hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3hr ago
By rejecting the same evidence for long time frames that they already reject?
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Obviously we know what was wrong with him- he’s a bad person. That’s an uninteresting question(even in societies that accept wifebeating and constant drunkenness not providing is generally seen quite poorly). The question is ‘why did she make this knowably bad decision’ because she didn’t want to be beaten and abused.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
You do realize that kicking in your sleep is a not-uncommon behavior, and people who have nightmares in which they lash around tend to have lots of them?
Like this guy doesn’t sound like a catch either way, but it’s not like that breaks thé Laws of physics.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
This doesn’t affect your broader point very much, but it’s a nitpick that bothers me- ‘concubine’ is not a term for ‘sex slave’. Those did(and still do) exist and are not the same thing. A concubine was a woman who was very similar to a wife, but got a worse deal(usually with stuff like divorce, inheritance, etc). In some societies(such as our own) this was a common-ish form of common law marriage and in others this was a way of regulating the mistresses of wealthy men- these were separate institutions which happen to have the same word in English. But they did have a few similarities- it tended to be acceptable to take a lower status(either enslaved or free) woman as a concubine in a way that wasn’t allowed for a wife, they had far fewer protections from domestic violence or divorce(most premodern societies did have some, even if inadequate), and they didn’t get a formal wedding, but lived in the same household as their husband(this was the term used) who had the obligation to support them, but not at the same level as he would a wife.
This was the ancients regulating cohabitation, and in some cases thé man also had a wife in the same household. It was not some foreign institution that was a case of premodern horror imposed by the patriarchy- we embraced the custom when stepping away from the patriarchy, after all.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Or they're imprinted on that as ‘how a man acts’. Maybe because daddy did. Unfortunate but true.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, in a sense it is thé fault of society- we have a norm that adults get to make their own bad decisions about relationships. You will find other horror stories from Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia, but probably not this one. Either of these two.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Alternate explanation: most women do not like jerks(at least not jerks to them), but in any group as large as ‘all women’ you can find exceptions to the trend. You can find plenty of men making terrible dating choices too. It’s not hard.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Don’t forget the Bible also says that man was wiped out and had to start over.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Iran is insane, not retarded. Do you really think they haven’t planned for their equipment not having access to external power.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The Stone Age is an idiom. I can’t say what Doug Wilson’s personal beliefs on the progression of human history in light of creation are, but it’s entirely possible to hold to the belief in a (short tbh) Stone Age while taking the first 11 chapters of genesis 100% literally- this is just sneering.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
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.
hydroacetylene
1d 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
1d 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
1d ago
Some grifters, some de-growthers, some techno-optimists of retarded accelerationism....
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But then you have to pay for solar.
hydroacetylene
1d 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
1d 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
2d 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
2d 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
2d 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
2d 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
2d 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
2d 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).
The country is still about 40% YEC.
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