hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
11hr 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
14hr 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
15hr ago
Yes. There have been cases of the police forcing him to do it again to get sufficient evidence to convict.
hydroacetylene
15hr 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
15hr 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
18hr ago
I dunno, in evolutionary terms small nocturnal insectivores did pretty well out of the asteroid strike.
hydroacetylene
18hr 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
18hr 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
19hr 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
19hr 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
19hr 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.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
I post deer processing on the tinker tuesday thread most years. We've had several bike modification projects posted and woodworking features occasionally too. Obviously the motte is not 'average'.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
I remember 'den mom' was just the word for a female den leader, and that one did not become a den leader unless your son was in that den(but moms and dads had equal opportunity to volunteer). Again, I was under eleven, so maybe there's dynamics I'm missing.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Most white collar work in the US might be willing to let you come in on saturday, but it doesn't actually pay more- white collar workers are paid on a set salary regardless of hours.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
While there were indeed far fewer choices and quality available in 1959, rich people today are not the ones ordering doordash. $100,000 would have meant you were rich, and it is indeed true that even the wealthy had less access to exotic luxuries. But sushi came to be seen as fit for human consumption in what, the late eighties? I remember my very conservative parents believing the concept('raw fish- eww') was a disgusting foreign custom imported alongside their cartoon porn(and that is what they thought anime was) and other bits of oriental savagery. In the fifties someone in that income band could have acquired very good food, it just would have been French or Italian(the average person did not eat very well, but as far as we know they just didn't value good food as much- something as simple as using whole milk in their mashed potatoes would have been a large improvement for what they actually ate and they didn't want to do it).
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Democrats were already guaranteed to maximally escalate if they take the presidency back.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In general, you see four/three schedules at 24/7 facilities, so to spread the undesirable hours around, and four day weeks when no one trusts management to send them home at a reasonable hour.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
'Nazi' is a youth subculture now, like Emo or Goth. When was the last time you heard of one of them running a scouting org?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Four day weeks already exist, they're a thing in the trades that come with their own set of tradeoffs- either as part of a four/3 schedule or as a mon-thurs/tues-fri schedule. They seems to be slowly getting more popular
hydroacetylene
1d ago
...Rednecks do that shit all the time.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The chuds will inherit the earth.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Probably, yes.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Maybe capable civilized attorneys should have more babies then.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There's approximately seven zillion scouting knockoff organizations running around, ranging from the scouts of europe to the adventure guides. None of them have reached the popularity of the BSA, or even seriously competed- American Heritage Girls are at least noticeable next to girl scouts of America. None of the others are. I've heard parents prefer the scouts of Europe to the troops of St. George because at least the former has a program, but it's still tiny next to the BSA.
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.
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