notoriously high paying jobs like 'welder' and 'teacher'. Health reasons? How much time you got for miracle stories that are more about the miracle of listening to doctors? 'Oh no one can keep up with more than one kid' I know a woman who had seven under eight while her husband business travelled... and she had a broken leg. 'Combining with education is too difficult' Lol no, lots of people around me are PhDs and have multiple children.
Most people just don't want kids. Eventually they'll die out. The Past is a Future Country was a strange prophecy, but I haven't seen an intelligent counterargument.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Humans are tougher than cockroaches. Literally, we conquered the high arctic and the depths of the sahara where they can't go. The belief that humans won't persist through some postapocalyptic wasteland, perhaps your children conquering this mad max world, is... well I guess about as unreasonable as believing it's going to happen.
I don't really remember that.
I remember new expectations feeling unfair, or intimidating, or whatever. But it always seemed well explained why 'you're a teenaged boy, you don't get treated like a kid anymore, them's the breaks- but you also don't get to be treated like an adult'. Granted, I was a bit of a late bloomer and have been consistently physically attractive.
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