hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4d ago
Especially when these people use gender neutral pronouns when the gender is already specified.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
What are they otherwise doing while their kids are in school?
Homemaking, like I said.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
I feel like the track record of third worldist socialism is such that it cannot be considered a 'fair response'.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
On 1), the south believed the war would be a quick war of maneuver and thought the north would sue for peace with limited war.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Given your description, I'm guessing this is a semi-rural to rural area. Double check your utilities connections- if this is in Texas, there may be a difference between oncor(electrical grid monopoly) or a utility coop, depending on where you are. For a house that size I'm guessing 100 amp service and two air conditioners? Also, if water comes from a well- do you have a filter already budgeted for? And what's your plan for backup power in the event that a storm knocks out power to the pump(and btw- pumps are already expensive and you more or less get what you pay for. Get a long lasting, quality one.). You're close enough to the gulf that hurricanes are a realistic concern; do you have a plan for them?
Will you be having a conventional built house or a prefab(much cheaper)? Do you plan on a pier and beam(better foundation but you need pest mitigation strategies) or slab?
I highly recommend, given the climate- screen in one or both of the porches. This is near tropical America and you're going to want something to keep bugs out.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Homeschooling moms are already housewives, though. Probably some would be in the corporate world if they sent the kids to public school instead but most of them are otherwise homemakers.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Homeschool coops with no facility costs are much cheaper than that.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
It doesn’t, but it passes the blame for ‘you lost something’ and both drivers and fast food workers are, uh, well.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I'm not sure that you're hearing what I'm saying. In 1890 it would have been normal to say 'so, you've been seeing my daughter for three months already, do you need her ring size?' The shortness of the courtship and the reminders from dad as to the reason for dating in the first place was a big part of how the whole shotgun wedding mentality worked.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
That person is not me.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Ken Paxton is not running for reelection(he wants to be a senator instead) and only targeting homosexuals and pornsites is... very like him anyways.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
He openly admits he's a eugenicist, prioritizes abortion access, and c'mon, do you really believe the population of South Carolinans he doesn't want reproducing isn't extremely black-heavy?
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I guess I like orgasms more than you. Or maybe you get much more enjoyment out of videogames than I ever have.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I tried to read the book review before making a top level response, I really did. But I couldn't make it past this part without going on a rant:
In practice “deep” just meant “un‑measured.”
It should certainly raise our hackles when an organization claims its strengths are unmeasurable. Like maybe these people are lying.
But more to the point, there seems to be this mentality of the educational institution being what matters. Not results, not the kids. The system. Spending more money on public schools is automatically better, even if it's spent on buying cigarettes to pass out to the kids it's better than spending the money on some not-public-school-related thing. Iron law I suppose.
None of this is casting shade on individual teachers, who mostly care about how the kids are doing, would like to be paid more but wouldn't everybody, and are simply very conformist women who've been taught that people pulling ideas out of their assholes are 'experts' who should be listened to. Union heads and admins, on the other hand...
I think we see this mentality on wild display with the principle in this first section- she is, by virtue of her position, entitled to deference and respect and obviously knows best, correspondence to reality be damned.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Sure, but photos of a topless woman will only ever be enforced against pornsites or LGBT stuff.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Unskilled labor has never been enough to support a family- that's why poverty was abject well into living memory. A teenage breadwinner requires supplementation by welfare.
It's certainly possible for a teenager to pay for groceries, diapers, and a room in a flophouse. But not wanting to do that is the reason we don't marry as teens.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I mean, I think it's worth noting that part and parcel of the traditional system is Unsubtle Hints to Put a Ring on it Already from the woman's male relatives before this comes up. Of course people in the past didn't date for years and live together without having sex- because they dated for a couple of months and then got married. Some of them had sex first, of course, but it's a lot easier to wait two months than two years. Shotgun weddings preserved the woman's honor because courtships were just short enough that it came out in the wash anyways.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
This was the original meaning of citizenship, incidentally- it would be recognizable to an Athenian that one of the perks of citizenship status is the right to make citizen babies.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
So they have to get rid of the porn?
Whatever you think of porn on an individual level, it has ruinous effects on society. A chilling effect on porn is clearly 'good', even if a determined actor can still get it. 'Not having porn on hobbyist sites' seems well worth whatever inconvenience it causes to people with the weirdest hobbies ever.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I mean, masturbation pretty clearly does feel really, really good. It, uh, results in an orgasm.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Last I checked a majority of what PP does is not-social-conservative-approved-but-uncontroversially-healthcare stuff like STD treatments. That being said, this is still the equivalent of the state of New York not sending federal gun safety program money to the NRA, despite being the nationwide leader in elementary school gun safety training and range safety training. They kinda made their bed and now must lie in it.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Mindgeek has already pulled out of Texas, supposedly. A coworker told me that pornhub comes up as a form asking him to contact his state rep and a link to a VPN. I'm unwilling to check this myself but I remember reading news articles about it.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I have a genuine question- most of continental Europe uses a three tier education system with kids destined for college, trade school, and unskilled labour literally in different schools. Do European countries administer the PISA test to all levels of school or only the gymnasia? If the latter, it would have much the same effect as only testing middle class white kids in the US.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
You're much better taking a conventional Spanish class with grammar and homework and taking field trips to the taqueria.
Have we considered that he's in love? IDK, seems like the most plausible reason to me.
In general men on the internet have this level of paranoia about marriage that needs to be pushed back on as much as the 'OMG all men are rapists and abusers' tiktok feminism demoralizing women.
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