hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Yeah, but the owners were also mostly neutral; they were generally somewhat allied with the US but 'US allies that are wealthy' is not a notably more pro-Iran war group than 'US allies with lax maritime regulations'.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
It's worth noting it goes both ways; Europe's treatment of its native red tribe does not endear it to American reds, who then find offending the EU elites to be totally acceptable if not good.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Some grifters, some de-growthers, some techno-optimists of retarded accelerationism....
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
But then you have to pay for solar.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Precharged units have a special fitting on either end of the lineset that allows them to stay sealed, even when disconnected. There is a higher failure rate, but whether that justifies paying what I'd charge you for side work is in the eye of the beholder and it definitely doesn't justify what a company would charge you. The bigger issue is that this is almost certainly going to be manufactured by an el cheapo manufacturer, so you're not buying the highest quality unit.
Electrical service shouldn't be difficult, if you're not comfortable running power you shouldn't be doing self install.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Red tribe normies read Clancy(if male) and Little House(if young and/or female), and sometimes Heinlein. But a lot of your list is just elite coded, not particularly tribal coded.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Heat pumps will save you money over electric heat, but perhaps not over gas. They may not be able to keep up in the depths of winter, depending on local climate- of course, if this is a vacation house you use only in the summer, that doesn't matter very much. That's about the tradeoff- gas works better and the cost advantage could go either way depending on circumstances, electric furnaces are much more expensive(but do work better) to operate.
Are you not getting it because of the dialect issues, or because of something else? I find his plots very funny, but with writing that requires some footnotes(and of course, it often doesn't have a deeper meaning, it's entertainment)- but, the first folio and the KJV are, literally, the defining core of modern English literature, and if you want to understand literature in modern English, you have to read those two things.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
American politicised evangelicalism has never been primarily anti-Catholic. It's too new; American politicised protestantism was at one time primarily anti-Catholic, but that was in the nineteenth century and they were not evangelical.
Evangelical is a specific thing, it doesn't just mean 'politically active protestant'.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The absolutely insane salaries offered are what's doing the pushing. You can have a very nice life in America on $60k/yr- for multiple people. Let alone multiple times that. There's no need for the education system to push vast numbers of smart kids to try to go to the most selective college they can get when they know that's the siren song of six figure salaries.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Solar panels are popular because it's giving stuff to middle class people(homeowners). Heat pumps are probably more red-coded than blue at this point, for climate(not change) related reasons, but Americans will eat rice and beans before embracing bugs as food.
I don't know where you're getting 'infinite energy' from though. Solar has serious drawbacks that make it a not-infinite energy source.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
So, uh, why are you reading? Like what are you reading for?
You should read what you like if it's for enjoyment. Whether that's Tom Clancy(RIP) or Jane Austen(also RIP), or in your case Cormac McCarthy(RIP again). If you're trying to become well read, then read Shakespeare. If you just want to blend in with a certain crowd, well, that's going to entail plenty of other things you wouldn't necessarily choose to do, I'm not sure why the modern equivalent of Dickens is a bridge too far.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Because, whatever their views on the Iran war or drug interdiction, it seems inarguable that cartel crews or Islamofascistic regime enforcers are bad people, and that is what people care about- not what they have in common with them.
I am aware that you are German, but in America the death penalty is broadly extremely popular. 'The government killing bad guys' is a very popular position, and arguing about the niceties of exactly how they do this is splitting hairs. BLM gets support because of the view that many black victims of police shooting are not bad guys, or at least not bad enough to deserve the death penalty(AFAICT most of them die from their own stupidity after committing various crimes which carry prison sentences of less than a decade, which of course is pretty far off from offenses most Americans regard as justifiably capital).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That sounds correct, but I could not reproduce his full name on command.
I was bisexual beforehand, and not encouraged to befriend other patients. Support group dynamics were seen as unhealthy and to be avoided, and no residential programs existed in this world that I am aware of for that reason. So I do not know if this would have been successful for obligate homosexuals but that case was stated to be very rare- I don’t know if this was bubble effect or not.
