hooser
27d ago
Maybe something like the American Contract Bridge League, about 130,000 members, mostly older women. Bridge used to be a very popular semi-organized past-time among housewives in the 1940s--1970s.
hooser
1mo ago
I was in a public area and the guy looked old and frail and harmless, which seemed like good grounds for this to not result in my murder and grounds for him to need assistance, so I did so.
Positive karma for you!
The guy looking at your scrubs most likely thought: this fella looks healthy and helpful and harmless, which seems like good grounds to ask for his assistance. So he did. Life is not Twitter. Politics plays a distant n-th, even in the lives of those who wear MAGA/BLM hats. And that's a good thing.
hooser
2mo ago
Where I live, the Humane Society requires a screening questionnaire and $200 for adult dog (extra $50 for a puppy). Other pet adoptions are similar. I know a bunch of people who got their dogs with reduced or waived fee because someone was doing a charity promotion to subsidize adoption.
Most of the animals in the rescue system are fostered out. Only the most un-fosterable get kept in the shelter. When we went to pick a dog, they offered us binders full of dogs to peruse. We asked to see the dogs they have on premises, and got a tour of the solitary-confinement cages with giant snarling beasts throwing themselves at the plexiglass.
The Humane Society used to put down un-adoptable animals. They stopped doing that around the turn of this century. Some people who had to get rid of their dog would release it rather that give it to a rescue shelter, figuring that at least this way the dog had a chance at life. The Humane Society's goal is to reduce strays, especially the dangerous kind. Housing some unruly monsters is worth the price of having a reputation of never killing the animal except in medical need.
hooser
2mo ago
Does Boston accent ('Bahstahn') count as foreign? It's not in England. They did the whole tea-into-the-bay thing to solidify that position.
It has only one vowel (æ?)
hooser
3mo ago
hooser
4mo ago
Dostoevsky in the original Russian
Or, more precisely, Dostoevsky with dialogues jumping between original Russian, French, English, and German. His upper-class characters jump between the four languages in their conversations, as they would in real life at the time. No properly-educated young lady would speak Russian without at least a hint of a French accent.
hooser
6mo ago
These are totalizing worldviews. They don't stand up to detailed scrutiny and don't capture the nuance of the world. But they are self-consistent.
These are what the Humanities folks call "interpretive frameworks". (also "critical perspective", or "theoretical framework", though "theory" means something different to them than to scientists) You can examine whatever you want (a diner menu, say) "through the lens" of one of such frameworks (feminist theory of Judith Butler, say), to arrive at hidden patterns (like, notice that eggs are cheaper than sausages, hmmm...).
The practitioners say that the point is insight, not proof. I suspect that the point is to test rhetorical innovation.
In Humanities, success isn't about correctly predicting the physical world. Success is in coming up with ideas that people will discuss, or better yet passionately argue. So the more your idea is like a Shiri statement, the better it is for you.
hooser
6mo ago
Oh yeah, he definitely did it for the effect ripping out a book page had on others. Anti-fetishism, like you said. The effect only worked because most people get a bit of book fetishism drummed into them from an early age. Like, book burning is what totalitarian regimes do.
hooser
6mo ago
There are two kinds of book lovers: those who love the form, and those who love the substance. Back before electronic readers, I dated a guy who would buy a book to read on his flight, and tear out pages that he already read. To lessen his baggage load. Horrified this librarian we knew.
hooser
8mo ago
A few porn producers make a lot of money; most make little. A few musicians make a lot of money; most make little. A few soccer players make a lot of money; most make little. Society condemning or condoning the activity has little to do with it, so long as the activity is legal.
If there is a market for a type of a product (porn, music, soccer-play), and the product scales (once you make a song, you can make many copies for cheap), then the bulk of the market gets captured by the top talent.
Warehouse workers, on the other hand, get close to similar payment. Maybe the more experienced ones get three as much as newbs, but not a thousand times more. Warehouse work doesn't scale.
hooser
9mo ago
Get married.
If the two of you are ready to consider your situation from the "us" perspective rather than from the "you and I" perspective, then marriage makes that explicit. If you marry, you will purchase a home as a couple. If you must move, at least you will know what you're suffering for. If she must move, she'll also know what she is suffering for.
If the two of you are not prepared to marry, than you making financial sacrifices on your partner's behalf is presumptuous, based on shaky and possibly erroneous assumptions. There may be reasons for her switching justifications.
Best of luck!
hooser
10mo ago
We are talking about value an employee brings to a business, which is more straightforward to measure.
hooser
10mo ago
Personally, I don't believe it's possible for one person to produce 1000x the value of another.
Here are some examples:
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X enters data from PDFs into a database manually. Y writes a script for it.
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X creates a homebrew game that only he and his best mates like to play. Y creates a similar game, then finds niche markets for it, selling a few thousand copies.
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X sells Girl Scout cookies by offering them to her family and neighbors. Y sets up a Girl Scout Cookie stand outside of a popular pot shop.
Unusual, yes, but the exceptions can be amazing. We stayed in an AirBnB in a small town in the middle of Missouri (pop. >5000), where the couple rented out three bedrooms of their enormous farmhouse, and everyone was expected to a shared sit-down breakfast of bacon, sausages, fried potatoes, and fresh-baked bread.
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