AvocadoPanic
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That's where I am. Though I made it as far as downloading the Mint iso a couple weeks ago.
I've decided to ditch Windows at home rather than move to Win11. What's your preferred OS?
Free cigarettes and brandy for retirees?
iron clad marriage
MAD
The dissolution needs to be socially and economically destructive.
Also divorce is only in the event of sexual immortality.
children reach school age
Need to fix schools too. Most of the other parents we know with 4 or more are also homeschooling.
This is location dependent.
There are new-build duplex 'condominium' in an HOA in our small NE town for $669k (2 bed 2.5 bath 2,165 sqft.)
And yet women that do have children are doing so later and more women are childless.
No doubt there is added risk to modern marriage. I think improving incentives is a more achieveable goal than de-risking modern marriage.
I'd happily vote for the pro-marital rape, divorce is only for sexual immortality candidate, but that isn't a message I've heard.
Could men be motivated to marry via tax policy or free SUV if you fill it with a wife and kids?
Are there still jurisdictions where they prohibit cohabitation?
almost definitionally the average woman has rather lackluster talents at denying social pressures
Isn't this how they can return, if the pressures and incentives are re-aligned?
Shouldn't society attempt to capture women for motherhood in leiu of being captured by top quintile universities?
This cohort seems to respond to incentives, what sort of incentives would be necessary to push them to motherhood instead of PMC / fake email jobs?
Incentives to marry earlier and then 4 or more children before 40.
Only two, Nick Kharabadze and George Safiev appear to have been murdered during the same act.
Rita Pekler was murdered while targeting George Safiev previously.
Meyer Muscatel and Alexander Umansky were murdered on different days as part of different acts unconnected to the other murders.
I wouldn't think Blockburger would necessarily preclude now charging any previously uncharged murder.
Under dual-sovereignty were CA inclined surely it could prosecute.
no way to put Kadamovas back on the firing line
Were there any uncharged murders for which he could still be tried?
similar warping effects
Not an economist, but you can find this lots of places.
My wife is a full-time homemaker. We could increase GDP if she went to work outside the home and then we paid others to care for our children and DoorDashed our meals etc. Our children are still cared for and fed but there would be a countable number to describe the economic activity that is now uncounted.
most STEM-brained men should mate with the most STEM-brained women
This is my wife and I. One of our sons has an autism diagnosis, in the > 99.9% good at math sense.
people in Europe paying for health care through their taxes being astonished about the concept of waiting for a specialist. Are they lying?
Maybe. Different countries in Europe have 'solved' this differently. The NHS in England has a website that lists average waiting times for specialist care.
https://www.myplannedcare.nhs.uk/
18 weeks for Orthopedics in East Sussex https://www.myplannedcare.nhs.uk/seast/east-sussex/specialty/?sname=Orthopaedics
Ireland has a website that shows how long patients have been waiting.
https://www2.hse.ie/services/activity-performance-data/waiting-for-care/waiting-lists/
She may want to try again. Any advice on trying following a ~10 year career break?
Yes. This has been frequently noticed in different contexts recently.
@TequilaMockingbird https://www.themotte.org/post/1267/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/273093?context=8#context
it isn't the algorithm any of the people under discussion are using
I think this is uncharitable. I don't claim to know their minds but I suspect at least some would apply this algorithm. Also I believe the
entirely blameless versus partially a victim of their own carelessness
distinction is a natural cultural tradition, on par with many situations that result in adverse outcomes that can be described as 'natural consequences' or 'mess around and find out'. People holding to this tradition may not apply the algorithm knowingly but it's baked into their tradition and culture.
It's not like the far-right are thinking "Ashling Murphy was just minding her own business so I'm outraged, whereas Nikita Hand got drunk at a party and brought it on herself".
Isn't this a common framing that is labeled as victim blaming?
not like woke people are thinking "Nikita Hand was brutally raped by a man she trusted, whereas Ashling Murphy should have known better than to go for a run by herself in an isolated location with no witnesses".
I'll agree here, this isn't a framing I've frequently seen or encountered.
assaulting a middle-aged man because he refused a glass of whiskey he was offered
I'll disagree slightly here, knowing when to accept the drink you don't want to save the interlocuteur a loss of face is a useful life skill as is not being unnecessarily antagonist in your refusal to partake.
There are lots of places
I don't want to drink that shit, I don't want your drink
might get you hit.
I don't mean any of this as support for Connor McGregor or his fans. From the reporting he seems unpleasant. It's not a sport I follow. Nor do I believe this sort of behavior or outcome is extraordinary. The press routinely reports on the poor behavior and alleged crimes of many high profile individuals, professional athletes especially.
The one I'm married to wanted to in 2014/15. She passed the USMLE had her ECFMG certificate, recent clinical experience in a western European native English speaking country and didn't require visa sponsorship as the spouse of a US citizen, applied to a variety of programs and failed to match, not even any interviews. âšī¸
Many people decouple this way.
Do you also decouple when instead of being the victim of another person, they're the victim of an animal, tree, swimming pool, trampoline or hotel balcony?
Being drunk or drugged in an unsafe environment is inviting unnecessary risk in a way that getting your steps in on a local walking path should not. Should the culture not recognize this difference and treat the individuals in these situations differently as a result?
being outraged when an immigrant mistreats women, and turning a blind eye when an Irishman you admire does so
Does victim selection play a role in the perceived public response?
Frequently the difference is women out on her run attacked at random opportunity vs liquored or drugged up good time girl who changes her mind or realizes too late the sort of rake she's followed to his room.
While recognizing this distinction is often seen a victim blaming, victims are often careless with their own safety.
Wasn't the Bob Lee murder about the alleged suspects sister sexual assault at the hands of a Bob Lee drug / sex party acquaintence / friend, allegedly?
I think maybe you meant to reply to a different comment?
teenage daughter becoming a party girl, a slut, or even a fornicator is bad, but I think figuring out how to ban it is a very difficult problem
Going nowhere without a chaperone was the traditional solution.
Is there any research on the performance of subsequent cohorts of politicians when their predecessors were hanged or guillotined for poor performance?
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