hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
13hr ago
Asian/Arab owner you need to ask for a cash discount. Asians give you one calibrated to the amount they save; Arabs give you a bigger one for the sheer thrill of tax evasion.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Nobody actually enforces explicit cash discounts in the US, and everyone knows that's for tax evasion. You think the credit card companies are better at checking up on that shit than the IRS?
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
At the end of the day credit card companies know how to make money. They probably make money off of people like you and I by charging merchants fees, they make money off of financially illiterate people by selling debt to collections agencies, and the median American somewhere in between.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Taking them at their word is pretty wild considering we literally have FBI memos noting that there are no non-ideological reasons for targeting the people they've been sicked on. That's what the 'FBI targeting traditional Catholics' memos were about- the agents mostly wondering why they were supposed to be doing this, considering they're infiltrating people who are not white supremacists, dislike white supremacists, and have no affinity for terrorism. Or considering the novel theories like the Doug Mackey prosecution.
Let's flip this- the right wing twitterati is frustrated with Trump for being too moderate with his priorities, slow walking immigration enforcement, etc. Is that, uh, objectively correct?
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Nine figures gotta come from somewhere. You got a million bucks lying around to throw into a project that cribs the intellectual property of the most litigious company on earth?
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Disney could easily have used the well-received parts of legends to make prestige TV. That would have been the logical thing to do in the 2010's, and it's what I expected them to do when they bought Lucasfilm at the peak of Game of Thrones. You could quietly drop the slop, which you've already identified, and make GoT level money off of Thrawn. They chose not to do this because they wanted a 'fresh fan base', I guess, but it's literally Star Wars. It's popular enough that you can assume anyone who doesn't like it already isn't going to like anything bearing a passing resemblance to it.
They passed up the safe bet and gored the franchise. Oh well. Kinda sucks for them that they gambled and lost.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Any store that would cut prices if processing fees weren't a factor will already give you a discount for debit.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Ok, we've seen what the institutional left in the US trying to target the right looks like before. It was... the Biden admin. Not Biden personally, he was sundowning for most of it. But figures like Ron Klain and Merrick Garland are pretty core to the DNC apparatus- if 'democrats take the gloves off' has a face, it's one we've seen. Their attempt at internal repression was largely a fizzle. They lost a domestic hard power confrontation before they were even halfway through!
One thing to remember about democrats vs republicans is that- not for every case of right vs left, but for this one- their failure modes are different. It's optimate vs populare, in the original meaning of the term- how they derive their sense of internal legitimacy, of deserving to win. The democrats are representing the class that should be in charge, simple as. The republicans are representing the thoughts we all have but which the experts won't entertain, simple as. Republicans thus have an internal telotic pressure to move and then take the gloves all the way off. Democrats have an internal telotic pressure to focus group and study the issue until they can issue new regulations.
Now, the process of stasis is well advanced in the American republic, but it's important to remember that optimate choleric lashout to enshrine the mos maiorum virtually never works, and the next attempt at Sulla won't work either. Progressive elites talking out loud are quite open about their views that the mos maiorum of democracy is progressive institutionalism, damn the voters. It's been published all over The Atlantic. The unwritten constitution, in their view, is a set of values. A set I'm sure we've all seen before, which puts self expression- especially over gender and sexuality- above ancient rights. They'll lash out, impotently, it will fizzle, and the backlash will enthrone the caudillo. All this has happened before, and it will happen again. As a matter of fact I wouldn't rule out that Trump is that caudillo and Biden was the Sulla. Stasis can't be stopped at this juncture.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
For what it's worth, having seen homeschoolers extensively- the most impressive specimens homeschool through early highschool, but if male they switch to some sort of hybrid system after that(community college/homeschool hybrid is the best). Girls are approval motivated enough to keep themselves on track without a formal class structure. Boys are not. Not self motivated- approval motivated.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Amusingly, I’ve spoken to Latino H1B’s who were offended at the implication of being underprivileged.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It’s actually lower in most cases.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Haven’t you been offered wives from the old country(who want citizenship)?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Lower class native men get in relationships all the time. To the extent that lower class women are less desirable partners, that does go both ways.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Walmart pays $20/hr in a second tier city- entry level. So do amazon warehouses. Waiting tables is pretty similar, and has advancement opportunities to bartending, classier establishments, etc, which pay significantly more. Construction starts out in the upper teens with rapid(often twice a year) increases as skills improve.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Iirc human parasite vulnerability is mostly an immune response to innoculation below thé infection threshold- your dog isn’t less vulnerable to trichinosis from raw pork, his immune system is just trained to recognize when the spores aren't a huge danger. Dogs, pigs, and bears get parasites all the time.
Humans tolerate ethanol unusually well, but HFY to the contrary, not capsaicin- dogs are just unable to learn to like it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Except almost none of these people are making minimum wage.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
This simply does not line up with observed reality. Low-skill employers are always hiring, they're advertising heavily for employees, they keep raising wages and improving conditions, and these jobs can't be done by a clanker because the clanker does not have hands.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
He actually couldn't get it published originally- the critique of communism was considered verboten by progressive publishing houses, but he was too left wing for rightist publishers.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It was written before the badness was widely known- and intended as an intra-socialist critique based on the behavior of Stalinists who fought alongside Orwell(in a different socialist faction) in the Spanish civil war.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The empirical evidence against socialism during Einstein's day wasn't quite there. Animal Farm was a speculative novel at the time, not known as prescient.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The economy has an almost bottomless demand for low skill labor. Amazon, Uber, Walmart, etc.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Iirc yaupon holly tea could theoretically cause theobromine poisoning if it’s brewed strong enough(black drink probably causes a theobromine high), but chocolate would probably make you sick before you get there.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The other thing I want to point out- and I see myself as more expanding on your point than making a different one- is that in developed countries, thé effective floor for functioning people is just not bad enough to complain about. The people who manually harvest crops for twelve hours a day for subsistence wages are foreigners whose children will work in a warehouse, and their children will work for the utility company, and their children will work in offices. Everyone except the fruit picker is doing fine. I use this example not to make a point about immigration, but because there simply are not large numbers of native poor who are functional enough to run this cycle.
@self_made_human does not come from this society. Rapid upward mobility whatever the cost makes a lot more sense if your country has a large class of subsistence farmers. We do not live in a country where working in a sweatshop is aspirational, we live in a country where a mediocre suburban middle class life only requires that one be… mediocre. This is why I’m so hard on ‘accommodations’ in academia, or on the oriental grindset. Your kid having less than perfect grades will not sentence them to decades of subsistence level poverty. It’s ok to be bad at school because the only thing you need to do to have an OK life in America is to… not fuck up. Literally, look up the research on the success sequence.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Two weeks PTO(all paid time off) is pretty normal in America. Most of the private sector(banks are notorious for getting more) gets 6-10 holidays per year- typically Christmas, New Years, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, and Memorial and Labor days. Good Friday, the days after Thanksgiving and Christmas, and Christmas eve are also common. Most workplaces will not allow all of their employees to take their PTO at the same time as each other, and time off in popular times of year may be first come first serve, seniority, or certain times might be blocked off altogether with separate procedures for time off.
Two weeks off around Christmas is extremely lucky in the American context, practically unique to schools. But offices shutting down Christmas eve to reopen January 2 is pretty normal, if not the norm.
How so? Trump's Big Beautiful Bill was going to give the gun lobby the biggest win in a generation, before that provision sank in congress. Trump has done virtually nothing else about the question.
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