AvocadoPanic
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AvocadoPanic
15d ago
Filters like this https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/147470491501300114
AvocadoPanic
15d ago
wait a bit longer until it's an option
What are we waiting for? The filters that are likely responsible for the disparities evident today are still available, they're not used.
AvocadoPanic
18d ago
NIH issued a release on their study last month.
Compared to healthy volunteers, affected U.S. government personnel did not exhibit differences that would explain symptoms.
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The researchers note that if the symptoms were caused by some external phenomenon, they are without persistent or detectable patho-physiologic changes. Additionally, it is possible that the physiologic markers of an external phenomenon are no longer detectable or cannot be identified with the current methodologies and sample size.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
No there's no obligation to advocate for the irrational, incoherent, irresponsible or impossible demands of their constituents.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
A politician's constituents are less likely to be as unified on these issues as they would be on abundant and affordable housing and energy.
Can you define hate speech?
Gun rights in what context?
Freedom of speech in what context? I believe the current standard is Brandenburg v. Ohio.
Abortion; the best likely scenario is to do nothing and make no specific advocacy.
Can you define rich and poor? Getting into the weeds on issues like this is likely best.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
The responsibility is to advocate for actions that will make improvements, and oppose actions that will lead to increased scarcity.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
Lower speed limit, 55 max on the highway.
Remove tariff and / or sanctions on oil producing states.
Rationing
Drill baby, drill!
Start a war / Organize a democratic revolution in a country that is mean to women and / or homosexuals but has oil.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
In the West, the electorate tolerates the political class not doing exactly what they want because they have a certain level of trust.
I'm not sure trust is the word I'd use. My sentiment would be nearer acceptance, acquiescence, resignation. It is only by degree that our current political structures have not yet descended to a despotism that would see a plurality resist them through force of arms.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
It would seem that many politicians are unable to deliver abundant affordable housing and energy. They still need to be seen to do something, price controls are something, besides these are totally not price controls. They can blame the greed of companies or producers. The direct or indirect subsidies or policy incentives that might be effective in delivering abundant and affordable energy and housing are frequently untenable for other reasons.
Violence against minority populations can be popular organically. In current year in many western nations it's the political classes calling for calm or obfuscating and minimalizing what are frequently valid complaints about policy failures or the actions and behaviors of a minority cohort. They don't want to risk a revolution that sees them chucked out or hanging from a lamp post. While it can certainly be induced by propaganda, some is the 'natural' clash of civilizations, without a functioning political process to resolve the differing perceptions some amount of violence should be expected.
If there's no political process that can prevent the housing of migrants at hotels in a community, I would predict fires at hotels.
A riot is the language of the unheard.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
Certainly older than the Protestents. I wasn't thinking specifically about the schism but I'm reasonably confident the churches in Antioch or Alexandria predate Rome. I'm not sure the distinction of first is particularly useful in this context.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
Catholics claim to be the OG. Some of the eastern traditions would like a word.
They are the largest.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
I'm hopeful that atonement and judgement happen during pride month.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
I agree absolutely. There's less expectation that children would/should follow naturally from marriage.
The difficulty for me was a working top decile spouse.
The best and brightest of the PMC ladies are indoctrinated very early with plans and pathways. Achievements and career milestones. It's challenging to move past the sunk cost even if continued career progression is unlikely to make you happy.
There was much less planning for 3 and 4 than for 1 and 2. Partly due to experience and mostly that my wife was already full time homemaker after 2.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
don't consider Catholics to be Christians
Papists or Romanists are a specific sort of Christian. The ecumenicism of current year contrasts with the sectarianism of much of our shared history.
Latter Day Saints and Jehovah's Witnesses are frequently on the outside. Would Luther include them in the synagogue of Satan with the Papists?
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
His Excellency Joe Biden has declared March 31st a certain ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’
It makes a sort of sense. Jesus died for their sins too. They are obviously burdened by this disordered behavior. Perhaps through 'visibility' they'll find shame and repentance, that they may go and sin no more.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
population wanting stupid stuff I think is price controls- the idea of keeping rent or gasoline below a certain hard cap
I'm not sure what people want are price caps. People want affordable abundant housing and energy. Price caps don't typically achieve this. Politicians promising price caps are frequently popular which is why they persist.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
Because that's not creepy and corrupt? These sorts tend to be down with the globohomo ideology. Encouraging it's spread is a concern.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
I don't want people that badly.
My experience has been that the homosexuals that do this are all in on the globohomo (the other homo) ideology.
That they may do this on their own is bad. That they may be supported via some sort of policy intervention that was to increase hetronormative families is too far for me.
AvocadoPanic
19d ago
It is possible to make PMC life with kids more immediately attractive than PMC DINK life. But it requires hefty, substantial redistribution and engineering of tax burdens
How do you make family life more appealing to degenerate hedonists than a DINK life of hedonism and degeneracy?
I'd focus on incentives to go from 2 to 4 or more. It's less of a lifestyle change. My fear would be that in current year instead of children conceived and born naturally from heterosexual marriage, incentives would be available to 'married' homosexual men using surrogates.
AvocadoPanic
20d ago
It's possible to go from DINK to traditional family but you have to be realistic about the lifestyle differences especially with 4 or more children. We may have had 5 or 6 if we'd started earlier. The first 7 years of marriage we were busy being DINK with nights out/trips.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
Americans don’t want the kinds of base model cars that are commonplace in other countries
Americans aren't really given the choice.
Many of the trucks I see in use commercially are much larger than they need to be for their role. Larger more expensive trucks then add to the overhead of many businesses that rely on them. You have to mow many more lawns at higher rates to move your equipment with a current year truck than a compact truck from the 1980's. Unless you needed the towing capacity the s-10 1/4 ton pickup adequate for many roles and were ubiquitous on job sites when I was a teen. We were still using 1970's Datsuns.
The interiors were spartan, I miss bench seats.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
I think you may be underestimating the degree CAFE standards have made trucks giant in the US.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
unnecessarily large pickups
This is also regulation at work.
Previous generations of Americans loved light compact pickups like the Chevy LUV, Datsun 620, Isuzu Hombre, etc.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
Have you not see the film? https://youtube.com/watch?v=FKCmyiljKo0
How did they lower the rates in Europe?
Are those pressures being applied to violence prone populations today?
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/147470491501300114
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