hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
15hr ago
Well yeah, a more competent regime would have focused on the fraud first, then followed up with immigration enforcement after using it to take down local political machine structures- or simply avoided the high-profile immigration surge, because it's Minneapolis and you just don't need that many boots on the ground.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
DOD schools might be outperformed by a small district in the Boston or DC suburbs, but they outperform any state. Yes, including Massachusetts.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
It's interesting to see the parts of the American conservative coalition that are represented even after we account for tastes in intellectualism(like duh, megachurch Evangelicals do not want to engage in philosophical political discussion. That's not to say they're stupid, but they simply have different tastes). We have tradcaths but no orthodox Jews and I've never seen a confessional Lutheran. We have libertarian techbros and NrX types but few of the deep red RFK fan lifestyle skeptics- you know, the real life Ron Swanson types. Really very few crunchycons at all. None of the black dissidents you see hanging around conservative intellectual circles but lots of white nationalists. We've had conservative housewives in the past, but I think all of our women are working right now.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
I still don't understand the flameout ban, although I totally get that he was going to have to be banned eventually. I miss having a different classical conservative on the board and maintain that implementing a smoke the whole pack rule would have been a better short term solution, sort of like how secure signals got the single issue posting rule.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
Why are you using the ghetto spelling of his name?
You'll notice this chaos happened in Minnesota, and only in Minnesota. So the formula for successful immigration surges is clear- get the local authorities to cooperate. The immigration surge has to end in a particular location eventually, for allotment of resources reasons, so temporary cooperation is the fastest way for local authorities to go back to whatever mismanagement and petty corruption they were doing before. Obviously Minneapolis and Minnesota more broadly had ideological reasons for not wanting to go this route, but so did LA and Chicago- one has to wonder if the bigger factor was looming federal investigations into Minnesota fraud was a bigger factor. I wonder if Trump could have gotten cooperation by using these investigations as leverage, or by waiting a minute until the investigations had some results.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
I am registering my support for a schizo Saturday thread. Put conspiracy theories, manifestard ramblings, fringe science ideas etc in the second to last thread of the week. It'll be dead Monday or Tuesday, contain all that shit to one place.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
US bases include housing for soldiers and their families, like normal cookie-cutter suburban neighborhoods. Changing this changes the model of military service.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Hegseth is low human capital and so is much of the rest of Trump's cabinet.
You just said your primary objection to him was aesthetics. Which is it?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This group probably does not double check targets to make sure they aren’t schools- if I had to guess, their job is to write forms that the people checking targets to make sure they aren’t schools fill out.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The US military maintains a network of schools for service member’s Children. This is the best public(Catholic schools are better) school system in the country going off test scores and is a regular line item in the budget overseen by the DoD- it’s not ad hoc.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Nobody thinks the US military was trying to kill Iranian girls on purpose.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I don't think you should be friends with people you don't like. But you should befriend people who you don't like that much. Talk to your coworkers, your neighbors, your in-laws' cousins, make friends with people you're connected to by circumstance and not robust common interests. The modern western idea of adolescence has destroyed this concept of connecting with people who are... fellow citizens, and not fellow anything else, by imprinting social bonding through an idea of absolute similarity. Learning to bond across an inferential gap is a core human experience we're missing, and you should seek it out. Maybe you'll help someone else, maybe they'll help you.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Tribute. It's called tribute.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean petroleum producing parts of Canada will eventually secede and the country will collapse. One party Canada won't last forever.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The drive by’s and burglaries gone wrong murders which go unsolved were also not committed by Einstein. Statistically Dr Moriarty’s murders were all committed against cheating spouses or something where you don’t need Sherlock to figure it out. Dumb, impulsive people kill more randomly, because they are dumb and impulsive.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Of course, we must bear in mind that most murderers are impulsive dummies.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Or mom makes her put herself out there until she goes out with someone. It happens.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
This was probably something built into the software and not something deliberately chosen by the business.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Doesn’t speed dating have a problem with not being able to get enough men?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It’s way easier to follow swing dancing than lead, or at least I had more trouble learning it than the women I danced with did. Either I’m unusually bad at dancing or one role is easier than the other.
It’s worth noting that in my bubble, Woodstock is just some people doing drugs in a desert, including among the elderly.
Edit: it shows how much importance we put on it to not know it was held at a different location from burning man. I don't understand why 'some losers did drugs at a concert' is famous.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
If you sit in the right shooting lane, you’ll get a couple of shots off every 20-30 minutes. The season is usually the longest of any game species except rabbits or squirrels.
A dog is helpful, but you can just sit in the shade watching with a Gatorade and a shotgun just as well without. Dove dogs make great family pets, like duck dogs. The birds aren't very big, but there’s a lot of them, and you can easily stack up enough to have some kebab or dumpling protein for the off-season.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The most important factor in anyone’s life before a certain age- probably more like 21 for most people, but certainly before 15 or so for the vast majority- is not government policy. It’s parents. And parents in the US are unusually willing to exercise their authority to curtail screen time/electronic entertainments. That they do so imperfectly is a much more eminently fixable problem than screens being bad.
Banning social media before a certain age, for example, will meaningfully convince parents to enact and enforce that rule in a way that Chinese gaming laws likely won’t, because American society is different from Chinese society and the inherently subsidiarist nature of minority allows this solution to work better.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
You don’t need a foolproof system. You need a system that imposes enough friction to meaningfully reduce the fraction of teens on social media.
These are very different things. Notably, the drinking age does not mean 0% of your local highschool goes to a kegger before graduation- does this mean it doesn’t work and should be abolished?
A Lutheran belonging to a body which split from the main Lutheran body in his country over the belief that that body doesn’t embrace the Augsburg confession anymore. In the USA the main such body would be the Missouri synod, very common in intellectual conservative circles and big enough to be locally dominant in some areas- but all the self proclaimed confessional Protestants here seem to be reformed.
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