hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
5hr ago
IIRC we’ve already seen white births increase as a fraction of all births in the USA.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Doesn’t anarchocapitalism have a tiny number of historical examples? Notably medieval Iceland.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Town watches were most frequently militia organizations oriented towards external defense.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
But the typical self-defense gun owner does not 3d print a ghost gun- in fact very few people do. They buy their guns at a regular gun store.
Now I don’t really think there is much of a reason for passing this law, but it’s not ipso facto an attack on self defense. It is merely an attempt to address a non-problem.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
The standard protocol would be to destroy the door.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
American cops are also generally friendly and competent. They’re rarely particularly bright or outside the box thinkers, but the cops killing people makes headlines because it’s so rare(and most of those killings are justifiable and well within the range of normal police behavior in Western Europe). Our police are genuinely less likely to randomly beat the shit out of people than euro cops, though.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Aside from the fact that ‘military officer’ is perhaps the single most acceptable career for elite young men, most people are not and never will be elites. Cops get some additional respect, and that’s all they need.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
CPS does not have room to accommodate these children. Foster care is generally terrible and overcrowded, the orphanages have mostly been dismantled.
It’s better for thé society we live in if kids stay with kinda sucky parents who have guardrails than stuffing them in the alternatives which mostly exist for kids exposed to actual danger- and which often can’t be spun up easily.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
The revolutionary war, a good chunk of the Indian wars, and the pacific theater of WWII surely qualify.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Eh, there’s certainly a case that many of the soldiers in the GWOT did not want to join even if there wasn’t a formal draft.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
It appears to be the actual position of multiple major governments, however. I think for iron law reasons we can just kind of assume that that’s the equilibrium we’ll wind up at if self defense is more restricted.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
When they address it, it’s usually some variation of ‘guns don’t help’ with true but misleading statistics about running away saving lives in confrontations or dogs deterring burglars well.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Yes, I'm not claiming it'll work- I think trying to discourage condoms won't do anything and mos of their handouts will make it worse if anything- but China is more than willing to address the problem, and there are only two secular societies with high fertility anyways- secular Israel and the US military. Both of them are outcompeted by highly religious peer societies in the same countries. Expecting China to actually fix its fertility problem is just unrealistic.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Bollywood has a western fan club- the same people who really like fifties blockbuster productions. In other words, the feature length singing and dancing is just genuinely a lot less popular than Japanese exports or mass produced slop music and soap operas.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
I read him as saying he is an immigrant to Canada of red Chinese origin. This does, in the Chinese way of seeing things, make him Chinese and not Canadian.
I mean I would count him as Canadian given his demonstrated opinions. But that is not how the Chinese see things.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Isn't China actually trying harder with the birthrate crisis than most of its neighbors? I mean in a stupid way that won't work at best and might be counterproductive at worst, sure, but they're discouraging condom use and offering giant subsidies. This stuff probably won't raise the birthrate(for what its worth, free childcare doesn't either) but they are at least trying something.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
But ten of those movements would be noted, because they weren't updating the logs when it moved 1/16 inch.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Relevantly, 1/8 inch is the threshold below which it becomes very difficult to measure without specialized equipment. If these guys are measuring stuff with tape measures ordinary human error would make a ridiculous number of changes to the logs.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
He wasn't 'bad at his job' he didn't do it in the first place. We punish people for criminal negligence all the time.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
No, this guy was a police officer. If he didn't want to risk his life in that situation he shouldn't have become a cop- there's tons of other careers available. Notably, they don't involve carrying guns.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The U.S. is entirely capable of having nice(albeit low affordability) low crime urban core neighborhoods in major cities. There’s several. The U.S. economy just doesn’t mandate rich people live in urban cores.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The measurements were almost certainly intended to make sure that technicians caught stuff proactively rather than reactively; that technicians just photocopied it for decades because eh good enough is what the bureaucrats were trying to prevent.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That chart shows something, but one of those things is that conservative families put making donations as the wife’s responsibility.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Argentina isn’t really a low crime society compared to the vast majority of America, where rich people actually live(not a lot of the Uber wealthy in St. Louis, detroit, Baltimore).
Just a reminder that the two developed countries which have maintained low female LFPR are Italy and Japan, neither of them fertility success stories.
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