American_Badass [none/use name] @ American_Badass @hexbear.net

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It's probably useful to differentiate between Amish and Mennonite here. Mennonites I know use mad technology for business, including planes. The Mennonite homes I've been in (not many, but a couple), did not have electricity in them, and had root cellars, oil lamps, etc.

An Amish dude did some windows for me and I didn't see any vehicles at his home, and used hand tools, near as I could tell. But idk, this probably changes so much between different communities and shit. Every time I go to town to get groceries, I see Mennonites in aldi. I don't believe I've seen Amish there. The only interactions I've had with the Amish I had to drive to them.

Always slightly uncomfortable.

Well said. I live close to some Amish and a ton of old order Mennonites. I've seen one too many children's stools in front of rocket stoves and suspiciously young girls with babies.

Generally seem to provide for the other members of their community, but the organization of that community isn't great. And that's what I know about them, which is little given how insular they are.

I did have a sit down meeting with a Mennonite business owner about doing a website for his company, which was one of the strangest encounters of my life.

No electricity in their homes, but I guess for businesses they break that rule?

This really made me laugh, lmao. I'm going to start asking my currently pregnant wife this, haha!

"have I caused a pregnancy?", I ask very normal as it's so normal to say.

Beautiful. Reminds me of former libertarian candidate for Illinois governor, Kash Jackson. Brave family court warrior eventually sentenced to prison for threatening to kill the family court judges.

Yeah, that sounds pretty normal, I guess. The time-frame part is probably based on how new you are as well as the nature of the task. I did quite a bit of that type of thing when I started, basically fixing tech debt, and small stuff.

If it's something you want to bring up, I think you expressed yourself pretty clearly. You could schedule some time with your boss to talk about it.

What would frustrate me would be the rework I was doing. If you could maybe even set up a short weekly meeting? Show your boss what you're doing and they could tell you if it's the right track or not.

Men are not good enough for Communism, but are they good enough for Capitalism? If all men were good-hearted, kind, and just, they would never exploit one another, although possessing the means of doing so. With such men the private ownership of capital would be no danger. The capitalist would hasten to share his profits with the workers, and the best remunerated workers with those suffering from occasional causes. If men were provident they would not produce velvet and articles of luxury while food is wanted in cottages: they would not build palaces as long as there are slums.

I've heard talk about this for a long time, generally called the Samson option, obviously after the biblical figure. Thing is, it just sounds like a "normal" nuclear deterrence strategy of mutually assured destruction, but I know very, very little about it.

Seymour Hersh has a book about Israel's nuclear history (called Samson option). I've never personally read it, but Hersh is a respected journalist and I'm sure there's some useful information in it, if you're interested.

I don't understand Israel and nukes anyhow. They're obviously nuclear armed, but also somewhat ambiguous about that fact. So I don't know how it functions as a deterrent if it's a secret.

Hard to say, comrade. I think it's pretty common in this industry to take a low paying job and transition that into more pay. Part of me says enjoy the whimsy while you're young, but idk. In my current role it'd be so hard for me to take a paycheck to paycheck gig, and I understand the hesitation.

I guess you'll know more if/when you get an offer. If you've applied 100 places and it looks bleak, you may have it decided for you.

The immigration shit is what I really have zero knowledge about. I basically could have picked a person for a nice internship at my last job, but they wouldn't hire the person I put up because of sponsoring a foreign national, but that's for the US, blah blah. Could be completely different elsewhere.

If you see someone calling a teacher a cop, I assure you it's because they were given a detention or a phone call to mom earlier in the day.

I've lived in the sticks basically my entire life. I think there are some criticisms here that are valid concerning the subsidies and environmental aspect of sustaining rural life, but there is definitely some idealist takes about about reactionary opinions here that I think could do with some more nuance.

Maybe I'm too close to it. I've seen "main street" crumble for years, and seen this lil mining community poisoned with opioids. Everything closed, but the county jail got expanded.

I've been working as a developer for a few years, but barely ever leave the tiny place I grew up. Well, work experience is always great. Basically everywhere wants experienced devs.

It doesn't sound like you're accepted into a master's program or anything. Is there anything preventing you from working for a couple of years and then deciding on whether you want to go abroad? Maybe even just immigrate and avoid the additional schooling?

Idk, cs is so weird like if you know the right person you can make a ton of cash, but I know other people working as temporary contractors. I'd be hesitant to pass it up, but I'm extremely risk averse and no desire to move.

My wife used to be friends in high school with this couple that ended up being super reactionary. The dude ended up getting testosterone because he couldn't get abs. He's ostensibly opposed to gender affirming care unless he's trying to be hotter. I thought this shit was hard to get? Just not for lunatics?

Idk, I was a maintenance man for some apartments and I would have done it. We had spares for the apartments so we could get in if there was work to be done when the tenant wasn't home.

But most of the work went straight to me, my boss didn't really tell me what jobs to work and which not. If you haven't broken in already, maybe call the maintenance guy yourself if you have the number.

In the story, the cookies in the box are thrown outside to be devoured by birds to spare Frog and Toad the temptation. My youngest loves Frog and Toad. Grandma got them stuffed animal Frog and Toad, very cute.

I thought this exact thing, but the more I learned about them, it turned out to really not be true. While there is a kind of meme culture there of asking Xi to nuke the town they're currently residing in, and pointing out all of the white supremacist symbols used by the Ukraine's army or whatever, there is a deeper context for it.

They don't necessarily support every move these people make and particularly in regards to Putin there is a lot of criticism towards his social stances.

They're more looking at this through the lens of what a nato conflict is causing in terms of a more multi-polar world and also Russia turning away from the neoliberalism that has dominated it since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Not saying you have to agree with it. I'm more of a centrist myself, but it's really not fair to say this as a blanket statement with no context.

This is essentially what I used to think as well, until I spent more time there. There's some stock phrases busted out, and some users probably leave it at that and don't engage beyond it. However, they genuinely have a deeper framework for an analysis of the world than what you're going to see from conservatives.

Basically as part of their extremely liberal ideology, they analyze things through a materialist lens, even the non-marxist liberals there, and through that there is a lot of seeking out of what material causes and contradictions have lead to where we are which can be really neat.

There is probably some disagreement over what is fascist, what's not, blah blah. But it's really not as simple as "what I don't like is fascism".

I am on hexbear because I like the memes. I consider myself a centrist, but I do agree with their general stance of a revolution that leads to the abolition of private property, there should be a dictatorship of the proletariat, and the complete dedication to elevating our marginalized comrades. I just try not to get political there, and it's fine really.

I know Hexbear skews very, very liberal. I haven't spent much time in other lemmy places.

Surely it's a bit, LMAO. How is that something that could even be witnessed? Where is the open air empt water bottle market even located? :data-laughing:

Idk, comrade. You're saying that a post regarding the inferiority of a nonwestern country posted on a notoriously racist website is racist? Have you ever considered that China bad?