hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
12hr ago
To be clear, if I was dictator of the US, and I decided not to do a maximum troll answer(let’s have $5 bills assigned to have Margaret Sanger or Phyllis Schafly at random…), I’d probably do Elizabeth Ann Seton and send the first run as bonuses to schoolteachers.
Bessie Coleman simply seems like an answer that makes everyone happy.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, counterpoint, but people are moving to Houston, despite the awful climate. People are moving away from the med climates on the California coast. Revealed preferences and all that.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It's been described to me by a lutheran friend like this: ELCA are just autistic Episcopalians(with the variance, and age, that you'd expect), LCMS are conventionally conservative, WELS are so fundamentalist they rival tradcaths and quiverfulls.
That seems, broadly speaking, accurate.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes, if you want one outlet added or a p-trap replaced you should get a handyman to do it without a permit or do it yourself and just not tell the city. I just said that. But if you need a big job then we do live in a society. Some of the rules are stupid(setbacks etc) but lots of big jobs don't impact them.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes, I won't tell you not to have Jose from the home depot parking lot/Oaxaca put a fart fan in your bathroom instead of having an HVAC company subcontract an electrician, roofer, and a drywall contractor. But for a major job there is a reason you want a licensed contractor. If you have drainage problems or need an entire HVAC system replaced or you need a new circuit on your panel and you aren't comfortable with DIY you need somebody with experience in that particular trade.
Jose can replace a p-trap. I'm not saying every job that requires a license needs to require a license. But licenses exist for a reason.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
If you're driving to avoid a 10 minute walk, it better be December in Minnesota.
Or August in Texas.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Depends on exactly where you live. Bear in mind for most Americans it's forty celsius outside for months at a time, so 'walking' is not quite the same thing as in Europe.
I can walk to two grocery stores near me. I grew up being able to bike to a grocery store and a convenience store- and I see the neighborhood preteens biking to QT for slurpees all the time. But most Americans drive to the store. So it's probably partly cultural.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Boston, NYC, DC, Miami, Austin, Phoenix, LA, SD, SF, Portland, Seattle problem.
Austin has built so much housing that it's the only metro to have seen rents decline in recent years.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
...Unless he knows something we don't.
Of course going off priors we'll discover some drug habits instead.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Most germanic european countries are very conformist societies where state force is used against those who buck the trend. They're just not enforcing the values that people who complain about 'conformity' tend to dislike, they're enforcing a different set.
If there's a country where the average person has more freedom than the US, it's probably some Latin American country where the government has to pick and choose what it uses its state capacity on.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Sure, but his speculations on the antichrist don't correspond well to actual Christian apocalyptic prophecy. I can see the guy being methodist or episcopalian or something where you believe Jesus Christ was God, died for our sins, and was resurrected, but not necessarily a whole lot else. On the other hand he's pretty clearly not a Catholic or Orthodox, and the kind of protestants who take this stuff literally won't have him.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The term usually includes mainline and most disorganized protestants, who may or may not have bishops.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
If they're actual plumbers/electricians/whatever, then no they won't.
You are correct that illegal general laborers will do whatever they're paid to do, often quite badly. But they are not actual licensed tradesmen, and the state requires licenses for plumbers and electricians and the like for reasons relating to insurance regulations and not unions. I won't tell you not to use an undocumented handyman to change a faucet but for a major plumbing job, there is a reason your insurance company and city permitting department expect a plumbers license.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Due to population densities, that isn’t true- most ancestral humans have been peasant farmers because hunter-gatherers had very low populations.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Do you think non union tradesmen get out of their trade very often? A non union plumber will not cut a hole in the floor, redo Sheetrock/tile, penetrate a roof for a vent, etc. Just like his union counterpart, he’ll write a quote to have it subcontracted and he comes back to do the job.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Is it not clear that everything he’s saying is a metaphor and it’s being quoted/framed in the most uncharitable possible way by a hostile source?
Thiel may not be a believer, but he clearly regards organized Christianity positively. It’s not a surprise that when he’s trying to make a point thats where he’s reaching, although he doesn’t hit the trad Catholic end times prophecies well, so he’s at least not just cribbing those.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I’ve been given a free bus pass with juror summons every time.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
But baristas don’t make anywhere near the minimum wage.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
They’ll travel, it just costs more. And really I’d expect transit to be concentrated in the same places as union halls anyways.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
To note- when mildly overhydrated, I'm still a hard stick, and my blood donation attempts result in short draws that can't be used. Is there some way to fix this?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Indeed, the unions exclude lots of people for arbitrary reasons to generate an artificial shortage. In my industry they exclude hacks pretty well so using union labor might be worth it for some people, despite its high costs- hospitals will pay any amount to just not have problems, for example(I'm pretty happy to let someone else deal with that). I don't think they're any more racist than regular HVAC(which is... not politically correct). But there's definitely lots of guys with stories about the union not letting them in, good commercial techs.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
But part of the US bargain is we celebrate random black women for repeating the achievements of more capable people. Bessie Coleman seems like an unobjectionable example- using a different non-activist mildly notable black woman doesn't make much difference.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I'm not really sure how much it matters how well your aircraft is "built" when it's hit by a missile, but I am given to understand that Russian aircraft are actually designed pretty well
I think the critique is that Russia's industrial output isn't capable of building that many planes. But they don't seem notably worse in that regard than other major powers- as you correctly note, throughput limits on aircraft manufacture are very very real.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The lower blue collar labor market has also gotten a lot tighter- there's been a greying of the population, lots of people got addicted to welfare during covid and aren't willing to work anymore, illegals don't work at starbucks but labor has a certain amount of fungibility, etc. Conditions/benefits/pay at starbucks-type jobs have just genuinely improved everywhere, it's harder to stand out. I've seen the desperate competition for workers.
Immigration enforcement/concern about trump authoritarianism(real or not, people are worried about it).
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