AvocadoPanic
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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.
terrible idea
said nothing
I see at least one or two bad to terrible ideas a week. I don't have the political capital, emotional energy, or fucks to give to say something for every bad idea. At best I can prevent the ones that impact me, my team, and my immediate manager.
There's often no reward for the prevention of failure of others.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
I don't think it's an apology that's required. Also the 'apologies' I've seen were non-apologies and minimizations, that it wasn't even an ad campaign. This I think largely misses the point.
Their customers it seems largely don't want to drink globohomo beer. The not an ad campaign was a bridge too far.
A HK style, we don't do idpol would have been better.
AvocadoPanic
2mo 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
6mo ago
Chauvin should get less time. Technique was current per MPD manual, also Floyd was resisting, at the beginning if not the end.
AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
Or that there's a perception police in th UK spend more time policing people saying mean things to or about alphabet people on the internet than investigating and disrupting asian grooming gangs raping kids.
AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
problem with suburbs is that they don't generate that much economic/tax revenue to support their infrastructure
Is that a problem? I was happy the small town we moved to only provides basic services, police, fire (volunteer), school and plowing in the winter. We've few business and fewer restaruants. Most everyone has a well and septic.
My presumption is that TPTB would find something silly to spend money on given a chance.
That there's a baseline of self reliance is not a 'problem'.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
I think you may be underestimating the degree CAFE standards have made trucks giant in the US.
AvocadoPanic
9mo ago
Immigration of engineers isn't controversial, and never has been.
Unless the imported engineers depress wages for native engineers and reduces investment in native engineering development capacity.
AvocadoPanic
9mo ago
Maybe it's a protestent thing, ours has a fellowship hour following service every Sunday. There's tea, coffee, pastries, fruit, sandwiches, etc., in the fellowship hall.
There are also bible study groups, and opportunities for volunteering in support of church activities.
Why can't it be a church service and a social occasion? Does anyone linger to chat? Is there a bulletin, worship guide or website that lists upcoming activities? Are there any organized activities for the feast days?
I've only lived in Europe and the US, my experience may not translate.
In terms of our social life, travel, DINK lifestyle, etc. The 2nd had blown-up that. We bought a lager house in the ex-burbs, a used SUV, and my wife became a SAHM then we had number 3 and 4 and briefly entertained the idea of 5, likely would have happened if we were younger. I should add that this coincided with a relocation from a western Europe capitol city to New England.
I think thoughtful competent people should absolutely have as many children as they can manage.
AvocadoPanic
5d ago
To claim that modern society has devalued motherhood and femininity, or made them low status, is completely backwards.
Is your argument that modern society values motherhood more? That there have never been so few women per capita becoming mothers, to me is evidence against this.
Complementarianism, may be expressed more now, I suspect for much of existence it went without saying, but was no less true.
AvocadoPanic
2mo 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
8mo ago
It's not something fundamental about public schools, it's the students.
It's also the curriculum, teachers and administrators.
I would happily send my children to my elementary school too, in 1980, when I started half-day kindergarten.
The reality of school today is very different even in top decile areas than 1980. We've found our high performing public school to be insufficiently academicly rigorous. Our school committee feels more like PR or cheerleaders for the superintendent and faculty, who are products of post-modern education academia.
AvocadoPanic
2mo 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
9mo ago
not actually as common as reading conservative media would lead you to believe
Which variety of child sexual abuse? The sort where two men adopt / foster boys they abuse and sometimes produce pornography with or the sort where homosexual men will invite teen boys that are 'old souls' to pool parties for leering, letchery, drug use, and also sometimes pornography production?
I find both unacceptable. I suspect the latter is more common than the former. I also suspect the latter is more acceptable in the letch community.
How common does conservative media lead people to believe it is? I'm certain there are unreported instances of both occurring this weekend. Given the current year acceptance of alphabetism, isn't it likely there's more of this abuse now than anytime in the last 40 years?
AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
Are you like me also waiting for lust month and gluttony month?
AvocadoPanic
2mo 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
2mo 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
2mo 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
9mo ago
Alcohol and a grope, likely undersells it. Many would feature hard drugs and sexual assault, the Bryan Singer senario.
AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
Marry...
I've done this more or less. Reasonably happy. No desire to join the Wagner Group. Wife is homeschooling next year, Latin is in the curriculum.
AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
people will malfunction
I see this as a feature not a bug.
Also there are both meanings of homo in the outcomes of globohomo.
AvocadoPanic
11mo ago
sombra negra
I would have hoped I was in the timeline were we get Batman or The Shadow as our vigilantes.
If El Salvordoran death squads are all thats available it's likely another example of Central Americans taking the jobs of American vigilantes.
This is often reinforced by the meme that as a woman you should not be dependent on a man. In my experience this does a disservice to those who believe it. My wife and I are mutually dependent on each-other, in our complimentary domains. She's been a full-time homemaker the past 8 years. One of her friends from uni, who is now literally a witch, was shocked to hear that she is dependent on me financially.
I see it as the value she provides to our home and our four children far exceeds the value of her working for an employer. We'd be unable to pay a person of equivalent caliber to perform the work she does for our family.
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