hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
College football is crowding out NFL fandom in every social circle I participate in. MMA and boxing are still reasonably popular among coworkers(with a very sharp income gradient; thé more money you make, thé more you like boxing- and like most trades workplaces, there’s a large pay difference between entry level guys and experienced ones). Hardcore sports fans around me are getting into MLS, keeping college ball, and dropping basketball entirely(this may vary by region). Texas A&M is the new cowboys as the default fandom.
Don’t get me wrong; I see evidence of cowboys fandom everywhere I go, as a generic corporate thing. But more ‘fandom’ tends to be for college sports.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
They literally exist. Many fraternities and unions are this in practice, a few country clubs maintain it as explicit policy, and of course there’s the hells angels.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
NFL players have a decent-ish IQ proxy on file and their intelligence varies by position quite a bit; QB’s mostly would be honor roll students if they’d studied(QB’s, of course, are expected to study football, not academic subjects), D-linemen would… not.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Really? Fraternities have been in the news again.
Social outcry is not the same thing as a legal barrier. In my metroplex one of the more prominent country clubs still requires that every member family be headed by a white male. Unions often have similar policies.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Technically, aren't most of these groups private clubs, who can be as discriminatory as they like? You can have your white men’s club just as much as you want(although dues are likely well beyond your price range).
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Because no one wants to join the Girl Scouts.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
I’m certainly of thé impression that was true for the IRA- but Ian paisley was one of the more important unionist figures, wasn’t he?
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Yeah, we… don’t have those.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Something about French redditors being upset about videogame stores being terribly affected.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
He's not saying it's acceptable. He's saying it isn't rape. There are many bad non-rape things.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Loco Parentis has been illegal for almost fifty years.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
I would guess, given the demographics of both gamers and rioters, that video game stores are disproportionately looted.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
There's probably tons of vets that really want to work with exotic animals on a zoo staff, not so many jobs to go around- this is the usual pattern for such things- the majority of vets being women working on designer dogs is because owners of designer dogs have money to spend.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Since women are equal to men, the notion they're "too re-traumatized" is special pleading.
They are not equal in this sense. Women are in general much weaker and lower in fortitude than men.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Watermelon is an african-american stereotype, but I think in context it means 'commies deep down'.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Uh, wasn't the main protestant church involved the wee frees, who are not headed by the british monarchy?
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
'Paranoid'? Jean-Luc Melenchon is just openly cheering it on.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Cajun French is generally easier to understand for metropolitan French speakers than Quebecois, because Cajun, like most creole languages, uses no inflections(yes, some inflections are written, but they are in the half of the French word which isn't pronounced). However, almost no one under seventy speaks it. Cajuns are, at this point, basically just Catholic harder-drinking rednecks with better food, and follow the usual patterns of redneck populations elsewhere in the country culturally- a huge wigger underclass occupying itself with drug use and a mostly country dixie upper 2/3 outmigrating to sun belt metroplexes. Acadiana itself is a depressing place with high crime rates, high average ages, horribly intractable poverty, and where substance abuse is the norm.
There is a fairly small elite group that is meaningfully more 'French/Cajun', but it's a tiny elite clique that has largely abdicated its responsibility to govern(in fairness, under substantial pressure to do so).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
My assumption is that cattle are what pay the bills, and mostly-horse practice is relatively rare.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
'Hot drug fueled gangbang' is unlikely to be something women value sufficiently to distinguish clearly from rape.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Large animal veterinary care is not only gross, it is dangerous, and most of it is not pets, it is livestock.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
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.
hydroacetylene
2d 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
2d 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.
It’s called north woods or north haven or something. It was a client of a company I worked for a while back and one of the reasons I was assigned to their campus was because customers could see white people if they needed service while they were open. I was told by my supervisor that they didn’t allow nonwhites to join or women to join on their own.
The longshoreman’s Union may not technically have a ‘whites only’ policy, but it definitely engages in some discrimination to maintain an all-white workforce.
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