AvocadoPanic
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AvocadoPanic
5d ago
She may want to try again. Any advice on trying following a ~10 year career break?
AvocadoPanic
6d ago
Yes. This has been frequently noticed in different contexts recently.
@TequilaMockingbird https://www.themotte.org/post/1267/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/273093?context=8#context
it isn't the algorithm any of the people under discussion are using
I think this is uncharitable. I don't claim to know their minds but I suspect at least some would apply this algorithm. Also I believe the
entirely blameless versus partially a victim of their own carelessness
distinction is a natural cultural tradition, on par with many situations that result in adverse outcomes that can be described as 'natural consequences' or 'mess around and find out'. People holding to this tradition may not apply the algorithm knowingly but it's baked into their tradition and culture.
It's not like the far-right are thinking "Ashling Murphy was just minding her own business so I'm outraged, whereas Nikita Hand got drunk at a party and brought it on herself".
Isn't this a common framing that is labeled as victim blaming?
not like woke people are thinking "Nikita Hand was brutally raped by a man she trusted, whereas Ashling Murphy should have known better than to go for a run by herself in an isolated location with no witnesses".
I'll agree here, this isn't a framing I've frequently seen or encountered.
assaulting a middle-aged man because he refused a glass of whiskey he was offered
I'll disagree slightly here, knowing when to accept the drink you don't want to save the interlocuteur a loss of face is a useful life skill as is not being unnecessarily antagonist in your refusal to partake.
There are lots of places
I don't want to drink that shit, I don't want your drink
might get you hit.
I don't mean any of this as support for Connor McGregor or his fans. From the reporting he seems unpleasant. It's not a sport I follow. Nor do I believe this sort of behavior or outcome is extraordinary. The press routinely reports on the poor behavior and alleged crimes of many high profile individuals, professional athletes especially.
AvocadoPanic
7d ago
The one I'm married to wanted to in 2014/15. She passed the USMLE had her ECFMG certificate, recent clinical experience in a western European native English speaking country and didn't require visa sponsorship as the spouse of a US citizen, applied to a variety of programs and failed to match, not even any interviews. âšī¸
Many people decouple this way.
Do you also decouple when instead of being the victim of another person, they're the victim of an animal, tree, swimming pool, trampoline or hotel balcony?
Being drunk or drugged in an unsafe environment is inviting unnecessary risk in a way that getting your steps in on a local walking path should not. Should the culture not recognize this difference and treat the individuals in these situations differently as a result?
AvocadoPanic
8d ago
being outraged when an immigrant mistreats women, and turning a blind eye when an Irishman you admire does so
Does victim selection play a role in the perceived public response?
Frequently the difference is women out on her run attacked at random opportunity vs liquored or drugged up good time girl who changes her mind or realizes too late the sort of rake she's followed to his room.
While recognizing this distinction is often seen a victim blaming, victims are often careless with their own safety.
AvocadoPanic
9d ago
Wasn't the Bob Lee murder about the alleged suspects sister sexual assault at the hands of a Bob Lee drug / sex party acquaintence / friend, allegedly?
AvocadoPanic
11d ago
I think maybe you meant to reply to a different comment?
AvocadoPanic
11d ago
teenage daughter becoming a party girl, a slut, or even a fornicator is bad, but I think figuring out how to ban it is a very difficult problem
Going nowhere without a chaperone was the traditional solution.
AvocadoPanic
12d ago
prosperous, unusually high TFR conservative & religious farmer's region in western germany
Sounds lovely. Is it still like this? I was a surprised at the number of closed Gaststätte / Wirtshaus in towns in rural Germany on a recent trip. Reminded of all the towns that lost their pubs in Ireland and the UK. âšī¸
AvocadoPanic
12d ago
Sometimes it hard to know where your limits are until you get your bell rung a couple times.
Is accute disease worse than chronic? If I'm healthy for one to two decades between bouts I may choose accute episodes.
AvocadoPanic
14d ago
This is likely true now. The eliteness of the premoden elites appears less Jewish.
AvocadoPanic
15d ago
Wouldn't have come down to a microscopic margin in Florida if he'd won his own home state of Tennessee or Clinton's Arkansas.
Or is it bad luck in all the other places he didn't win by a wider margin?
AvocadoPanic
15d ago
Our family has done this, though not Orthodox.
Congregationalist but not affiliated with any of the woke denominations.
There are no pride flags, BLM banners or lady ministers. The other men in the bible study are normal, married, most with children. One or two would help me dispose of a body if necessary.
AvocadoPanic
16d ago
No, and certainly 'the big guy' Hunter is referring to in his email is his cock, or his father, not God.
Tithe had meant tenth I accept that may not be the typical meaning in modern usage.
AvocadoPanic
16d ago
Jewish influence, instead of being done by elite progressive white people who hate their co-ethnics
Can't it be both?
AvocadoPanic
17d ago
Obviously it's his tithe to God.
They're very pious and devoted Roman Catholics.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
Trump should have the Ukraine extridite and prosecute him as part of the peace negotiations.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
Hungary has been working on this for a while now.
The vibe I get via western reporting seems to have gone from this won't work, to this works but is expensive.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
I was trying to imagine modern and US centric versions of the benefits of the Cross of Honour of the German Mother (Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter) Wikipedia describes them as
...they were always given the best of everything: housing, food, clothing, and schooling for their children. Old people even had to give up their seats on the bus or streetcar. They were treated like royalty with the greatest respect. No standing in line for them. At the butcher's shop, the best cuts of meat would go into their baskets. A helper or nurse was assigned by the government to help them take care of the brood and arrived first thing in the morning.
Members of the Hitler Youth organization were also instructed; a wearer of the Mother's Cross was to be honourably greeted (saluted) when encountered.
...the holder of the Mother's Cross of Honour will in future enjoy all types of privileges that we by nature have accustomed to our nation's honoured comrades and our injured war veterans.
It should be noted that many of the women to receive this award were already 60+.
I like the idea of debt retirement, if my wife had accrued 250k in debt through medical school and post graduate study, we'd have fewer children. But as we don't see countries with 'free' education producing higher fertility I suspect it's a minor factor.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
There are countries with significantly more maternity leave and public health care, still with low fertility.
Could you be tempted to have four or more children if the government canceled / retired your student loans / and or mortgage debt? No income tax for the rest of your life? The elderly giving up their seats for you on public transit, boy scouts, police and other public servents saluting you? You get the veterans and first responders discount at Lowe's?
AvocadoPanic
20d ago
I've fixed it.
AvocadoPanic
20d ago
not have to worry about childcare arrangements, they dread paying for daycare
This is only a reason if both parents work outside the home. If one parent is a homemaker no daycare is required.
If lack of daycare / affordability was impacting fertility I'd expect to see higher tfr in countries that have improved access / lower cost care available. Is this what we see?
My suspicion is that what they want is the flexibility to not have to worry about children. The cohort of childless or low fertility women I've the most exposure to other than the lesbians, would see themselves dipicted in fiction as the women from 'Sex in the City' or the strong capable lady doctors of 'Grey's Antotomy'. Free childcare would be unlikely to promote children in this cohort.
Maybe. Different countries in Europe have 'solved' this differently. The NHS in England has a website that lists average waiting times for specialist care.
https://www.myplannedcare.nhs.uk/
18 weeks for Orthopedics in East Sussex https://www.myplannedcare.nhs.uk/seast/east-sussex/specialty/?sname=Orthopaedics
Ireland has a website that shows how long patients have been waiting.
https://www2.hse.ie/services/activity-performance-data/waiting-for-care/waiting-lists/
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