hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
5hr ago
That's British English, though, an American would not say that. An American might say 'retard' or just 'tard' or 'downie'(not always a slur). An older American might say 'moron' or 'idiot' as a slur but nowadays that wouldn't be used for an actually retarded person, it's used for other drivers.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
He has to have some measure if he wants to use leverage on the media.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
I mean, on the bright side, advertisements mean there is a significant oversupply- more people wanting to offer them than people wanting to take up those offers.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
I have met one. Male, retired marine. Very very Covid obsessed(which is why I don’t still know him). He was married, held social policy views which could have fit in with either party, but supported republicans because he homeschooled his kids and loved guns.
Has your friend tried dating vegan hippie chicks and convincing them of whatever he agrees with the GOP on?
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
And, you know, the US’s cartoonishly high violent crime rates.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
A good test for this would be to see if current Inuit cultures seem to have similar 'high trust' norms.
The Inuit have had some weird trust building exercises, but today, their culture is dominated by severe alcoholism, and there are probably as many living in slums in the cities of their ancestral lands receiving welfare as there are in the ancestral environment.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
It’s entirely possible to rescue failing cities by boosting particular neighborhoods(there’s a word for it- gentrification). IIRC shagbark wanted to do this in rust belt New York.
Unfortunately, he wanted to combine this with Luddism(lol), trad-Catholicism(minus the guilt), and ideological commitment. Alas he found no takers; most people don’t want to live a third world poor lifestyle, they would rather have jobs.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
I mean, you don’t have to delve into the tribes being dismissive of the problem to understand the differences- measured by consumption, Mississippi is far richer than NYC. Measured any other way, lol no it isn’t.
This shapes a lot of attitudes on the question- from teacher pay to the rise of ‘socialism’(these people aren’t Marxists, they just want free shit- because they insist on lifestyles that are unaffordable if it isn’t free. Literally, NYC/San Fran apartments have a high percentage that are subsidized, but if it isn’t subsidized it’s a huge stretch even for the high incomes in these places) to ongoing tribal divergence(I wonder how much of the blue tribe hatred of red is just that we don’t care about how much their trendy apartments cost to rent- they should accept less desirable neighborhoods/avocado toast/international travel).
Suburbs are sometimes exclusivist, but theres also plenty of suburbs that are affordable to the lower working class- I live in one. They’re simply a practical solution to ‘everyone gets a single family home with a yard’ in a rich country where you have to be quite poor not to have a car. Most of my neighbors, if offered the choice, would not move to a walkable safe neighborhood, because they want a single family home with a yard.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
A Song of Ice and Fire surely qualifies?
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
But a conventional honor culture(like in America’s black ghettos or parts of the Balkans or the rural south) is not exactly what’s being described- the idea is that Indians find scamming and lying admirable as long as you aren’t hurting your buddies. The really rough parts of New Orleans or rural Albania don’t work that way, going back on your word is worse than murder.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
How does this compare to sci-fi novels by sales? Entirely possible good reads just has a slanted user base.
I know for my part I might recommend a book in person, but I’m unlikely to post about it on goodreads, and don’t actually know what good reads is.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There wasn't a middle of the road option; there were cheap shitty motels and there were luxury hotels, with no real in between.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Environmental quality in the fifties was generally poor. Especially in the east, improved management and environmental consciousness has cleaned up a lot- there's no flaming rivers anymore.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
and families were cramming 4+ kids into a tiny home, with kids sharing rooms in bunk beds.
What's wrong with that? Plenty of kids still share rooms and they don't really mind bunk beds.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
But a six figure salary in the fifties was the equivalent of making over a million dollars a year today, most of those people have full time domestic servants. That's a very high salary.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yes. There have been cases of the police forcing him to do it again to get sufficient evidence to convict.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
As recently as the early 2000's, American restaurant food would have been pretty bad compared to what we're used to today. Much blander with fewer options and more generic ingredients.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It may also be the case that hiring a maid was genuinely cheaper on a per-capita basis for some reason- maybe stricter gender roles pushing more women into domestic service.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I dunno, in evolutionary terms small nocturnal insectivores did pretty well out of the asteroid strike.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The service industry has lots of six day work weeks. It's pretty standard in restaurants for managers and chefs to get one day off per week(mon-wed) and be on call for the rest of their non-scheduled time.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
America in the fifties really was at a historically low ebb for good restaurant food, and good food in general- that much is true.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean aside from the fact that it makes a already-pricey compared to home fast food meal cost as much as a nice sit down dinner, with drinks.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
And indeed, there were still people poor enough to want to be full time retainers. Poke, specifically, wasn't available at any price(if you wanted any sushi you would have had to fly in a chef from Japan, and suffer the judgement of your class peers for indulging in oriental savagery by eating raw fish). But you could have nice European cuisine of your choice cooked right in your mansion at that price point- albeit with considerably more seasonality in ingredients than we're used to today, produce wasn't available year round yet.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yeah, I remember venture scouting was a thing for older boys- they made it sound like you got your eagle and then pivoted to venture scouts if you didn't want to hang around helping mentor eleven year olds in the troop.
Probably, to make them less biased. I'm not saying it's a good plan or that it'll work.
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