hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
He actually couldn't get it published originally- the critique of communism was considered verboten by progressive publishing houses, but he was too left wing for rightist publishers.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
It was written before the badness was widely known- and intended as an intra-socialist critique based on the behavior of Stalinists who fought alongside Orwell(in a different socialist faction) in the Spanish civil war.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
The empirical evidence against socialism during Einstein's day wasn't quite there. Animal Farm was a speculative novel at the time, not known as prescient.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
The economy has an almost bottomless demand for low skill labor. Amazon, Uber, Walmart, etc.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Iirc yaupon holly tea could theoretically cause theobromine poisoning if it’s brewed strong enough(black drink probably causes a theobromine high), but chocolate would probably make you sick before you get there.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
The other thing I want to point out- and I see myself as more expanding on your point than making a different one- is that in developed countries, thé effective floor for functioning people is just not bad enough to complain about. The people who manually harvest crops for twelve hours a day for subsistence wages are foreigners whose children will work in a warehouse, and their children will work for the utility company, and their children will work in offices. Everyone except the fruit picker is doing fine. I use this example not to make a point about immigration, but because there simply are not large numbers of native poor who are functional enough to run this cycle.
@self_made_human does not come from this society. Rapid upward mobility whatever the cost makes a lot more sense if your country has a large class of subsistence farmers. We do not live in a country where working in a sweatshop is aspirational, we live in a country where a mediocre suburban middle class life only requires that one be… mediocre. This is why I’m so hard on ‘accommodations’ in academia, or on the oriental grindset. Your kid having less than perfect grades will not sentence them to decades of subsistence level poverty. It’s ok to be bad at school because the only thing you need to do to have an OK life in America is to… not fuck up. Literally, look up the research on the success sequence.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Two weeks PTO(all paid time off) is pretty normal in America. Most of the private sector(banks are notorious for getting more) gets 6-10 holidays per year- typically Christmas, New Years, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, and Memorial and Labor days. Good Friday, the days after Thanksgiving and Christmas, and Christmas eve are also common. Most workplaces will not allow all of their employees to take their PTO at the same time as each other, and time off in popular times of year may be first come first serve, seniority, or certain times might be blocked off altogether with separate procedures for time off.
Two weeks off around Christmas is extremely lucky in the American context, practically unique to schools. But offices shutting down Christmas eve to reopen January 2 is pretty normal, if not the norm.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Red and black tribe americans are the closest cultural match to each other, and are genetically very very different.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
https://www.zompist.com/amercult.html
Of course America has a culture. Both red and blue tribe Americans basically fit in the picture above, maybe one or two exceptions on each side.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That post deserves a top level post. I mean, yes, toddlers are often trying(and often deliberately trying), but he's not reacting as the received wisdom of parents passed through generations would recommend.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
My last job interview featured a set of technical questions related to the job- I remember being asked about the labeling of specific wires on a walk-in and one set of pressures on r410a, a couple of other things- but also had a bunch of questions that were just obviously about cultural fit, mostly looking for how I phrased particular concerns. People want to live and work around people that 'know how to use the right fork'. Literally, obviously- think about how uncomfortable you'd be if you had to share a table with Zohran Mamdani at a publicity stunt. But also in everything else. How do you communicate? How do you treat the boss- with extreme deference or as a basically-peer who happens to have a leadership role? Do you expect to be friends with your coworkers, or merely friendly? What do you think is acceptable water cooler talk? These things do matter.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Chocolate kills dogs by overdosing them on theobromine(which produces a high in them very similar to cocaine, although in humans it simply makes other stimulants last longer- that's right, a chocolate bar with your coffee makes it last longer). If you're sure you have the dosage and bodyweights right, you can totally give your dog chocolate and it will very much enjoy it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The Nazis both a) backed down on aktion t4, although they tended to quietly reinstate it and b) openly referred to the Jews as inferior repeatedly, running a eugenics program that specifically wanted to produce Aryans.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I find it amusing to point out that, in America, modern day positions on abortion have very little correlation with 1930 positions on abortion, but a lot of correlation with 1930 views on eugenics. Eugenics was, in the American sense, a progressive movement, albeit one which looks kinda strange today- just like temperance.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Depends on the CPA’s specialty. If he does estate planning, trusts, etc then he might.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
What?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The opposition in Iran wants the monarchy.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
You don't have to cower in your home. You can just go about your life, neither interfering in ICE operations nor hiding from them.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Germany is mismanaging its economy in its own unique way, but it's still doing a lot better than Iran.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Is anyone asking for sanctity? Is that even a thing being discussed?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I feel like something that always gets left out of discussions about apartheid is that afrikaaners are not a Northern European ethnicity. They’re a lot more clannish, tribal, and xenophobic than thé Dutchmen they used to be. The British wrote lengthy screeds about how they were impoverished religious fanatics who married their underaged cousins…. A description generally not used for Northern European ethnicities. The simple lack of British universalizing, civilizing impulse is pretty easy to understand there.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Cursing somebody you believe yourself to have killed in self defense seconds after the act seems incredibly normal.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Just curious; what do you think thé German police would have done in that precise situation? Resisting arrest and attempting to flee through a police cordon is suicide by cop.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
This proposal runs into the immediate problem that the constitution says that the state’s representation in the senate is the only part not subject to amendment.
This simply does not line up with observed reality. Low-skill employers are always hiring, they're advertising heavily for employees, they keep raising wages and improving conditions, and these jobs can't be done by a clanker because the clanker does not have hands.
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