@roseromaunt I doubt most people frequently encounter western neo-pagans?
Like we're all cool about Stonehenge!
Besides, there's a big active polytheistic religion out there called Hinduism.
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Poké Pleiosaur from Paleo Pallet Town 😇 fringe minority with unacceptable views ⚔️ natural-rights hereditarian conservative ✊️ Je suis Charlie
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Because
1. Shinto is only really a nominal religion in Japan
2. Westerners don’t encounter it frequently
3. It’s not constructed primarily in reaction to western Christianity
RebuildPaganism@RebuildPaganism
Christians hate paganism when its their own ancestors beliefs, but when its the Japs its somehow fine.
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@Rho_die @avrilbradley23 The majority of US gun deaths are suicides. Not the vast majority, but enough that it hits multiple kinds of red states: the high-homicide-rate Deep South, and the high-suicide-rate Mountain West.
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@avrilbradley23 I agree 2nd Amendment lead to more homicides, if the data was collectible on a local level I think you’d see harsher local gun restrictions lead to more gun deaths.
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Always funny seeing the cope when RW data guys point out the obvious
Emil Kirkegaard@KirkegaardEmil
Guns do cause extra deaths net of demographics. emilkirkegaard.com/p/do-gun-owner…
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@avrilbradley23 I get her point, but I'd hope people can work out better ways to teach foreign languages in school rather than abandoning it.
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These people outnumber the "why don't high schools have Latin courses anymore?" classical education types 20 to 1 btw.
Christine@clharrington024
Absolutely!!! Why are we STILL requiring students to take foreign language in high school when there is virtually no benefit. Do high schoolers become fluent in the foreign language? No. Does it have a high ROI on cognitive development and brain health? Also no. Students’ brains would benefit more from 60 minutes of aerobic exercise than from sitting in a foreign language class. Also, we all have translators in our pockets. This is one of the many requirements in education whose time has expired. Public ed must stop wasting students’ time.
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>have permanent retainer on the bottom
>wore nightly retainer on the top
>went to new dentist
>he spooked me about tooth grinding
>got occlusal guard instead
>sucks too much, stop wearing either of them at night
>basically nothing happened
Greentext Poster@GreenTextRepost
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@avrilbradley23 Wall Street Journal and the Daily Worker at the same time
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If I don't talk about something, it's because I'm practicing "quietism," the ancient art of being quiet.
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@AlbionoPolak @ShitpostRock2 A census is likely to be more accurate sure. This is a poll that showed basically all minorities were overestimated (and majorities overestimated) as though some people were basically rounding it to half.
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Poland was literally 90% Christian prior to the German invasion. Why even lie about this stuff?
♣️♥️Поколение Бета за Казино♠️♦️@TheNanaSama
@ShitpostRock2 Niga half of poland were jews at the time
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@AccolonsMetal @avrilbradley23 I'm more curious if factions within evangelicalism can work to disentangle their faith from Israel.
The pivot is statistically likely given where young people are on the issue. But it requires rethinking common interpretations of end times prophecy.
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@AccolonsMetal @avrilbradley23 Christopher's combining multiple issues for a polemic point, sure.
-Most people are ignorant of some Wikipedia geography knowledge.
-Diehard sectarians exist.
-Christian Zionists have supported actions which harmed Middle Eastern Christians
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This seems like the easy answer but not really true-mainstream evangelicalism is relatively ecumenical and the average megachurcher essentially holds to "mere Christianity" type view anyone who is Trinitarian and holds to conservative moral values is a Christian.
Christopher Hale@ChristopherHale
Today’s reaction has made it clear that the majority of MAGA evangelicals don’t consider Catholics in the Middle East to be real Christians.
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@OhioChick_ @MythoAmerica Probably not AI. Maybe it varies depending on location.
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@LaprasIRL @MythoAmerica Credit Only makes this pic seem AI. Is it?
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@OhioChick_ @MythoAmerica Then it must be Steak 'n Shake, since last year
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@loquitur_ponte @Empty_America @cwrichardson A doctor shortage affects everyone. The supply should be forced to expand by government action.
but yeah making doctors scarce makes them expensive, and people have been learning ways to make do without them.
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@Empty_America @cwrichardson Fwiw i think the right answer probably looks more like enhancing the ability to do more without supervision (with some corresponding liability protection) in sufficiently underserved areas of roles that have medical education but fall below a full MD.