I had homework that was a mix of standard therapy fair(journaling etc) and developing positive conceptions of myself as stereotypically masculine- bear in mind a positive stereotype of masculinity as conceived by conservative Christian clergy assisted by reactionary philosophers, there were no hooter’s trips etc. The most unusual thing I was asked to do was to admire myself nude and then in my underwear in the bathroom mirror, I think to appreciate the connection between my body and tendencies, but most of it was stuff like growing an appreciation for sports(this meant playing, not watching), doing stuff with my dad/grandad(fishing and working on cars were recommended), learning a new (tangible and masculine)hobby, and so on and so forth. I have no doubt that if I had been noticeably out of shape fixing that would have been considered part of the program, but I wasn’t and weightlifting wasn’t pushed- although undergoing physical discomfort and self discipline was, this mostly meant things like ‘not hitting the snooze button on your alarm’ and ‘walking around with rocks in your shoes all day’. There was actually a lot of attention paid to self image, I think I remember there being clear reasons for that in the book but not what they were. I was supposed to have straight male friends.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Well yeah, I didn't say the manosphere was correct about where they're trying to go with this specific point. Merely that there's not nothing to it. The average 20 year old girl is very attractive, they are correct to notice this.
In general I am not a manospherian, but when arguing against them we shouldn't shred apart the true things(which don't mean what they say they do) along with the falsities.
I benefited from conversion talk therapy. Nobody claimed a particularly high success rate, but I got the impression that most of these therapists thought a majority of people improved somewhat. I never heard discussion of aversive practices, I didn't get the impression it was common or normal, or even really part of the same world. Everybody was religious and had strong views about family systems and the like. It was, mostly, fairly standard therapy with some unusual homework exercises centered around a self conception as a man/woman designed by God for that role. These therapists took other, non-conversion therapy clients and cases, I suspect the bulk of their clientele were dealing with trauma or whatever. The list I was given was, overwhelmingly, male, and a few women were highlighted for those that preferred a woman to talk to(this was, clearly, intended for women who don't feel comfortable discussing certain things with men). Unlike with most therapists, they freely and frequently recommended talking to someone else, changing therapists often, etc, as it was thought that different people specialized on different specific issues within the complex that causes homosexual ideation. The theory of treatment was based on a book written by some Dutch reactionary psychiatrist, this was freely shared with me and I read it out of curiosity(unfortunately, I purchased it on an old kindle account which I no longer have access to).
I should note that it did, factually, work in my case. I not only lost disordered urges but also became more stereotypically masculine, developed a greater interest in sports and the like. I'm happier for it.
As far as the vote pattern goes, it seems like the most intelligent liberal justice is attempting to mitigate the damage done to state mandation of official social liberalism. This is an issue in which I am, of course, keenly interested in given my ideological views, but it does seem like Kagan and Sotomayor recognize at least some constitutional limitations, whereas KJB simply rambles in favour of whatever the current dem party line is. No wonder Kagan is reportedly tired of her.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
All of them come from the Indo-European root 'arstos'- either through the Greek 'aristos' or the Gaelic 'eire'.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
And 'Ireland' and 'Aristocrat' and so on and so forth.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Most women have at least a few years of being naturally very attractive without putting much effort in; this often disappears very early due to the efforts required for weight control in modern society, sure, but it's not a false notion inherently.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Women(except for a few very type-A examples) tend to communicate in casual speech to express agreement, not to express opinions or observations(as men normally do). This doesn't necessarily mean anything other than 'I am very liberal'.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Women do have non-sex drive inclinations to motherhood- watch them interact with small cute things(children or animals) sometime. Our society gives girls enormous amounts of conditioning to try to break this, because it's terrified of having to eat the bill for unwed motherhood and is unwilling to oppose pre-marital sex. But remember those studies of girls who had to care for infant simulators and then went and got pregnant?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
In practice, being fat and/or socially inept as a woman will get you some pretty harsh judgement too. Maybe not right to your face, because a) that's not how women interact and b) it's a faux pas to say this stuff out loud. But women are judged more harshly, not less, for weight issues or social ineptitude.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Was Little House in the Big Woods the one where the neighbor woman tells a story about being almost eaten by a panther? At the time I read it I just thought it was an interesting story, but looking back at it it's a super-visible way to illustrate that these people lived like Indian peasants do today.
The whole series is very interesting because it covers a family going from being subsistence farmers where meat is a special, a few times a year, treat to being townsfolk who can do things like buy clothes(instead of handmaking them out of raw fiber) and ride trains, and they're... incredibly grateful in later books.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Political Catholicism is occasionally instrumentally cooperative with Russia, just like other movements outside the western mainstream(Russia's funding/assistance in western countries is an enormous grab bag including everything from greenies to texas nationalists and everything in between), but it's not ideologically pro-Russia.
Yep, there's a handful of British colonial cities that were supplied by rail(Johannesburg etc) and the American sun belt(and big rig trucking is overstated; DFW gets a heck of a lot of its supply by train heading into Fort Worth). It's a rail/prerailroad distinction.
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