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#41
notions / Re: DiversityWatch
Last post by prime - May 29, 2025, 02:41 PM
DiversityWatch (May 29, 2025): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.

https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-may-29-2025/
#42
notions / Re: Divorce, cheating, and inf...
Last post by prime - May 29, 2025, 02:40 PM
QuoteThe study found that after a divorce, parents move apart, household income falls, parents work longer hours, families move more frequently and households relocate to poorer neighborhoods with less economic opportunity, leading to children's long-term struggles to recover financially and socially.

"These changes in family life reveal that rather than an isolated legal shock, divorce represents a bundle of treatments—including income loss, neighborhood changes and family restructuring—each of which might affect children's outcomes," wrote the authors of the working paper made available by the U.S. Census Bureau, including Associate Professor Nolan Pope of UMD's Department of Economics, Andrew C. Johnston at the University of California, Merced and Maggie R. Jones of the Census Bureau.

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-divorce-children-term-chances-teen.html
#43
motion / Re: Pipe Smoking
Last post by prime - May 25, 2025, 06:08 AM
The newest incarnation of Fruit McBullshit involves Armonia mixed with Cube Cut Burley and a scattering of shake from a bag for Brown Twist Sliced. It is strong enough, has the floral flavor that is cheerful and therefore relaxing, although they toss in fruits and chocolate as well. They claim they add rum, because of course everyone adds rum to every tobacco, but it seems to be a minor influence. The Armonia blend itself has the bittersweet flavor of Orientals and the sweetness of Virginia, but the "natural Cavendish" made from dark fired Kentucky Burley gives it its body. With the Cube Cut Burley this mellows and gains a little strength, diluting the topping and sweetness, and the small amounts of Brown Twist Sliced nudge it over the nicotine minimum. While aromatics are normally not my thing, this aromatic uses high-quality flavorings and has a subtle mix like that of Prince Albert which naturally melds with tobacco flavor and so is appealing in its own right. It is like fancy tobacco with a pleasant outlook, and that makes it perfect for a weekend of puttering and muttering around trying to fix things in an unfixable world.
#44
notions / Re: Divorce, cheating, and inf...
Last post by prime - May 24, 2025, 08:32 AM
QuoteA microphone-wielding Galante addressed his party guests with his realtor wife by his side.

"I f–king know everything," Galante says in the footage. "That's right, b–ch, I know everything. I know all about the Plan B pills you had to take, you filthy f–king whore.

"Don't act like you don't f–king know," he told his shrugging wife.

https://nypost.com/2025/05/24/us-news/firefighter-from-viral-video-files-for-divorce-after-accusing-wife-of-cheating/

QuoteA nationwide survey of 1,600 employees found that women now work almost 34 hours a week on average - half a day longer than the figure of 30.4 hours five years ago.

Over the same five-year period, men's average work hours fell from 45.5 hours per week to 44.8 hours, although among the hardestworking males the number putting in more than 49 hours a week has passed the three million mark.

Separate research from the Office of National Statistics shows the average salary gap between men and women has grown from 18 per cent to 19 per cent over the past three years - largely because of disproportionate pay rises among senior bosses, more of whom are male.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-205049/Women-work-longer-hours-men.html
#45
notions / Re: DiversityWatch
Last post by prime - May 22, 2025, 03:53 PM
African-Americans get a raw deal in this society and always have.

https://www.amerika.org/politics/why-african-americans-are-getting-screwed-by-this-system/

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DiversityWatch (May 22, 2025): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.

https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-may-22-2025/
#46
notions / Re: Divorce, cheating, and inf...
Last post by prime - May 22, 2025, 10:54 AM
QuoteThere is no one-size-fits-all prenuptial agreement. Some dictate the distribution of the couple's assets or payment of maintenance upon divorce. Others protect assets from being touched. For those who intend to start a family, provisions on arrangements for children may also be included.

This growing acceptance of prenuptial agreements seems to be motivated by a desire for certainty and assurance – that it is more desirable for couples to agree on important matters before entering into marriage, rather than allowing them to become a potential source of disappointment or acrimony down the road.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3311280/modern-marriage-hong-kong-prenuptial-agreement-or-deed-love
#47
notions / Re: Divorce, cheating, and inf...
Last post by prime - May 21, 2025, 12:54 PM
QuoteInstead, the statement that William (who was a small child at the time) was her "one onely Cozen or friend" seems to indicate in sanitised, non-incriminating language that William was, in fact, her child. The coded language and absence of formal documentary recognition of Captain West as her son supports the illegitimate nature of his birth. It also explains why Elizabeth never married, as bearing a child out of wedlock would have likely rendered her unmarriageable, isolated her socially and caused her considerable shame (Macfarlane Reference Macfarlane, Laslett, Oosterveen and Smith1980). This predicament could also explain why William was given his first name and kept the West surname.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/historical-and-archaeogenomic-identification-of-highstatus-englishmen-at-jamestown-virginia/E04D83E224FA5C15B5CC08D0703FE9B0
#48
motion / Re: Pipe Smoking
Last post by prime - May 19, 2025, 08:17 PM
I went back to Fruit McBullshit. For those who have missed the last few years of pipe drama, Fruit McBullshit is a recipe that originally involved 50/50 shredded Cotton Boll Twist and Mac Baren Armonia. The latter is really the best aromatic I have ever smoked, a mixture of Virginias, Burleys, and "natural Cavendish" which is basically steamed dark fired Kentuck Burley, coated with some kind of uncomplicated ingredients in a complicated mixture of fruit, tea, flowers, and possibly the risen undead. It reminds me weirdly of Mixture 79 or the Lakeland Essence but gentler and lighter, a very cheerful scent and flavor. These days Brown Twist Slice gets added to the mix to kick up the nicotine and sweeten it a bit, since this is the sweetest natural blend that is not saccharine that I have smoked. The new Fruit McBullshit may triumph over even the old, although I badly miss those minimally-altered Burley ropes.
#49
notions / Re: Divorce, cheating, and inf...
Last post by prime - May 13, 2025, 03:35 PM
Quote"Heil Hitler" is the latest single from Kanye West's forthcoming album Cuck. In the song he talks about how the world has been cruel to him. "Man, these people took my kids from me / Then they froze my bank account / I got so much anger in me," Ye raps. It is these tribulations, he sings, that made him a Nazi.

https://www.404media.co/kanyes-nazi-song-is-all-over-instagram/
#50
notions / Re: Divorce, cheating, and inf...
Last post by prime - May 12, 2025, 04:44 PM
QuoteNaomi Judd's widower, Larry Strickland, said the late country music legend shot at him after learning about his infidelity.

Judd said how her and Strickland were "wildly, madly, passionately in love," but her husband was never home.

The Grammy Award-winner then recalled getting a call from a woman from the Northeast in the 1980s, saying how much "she loved and missed" Strickland.

https://www.masslive.com/entertainment/2025/05/country-music-legend-fired-gun-at-husband-after-learning-he-cheated.html