You're buying into it being lazily-indiscriminate, but the case in the OP was literally about "we will use this federal money to exclude white boys from internships for the crime of other white men being a lot of scientists."
That's not indiscriminate, that's a precision guided bomb lobbed through a window at the enemy general smoking a cigar.
All they have to do to stop it is stop trying to kick white boys out of the science career pipeline, but they won't ever stop because for some reason it's the most important thing in the world.
The specific issue was actually feminist glaciology, but you are being deliberately obtuse by pretending to not know what he means.
"I cannot fail by now to recognize the tactic of wholly emptying out one's head when put on the defensive" really stuck with me because of how often you see it.
"I don't remember, I've never seen that, I don't know what you could possibly be talking about, why do you keep causing Culture War by bringing up examples?"
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
Just resubmit it without the "no white boys allowed in our science club" line. That's literally it. That's what people find objectionable. I don't know how else to possibly say this.
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
The space station that I always called a boondoggle ended up funding SpaceX, and it's made me reconsider a lot of beliefs about wasteful spending... Maybe there really is a positive multiplier to a lot of this stuff, if you commit to setting enough money on fire for long enough.
I'm going to be equally honest here and say please, do not move to the US. I've known you for years, and in all that time on reddit you were fine with the cultural revolution, sometimes actively prosecuting it yourself.
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
It won't be in Ukraine, but I'm going to die in one of those drone stuff videos
Not to mention how many people currently claiming they were "just keeping their heads down" were actually enthusiastic collaborators back in Current Year. I don't think any more funding should be given out until a Truth & Greatness process identifies the most guilty parties.
Up here they're all in downmarket strip malls or one of those parking-lot-and-two-buildings compounds right off a state route. Nobody would tolerate them in a neighborhood, despite something like 80% of them voting to legalize it...
They could have decided that Europe can back them up, and having as big a row as possible is the best way to keep the war in the European news cycle.
"Support Ukraine or you're on Trump's side" is probably the fastest way to get a German panzer division rolling east these days. After all their new government is interested in using remilitarization to keep the economy going, and could certainly use more gas supplies. They don't even have to beat France and Poland first this time.
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
I don't know why I'm responding to bait, but if parents had discovered secret school policies about hiding teacher-student relationships from them, it would be sensible to be concerned about it. This is the status of "egg-hatching" teachers.
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
The visible stringers with foil on I talked about earlier are the easy way to do this. It'll cover any big gaps in your canopy cover: if there's an easy route in and out hawks will go for it. But they generally won't dive into something that looks suspicious.
It's all about cover. Chickens are a brush bird, not open range creatures. They like bushes, rotting logs, low tree branches to perch on, and a protective canopy overhead.
I live alongside a ridge with a road on it, where hawks hover all afternoon on the thermals. They only dive on field rats and such out in the open. They're very nervous about going anywhere near brush, because being caught on the ground is a death sentence for them.
It's pretty common to see eagles circling above a dead deer in a bush, never having the balls to go for it until the vultures show up and take their lunch.
If someone has a bunch of open pasture... Get sheep, not chickens. They're the real ultimate prepper animal.
I've always thought chicken tractors are a pretty bad kludge for having chickens on open pasture with no tree cover (and not much decent forage for them). They prefer woodland with lots of insects in rotting logs, which also protects them from hawks that rarely dive in without a clear exit strategy.
Chicken-scratching is how they find insects under a layer of fallen leaves and sticks. It's not a motion made for lawns.
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
I think he stomped on all of those except guns
I regret to inform you of the national firearms act of 1934
Not entirely necessary unless the wife or kids get unreasonably attached to them. Just some shiny strands overhead and a tolerance for losses is all you need. I only ever had one taken by a hawk, out of a few dozen lost to coons, cars, and Mysteriously Stone Dead Syndrome.
Damn thing must have been desperate to make the run, because it nailed her on the back of the neck and realized it couldn't carry her up out of the clearing. Dropped her after a few ft.
They're a very good animal for introducing kids to the mysteries of life and death, and answering where we go when we die (the compost pile)
I've seen a "heritage breed" chicken fly 20' straight up into a cedar tree for the night (neighbor's walked a quarter mile to visit, God knows why), but yeah the modern ones can hardly flap their way onto a 3' perch.
Feed is probably your biggest issue on a suburban lawn. Especially doing it in a way that doesn't bring the rats around, and doesn't cost more than the eggs would have.
Does anyone have a screenshot or ideally archive of Yglesia's comment about Trump's 1st term tax cuts? The one where he was bragging how the media fooled people into thinking their taxes hadn't gone down?
It's depressingly hard to find all his deleted mask-off tweets.
No, this is just a dodge, because wokestupid rarely gets its own line on the budget. the hundred mil for nursing home administrators who certify that all their employees have taken trans-affirming elder care training from wokestupid 501(c) comes directly out of the money for real care, and if you cut it you're obviously trying to murder grandma (as she yells "where's my penis? Why am I in a dress? What did you do to me?!")
It's a bastard depending on where you are. Lots of predators, some (like weasels) very clever about getting in. If you don't have enough forage for them, the feed costs negate most of your savings on eggs. You'll often have either way too many or none at all. Hens will go broody and sneak off to lay in the woods (or under a neighbor's deck) until the eggs go rotten or something eats her. If you can't rig up an automatic gate you'll need someone there every night and morning to shut them in and let them out. If they forget this probably means a coon tearing one of them apart, or a weasel killing everything for fun.
If you're set up well, are handy, can rig up some lights for winter, and have a good source of free forage on hand, they're great.
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
How does post-exposure vaccination work? I can't wrap my head around it when the mother and child were sharing every bodily fluid possible for 9 months.
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
"Susan B. Anthony could never have imagined that female empowerment would one day come in bar form" is a real banger of a line. Man they had some good writers once.
I've always heard that, but never done it. All the ones I do are EZpeel like rabbits because they're 4-12 months old, but if you were doing old mutton that would probably help.
The head is very different in that the skin attachment is a lot more direct.
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
I mean, they ended rationing over the course of 3 years after getting into power. Tea in '52, and finally meat in '54. That's pretty good for disassembling an entrenched government program!
Gooofuckyourself
2mo ago
A what now? Is that like an anorak but more antisocial?
I know you were up around Maine or NH at one point, right? I remember the leopardsatemyface post about the cod fisherman. But I thought you were from Canada originally or something, my bad.
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