captainlezbian

Can they? I know in America we use corn ethanol in our gas and its common knowledge (read: I've heard it a million times and didn't look it up anytime in the past decade) that it uses more petroleum energy to obtain than you get out. Add in that our food supply is about to get worse because of climate change thats a concern.

Biofuel is great in cases like burning kudzu (fast growing invasive plant responsible for some impressive pictures) for fuel or in cases where weight to energy is vital like aviation. But there's a limit on how much can be used at any time

Yeah. And a lot of parental abuse happens in gray areas and with good intentions. Sure you have obvious cases, and they're common enough I'd suspect most people know someone or another who was a victim to one. But there's a hell of a lot of parents projecting their fears, traumas, or other issues relating to their kids onto them hard enough to fuck them up.

As someone who was raised in a firmly careered household (engineering though) it's always interesting to see other variations on it.

The problem is it's often difficult to admit you had abusive parents, and abusive parents love to describe themselves as just strict. So yeah it's kinda a euphemism

Yeah, naturalized citizens are supposed to be just as citizeny as someone like me who was born here, to citizens, and has ancestors that have been here since this was the united kingdom (I also have an immigrant grandparent, a combination which isn't even rare here).

Historically naturalization being revoked took some hard-core doing on all sides. Naturalization is hard (though it's easy if you're a minor who's parents do it, in which case it transfers to you under certain circumstances), and it involves a lot of checks and tests and takes years. Naturalized citizens tend to love America like nobody else, though those naturalized as children are more like us that were born here.

No European power has ever faced internal stress funding wars in the Americas, come on do it

Some do. My schooling made clear we were the good guys [relative] in that conflict. Sure we didn't talk about the "premature antifascist" designation, but we did get told of the inhumanity of the Japanese internment camps and how some Americans of Japanese decent (and even some Japanese immigrants) still wanted to fight Japan for our country. We also had acknowledgements that the Navajo code talkers were vital and had every reason not to want to aid us.

Other things we learned about that people assume we didn't include: the fact that our founding fathers were largely slave owners, that some of them were abolitionists and the fact that slavery was known to be evil at the time, the trail of tears, the fact that Nat Turner's rebellion inspired John Brown (though there was discussion on the ethics of their killing of children), the fact that we've broken nearly every treaty we've made with native Americans, and the fact that we overthrew multiple republics for cheap bananas.

That makes sense. To us it's the foundational story of our country. To you it's one of many losses of imperial holdings. And you were going through a thing with a mentally unwell king at the time.

Ah, a man so insane it's easy to forget how bigoted he was

Exactly. Money is a useful construct, but if you look at everything associated with it it's insane. A tool for tracking the value of goods and services has resulted in wall street, crypto currency, and people burying gold in their yards. It's become a status symbol to hold this placeholder for labor without doing labor.

I'm not necessarily on board with a moneyless society anytime soon, but I am definitely currency critical.

Yeah often "x is a social construct" as an argument means "you're treating it as if its immutable and a given"

I preferred dill. But something good and salty. I hate those sacharine pickles personally.