As someone who's been around school teachers and the school system for a sizable chunk of my life -
Good.
Teachers are painfully incompetent(and impossible to fire), and anything above a certain level is just a mess of political nepotism and racial spoils(if you live in such an area).
I hope they suffer.
Exactly.
Until I can go a good 600+ miles on a single charge, EVs are just very expensive toys for some people to show off, and a slave collar around your neck if forced to buy.
The left can't fucking meme. So they steal shit and don't even realize how it fucking worked to begin with. Or why.
New York City is going to New York City.
Granted, the actions of everyone falling over themselves to sell this man out was positively disgusting, Marines included.
Ladies, if you ever wonder why men just shrug our shoulders and not give a shit when you're being harassed or stalked in places like this, this is why.
Contrast the recent case in Texas where a man shot and killed a would-be robber and the DA finally decided that 'Nah, he's good.'
People either think it isn't an issue, have their head in the sand, or don't have the stomach yet to start implementing any policy that might act as a course correction.
The first step to fixing any problem is first realizing you have a problem...
Hoe_math is a great youtube channel if you want to both understand and hate women in equal measure.
The only complaint I have about his videos is that while he goes into the 'how' portion of looks/personality/social maxing, he doesn't go into the why.
As in, 'All these examples of women are utterly horrible and why the hell should we even consider dealing with them?'
He kind of went over it in soft gesture toward 'we want functioning couples because I like society' in his earlier videos, but it's become a glaring problem as of late.
Statistical outliers gonna statistical outlier.
And arguably, it's worse than that - women are more than willing to be misrable, but even worse are the ones basically allowing for defacto harems where one Chad basically runs through a horde of women, and the women let him.
That... yeah, that's not going to end up anywhere good.
'overestimate' and 'underestimate' are also the ultimate weasel words, especially when it comes to statistical distribution.
If you think looks matter and personality is worthless(and, heh, newsflash, in alot of situation, that's spot fucking on!) and some social science soiboi comes up and goes 'well, um, ACKSHUALLY' and proceeds to spin out some bullshit of how 51% compared to 49% or some such nonsense is technically correct - but it's still a blatant lie, because we're talking social trends, not statistical.
And people wonder why we don't trust the 'experts' anymore.
Granted, most men aren't exactly going to swallow the advice of 'Just get a professional photographer to take your photos so you have a chance of getting a date on tinder' very easily, even if you're right.
Getting metaphorically punched in the balls yet again with the reminder that men have to jump through hoops while women just show up doesn't exactly encourage a healthy mindset.
Plus, there's the added mythology that women don't really pay attention to attractiveness(which is bullshit), so they're getting hit from both sides.
Don't forget that women are very quick to fall into the delusion of typical-minded fallacy when it comes to romance, and is part of the reason the entire 'girlboss' stereotype exists to begin with - because they find domineering assholes extremely attractive, and assume the reverse works for men.
Hah, no.
This is why I could never get behind Desantis - while competent and racking up scalps as a governor, his shift to campaigning for President made it clear he was being managed to be 'nicer, kinder'.
People don't want 'nice' or 'kind'. People want their fucking scalps, and they'll vote for who they think will get them.
It's also got some of the best quotes and voice-overs for the various secret projects and technologies ever seen in a video game.
Almost makes me want to crack it open again for a few hundred hours...
I love 4X games where I can fuck around with my enemies by raising mountains to alter the local weather pattern and cause their colony to undergo a crash famine and the resulting riots as people starve to death.
It really was all downhill from there, huh.
There's a very good reason I love reading about Dick Proenneke or Bernard Montessier.
It's disturbing in how so short a period of time we've gone from having isolated places you could go to escape the world to being almost totally interconnected.
Women demand to be treated like men, and go into a loathesome rage when it happens.
Either you're a functioning human being or the only worth you have is emotional appeal and what's inbetween your legs. Grow up, lady.
It's funny you mention Sumter.
Ft Sumter was a masterclass of shrewd political tactics mixed with crafty military entrapment... on Lincoln's side.
(Lincoln was disturbingly brilliant when it came to politics if you look at the stuff he did while in office, though it probably helped that his opponent's all thought he was a back-woods imbecile.)
If a modern Civil War kicks off, one of the spark elements will likely be similar. Trying to force legislation explicitly spelling out what Abbot would like to do would be foolish - the smarter move would be to force Federal forces into a bad position so they could act badly, and then Abbot can just shrug his shoulders, act to counter them, and when people start screaming, he can offer a simple out - 'Hey, these bad actors must have been acting without authority, right? They were doing the equivalent of a coup, right?'
Always, always, always make your opponent look like the bad guy. 'Rogue Federal troops shooting on good 'ole Texas boys' is the perfect recipe for such, because the current regime is stupid as fuck and would likely reply with 'No, we're coming to kill you all', which I'm sure a bunch of people would absolutely adore.
But this is all fanfiction. It would never happen. Never ever. Right? Right.
