AvocadoPanic
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AvocadoPanic
10hr ago
Yes.
Although we appear to see a similar increase of students in high school, and a corresponding reduction in average quality of graduates. The inflation and lack of rigor in high school is partially why so many would need undergrad studies now.
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
21d 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.
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
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
I think you may be underestimating the degree CAFE standards have made trucks giant in the US.
AvocadoPanic
22d 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
1mo ago
My favorite recent spy was Feinstein's driver of 20 years.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/details-chinese-spy-dianne-feinstein-san-francisco/
AvocadoPanic
18d 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
1mo ago
There are factions of "Big Eva" who seem to be moving more Left (see the recent "He gets us" commercial in the Super Bowl).
They went with foot washing. I would have preferred the casting out of demons, or over turning tables and driving out the money changers or hypocrisy condemning. They don't get me.
AvocadoPanic
22d 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
1mo ago
US intelligence publicly told everyone that Russia was about to invade Ukraine weeks before it happened.
Ambassador William Burns predicted it in 2008
Experts tell us that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war. In that eventuality, Russia would have to decide whether to intervene; a decision Russia does not want to have to face.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
Why else are there 85 different sects
To get to the schism of 1054 we really need to go back at least to the Photian Schism in 863...
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
I do enjoy a honeypot. Fang didn't have the longevity of Feinstein's driver.
AvocadoPanic
18d ago
Filters like this https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/147470491501300114
AvocadoPanic
22d 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
22d ago
Catholics claim to be the OG. Some of the eastern traditions would like a word.
They are the largest.
AvocadoPanic
22d 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
22d 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
23d 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
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
It's not even that there's a risk the school is going to make the kids trans. It's that it's presented in school at all as anything other than mental illness.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
I largely don't care, what it's like to be a 'trans kid' or an anorexic, or a spaz.
I have 4 children. We may have had more if we were able to send them to a non-globohomo school. Our culture pays outsized attention to people that won't or shouldn't have children.
I've no specific fear of the earth running out of people, only running out of people competent to run and administrator modern civilization.
AvocadoPanic
22d 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
22d 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.
High school attainment in 1950 was 34.3% and Bachelors was 6.2%, 2019 this was 90.1% and 36%.
Neither high school or undergrad are as selective as they were. I'd expect the quality of graduates to suffer.
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