racism
I find the way that some people understand what is and isn't racism mystifying.
TO ME? Saying (lying!) about Black Haitian immigrants "eating cats and dogs" is wildly racist and probably worse than putting the most powerful and untouchable Black American couple in a racist video as apes?
Like both are bad. But the "eating dogs and cats" thing whew! Stinky.
And yet there are these people who were shocked by the video and unmoved by the "cats and dogs" line?
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racism
What is the issue? It's the same thing. It's a prejudice that Black people are primitive and inhuman. Like apes or some animal that attacks your pets. It's the same racism.
Is it that they don't care if it's not powerful people?
Dazzled by the wealth and power of the Obamas and so you can recognize an insult to them but not to some regular blackfolks?
It is really odd and I do not get it.
These things are equal and we only got a retraction for ONE of them. 2/
racism
I find the way that some people understand what is and isn't racism mystifying.
TO ME? Saying (lying!) about Black Haitian immigrants "eating cats and dogs" is wildly racist and probably worse than putting the most powerful and untouchable Black American couple in a racist video as apes?
Like both are bad. But the "eating dogs and cats" thing whew! Stinky.
And yet there are these people who were shocked by the video and unmoved by the "cats and dogs" line?
1/
Amazon was thought it was cute to call their webservices "the mechanical Turk" after the fraudulent chess-playing robot with a person inside.
But these revelations about Waymo, and also Amazon shops... the fact they they hide and must be forced to admit "what we claimed was software is just people" isn't cute at all.
If #Prototaxites isn't a fungi, and it's not a plant: What on earth is it?
It would be very strange to have a living thing from a previously unknown branch of life AND it's this huge giant towering structure.
What if it was the first thing to crack the code for growing large? A runaway.
WHAT IF ITS ALIENS?
(someone calm me down please)
OK what if it's Siphonophore-like? Or something lichen like? eg not just one organism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqT8Q8plKJ8
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec6277
It would be so fitting if aliens showed up. And they were just these big dildos as tall as a house that hung around for a few million years then moved on.
(There isn't any good reason to think it's not part of earth life, sadly. It's just not fitting into any major group very well. But it has always been an outlier. If only we could ask the early arthropods, they knew the answers.)
If #Prototaxites isn't a fungi, and it's not a plant: What on earth is it?
It would be very strange to have a living thing from a previously unknown branch of life AND it's this huge giant towering structure.
What if it was the first thing to crack the code for growing large? A runaway.
WHAT IF ITS ALIENS?
(someone calm me down please)
OK what if it's Siphonophore-like? Or something lichen like? eg not just one organism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqT8Q8plKJ8
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec6277
This video only has 600 views and the whole channel is amazing and the kind of thing we like around here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q10vTx6I7J0
Heated gloves are amazing. Soothing to arthritis, they can make bitter cold winter days tolerable.
The main reason I suspect they are not more popular is the annoying matter of keeping them charged. It’s really easy to forget to turn them off.
What if the glove could detect if there was hand present?
* What if they turn off if you clip them together?
* What if you make a fist and squeeze and that turns them on for 5 min?
* How else could they detect when to be on/off?
I was surprised to find out that heated mittens go back to at least the 70s. I wonder if there are even older inventions along these lines.
"Unsnap elastic band when heating action is no longer needed."
We have been dreaming of this for half a century.
I know one of the horsemen is called "Pestilence" but I didn't expect him to be a Kennedy.
So who are the other three?
I think I know who "War" is.
CS people what do you call // ?
As in 16//5=3
* integer divide
* double divide
* floor
* floor divide
Heated gloves are amazing. Soothing to arthritis, they can make bitter cold winter days tolerable.
The main reason I suspect they are not more popular is the annoying matter of keeping them charged. It’s really easy to forget to turn them off.
What if the glove could detect if there was hand present?
* What if they turn off if you clip them together?
* What if you make a fist and squeeze and that turns them on for 5 min?
* How else could they detect when to be on/off?
Does anyone know of a highly durable and reliable clip like this “side release buckle” that is also an electric switch?
I see the wires connecting such a switch as another possible point of failure. So maybe it would be better to not have wires. What about a latch that needs no power source and sends a signal via NFC or something when closed or opened?
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