AvocadoPanic
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why the hell HIV spreads so well in Africa
There's a 'cultural practice' that may promote transmission.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9788473/
Heterosexuals in the US, Europe and Asia in my experience prefer cunnus umidus.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
single-state solution with full democracy and franchise for everyone
I like this, but only as a Christian state. The best outcome would be for the conversion of all involved parties to Christianity and the removal of others from the holy lands.
AvocadoPanic
6mo ago
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/
AvocadoPanic
7mo ago
laugh and think "that's so weird."
I have four children and I'm with you on this. Yet I think there may be something to the discomfort in accepting the thanks / reward for doing something pro-social that not enough capable people are doing.
What is the source of the "that's so weird" discomfort? It feels a bit like embarrassment to me. I'd rather heap shame on the childfree.
AvocadoPanic
7mo ago
I'm not going to say it's impossible, but there wasn't an abundance of successful examples.
Despite the efforts to reduce the working hours of junior doctors, it's still alot of work frequently at odd hours. If the program has an academic commitment or requirement this is often on-top.
We were fortunate that there was no school debt.
We were also fortunate to have a very easy time conceiving.
AvocadoPanic
25d ago
I've had very similar experience with friends, some from childhood; divorce, asymmetric undercut in unnatural colors, attempts at lesbianism and public online displays of mental health issues. I've had the same thoughts about reaching out but ultimately didn't think I'd be heard in a way that added value.
tend to our own gardens
This is where I am, I like to think of it as being Mary, not Martha.
The opposite side of this we are now beginning to see in the online 'white well-being' posters. Some of this I think is just women being more influenced by their perceived peer groups.
AvocadoPanic
2mo ago
more authoritarian approach to government/policing than I think almost anyone else on this forum
Challenge accepted.
How authoritarian dare you dream?
AvocadoPanic
2mo ago
college wage premium remains persistently high despite more degrees
The persistent college wage premium may be skewed by selection bias in who pursues degrees. College graduates often have traits like higher cognitive ability, discipline, that correlate with better earnings, independent of their education. For non-professional or unlicensed fields, we lack solid comparisons of non-degreed groups with similar traits. Without these, it’s tough to confirm if the wage premium stems from the degree itself or from the preexisting human capital of those who go to college.
Both are the opposition. Does it matter that for the trans it's egg cracking and for the homosexuals it's grooming acceptance / pride? Not really, for both it's indoctrination into sexual degeneracy. I've yet to hear a convincing argument that there are differences other than degree or semantics. Certainly were we to parse out all of the various degeneracies or comorbidities and plot them on a venn diagram for any individual in this cohort there would be much overlap for those on this spectrum of degeneracy.
In the same sense it does not matter you're a balloon fetishist but don't pop them and think the balloon poppers are not true looners.
It may matter in some intra-sexual degeneracy hierarchy but for those on the outside the inner political drama of quarreling foreign tribes is of little consequence, all are the enemy.
AvocadoPanic
4mo ago
greeted as liberators
They were by the Novorussians.
I think this largely depends if you view this conflict as an unprovoked war of Russian aggression or a Russian intervention in a Ukrainian civil war on behalf of ethnic Russians experiencing persecution by Ukrainian nationalists.
AvocadoPanic
4mo ago
Weren't smokers a net cost savings as they died younger and quicker before their medical costs really started escalating in old age?
Smokers and drinkers are also taxed heavily on their vice to discourage consumption and reimburse the state. Are the degenerates and sexual devients paying some sort degeneracy tax? I think their 'tax' had been shame and exclusion from 'polite society' but those taxs were repealed.
I'd like to tax sugar and HFCS to dissuade the fatties and recover some revenue for their care.
AvocadoPanic
4mo ago
one grizzled old white guy project manager
He retired last year at our company. We only have the other sort now. The outcomes are shit but we still get challenge coins for the great 'success' of projects.
fucking asshole project managers just invite themselves from meeting to meeting, destroying productivity
They have to account for their time to tenths of hours against relevant charge codes, that's near 90% of their job.
So much of current year feels like managed decline.
AvocadoPanic
6mo ago
Sometimes it hard to know where your limits are until you get your bell rung a couple times.
AvocadoPanic
6mo ago
Trump should have the Ukraine extridite and prosecute him as part of the peace negotiations.
Yes this is how the deep state / PMC lie.
They were careful to tell technically the truth while still creating the impression in the media that this was Russian disinformation. Providing cover for the various social networks to limit / censor the story. They certainly would have known the claimed provenance of the laptop as being abandoned by Hunter at a repair shop. I don't recall their letter rebutting this very directly. Maybe this just means Hunter is a Russian agent leaking his own emails and dick pics.
I'll admit I've very little generosity left for these people. They're the same sort to produce 'intelligence' about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, or Russia blowing up their own pipeline, etc.
AvocadoPanic
9mo ago
don't have kids, focus on your career and education
Isn't this the message to all women, and the poor are just poor responders?
The ladies that respond the best to this message and spend years in rigorous study are likely the women it would be best for our civilization to marry while young enough to maximize their fertility.
AvocadoPanic
7d ago
We've already tried regime change in Iran, Operation Ajax / Operation Boot. 'Our guy' was so unpopular he fell to a popular Islamic revolution.
Which non-nuclear power do you anticipate they'd wipe off the map? MAD brought stability.
AvocadoPanic
8d ago
Yes that may be a disaster for Israel. How exactly would that be a disaster for the USA?
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
My kids where their silk smoking jackets over their loose fitting non-retarded cotton sleepwear while smoking.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
Ideally.
AvocadoPanic
4mo ago
republican and the trans activist might share a similar terminal goal: "all people should feel comfortable with their gender identity".
Maybe these are Uniparty Republicans. The Republicans in my circle think gender identity is fake and gay. That people who are uncomfortable with their bodies are mentally ill neurotics and to the extent it's a belief that's 'sincere', insane people believe and internalize all sorts of crazy.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
Why don't users on theMotte take the idea of societal collapse more seriously?
I do, but then I believe we live in a broken and fallen world corrupted by sin.
#4 I've done my best, I've four children with my wife and try to make it look good. The other enumerated issues, I do my best to withdraw my consortium, keep invested in God's kingdom and not in the systems of the world.
I believe man's created order will collapse perhaps already underway and the best path through is to prepare hyperlocally.
Preparing to be unburdened by what has been.
AvocadoPanic
5mo ago
My experience has been that those companies are fairly short lived, merging with or being acquired by larger less remunerative organizations.
AvocadoPanic
6mo ago
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.
Isn't this a solved problem?
I'm sure I've seen footage of automated chicken processing in the Netherlands or Germany.
For example https://youtube.com/watch?v=QIciSPOm1h0
No AI required.
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