hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Yes, if we sealed everyone in their own pharoah's tomb the virus would die out pretty quickly. Not least because everybody would die, mostly from other things. We kinda need other people to live. The question is 'can we stop viral spread at a level that's realistic to maintain', to which the answer is 'no'.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
What was stopping a pharma company from declaring their vaccine open to the public, as long as you signed up for their trial*?
*requires a deposit equal to the retail price of the vaccine
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Far less damaging, and probably more effective, than lockdowns.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Perhaps you lot should have thought about that before deciding to shut the world down over a virus that was dangerous enough to cancel normal life but not dangerous enough to release a vaccine before it was politically opportune.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Covid was built on a lie. We knew the hysteria was overblown not in mid 2020, but in March, before the first lockdowns in the western world, with the Diamond Princess. We knew it posed no danger to young, healthy people. We knew it was less contagious than commonly claimed. And the establishment just went and lied, lied, lied to push an agenda.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Most conspiracy theorists correctly recognized that the lockdowns were too retarded to be the new equilibrium(and indeed, one merely needed to remember things over the course of several weeks to recognize that). They may have predicted other outcomes from the lockdowns that did not happen, but not 'lockdowns forever'.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
No women I know have had cosmetic work done. Well, not major stuff, maybe some small procedures that wouldn't necessarily be more widely known, I don't really know.
I remember when tattoos, energy drinks, long hair on males, and cosmetic surgery were all regarded as a bit unseemly; now all of them are more or less socially acceptable. I suspect what you're seeing is much higher rates of approval of this stuff.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
No, they won’t. Upper middle class boomers do not want a freezer after they die. They’re not silicone valley weirdos. Cruises, hopeless cancer treatments, sûre. But probably not this.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Bill gates is still very unpopular, economically illiterate pop socialists hate him for being rich, generic populists hate him for going to a certain island, conservatives hate him for being a liberal who supports population control, pro-business democrats like him but there’s not very many of them.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The battle of the Java sea featured the US in a coalition under Dutch overall command, but was definitely a major battle and definitely a defeat for the allies. The battle of lake Changjin, likewise, except the US was in overall command of the coalition.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Java sea, in WWII, and Yalu river, in Korea.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There are plenty of groups which don’t have normal jurisdiction from Rome but in practice accept its doctrinal authority, ranging from the (not)Polish national Catholic Church to the Sspx. It was well into the twentieth century by the time the pope appointed the majority of the world’s bishops.
Is unity important? Yes. Is it evidently possible to prevent governance by lunacy without it? Also yes.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The abuse scandal peaked before the priest shortage was manifested and began to improve when the priest shortage was getting rapidly worse.
The church also doesn’t rely on dirt poor peasants becoming priests, including in places where there’s large populations of impoverished Catholic peasants(latin America, parts of Africa and SE Asia). The priesthood is, overwhelmingly, a later son career for middle class-ish families in towns or suburbs. The US church hit peak seminarian, anywhere ever, in the long fifties, and there were no Catholic peasants to recruit from(well, there were a few Cajuns and tejanos. But the US peasant population was overwhelmingly Protestant and Catholic peasant populations didn’t punch above their weight). What the US church had to recruit from in the long fifties was very large families of urban wage laborers and declining seminarians was mostly due to declining fertility and Vatican II.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
If they trusted ‘experts’ they wouldn’t be Bowhunters.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
AI and 1-800-petmeds is getting increasingly popular as a recommendation at the bow range, but those people are at the far end of, uh, mistrusting institutions.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
To be clear, 'sometimes priests wind up visiting prostitutes' was a known problem among the hierarchy, and most reports of sex abuse were buried by writing it off as this- despite the victims not being whores, and not being suspected of being them either. In the environment of the late twentieth century RCC(which had extremely lax and loose disciplinary standards) this was dealt with through 'rehabilitative justice', just like clerical alcoholism(rates are shockingly high)- and of course the extremely lax disciplinary environment in place doesn't exactly push towards rehabilitation actually working.
One of the main innovations on abuse response was to report to the police before opening a case(which you can cover up by miscategorizing). The police don't particularly care about prostitution; this is pretty low priority. But they do care about raping teenaged boys.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I don't have data to hand right now, but generally speaking liberal/progressive sections of the church have had a worse record about this than conservative/trad sections of the church, with some exceptions(eg Fr Maciel). The SSPX adopted the policy of 'report to the police first, then investigate internally after' long before anyone else, Benedict was the recent pope with the toughest record on sex abusers, etc.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
To be clear, sex abuse in religious organizations is basically a solved problem and 'bringing in a bunch of left wing activists' isn't the solution. It's-
- Everyone involved loses their job in case of a coverup. Everyone who conceivably knew and didn't report gets fired, regardless of their level in the organization, regardless of peripherality, etc.
- Everyone is trained as a state mandated reporter.
- Chaperoning requirements and parental involvements have consistent policies and those policies aren't stupid. You also have common sense checks about who gets to be involved as a volunteer(eg checking sex offender registries).
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Catholic priests before the 2003 reforms(which cut clerical sex abuse cases down to a rounding error) did have near unlimited access to kids for enormous amounts of time, often long stretches of time.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
It's not really 'grooming' it's these women not getting the relationship they want after sleeping with him. Right wing leaders being pressured to follow through on (even implied)relationship promises more often is probably a big part of having fewer sex scandals.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I mean it may also just be having good story lines. Everyone seems to like japanese cartoons; when the French(with their own very robust culture making apparatus which is different from our own) gave their youths a stipend for cultural materials they spent it on manga.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The Ukrainian state is politically closer to the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, which runs the other successful post-Soviet revival of Christianity and would like to suppress all Eastern Orthodox groups for heresy, but for realpolitik reasons settles for aiming the state against the more Russia-leaning ones while it slowly outbreeds the rest of Ukraine.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Women were not property in the USA, 1955(a recent TFR peak), and have never been legally property in this country.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Indeed, that 1% will mostly hoist themselves on their own petard(sheltered religious girls dating players, uh, wind up regretting their choices) and all of their peers will know this.
But is that the role of the state? It's the role of her parents, sure. But the state and the parents are different creatures with different relationships to the individual.
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