hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
11hr 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
11hr 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
11hr 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
11hr 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
11hr 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
11hr 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
11hr 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
11hr 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
21hr ago
Most of the most promiscuous men are, uh, not exactly taking women off the market.
hydroacetylene
22hr 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
22hr 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
22hr 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
1d ago
Of course they do. I'm simply not onboard with the idea(or my wife's many other pet ideas).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
First off, in traditional peasant societies both sexes married younger than that; for the peasantry these were mostly actual teenagers marrying twenty something or occasionally very early thirties men, the very large age gaps tended to be mostly elites with second marriages(either polygamous or serially monogamous). In old school urban societies it was more likely to be early twenties woman/late twenties men(who, yes, visited prostitutes before marriage). The twenty two year old and forty five year old has never been normal.
Secondly, hell yeah police young men. We know how to do that. Young men respond to incentives a lot more legibly, and the bottom quintile dropping out of the marriage market is A-OK to most reckonings. Men marrying in the near-term post college years is not some sort of rarity, although it may be passe in the liberal elite. It's quite common in red America.
The average male wage in the USA is around $1k/wk, a perfectly doable household income for four people. People just don't prioritize having/being a homemaker as much. I'm given to understand that Scandi tax structures brutally penalize households for having adults outside of formal employment and so SAHMs straight up don't exist there as deliberate policy choice, regardless of partner income(but that much higher percentages of women work part time).
BTW, subsidizing childcare has very limited to nil effects on birthrates, although it does increase the labour force participation of mothers. This suggests that childcare costs do not feature strongly in decisions of whether or not to have kids.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There is no evidence that the west wants to fill Ukraine with Africans. Indeed, western European countries might quite reasonably believe that dumping Africans in Ukraine will just cause them to migrate from Ukraine to western European countries that are actually wealthier than Africa.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Sweden legitimately has a high percentage of women in the military.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I have a female cat, and have so far been resistant to other pet project ideas. I do cooperate with the neighbors to make sure there's food out for the neighborhood strays, but that's mostly not on me, it's a village cats policy.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Are they even domesticable?
No. Raccoons make worse pets than wolves, bobcats, foxes, raptors, etc. It's actually difficult to think of a carnivore which makes a worse pet without resorting to ones that produce man eating individuals regularly.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Orthodoxy is, in practice, not that socially conservative.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Most historical eras.
Not post-industrial ones. But the whole point of trad is copying stuff that worked in really old societies in the modern era.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
So is traditional Catholicism- 'smoking the whole pack' when you bite down on trad seems to solve a lot of this stuff, even if it's not a magic bullet.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The actual trad solution was that women were younger than their husbands. It's not hard to impress almost-literal teenagers when you're in your late twenties.
Once again, (western)trad doesn't run on 'boys rule, girls suck it up'. It runs on politically incorrect compromises where young men are the ones that usually get the short end.
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.
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