hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2hr ago
These things, in 1950, generally happened in your twenties, and now most people are forced to delay their home and family starting activities into their thirties which reduces the likelihood of having lots of children and thus raising children.
The difference is birth control, not economic reality. If you have kids you will find a way to keep them fed and clothed. There are government programs to help, even. Impoverished teenagers have kids regularly and, yep, those kids don't starve to death, they have diapers, etc...
In the fifties these things generally happened in your twenties because their birth control didn't work very well. Today birth control works very well indeed.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
If you were wrong about the determination, yes, just as if you called her a sex worker. On the other hand actual streetwalkers would probably respond with a pricelist.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Again, Galicia is going to be fine demographically- as a region they're a viable contender for the highest fertility rate in Europe- and that's who's going to be ruling over what's left of Ukraine after the war. The rest of ukraine was basically a giant nursing home anyways.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There are lots of funny ladies. Ellen has been funny for decades.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Employers don’t want the things universities teach you, they want the evidence that you can function in a normal white collar office environment.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Isn’t art school typically a non-collège program focused on teaching technical skills?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It’s not really a slur, though. A slur is an unflattering term for a large class of people- for example, ‘bitch’ is a slur for women. Whore is a term for prostitutes, a smaller and mostly voluntary class, and it isn’t usually taken as offensive when applied to actual prostitutes. The offensive part was saying these women, who presumably have never had sex for money, were acting like whores. ‘Sailor’ is not an offensive term, but ‘so and so talks like a sailor’ might be taken that way.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That is not transgressive, and they don’t think it is either.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But many of them are operating within the paradigm that late capitalism turbo-charges human stupidity
No we are not, we are operating under the paradigm that people are not really independent actors and social norms need to be shaped to lead people to make good decisions.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Most normie drunk uncles are probably squishy rather than opposed, and consider that Trump likely doesn’t have a terribly good grasp of what ‘livestream’ means- to him it means it’ll be on TV, which normie drunk uncle thinks is, well, the criminal justice system should be transparent and if you don’t want to watch it you can just change the channel.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
TBF, op Ed journalists kinda do have to watch it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Disclaimer that I didn’t watch it and he may have been saying things you and I already know, just with a pottymouth instead of ‘jokes’.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The medievals were absolutely obsessed with evil rabbits; they drew pictures of them fighting each other, torturing people, etc, all over the place.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Comedians are in general smart, so it's unsurprising that lots of them have college degrees. But how many of those are degrees in things like theater, or communications? Generally these seem to be irrelevant degrees to being a comedian.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yeah, women who aren't selected for priding themselves on their modesty are in general not ok with commentary on modesty. Why? Because it's one of those things where it's a rat race that you can never be comfortably ahead on, and women are real sensitive about it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
As I've said before, when this came up- 'women in comedy' is the wrong framing. Ellen was a very popular and successful comedian a while back. But elite class proper ladies do not make good comics because comedy is inherently transgressive, and 'being transgressive' is not what elite proper ladies do. That's what this is about- these women are performing the social role of elite proper ladies, and they're rather unhappy about being excluded from comedy.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It kinda reads like this was a Pete Hegseth thing which Trump signed onto and then dropped like a rock? Like my mental model of Trump is that he's pretty normie and has policy preferences like your drunk uncle in a diner. He wants the illegals out and doesn't really think about legal immigration. He wants things made in the USA and thinks we have to take out Iran. Etc, etc. Not 'bring back public executions'.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There were two papabile in their fifties in the last conclave. One was too radical to get elected and the other was too involved in secular politics.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Thé pope has lung cancer. Earlier this the lower lobe of his right lung was removed.
He is unlikely to die soon, but persistent poor health tends to be a limiting factor on the pope’s power- and all indications were already that pope Leo XIV was relatively weak.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
That movie failed because of ridiculous wokeness in place of plot.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yeah no, nobody cares. Maybe if it's mispronounced.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Polling isn't correct, though. I'm not saying republicans are favoured... I'm saying there's lots of warning signs of a blue mirage, and Talarico almost certainly has advisors who are accustomed to the idea enough to try something high-risk variance, on the basis that the median voter hates ads enough to just vote on a party line basis, Greg Abbott will steal the election on the spot in a way that carries Paxton over the top, etc.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Talarico has generally poor health, apparently.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Eh, Galicia had replacement fertility before the war, and they're the properly 'Ukrainian' part of Ukraine. Nowhere near out of the question that they'd recover- after all, the children born immediately before the war are now turning four, and Ukraine might use some child soldiers in their late teens but it's not recruiting younger than that.
In the fifties they didn't have any of this. Sex made babies and that was an acceptable price to pay. Housing, transportation, groceries, etc were all more expensive in real terms; but if you wanted to copulate there was a chance you'd have to get married on short notice and have a suspiciously developed premie. And that's the way it was.
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