hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Liz Warren
Adult in the room
Uh...
Look, Elizabeth Warren isn't simply wrong about economics. That would be understandable. She's more than smart enough to note that her pie in the sky socialist economics won't work. 'But if we just tax the rich hard enough' is the adolescent impulse of not accepting limits, only in this case she should know better. It's totally understandable that AOC unironically thinks you can extract enough from taxing the rich to fund whatever nonsense or that 'universal' childcare will fix anything- she just doesn't understand economics, it's the voters' fault for putting her in office. Liz Warren knows these things aren't true, she's advocating them anyway because she can't hear the word 'no'.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Losing a poorly thought out war with Persia is traditional for empires in this stage. I'm not surprised. At least nobody's had molten silver poured down his throat this time.
In any case, Iran will factually take a while to rebuild. Their regime is kinda shaky with very limited next generation buy in(is the IRGC recruiting well enough to sustain itself?). Trump can easily spin this as some minor matter where the US accomplished its objectives.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
It also wrecks the crime rates, which people do care about.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
These are well above average, albeit usually not literal top 1%, 14 year old boys.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
The US military is far more combat experienced, has a more flexible doctrine, and Chinese equipment hasn't performed with flying colours in Persia.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
The Persian war, our battle of Carrhae, is giving China pause about its Taiwan invasion plans if it has any brains. If Iran can close the straight of Hormuz then Japan can close the south China sea.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Some of these places have no local jobs, but serve as commuterville for places that do.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That does not mean that any particular method of desegregation is necessarily advisable, and I would be interested to hear any alternative you might have in mind.
Literally anything but that one. Strictly speaking thé schools weren’t even segregated, thé neighborhoods were(and there was no way to fix that easily).
I wonder where the lib outcry about separation of powers was for that particular judge- like there was almost certainly a statutory mechanism for setting school budgets and taxes that he trampled all over.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The over the top Cruella de Ville laugh seems more like something from a commercial or B-movie than real witches, at least.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The Germans, thé UK, the Canadians, in fact most of Europe…
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes, you do understand this goes both ways? You understand democrats come off as Halloween villains to much of the country?
Trump is an aesthetician. He governs on a platform of, essentially, ‘I’m the tsar and I’m gonna look like it’. Yeah, aesthetics. And he baits democrats into the vanguard party damn-fool aesthetics.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Arguably Singapore? It’s legal to criticize the people’s action party despite not being super-pro-free speech in general.
They might not honor it perfectly in the breech, I suppose.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yeah, a quarter million American black bears wouldn’t be that dangerous.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
There aren’t that many grizzly bears in the world, so it won’t be that dangerous.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The key, like with silver booms, is probably not to try to ride it to the absolute peak- yes you don't make the most profit selling when there's still room to go up, but you get more than if it's started to decline.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Math teachers in general are bad at their jobs, because they're people who 'just get it' and don't need much teaching, so they assume everyone else is like that too. The best math teacher I ever had was a seminarian randomly assigned by his superior to teach high school algebra- clearly very intelligent, but had needed to actually study to learn the material.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Bears kill an average of 2 people per year in North America, so without googling, I'm gonna go with 'less than five'.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
The country is still about 40% YEC.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
By rejecting the same evidence for long time frames that they already reject?
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Obviously we know what was wrong with him- he’s a bad person. That’s an uninteresting question(even in societies that accept wifebeating and constant drunkenness not providing is generally seen quite poorly). The question is ‘why did she make this knowably bad decision’ because she didn’t want to be beaten and abused.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
You do realize that kicking in your sleep is a not-uncommon behavior, and people who have nightmares in which they lash around tend to have lots of them?
Like this guy doesn’t sound like a catch either way, but it’s not like that breaks thé Laws of physics.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
This doesn’t affect your broader point very much, but it’s a nitpick that bothers me- ‘concubine’ is not a term for ‘sex slave’. Those did(and still do) exist and are not the same thing. A concubine was a woman who was very similar to a wife, but got a worse deal(usually with stuff like divorce, inheritance, etc). In some societies(such as our own) this was a common-ish form of common law marriage and in others this was a way of regulating the mistresses of wealthy men- these were separate institutions which happen to have the same word in English. But they did have a few similarities- it tended to be acceptable to take a lower status(either enslaved or free) woman as a concubine in a way that wasn’t allowed for a wife, they had far fewer protections from domestic violence or divorce(most premodern societies did have some, even if inadequate), and they didn’t get a formal wedding, but lived in the same household as their husband(this was the term used) who had the obligation to support them, but not at the same level as he would a wife.
This was the ancients regulating cohabitation, and in some cases thé man also had a wife in the same household. It was not some foreign institution that was a case of premodern horror imposed by the patriarchy- we embraced the custom when stepping away from the patriarchy, after all.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Or they're imprinted on that as ‘how a man acts’. Maybe because daddy did. Unfortunate but true.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I mean, in a sense it is thé fault of society- we have a norm that adults get to make their own bad decisions about relationships. You will find other horror stories from Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia, but probably not this one. Either of these two.
They'd better get to it before oil prices come back down.
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