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And journalists, also exercising their constitutionally protected rights Maybe Trump needs to send in the army to bring the police under control.

People do actually research and study these things. So there are people who know what should be done. De-escalation techniques work better than going in with more force. But politicians like to look "tough" so they tend to go for the solutions that don't work. Please provide the evidence that this claim is based on. The racial mix of the police force is not as important as the dominant police culture of violence: https://daily.jstor.org/hiring-more-black-officers-key-reducing-police-violence/

Ah, bless. That's so sweeeeet.

In some cases, yes. More often, being black just makes things worse - more likely to stopped, more likely to be arrested, more likely to be killed. Why doesn't that surprise me. I prefer to live in a civilised country.

As regards to the topic of this thread, by the police. Right. And the Apollo moon missions were faked by Stanley Kubrick. Oh, well. That's it then. It obviously never happens if you have never seen it. It is not the absolute number that is so significant (even that it is pretty appalling) it is how it compares to other groups of the population. But that's OK. Because you have never seen it. So it doesn't happen. I know you don't actually read any of the evidence provided, because you want to stay in your little bubble of xenophobic comfort, but here is some more background: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52904593

Have you not noticed that about 80% of the population carry a high quality movie camera around with them all the time? That is why there are thousands of videos online (of, admittedly, variable quality) of the police attacking and beating peaceful protestors, knocking old men walking away from the scene, shooting at pregnant women, arresting journalists doing their job, and so on. That would be quite uncontroversial. But why do you think that people (like you) start getting upset when it is pointed out that "human lives" includes "black lives" and that those black lives are regularly treated as if they don't matter?

Ah, the "no true scotsman" fallacy. You are going for conspiracy theory now, rather than see the obvious reality?

Profoundest apologies! Fixed now.

As you are either not reading or not understanding anything that is said to you, I have nothing else to say. Your determination to remain ignorant so that you don't have to question your racist views is depressing. No, it is sickening. I have nothing more to say to you. (Nothing polite, anyway.)

Apart from the fact that this is not true, it is irrelevant. For one thing, the existence of the slave trade affected many other areas. For example, Bristol in the UK became a centre for the slave trade. That made many people in Bristol and elsewhere in the UK very rich. It also meant that that they saw black people as a product to be traded, not as human. Similarly, most people in the US did not have slaves but, because they lived in a slave-owning culture, they too saw black people as less than human. As things to be bought and sold. Things to do the unpleasant work that "real people" (white people) didn't want to do. And this is not some event that happened in the distant past, that has only theoretical relevance to the real world. People who grew up as slaves were still alive in my lifetime. The legacy of segregation, and considering black people as less than human has continued ever since. To feel you have to go through these mental contortions to pretend that slavery didn't happen or doesn't matter is kind of impressive but also very sad. I don't know what it will take to open your mind to the reality of the world we live in. Just ... NO. Sheesh. It proves no such thing. And this is just another blatant falsehood. Are you just stunningly ignorant or deliberately lying? OK. I guess we can go with "ignorant" then. Maybe you should educate yourself before further making more idiotic statements. Firstly, systemic racism is not "organised". (Did you watch that video earlier? I assume not.) Secondly: POWER & PRIVILEGE. Also, please provide a source for these figures.

I don't think so. It probably just means that the label is a bit too much "short hand" (as labels tend to be). So, if my guess about the responses by EU immigrants were correct, then it might be better to label it "White / native privilege". And then you begin to see why certain groups are called "white nationalists" because it is more than just race; they feel that "others" are polluting their "native purity". (Doubly ironic for the USA where the majority white population are not native to the land). But I think that trying to discuss all of the complexities around different types of prejudice, against different groups, in different societies, for different reasons, may take us too far off topic. I think the black experience in the USA is uniquely bad because of the history of slavery. (Plus the inherent inequalities between rich and poor of any colour, produced by the American system) Good point. Or who they feel threatened by.

I suspect that Polish (and other European) migrants in the UK would do pretty badly on this after the last few years.

