hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1d ago
Catholic schoolgirls are probably a teen fetish as much as anything else, and lesbians are a threesome fantasy, right?
Nuns maybe, but it seems far less widespread than the other two.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The red tribe isn't a super-coherent group, it's a loose coalition of groups that feel mistreated by the blue tribe(which seems like it is a group). Your Cajun and your UAW worker have barely more in common than either of them do with a NYC girlboss. Hence it can't have a single status hierarchy.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But no one thinks that being single, or having a series of different monogamous partners, is morally blameworthy in the same way that prostitution is.
Yes they do. Lots of criticisms of serial monogamy to be had and it's actually a historical outlier that the modern west doesn't publicly worry about the plight of men not being interested in marriage.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
For landscaping you can absolutely hire high schoolers. They just have lower flexibility.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Farms are one of those things where you just can't get Americans to do it. You can pay well-above market rate, they won't do it. You can hire out of the parole office, they'll still quit knowing they stand a good chance of going to jail for it.
Like duh, Trump was never going to crack down on fruitpickers and no one really wanted him to.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
While fair, the actual homeless receive a higher standard of living than the average person in 1800 by some measures(they probably eat a better diet, for example); ‘premodern charity cases’ are a dumb comparison.
Disability cases have a standard of living that’s pretty low by North American standards. There’s probably some room to cut it, but asking them to live like homeless tramps from the Middle Ages isn’t something our society is prepared to do- of anyone.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Most promiscuous women seem to draw a hard line between themselves and actual sex workers, even if broader society often doesn’t.
Like, nobody sees Anna-Nicole Smith, (briefly)successful though she might be, in a positive light- including women who sleep around and show their tits to strange men for free.
The negative stereotype of whores may not revolve about their promiscuity, but it is still there.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Disability is not exactly a high standard of living.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It doesn’t take that much to live if you have your house paid off. Even in the Bay Area she almost certainly could retire.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
All three are true. A former prostitute/stripper/camgirl would be seen as unmarriageable by the vast majority of Americans, to say nothing or the population in general. Trophy wives are not viewed kindly, either.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
She could easily find a rationalist eligible bachelor to have kids with in her stated lifestyle. She’d just have to settle for ‘eligible’ rather than ‘attractive’(in the broad sense, rather than just a synonym for handsome).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Or, more relevantly, most people in therapy don’t need to be there, and doing therapy on a healthy person can’t help, might hurt.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Uh, did she really believe harlots are going to be well liked or have a good reputation in the public sphere?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Totally willing to believe most people claiming ‘chronic pain’ are faking it for either 1) a medical marijuana scrip or 2) a disability diagnosis. That doesn’t mean they’re in good health/can take jobs with any arbitrary physical demands.
At the end of the day, blue collar laborers in their fifties are not going to be able to do much if they lose their jobs. Fake disabilities reflect the underlying reality that these people cant adjust to a new set of physical demands.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Because murder is bad and needs to be strongly discouraged, even if I don’t much care for the victims?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Cashiers and DoorDash drivers don’t do much heavy lifting, at least. Waiters it varies. The guy in the aisle at Home Depot doesn’t need to lift stuff but needs to be on his feet all day.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I don’t care whether adult cyclists are encouraged in their hobby or lined up and shot for partaking in it. I have strong sympathy for young teens, but those mostly know that ludacris’s traffic mix is aimed at them- I make you move, bitch, get out the way. Likewise I sympathize with the poor who can’t afford cars, but, again, they understand their station in life.
I care about the sidewalks being usable for pedestrians and the road being usable for cars. Hippies should get a haircut and fitness fanatics should avail themselves of exercise bikes and the like if either of them are going to cause problems for the priority groups.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
(I legitimately don’t remember who’s a parent or not, don’t get offended) uhh, have you ever watched a toddler? There’s some picking kids up(that may not want to be) involved, and running after them and the like. And cleaning houses is similar- lots of bending over, moving things out of the way. Neither one is conducive to poor-health based physical unfitness, although they don’t need a power lifter.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Compared to pre pandemic? Yes.
Now they might be worse off due to higher rent, it’s possible. But the price for renting a bedroom from Craigslist randos(which is what most of them actually do) has stayed the same, so I doubt it.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Well yes, everyone who has the option of motorizing seems to pick that option except for a minority of hobbyists.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The decline in disability payments may also be related to the rise in wages for very low skilled labor.
Now, no one on the construction site was previously on disability. But plenty of cashiers and DoorDashers might have been. And those wages have just absolutely exploded- making Walmart managers seem worth it in comparison to sitting on your butt.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Cashier. Delivery driver. Maybe a waiter, probably the guy in the aisle at Home Depot.
These are not ‘good jobs’ but they do pay better than disability.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
To put the onus on bicyclists, obviously.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Most people are selfish and somewhat amoral, but few people are psychos. Reckless driving/vehicular homicide would remain illegal, too, so the worst offenders would still be arrested.
At the end of the day cyclists simply need to learn to deal with the fact that they’re too slow for roads and too fast for sidewalks, and adjust accordingly.
This is your brain on utilitarianism.
Sometimes it just doesn't matter what the cost/benefit tradeoff is, it's still wrong.
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