Tuesday, May 19, 2026

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 Two kind of exogamy in Central African tribes.  One tribe insisted on tribal exogamy, the other required males to travel long distances to find a wife.

Reforming Non-Profits with pricing. WRT a diversion program:  Adam is developing workarounds because the system as a whole is very difficult to reform. Here’s one idea: how about asking people in the system what they need? People in the justice system generally can’t vote with their wallets, but that doesn’t mean they can’t get a vote. He has piloted a program in which—gasp!—he asks people what they need to stay out of trouble down the road. If you are going to be released in six months, what do you need to get a job, find a place to live, support yourself? What is your biggest pain point? How can the resources available be used to solve this problem?  

Lisa Britton at the Institute for Family Studies on Girlboss Messaging being a problem in and of itself, hurting working class women who can least afford to live that way. She got exactly the inaccurate pushback you would expect, of people claiming she was saying something else.

The growing acceptance of "snuck" v, "sneaked."  Such things are not unusual in themselves, but this one has a twist. It is based on a Proto-Germanic form that somehow still just sounds right to us

 

 

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