hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2hr ago
It seems like in real life thé people who get very upset about age gap relationships are mostly young, not old. There’s obvious reasons- if you don’t like it, it affects you personally, which is a different thing.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Women are, literally, fertile for three decades on average, and tend to be healthier towards the earlier end of that range(granted, largely for different reasons).
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
I read him as saying he was in his forties and dating a 20 something woman, not a teenager.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
While ‘power dynamics’ are another example of Marxist fan-fiction as theory, age gaps do correlate quite strongly with patriarchy- but the causation probably runs the other way.
Imagine you are a peninsular Arab man. You love your daughter, but you are a man of your culture, and you know that she needs to marry and will then be at the mercy of her husband. Don't you want to make sure it’s a known quantity? Mathematically that’s going to push older. Older husbands that are less likely to change is a sensible risk minimizing strategy when you don’t have a backup plan.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
I mean, for the belichick example it seems worth noting that she’s not just younger than him- hes old enough to be her grandfather. Normies don’t care about much smaller age gaps thé internet freaks out about.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
No it’s a totally different person and this isn’t his hobby horse.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Aren't continentals generally expected to learn their own country's official language, English, and a third language?
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
If a genius on St Helena (nothing else to do) couldn't do it, why would a vaped-out TikTokker in grade 10 be able to do it?
If Napoleon's English was that bad, how did he communicate with his best friend? Was this a teenager who randomly knew French, or did she struggle through his pidgin?
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
It seems worth noting that English is pretty hard on the uninflected end of world languages- for Spanish or Russian you have to memorize conjugation tables. I don't deny that immersion is a real thing that greatly accelerates previous lessons(which those chinamen and euros did have, even if they didn't make it all the way to fluency). I deny that it's sufficient for fluency in itself.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
The US actually discouraged second language learning for a period out of patriotism/final assimilation of Ellis islanders.
I'm also very skeptical of immersion as an adult language-learning strategy. The results based experts on adult language learning use grammar-translation- places like the US military's language academy, or missionary training hubs, use... classes, with blackboards and verb conjugation exercises and vocab flashcards. They also do immersion on top of it, but they start with grammar-translation.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Whatever was in vogue when I was your age, young man.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Fat children being poor coded is evidence that foodstamps ensures poor kids have enough food.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I've been thinking about this a lot. As much as people criticise Catholic institutions, they were a very effective Chesterton's fence for a particular kind of person who felt uncomfortable in their own skin and wasn't terribly interested in forming romantic relationships. It makes me sad thinking about all the young women who've gotten double mastectomies they'll likely regret, who would've been perfectly happy as nuns if they'd been born a couple of generations earlier.
A couple of generations here meaning what, 600 years? The convents were dissolved in the Anglosphere in the sixteenth century, and the kinds of elite families producing trans ‘sons’ have never been Catholic.
It’s also inaccurate to point to mid-20th-century convents and monasteries as performing a warehousing function; they were high status institutions that recruited widely from a broad spectrum of the population and tended to reject overwhelming oddballs. If you go back to the pre-Pian church you saw lots of upper class women who didn’t fit in sent to the convent so they don’t have to deal with men(and autistic or downright odd monks), but this was well on its way out by the time of living memory of the boomers. The post-Pian reform RCC overproduced clergy and religious beyond its ability to accommodate, there were things like shortened formation periods to try to cope; this changed with Vatican II, of course, but it wasn’t really for unusual people- although warehoused Sheldon Cooper types in the monastery were part of the story of the reformation.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Well yes, it skews up the percentage of income religious people donate. I'm not convinced it changes the calculus of what percent of donations are actually used for charity.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Getting fat on rice flavored with butter and salt sounds difficult.
That's very similar macros to the Cajun dietary staple(rice and gravy is slightly more nutritious, but it's close enough for government work). If you go to southern Louisiana you will see many very fat people whose diet consists largely of rice covered in stock and roux with some meat, which costs approximately as much as rice flavoured with butter and has a very similar nutrient profile.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Two of those cases are yes, waste/misuse. I would call the obese person on foodstamps a borderline example; I've already said elsewhere in the thread that the benefit amount should be reduced for adults, but it's not like you can(legally)redirect foodstamp spending to something else if it's more than you need.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
based his research on data that differentiated religious giving from non-religious giving, and included religious giving in his calculation.
Does religious giving change the calculus much? The salvation army is technically a church. Planned parenthood is technically a charity but seems to do very little actual charity and lots of advocacy. I'd suspect that the 'only nonreligious charities should count as charitable giving' thing is mostly to make liberals look good; plenty of churches have charitable arms, and plenty of liberal charities don't do very much actual helping the poor. It probably evens out in the wash.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Use random appointments to congress. Most people aren't deranged ideologues; deranged in other ways, yes, but not particularly ideological. We can replace our problems with different ones.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Didn't the Qing make a law that reporting a crime to the police, where the accused was found not guilty, would be punished more severely than the actual crime, so as to discourage undue involvement of the legal system in people's affairs? Or am I remembering wrong?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The senate has a different dynamic driven by very, very long terms of service. Eventually, yes, they'll yeet the filibuster in a fit of partisan shitflinging- but there just hasn't been enough turnover. I suspect the democrat optimates will come to regret it, but eh, it's gonna go.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
? My understanding is that the lumberjack-type gay men, while outnumbered, are not the same thing as AGP transgenders.
There's several takes on what exactly AGP are, but the lumberjack-type bearded gays are not one of them. I'm personally partial to the idea that they're mostly newish, a product of endocrine disruptors, and historical examples of AGP like Elegabalus are severe mental illness, with things like the hijras and other third genders being something totally different. But there's another school of thought which merges the phenomena.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
What cases are you discussing, specifically?
Now, to be clear- I am perfectly willing to admit that there is lots of waste, fraud, and misuse involved in food stamps. I also totally understand being irritated about food stamps recipients eating better than you do. I simply follow-up with the acknowledgement that childhood malnutrition is a problem that causes IQ decline(much more expensive than some Dino nuggets and the like) and that as inefficient as it is, food stamps does address the problem as well as can be done.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
An executive chef earns near six figures or lower six figures, $80-$120k ish. But executive chefs don't personally cook, they oversee line cooks who do the cooking and do the training, menu, and quality control side of managing a kitchen. Doubling that to account for executive chef level responsibility and line cook level work is probably generous but in the right order of magnitude. Private chefs exist, you can hire one for your next party, but the business model assumes an occasional extravagance for entertaining, not one regular client.
I suspect that the merely wealthy either like cooking(possibly as a status symbol) or go to restaurants, or have their housekeepers do enough low level cooking to not worry about it.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Many Americans who don't work due to just having money have a full time housekeeper who does some cooking, but a personal chef would be for billionaires only. Maybe the lower cost of labor in Russia changes things over there.
I mean at the very least the west is sufficiently different from Islamic third world societies as to be an irrelevant point of comparison, rendering your point two a different point about different people?
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