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hydroacetylene
2m ago
American Catholicism declined following thé decision to relax social controls; obviously post hoc non ergo propter hoc, but also prior hoc ergo non propter hoc.
I certainly agree that the American Catholic Church was not going to maintain its fifties peak. But the looming decline was not in 1965 something that was generally known.
hydroacetylene
6m ago
I'm excluding Mexico because that whole situation is 'complicated' by the existence and influence of powerful Cartels
This is not, by Latin American standards, particularly unique. Thé much poorer golden triangle countries south of there are(or, in the case of El Salvador, we’re up until recently) even worse. Columbia and Ecuador certainly have extreme problems of their own with the same thing. And some of the Caribbean nations are just as bad. Brazil also has a problem with it, although granted everything I’ve heard about it is that Eastern Europe style bribery is also common there.
We know about Mexico’s problems with the cartels because it’s huge and nearby. Something like a quarter of thé world’s Spanish speakers live in Mexico, it’s the standard dialect, it’s relatively wealthy(by Latin American standards), it borders America, etc.
Muninn
"Dick Laurent is dead."
7m ago
I saw it and liked it, though I felt that the overall narrative of the movie lacked coherency. Then I found out that in large part, the movie is an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Vineland and now I'm impressed that PTA was able to take something from Pynchon (I've never read Vineland, though now I want to) and make it that accessible on the big screen. I can definitely see why it could be seen as resistance bait, though, and I'm sure for some folks the CW angle could be enough to sour them on the movie.
hydroacetylene
12m ago
Maybe to an extent, but both factors are structural- restaurant kitchens are inherently tons of not super pleasant work performed alongside drug addicts for long and often unusual hours, and if you raise pay too much you have to raise your prices above what the market will bear.
hydroacetylene
14m ago
Yeah, but the structural limitations of seafood markets far from the sea have nothing to do with the presence or absence of Japanese people.
You know who cooks thé food at the restaurant scene in DFW? I’ll give you a hint- regardless of the ethnic coding of the food being served, the kitchen operates in Spanish. This is true regardless of the quality level. You don’t need actual ethnics to have good ethnic food. People like sushi, so it’s worthwhile to train Hondurans(or whatever thé local source of cheap semiskilled labor is) to prepare it.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
18m ago
two weeks three years to kiev sovl
hydroacetylene
20m ago
Entirely plausible that the Zionist lobby both does not understand how the youth engage with social media and has the heft to get this specific policy pushed through in the United States. I still think there’s other things going on but it’s not ‘Jews did WTC’ tier jewbaiting.
hydroacetylene
23m ago
Grizzlies are much more aggressive than Eurasian brown bears and it’s entirely reasonable to worry about an unprovoked attack if you’re hiking in grizzly country. It’s not a super likely scenario but it isn’t ridiculously implausible either.
pigeonburger
51m ago
In Canada:
Air temperature (as in the weather) is in C. Pool temperatures are in F. Cooking temperatures are in F. Body temperature in F.
Short distances are in In/Ft/Yd, but laws often are written with metric (for instance, in driving), but travel distances are in km.
People's weight and height are in Lbs and Ft/In.
Volume units in cooking are lol whatever; there's a preference for imperial measures but you'll have to deal with stuff in liters too (milk, soft drinks are sold by the L or 2L).
I wouldn't really call that "book-smart", just "being a midwit".
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