That first one has been in my 'too buy and read' list for far too long.
Hopefully I won't go drunk-browsing this weekend and end up ordering any books.
Again.
A friend of mine is working on getting his pilot's certification for small planes.
That shit is hard. There's no way to fake it. You need everything - good memory, quick reaction time, high physical skill, extreme multi-tasking, managing stress, and so on.
Anything having to do with aeronautics is likely one of the few places where nepotism and favoritism can't do jack fuck all, because you can't cheat the laws of physics, and they'll kill you without hesitation.
(Come to think, most scuba divers are white, too. Huh.)
Anyone walking into that kind of culture who's delusional enough to think 'Um, well, if there isn't enough women or PoCs it's because of RACISM' are likely screeching at the top of their lungs to try and force more and more retards into positions they can't handle in any way, shape, or form. Without stopping to realize that, yes, you retarded fuck, most women and blacks just can't fucking handle doing all this shit, and expecting reality to conform to your delusional fantasies is just asking for physics to bitchslap you, hard.
You're not going to find people speaking french in New Orleans.
You gotta go over to the Acadiana parishes and the backwater trawlers/fishermen - those are places where french is the second language and you've got families where the grandparents refuse to speak english.
Also, there are germans. Somehow. I don't fucking know.
fake black belts
There's been a definite black belt inflation over time, not helped by the normal American habit of basically grabbing the black belt and saying 'I'm done' and then bragging about it years later.
It's always interesting to listen to my Sensei and all the older guys in the dojo make critiques of current trends of passing/failing for black belts.
simply don't train for it.
There's also the problem that different karate styles have different rules for sparring. I forgot which style in particular is the one that doesn't allow for head-punches in sparring... but kicking them in the head is perfectly fine? And this is one of the primarily Japanese styles, keep in mind - either Shito-ryu or Goju-ryu, I forget which.
Bringing this back to OP's article, this is one of the issues with comparing various combat styles - they all have different rules of what's allowed. You throw someone unfamiliar with the rules into a ring that benefits their opponent and declare their style 'fake' when they don't instantly win? C'mon.
But you discount how many of them become conservatives.
I've never seen them turn conservative.
It's always some distribution of 'I'm [insert-right-leaning buzzword here] BUT-' that basically code word for 'I like this thing but going to vote it away at the voting both, every time'.
Even the ones that are of the 'I used to be a liberal but the overton window keeps shifting' eventually has a mask-off moment. Like clockwork.
If they exist, they're in the minority, and I have no patience to pander to minorities.
Europe
I'm not talking about Europe, and I don't care about them. They're big boys and can take care of themselves. I'm more focused on my own backyard, thanks.
This will never work.
I see this all the time when trolling through the firearm forums on reddit - the joke about 'liberal gun owners' being 'temporary gun owners' is almost always true. Ask them what they'd do if thier guy made guns illegal, and 99% of the time they'd just fall over themselves giving up those guns they bought to protect themselves from all those scary conservatives.
Pandering to your enemy does not work, and it just pisses off your constituents when you try to make compromises to court a larger base that only go one way.
The secret to being 'realistically' good at any martial arts is pressure testing. (And how it's taught, but let's not get caught up in the weeds.)
MMA does alot of pressure testing, because it involves alot of young men wanting to beat the absolute shit out of one another and not caring about the long-term consequences of thier bodies.
Karate used to do alot of pressure testing, until the higher ups in various organizations realized that the ones doing said pressure testing were the high-ranking masters(because you have to be just a little bit off to get that high of a rank), that traumatic brain injuries are no fucking joke(seriously, watch some of the old Karate videos from the 70s and 80s - the only difference between them an MMA is one isn't half naked in a cage), and they'd really rather have all these Masters teaching and not beating the shit out of one another. Hence the development of point sparring in competition.
Point sparring is why Karate gets criticized so much, and to be fair, they do have a point. A local dojo of mine trains almost exclusively for competition, and a fair number of the tactics they use wouldn't... really work IRL.
Then again, traumatic brain injuries are not your friend, and even with point sparring, there's a reason why any competition is going to have a full doctor on hand.
I'm going to give MMA around 10 years at most before it gets dialed back alot when the current crop of competitors are basically hobbling around like old men due to all the damage they've done to thier bodies.
Also, there are a few MMA who's schooling was based on Karate. So. It's all how you apply it.
Yeah. If it's real, this isn't going to end the way she thinks it will.
From the casual aside of 'he makes 5 times what I do', sounds like she's just doing it for the gold digging. Surprise, she's not going to find gold but a fist to the face, and the husband's family will support it.
It's one of the greatest ironies that the reason we have this problem today is because Southern society as a whole was too merciful toward their slaves.
Kept families together, didn't work them to death like in Spanish Central America, didn't geld them like the Arabian slave trade did, allowed them a modicum of travel, payment, and their own crops to sell...
There's a lesson there, but it's not exactly a pleasant one.