durdenhobbes
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durdenhobbes
2yr ago
The critial difference, of course being, is that if I choose to refer to my step-mom simply as "mom" (and vice versa), that's a relational identifier that the two of us have chosen to engage in based on mutual trust/love/history/etc.
No such consensual agreement exists between myself and some dude in a dress who tries to get me fired if I don't refer to him as "ma'am".
durdenhobbes
2yr ago
I don't have much to say to your response, other than to say that it strikes me as shockingly condescending and naive. Hopefully life experience will help you grow out of the arrogant perspective you seem to have adopted.
durdenhobbes
2yr ago
Do you think you'd get fired if you wrote "Russians should all be deported"? What about "The Swiss should all be deported"?
durdenhobbes
2yr ago
The most shocking thing I found in that table is that there are countries that have differing retirement ages for men versus women.
durdenhobbes
2yr ago
I may have missed a valid explanation somewhere along the line, but how are we defining "witches", exactly?
durdenhobbes
4mo ago
I'm focusing solely on the pronouns discussion, about which I'm pretty ambivalent (although I understand the slippery slope argument). The hypotheticals you mentioned would have me going to war for my daughters (my fertility is above replacement level).
durdenhobbes
5mo ago
There is theoretically a breaking point, yes, where the match fixing becomes so undeniable that public sentiment shifts and the major sports leagues fall out of favor. I suspect the leagues would simply try to spin it as "we're sports entertainment!" à la wrestling. After all, the WWE sells out stadiums around the world and just got a $5B contract with Netflix.
durdenhobbes
5mo ago
side effect of absolutely shredding American international standing.
I'm not being obtuse when I ask: what value, exactly, does American international standing have?
durdenhobbes
5mo ago
The grass, in this instance, doesn't grow nearly as quickly as my children do, and I'm not going to gamble their early education on the hope that I can unilaterally drag an underperforming school district out of the mire.
durdenhobbes
9mo ago
I could be wrong, but I feel like an officer would probably look you up with the number, but then chide you with a "you need to carry your license when you drive" before he sent you on your way.
durdenhobbes
9mo ago
Gaza is roughly 141 square miles, with around 15.6k inhabitants per square mile. It's not like they'd have room for a military base even in the upside-down world where Israel allowed them to. They've been fenced in and treated like literal prisoners. So obviously any militant uprising is going to be near civilians by virtue of having zero alternate choices.
None of this should surprise anyone, and none of it should have happened in the first place.
durdenhobbes
10mo ago
Because Wikipedia is usually the first search result for any random thing any random person wants to research on the internet.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
Assuming you work a distributor, see if you can leverage your mechanical skills and work ethic to convince your supervisor to send you to Micro Matic Dispense Institute. It's only a few days, but you learn everything you need to know about troubleshooting draught beer systems (which is a constant problem for accounts) and installation (there are constantly new bars and restaurants opening all over the country). Once you have some experience with that, you should be able to command higher pay either with your current employer, one of the competing distributors, or if you're really motivated—starting your own draught installation/maintenance company.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
Agreed. I'm not sure I have the writing skills to make a top-level post, but if I did, I'd be lucky to have even a single issue on which I was both articulate and interesting enough to make multiple posts on the topic. I guess that would make me a single issue poster (which there is no discernible rule against).
I'm also highly antipathetic toward governance/justice/moderation being levied based on identity. Judgment, in this and in every case, should be on the merits of the argument, not because of who posted it. Either the ball was in bounds or out of bounds; making that call shouldn't depend on whether Tom Brady or Todd Marinovich threw it. If it does, then we're playing a rigged sport here.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
Zeiss Victory SF 10x42
Maybe it's just because I'm an enthusiast in photography and sport shooting, with their extremely pricey optics, that I expected these to be more than $3k.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
A recent interaction I had with an 80-something woman had me thinking about this very thing. I've been trying to come up with some sort of non-profit model that could work toward solving this problem.
durdenhobbes
2yr ago
And the latter are regularly censored on matters of minor corruption in ways the former is rigorously guarded against.
NPR completely and explicitly buried a story about major corruption from a presidential candidate and his son's overseas business dealings, in order to hand that preferred candidate the election. I'd challenge to to find a more-impactful example of corruption censorship from any other news media in world history.
durdenhobbes
2yr ago
Um, America is not the only country that contains white Christian men.
durdenhobbes
2yr ago
Would it be acceptable for an athlete who opposed some war to refuse to wear a camo jersey?
Absolutely, and Muhammad Ali is hailed a hero for refusing to fight in Vietnam.
To answer your first statement: absolutely! No one in my generation asked for this, no one in my circle wants it, and I think it should be the one burned to the ground. It’s pure societal poison.
As for men (or women) who treat their spouses in a "pitch-black evil" way, we've always had means of dealing with that, outside a parasitical family court machine. A strong family is a good start, for example. Something that the current M.O. has made scarce.
durdenhobbes
1mo ago
I have never seen a store that didn't make the less expensive item the discounted one in a BOGO sale.
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
How do you handle it logistically? Do you leave it inflated all season? Seems like it would need to be rolled and stored somewhere dry if not inflated, but running the pump 24/7 seems inefficient and noisy. But something that large has to be heavy as hell to move back and forth frequently.
durdenhobbes
5mo ago
I've never worked in government, but I've witnessed how bloat and apathy have rendered many workers borderline-useless in the private sector—where the profit motive demands efficiency. So I have to suppose that bloat is off the scales where no such motive exists.
durdenhobbes
5mo ago
Even with the context that he said "my heart goes out to you" emphatically right before he motioned from his heart to the crowd?
I'd like to see some backing data to support this.
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