hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Why not both/and?
The younger generations have pretty strong failure to launch issues. Those issues are male tilted and the women who do NEET it up may not be at the top of the market, but a woman’s unemployment is just less important to the dating market. That (many)men need to get good is just factually true.
On the other hand social media trends seem to drive ridiculous expectations. That is also true.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Mail order brides are an established thing, you can just reach out to the agencies that specialize in facilitating this if you specifically want a Chinawoman.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
So JD Vance is thé go between for the world’s top bad faith negotiators?
The actual conditions don’t mean anything; eventually there will be a cease fire where Iran opens the straights and cuts off a single one of its many foreign proxies in exchange for sanctions relief. But there’s a complicated dance of bad faith negotiations to preserve fiqh.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
There are smartphones specifically for kids. This is a major topic of discussion among parents.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
The article may be badly written because of second language errors. That certainly seems like a contributing factor to what I read.
As far as the Chinese dating market, it obviously sucks, because there’s more men than women. Ideally you want slightly more women than men, so that every reasonably eligible man pairs off, women don’t feel so overwhelmed with male attention that they resort to third wave feminism(and third wave feminism is, by and large, a reaction to the perception of male sexual threat. This perception might be illusory but that’s what’s driving it- and this is why feminism spends so much time talking up sexual harassment), etc. Add in that this is a country which doesn’t have a history of dating/courting like in the west, so they’re trying to figure this out from first principles.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
The red Chinese were lying, this is something they’re known to do and the cruise ship data is known, reliable, and confirmed.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
In practice, this is going to look like parents needing to sign off on their kids' accounts. Youtube wants kids viewing some stuff, most parents want their kids watching some youtube, kids want to watch youtube, etc. What seems to be the actual demand is that youtube and meta cooperate in parental controls ad infinitum.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Right, why couldn’t they just have expanded their trial?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
So if you see your freshly 18-year-old daughter reaching towards the high-quality webcam and setting up an Amazon wishlist, especially if you notice a skeevy dude with tattoos and a pornstache whispering in her ear, you might feel some obligation to snatch her metaphorical hand away before she takes a step that is likely to diminish her quality of life in ways she can't easily predict.
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.
hydroacetylene
3d 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
3d 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
3d ago
Far less damaging, and probably more effective, than lockdowns.
hydroacetylene
3d 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
3d 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
3d 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
3d 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
3d 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
3d 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
4d 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
4d ago
Java sea, in WWII, and Yalu river, in Korea.
hydroacetylene
4d 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
5d 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
5d ago
If they trusted ‘experts’ they wouldn’t be Bowhunters.
hydroacetylene
6d 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.
It’s not a horror to be expected to take drugs as part of social participation. What did you think alcohol was?
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