hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
5d ago
Just curious- other than one great grandfather, all of my ancestors were in the continental US before 1776(many were in then-Spanish Louisiana, but the rest were in the thirteen colonies). Do I count?
hydroacetylene
5d ago
The one who banned the abortion pill?
hydroacetylene
5d ago
This is about teenagers, not homeless people. It is, specifically, an age verification law- yes, getting around it is probably very doable for a motivated young lad, but we can reasonably assume that the people the law is explicitly targeted at are the ones most affected.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
For comparison, the average Catholic(best ranked school system in the US) high school tuition nationwide is around $10k, public high schools in the US average around $19k in per student spending, no correlation between spending and outcomes.
For common denominator education, I'd guess $10k a kid is pretty close to the minimum.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
eah, you could just stick the kids in the library and leave them to their own devices and they'll come out okay.
Uh, no you couldn't. The kids would spend all their time in one, maybe two, sections and not get a balanced education. That's at best; worst case is they never progress because they get distracted by, say, Terry Pratchett books.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
How much of the Asian academic system is spent on teaching/necessary repetition of core subjects, as opposed to ridiculous grinding scoremaxx training on standardized tests? Asian countries are rather famous for this.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Ah, yes, the ‘combination doesn’t go together’ problem.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I don’t believe in the ‘equal contributor’ bs.
Taking care of a baby/young child is well within the capabilities of a teenager. By the time this required an adult adult she would be one.
Our society isn’t set up that way, but it’s much more plausible than in the genderflipped case.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
There have been plenty of societies with an average female age of marriage 16 or under. Our society isn’t one of them, and the median teenaged girl probably is not ready to be married off, but it’s not implausible that some might be. Very, very few where guys married under 20, or even 25. Far more implausible for a teenage boy to be ready for marriage, especially considering the man needs to pay the bills.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
'Legitimacy' means 'Emperor who is at worst neutral about my tribe'. The US isn't a nation anymore and everyone accepts it; an imperial government which takes your tax money(ideally as little as possible) to fuck off and spend on its own pet projects but doesn't demand anything else is far from the worst thing in the world- it's the default human governance arrangement. Trump makes a big show of this and that is why he's so successful at campaigning on 'legitimacy' when he's blatantly wrong. He has more black support than previous republicans because he doesn't talk about rap music and 70% illegitimacy and sagging pants- he doesn't want to impose red tribe values and religion(socially conservative but orthopraxic Christianity) on the black tribe. That plus caudillismo plus pomp is the secret sauce to Trump's 'mandate of Heaven'.
I'm not sure that the percentage of people who just want a good strong emperor to make the government leave them alone is a majority yet- I think Trump is Marius, not Caesar. But it's clearly a rapidly growing percentage that explains a huge chunk of Trump's appeal. The people who feel like their tribe's values and religion are something Washington wants to replace love him because of it, even if they're not ready to crown him with laurels when his troops force the senate to suspend elections.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I think this is a little far- the median white democrat is some normie teacher who thinks children should be planned and in a stable relationship that they might not be super explicit about needing to be marriage but they would be skeptical about non-marriage relationships filling the same role.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
women having impossible standards for men
While there are definitely a minority of women on the internet demanding men be 6'5 self made millionaires who believe every woke shibboleth and yet act like conservatives, it seems like most women have eminently reasonable standards(be stably employed in a good job, not be a porn/substance/gambling addict, not a criminal, taller than her, etc) and simply aren't exposed to men who meet them.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
A few from the fifth circuit in the Abbott v Feds standoff under the Biden admin. I don't think it made any difference in the end.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Is Texas just requiring the same sort of "age verification" that's existed since the 90s (the website says are you 18 and you click yes)?
Texas is requiring that pornhub make potential viewers upload a photo of their driver's license. Presumably if a parent uploads a photo of their driver's license to let their kid watch porn and Texas attempts to enforce the law against pornhub then that would be a different lawsuit but let's be real, the tiny number of people who actually do this won't get caught.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I understand that 'more abortions for black women(and this is South Carolina)' is your #1 priority. But no one said you can't complain about South Carolina not funding planned parenthood.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I don’t see why ‘not automatically citizens’ is so awful a condition. US citizenship is not closed and getting naturalized is common enough we can assume the good ones will get there eventually.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
The law is about pornography to minors, hence ‘rational basis’ and not strict scrutiny. Seems pretty obvious.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
This depends on your definition of mainstream.
If Trump declared elections suspended tomorrow and proclaimed himself first emperor of America, he would have more supporters than Obama trying to run for a third term, and lots of his opponents would object less. But CNN would run one with the headline 'fascism is here- Jews bewarned' and the other with the headline 'respected elder statesman reenters the ring'.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Lot's of people unironically treat Trump as a king/emperor. He's the American Marius and everyone knows he represents a break in the system, personalizing power into more personalistic arrangements.
Now which of his associates will turn Sulla?
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Among other things, it bears pointing out that there was no republican support for ACA, and no republican support was expected. The final version was a compromise between mainstream democrats and blue doggers, not between republicans and democrats.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
So? He's still a Democrat
Not a normal and mainstream one. He was a well known and prominent 'blue dogger', which exempts him from the usual rules around democrats. It could mean many things but 'moderate republican who steals more' is a reasonable and common formulation.
Can you show non-blue dog democrats criticizing Obama without careful phrasing?
hydroacetylene
6d ago
And this applies to both Obama and Trump, although Obama played more in keeping with the mos maiorum and Trump is just straightup the great MAGA king.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Trump's appeal to his base is in large part being the legitimate ruler who performs the proper rites of rulership with the right pomp and doesn't do anything worse with their tax money than steal it. They didn't abandon him after J6(I did; Trump proved himself weak by not doubling down). 'Legality' has nothing to do with it. It's about 'better coverage than 5g'.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
The Jet A open air burn temperature is 1,030 °C, considerably less than the melting point of even lower melting point steels.
I am not an expert on 9/11, but isn't the idea actually that the fire weakened the steel causing it to collapse under the weight of the tower, not that the steel melted?
Normal people do not use NFP to refer to anything other than using it as birth control, unfortunately.
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