You do have more power and privilege than black people (or other minorities). The fact you are not ware of it is part of the problem. Here, try this: How many fingers do you have left?

While this may have exacerbated things, and encouraged more young (often white) kids to join in for the "fun" and looting, the underlying problem is real and almost entirely a problem of race. We have seen the same scenes pay out before (in the USA and the UK) for very similar reasons. Unfortunately, in the USA, almost nothing has changed. After the Brixton riots, the local police did change their behaviour somewhat which improved the situation. But if you're a young, black male you are still going to be treated with suspicion. Yeah, that doesn't help.

I don't think this is making light. It is likely to be a major problem. And, of course, it is blacks and other minorities who are worse hit by Covid-19 (for a variety of reasons). Making light of it would be to suggest that Trump will be recommending tear gas as a cure.

Even if prejudice is equally common across all groups, that is not the point. It misses the point by several light years. White people are in positions of privilege, authority and power. They have the power to exploit and abuse black people (and other minorities) with impunity. Even without that, they have advantages because of their privilege: they don't have to put up with daily insults because of their race, they don't get treated with suspicion whenever they go shopping, they don't have to worry about being repeatedly stopped by the police for no reason, they don't have to teach their children how not to be killed by the police. President Lyndon Johnson https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/27-the-sixties/lyndon-johnson-howard-university-commencement-address-1965/

People very rarely (never?) say that to be inclusive. They do it to deny the message that black people’s life’s are just as important as theirs. They are saying “how dare you tell me that your life matters”. And that is a despicable statement.

And your point is? Are you saying that "everyone" does not include black people!? Are you saying that therefore black lives don't matter?? Did you miss that large graphic summarising the research that a disproportionate number of black men are murdered by the police. Almost as if their lives don't matter? If you are really struggling with comprehending this then maybe stick "as well" or "just as much" on the end of black lives matter. Let's be absolutely blunt, if someone responds to Black Live Matter with "but all lives matter" (or with "but" followed by anything else) then their racism is part of the problem.

That is a ridiculous statement. https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793

You cannot equate spacetime curvature with time dilation. For all the reasons that have been explained to you repeatedly and in great detail by many people over many years. As you desire to replace the Einstein Field Equations with some simplistic model based on a refractive aether, you very obviously do want to replace GR. "I don't want to replace GR, I just want it to be completely different. And give the wrong results."

That loud noise you can hear is my head hitting the table repeatedly. I give up. Have it your own way,. You are a genius. Einstein was wrong. Everyone else is blind to the simple truth. I think this thread has run its course.

No, I’m saying there is a relationship but not a direct or necessarily simple one. I’ll work out an example... Imagine two planets with exactly the same surface gravity but where one is 10% heavier and has a 5% larger radius. There will be a slight difference in gravitational time dilation: clocks on the larger one will run about 3 billionths of a percent(*) slower (I think I've got that the right way round). So gravity and time dilation are related but not directly. (*) I really should have chosen a more extreme example, but I can't be bothered to go through it again.

Fundamental doesn't mean easily solvable. It depends how you define independent. And, perhaps, how you define "gravitational attraction" as you are equating it to spacetime curvature. They are clearly related because they have the same cause. But the usual meaning of gravitational attraction is the "force of gravity" (the acceleration due to gravity, g here on Earth). In which case, there is direct relationship between the two. You can have two places with the same value of g but different time dilation. (Or the same time dilation but very different values of g.)

Science doesn't care about whether things are "obvious" or not. One of the main reasons for the scientific method is to avoid such erroneous "common sense". Obviously not true. You have had the same flaws pointed out in great detail by a large number of people over very many years. Yet you cling stubbornly to your baseless "theory".

This is only possible for a finite number of layers. The halting problem may require an infinite number and is therefore not solvable. You may think that. And you cannot solve the halting problem with finite layers. (This is simply equivalent to building a bigger or faster computer C+1 to find out if computer C will halt or not.)