hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2hr ago
If you can afford one. Yes minivans are cheaper than total childcare costs but that's not how families make budgeting decisions.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
But we have appliances, which drastically reduce the need for servants. We don't wash clothes by hand or, for the most part, even have to iron them. You can put food in the oven and come back to check on it until it is done(and before modern, thermostatically controlled ovens, you could not). Medieval housewives didn't just have to bake their own bread, they had to grind the grain for it, on top of making all of the household's clothes from raw fiber.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Join the army and try making a bodily autonomy argument at any point, see how it goes.
I'm not suggesting you actually run this experiment, and I don't support some sort of forced pregnancy regime(although there are, on the contrary, lots of lower hanging fruit coercive options available to western societies. Forced marriage for cohabiting couples makes a lot more sense, statistically most women have babies once they get that ring).
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
And that is exactly what happened in WWII. Famously even queen Elizabeth II(RIP) spent time in conscripted service as an auxiliary. Soviet women hitched themselves to plows because the army was using 100% of the fuel and machinery.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Even Israel doesn't generally allow women in to frontline combat duty. Women simply do not fight well unless defending young- Mulan was a folk tale and not someone who actually existed, and the Trang sisters had a baby strapped to their back, and Joan of Arc didn't personally fight, she used psychic powers to make command decisions- and we're definitely not going to have a kindergarten class hanging out in trenches.
Yes, Kipling said the female is more dangerous than the male- because cows have calves with them, and bulls don't. I 100% believe that a mama would kill a bear in family defense at equal efficacy to a dad, given the aid of modern technology- but that isn't the problem militaries are trying to solve.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
That's how juries are supposed to work.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
People caring about gas prices does not make them care about corrupt lawsuit settlements- they just care about gas prices.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I would be far more interested in reading his take on the holy tilma.
This isn’t the first time he’s delved into Catholic miracles and used some combination of just so stories and coincidence to write them off. I kinda respect him for addressing the question, even if he gets a bit lazy about epistemic weights.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Actually if you are willing to wait in line and have upper middle class American level resources, you can see a miracle in person if it’s important enough for you. There are pilgrimages specifically to go look at miracles- most famously the tilma of Juan Diego, or the incorrupt saints. The blood of st januarius liquification is also open to the public. Unlike the Easter fire, many of these miracles have been examined scientifically and found not to have another explanation.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Because Our Democracy is suffering from the lack of representation of schizophrenia. It all went downhill when Lyndon LaRouche retired from politics, I tell you.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Dogs eating their own shit is not an evolved nutritional instinct, they aren't rabbits. Dogs will eat some quite nasty things because they think they taste good- used menstrual products, rotting meat, creepy crawlies, etc- but not poop. Poop eating is actually a den-cleaning behavior which can usually be prevented by providing a clean environment.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
'Pit bull' isn't a thing. Purebred American Pit Bull Terriers are mostly fine around humans, but there's plenty of mixes involving fighting breeds or whatever that are also called pit bulls. If you want a pit, get it from a reputable breeder. Most 'pit bulls' in America are mixes whose ancestry isn't well enough known to say if they tend towards aggressive or not.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
We know we're living in the late republic, it's not culture war anymore. Oh, sure, the TDS crowd will get very conspicuously upset about Trump corruption again. But no one else cares.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You've rediscovered Greek life. The entire point of sending your daughter to join a sorority is to make sure your son in law is wealthy and culturally compatible. They dress it up with dance routines and mansions to make it more appealing to eighteen year old girls, of course. But the SEC parents are the ones paying for it, not the girls.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
How does the shidduch system work, economically? Is the yenta doing it for free, or do both sexes pay up front, or is payment due at time of betrothal?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I believe the secret would be that payment is due at time of marriage. But that creates incentives which push the target market out of the mainstream.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The way to fix it would be with matchmakers who might charge a deposit but get their payout upon a successful-relationship-milestone. But society can't agree on what that milestone should be.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Insane compromise- every black American gets a one time payment of $1,000,000. Fiscal constraint is fake anyways. In exchange, we get a civil rights act for conservatives, decades of official favoritism, entire government departments dedicated to protecting conservatives from blue state governments, a school curriculum about the plight of conservatives, etc.
After sixty years we can swap around who's in what seat again.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Most of the most promiscuous men are, uh, not exactly taking women off the market.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Routing around this was the entire point of reputation based traditional systems. But dating apps do not work on that basis, and people’s instincts are geared towards a different problem.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I think you’re underrating the effect of visibility. Humans really like knowing about other people’s sex lives and romantic drama(that’s what so so much of our entertainment fiction and the vast majority of our gossip is about). In the era of the algo, promiscuous women get signal boosted because that’s what gets clicks.
Back in the village days, ‘oh it’s so exciting, John’s going to propose to Jane soon!’ ‘Jane is such a whore’ brought about equal eyeballs, because everyone knew everyone else. But no one cares about the former when it’s strangers.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
For a bonded dog? Your corpse would stink and the city would show up before it started to eat you. They’ll eat feces first.
Dogs of the sort I would be ok with smell bad, and I don't want to add to my list of yard chores by cleaning up after them, and they're expensive to get one I'm ok with having. They are also loud, and unlike cats(which strictly speaking need water, food, and litterbox- and that can be delayed for a day or two) we would need to make arrangements for walking etc if we went out of town. It's possible that someone I know might rehome a dog because of moving and I would be ok with getting it, but I'm not trusting a shelterpet, not with a dog(that's where cats come from though), and I do not wish to spend hundreds of dollars on a purebred, nor am I thrilled about the puppy stage.
My wife grew up in a veritable zoo, and I am, needless to say, not as onboard with the wide variety of animals. She’s more or less ok with this, although I suspect when our kids get older she’ll push a bit harder to let them have bunnies and fish tanks and caged birds. Some of these sound like worse ideas than the other.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Of course they do. I'm simply not onboard with the idea(or my wife's many other pet ideas).
Driving a minivan when you have kids is not stigmatized in the US, although it's lower status for dad than a pickup truck 'it's my wife's car' is a totally acceptable excuse.
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