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Depends on how you define language. Apes, wolves, whales, elephants, squirrels, birds, even ants and bees have active communication systems.

Completely agree yet again ✌🏼

This is spot on, but I might add: They’re also potentially running for 2028 (since either Trump or Biden are both only allowed one more term)

Why not? Is there a statute of limitations about which I’m unaware? Me too, but that seems both peripheral to our discussion here AND like a good idea regardless of where we ultimately land on reparations.

We were aligned and I was right there with you until this last part. Their experience is felt every. Single. Day. Often multiple times throughout each day. See also: Cops murdering black kids at disproportionate rates, resumes with “black sounding” names being ignored and passed over by job recruiters and head hunters, being watch like a hawk by security guards at every store at the mall, at the convenience store, the bank, everywhere just for existing or driving “while black.” The experience CAN be and IS felt by people alive today in the US, and it’s worse in some places than others and isn’t limited to black folks or folks with ancestors in slavery.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_baptism#:~:text=Although the term "baptism" is,sourced water%2C called a mikva.

While this would surely be an ideal outcome, I personally classify it as extremely unrealistic and a bit pie in the sky so don't anchor myself to this as the core goal. It's a guiding lightpost, but not a destination IMO. Better. Not perfect. Now, not later. That's what's needed here... continued steps toward healing past injuries while IN PARALLEL striving toward avoidance of new injury.

Yeah. The pics pretty much confirm the space was too small for them to roll in a Xerox machine, even on very well made locking casters so phone would be easier. 😆 Pickup. Click. Done.

More likely is they photographed them with their phone and from there shared them however they saw fit far and wide in a nearly untraceable way.

Facts shmacks. He is a saint. Gods gift to humanity. Did nothing wrong. Couldn’t do anything wrong even if he wanted to. Practically Jesus himself and the justice department with their “laws” and “rules” are the devil trying to tear a good man down.

I appreciate you clarifying. Based on this, we seem to largely be on the same page, IMO. I'm not advocating a specific response at this point, only that a response is both needed and appropriate. I'm flexible on the details of how it gets implemented, but rigid on the idea that nothing should be done (if that makes sense). With that said, the more situationally specific and complex we make this, the less likely it is to get done and achieve the impact we desire, so I'm inclined to accept good enough over perfect.

I’m certain with sufficient chemistry knowledge and equipment one could identify toxins in various fungi found while foraging, but mostly this is an issue of education and apprenticeship under experts. Pictures for identification should include cap, stalk, gills, and surroundings in the field coupled with location and time of year. All mushrooms are edible, but some only once.

I’m sorry to hear you’re experiencing comprehension challenges.

I suspect nearly all of us agree that is an idealized final state, but what you and a handful of others seem to be suggesting is that dealing with this situation requires us to choose one or the the other as if they’re mutually exclusive. My and many others stance is simply that this either/or framing of the question is shortsighted and misguided since we very clearly can walk and chew bubble gum at the same time on this. We can strive toward both in parallel. It’s not either/or, it’s both/and. You continue focusing on stopping new future injuries and wounds which clearly nobody disagrees with, but that’s only half the picture. You seem to be ignoring the need to also heal existing wounds previously inflicted in the past. Stopping new cuts and sociopolitical insults is surely is a very good thing, but it it is an insufficient remedy on its own. Doing so in isolation won’t magically root out the infection and puss and rot and disease caused by existing past injuries… and (perhaps I misread you, but) you appear largely unwilling to even consider the appropriateness of healing those other existing injuries as a required parallel step… so the impasse persists due to some fictional narrative that the healing is itself adding to the injury. The systemic nature of the injustice means by definition that group members experienced it, even if they happen to have persevered and found a positive path through it. There’s a famous quote attributed to dancer Ginger Rogers saying that she had to do everything that her partner Fred Astaire did, but ‘backwards and in high heels’ and therefore with extra difficulty. The same applies here. Just because some managed to rise to the asymmetric challenges and additional burdens posed to them based solely on the melanin content of their dermal layers doesn’t mean the challenges themselves didn’t exist or weren’t embedded in thousands of often invisible ways into daily life and socioeconomic encounters (as already repeatedly highlighted and evidenced right here in this very thread). But sure. Keep us all talking in circles so we waste our time correcting your misguided impressions as a non-ally in this fight instead of spending time focusing on the real work of making things better for everyone.

Groups in this context are collections of individual people. You’re asserting a distinction without a difference. A distraction to sew doubt. A waste of bandwidth and time.

Okie dokie

I see. So your position is that reparations cannot be focused on the groups who experienced racism in the past because doing so would be racist. Roger that.

Light speed is invariant, constant relative to EVERYTHING. It is absolute, regardless of the characteristics of the observer. Rejecting that is like rejecting the sunrise in the morning. It’s true whether or not you accept it.

Nicely done ^

Was it? The Scientists: The World From Another Point of View

I appreciate how often and for how long you’ve been letting me live rent free in your mind and thoughts, but I’m happy to report that I’m already currently housed and domiciled. Encourage you to please simply forget about me, dismiss me as the stranger on the internet that I am, and move on with your life. Your well-being is important and the internet isn’t always conducive to nurturing it. Be well. May your path be peaceful, safe, and joyful.

Yes Some here have agreed to both parts, but not all. Many it seems, both here and elsewhere across society as a whole, still seek to obfuscate and obstruct progress toward the latter in any way they can and at every turn available. No such mechanism is possible, let alone accessible for deployment… IMO.

Uhuh

Time is relative, I know, but this mod note seems like forever ago