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Everything has a price, but sometimes that price is so high as to be prohibitive.
The "clearing price" to get American doctors into rural areas may simply be higher than those economies can support.
Are urbanites willing to subsidize doctors at 1 million a year to go rural?
Peter Robinson@PeterRobinsonMD
There is no solution for the shortage of physicians outside of desirable metropolitan areas in the US. This is a consequence of these areas being 60-70 years into a process of outmigration. Doctors match the distribution of other skilled professions, but people somehow imagine physicians will choose to move to the towns that architects, engineers, scientists and even athletes and artists leave.
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@AntonTwerkovitz @Empty_America Warm beaches within a short flight get many tourists just for that, for the party atmosphere.
An American might only go to Spain for its unique culture. We have dozens of beachy locations around our own continent.
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@Empty_America You're probably more likely to see this type of German there and a more mild mannered German tourist in the states. I'd wager the typical American tourist in Spain would also be the mild mannered type, at least more so than the German visiting Spain.
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Oddly, when I was in Spain the Germans seemed quite boorish in restaurants.
Large groups, men loudly demanding "Cerveza Grande, Grande. . ."
Gesturing with the hands to indicated the desired size of beer.
lordinvader@ethinva
@Empty_America Ironically Americans permanently living there are generally ok. Tourists just have an oversized footprint on an area. Do you want to go to a quiet cafe in Japan and hear tables loudly yapping, ignoring local manners and struggling to order?
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All 13 Western states have peaks over 10k ft. Neat thing separating them from the other 37 states.
Mt. Mitchell puts NC at #16 among US states by highest point (behind TX and SD).
Rugged Mt. Katahdin is just over a mile high, putting Maine at #22.
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
Tallest mountain in the continental US east of the Mississippi: Mount Mitchell, 6,684 feet. Tallest mountain west of the Mississippi: Mount Whitney, 14,505 feet
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@razibkhan Well it is pretty clear that the ancient Israelite religion was a reform of Canaanite polytheism into monotheism, basically what Zoroaster did in Iran.
All the warnings about worshipping idols are like, "don't go back to the old pantheon."
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@wernervonwaffle @antlionai @Empty_America The kids mostly don't have a basic knowledge of local French to build on so idk.
But the Cajun accent does seem like a surviving relic of widespread bilingualism.
In my area it was more common to sound just plain Southern. Maybe not in Lafayette, Houma, nearby rural areas.
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@wernervonwaffle @antlionai @Empty_America Yep, I'm from the western part of Cajun country, had a grandma who spoke French. It was taught about the same as a foreign language would be, standard Parisian French textbooks.
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French persists in some rural areas, but the level of erasure in New Orleans is amazingly complete.
Even the Cathedral masses went to English for the vernacular parts around 1920.
Not sure but there may be ~0 native speakers now born and raised in that city.
U. Perkins, Sr.@JustAFamilyMan_
He is definitely right. I have heard from literal Québécois use Louisiana as a horror story for French heritage erasure. They do not play about that.
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@electionsjoe I've heard that post-2020 some people who'd otherwise be DC suburbanites started to drift south into more central parts of Virginia
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@electionsjoe Remote workers can tolerate being >1 hour away, and DC took to remote work much like SF
also just a naturally beautiful area
not Coal Country with long-term decline and dysfunction baked in
and geography not too rugged to build on
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Lol is the Panhandle population increase from Republicans trying to move into a red state from Maryland and Virginia?
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
I'll be honest you guys, I'm not really sure how much of a future WV has.
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The language connection makes sense from geography: The capital of Laos is on the Thai border, the 530 miles of it following the Mekong River, but the Laos–Vietnam border is mountainous.
Old Saigon isn't far from Phnom Penh.
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>Thai and Laotians
>Vietnamese and Cambodians
Language-family-pilled.
Both these combos have official languages in the same family, which no other country's official language is part of.
(There is a contrast with 🇰🇭🇱🇦 being poorer and less populous than 🇻🇳🇹🇭 though.)
Yiran 🚆@kroketrendang
Groups that have high similarity but are really insecure about it: - Jews and Arabs - Indians and Pakistanis - Moroccans and Algerians - British and Irish - Koreans and Japanese - Greeks and Turks - Thai and Laotians - Vietnamese and Cambodians - Indonesians and Malaysians
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