Poland is socially conservative but not financially conservative--they were under the control of communists for 60 years and 3 whole generations grew up without ever knowing freedom. The Poles in general are economically illiterate and don't understand the connection between an overbearing government and sluggish labour markets--they benefited enormously from their high level of education relative to their economy and from a culture of hard work so after the fall of communism, despite the government continuing to over-regulate everything, they managed to usher in an age of massive growth due to their high-trust society, work ethic and tendency to obsessively chase success.
That can only take them so far and Poland has since entered a period of diminishing returns where their positive cultural traits can no longer push growth faster than the EU and socialist policies can retard it. Any further success from this point will need to be purchased through de-regulation and potentially exiting the EU.
Married, two kids. Wife is a Beacon in a dark world. I live in Poland and work in IT, which has been rough--out of work for 3 months now and thanks to the morons in Brussels fucking the economy of europe, my Industry has been trashed. Every job has 100+ applicants. Our family is no help whatsoever--It looks like I will be accepting a job in service desk soon just to have an income, despite being qualified for L2/L3 positions and a junior in DevOps.
Socialism is fucking rough.
I am not sure that it would be wrong of me to levy a moral judgement on the men who avoid marriage for all the (very real) reasons you've listed any more than it would be wrong of me to avoid levying a moral judgement on the women who have constructed this hellscape. In fact, I lament both--that women have been granted so much leeway and have selfishly demolished the foundation upon which their own well-being rests and was constructed and that men make the seeming rational decision to avoid the whole affair.
Some of us want to have children and believe in the power of Western Culture--what it once was rather than what it has been driven into being. I have a wife and children and a job and all that shit because it's the only effective way to build the future. It doesn't mean I think women should be voting or that men should bend the knee to women's interests; in fact men and women should probably not interact much at all except in domestic matters. But making babies, discharging the biological imperative, working for the good of my nation: All require marriage.
How do they plan to adjudicate conflicts between roman law and sharia? For example, in calling witnesses according to sex (illegal to discriminate currently) or holding contracts as binding (sharia allows contracts to non-muslims to be dissolved at will...) ?
try fermenting the potato before baking. The ferment will smell pretty bad because potatoes are like that, but the lactic acid added by the ferment produces the best damn fries you'll ever each. Plus the texture is better.
It's possible to grant a body of water natural filtering capacity with cat-tails and aquatic vegetation and various crtitters, even if there is no outflow. Surface vegetation, like duckweed, are especially effective. I dunno what the lake in Chestermere is like though.
a test-tube baby would have sooooooooo many developmental issues, it's not even funny. Anybody on this board who has kids can tell you how many things babies need from a mothers body and are evolved to grow in the presence of that I simply cannot imagine us ever being able to replicate. The complexity is just too high. We are still figuring new stuff out about gestation that surprises specialists all the time--the role that a fathers health and age plays in placenta development was discovered just within the last 2 years and it caught the scientists by surprise. what else don't we know?
Yes and no. The Asians have a some genetic drift from each other, and it would sense to split them into 3/4 groups, but the differences between those groups tends to be smaller than the differences between each of them and Whites, for example. The differences between Whites (as a whole) and Asians (as a whole) are smaller than the difference between both W and A and Blacks by a lot, and further, the differences between W and A are significantly smaller than the differences between each group of Blacks. So what you have are roughly two distinct groups of Humans--Blacks and Everybody else. Everybody else is more closely related to each other, despite being obviously distinct, than the Blacks are related to each other, let alone to the vast vast gulf between Blacks and Everybody else. For context, had we not industrialized and trivialized the size of the globe and geographic seperation between the races, Blacks and Everybody else were well on their way to complete speciation. I imagine in a few thousand more generations, we wouldn't be able to breed with them and produce viable offspring.
yeah, I saw that and sort of just shrugged. Gwen Stacy is Mysterio, for fucks sake. At least Peter actually has a functioning relationship with MJ. But His son is Venom by way of some sort of Stark nanobot suit. I'm a little let down by this one but also happy to see that MJ and Peter bang and have a relationship.
I use this one a lot these days, from toast of london
There is no reason to add damage for sneaking, an arrow does not gain penetrative power from having been launched from the shadows. Instead, it gains lethality from location of strike. Code your combat to include qualifiers to damage from whether an attack lands on armour, or on an exposed weakness. This has been my Ted Talk.
Bro, My father is teacher in Alberta and pulls 100k a year +. Way lower taxes there and they are desperate for teachers. Like, no PST at all, 5% gst and that's it. Why the fuck you in Quebec? It's a shithole for shitty people.