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I'm just clowning around as usual. 🤣 However, as an old man and without TMI, I've been around long enough to know a lot too.😎

Enjoy the design. I will make a design all mine for the second and for the third I will do a star trek 3d chess. Any suggestions or thoughts, please and all are welcome to join in. I used, Figuro to create and hosted on SKetchfab. Richard Murray Chesstable 01 by richardmurray3d on Sketchfab

I wish American legislators were as aggressive with the misinformation propagated on American platforms. TikTok is a threat in terms of revenue, as Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube are all trying to mimic the platform. They are all manipulation engines designed to generate profit. Are we afraid that China will use the data against us to spread misinformation in the United States? Facebook has already allowed Russians to do this. AALBC in recent weeks has become a platform where misinformation is being propagated. Someone posted here that the average IQ on the African Continent is 70! I had half a mind to delete that false information but chose not to. I felt the person who made the post really believed what they were posting, as opposed to being a racist troll just trying to crap on these forums. It is a very thin line between those behaviors, and it is more art than science trying to discern the difference. Like most people, the person who posed that fake fact will not have their mind changed. My only hope is that someone who reads that nonsense will read the arguments against and learn something. @frankster has been invaluable in dispatching those racist arguments. To prevent the ideas from being expressed is to make believe they do not exist and limits one's perspective.

Those millions of dead fish will make for great fertilizer. The sooner people get them underneath dirt and plant something, that will make for great crop growth and harvest. 😁 At 5 billion years old, the Earth has the process of purging and replenishing itself well beyond a science.😎

Let's hope the racist newbies don't stick around for too long polluting the forum. 😎

This is what Frantz Fanon, a much-quoted psychologist popular among 1960 militants, defined as cognitive dissonance. it's a mental state akin to possession, a mind-set where your whole world would collapse if your beliefs are relinquished. So denial takes over.. This does not bode well for the future of America. It won't be weapons and technology that bring about an implosion. It will be what is at the root of every Empire's downfall; a clash of entrenched beliefs.

Where's my girl, Mel? I would certainly be interested in hearing her take on this subject - if she can manage to plow through the opinionated swill of the viagra brigade passing judgment on what they have presumably never experienced, clueless about the female snickering that male boobs and testicles swinging below their knees, and penises that require women to fake orgasms, brings on. 🤣 Watta ya think, Chevdov? Because her brain is actually the female's sex organ, older women who date young men are really lowering their standards, catering to their baser instincts. And why the obnoxious, nauseating pioneer continues to fantasize about me is yet another indication of how removed he is from reality. 🤮

Do you all believe in beating the snot out of... I mean, spanking your child? I don't have children(yet), but I don't trust a lot of new gen ideas that only talking to children teaches them correction. I believe that works with some children who have the sweetest demeanor but others, who live to cause destruction, need a more... Uh, stern lesson? What's your opinions?

Yeah, I can dig that. The woman in the photo DOES have that "wide space between the eyes" Caribbean look. Especially with all of those yellow and green colors she's draped in.

That article about Obama deserves it's own thread. That's insane.

Mass Incarceration has taken many black men out of their community and family As many as one in ten African American students has an incarcerated parent. One in four has a parent who is or has been incarcerated.....As many as one in ten African American students has an incarcerated parent. One in four has a parent who is or has been incarcerated....a nationwide policy of “stop-and-frisk,” a police practice concentrated in low-income minority neighborhoods that invariably leads to the arrest and eventual imprisonment of men, African American men in particular, for low-level crimes. https://www.epi.org/publication/mass-incarceration-and-childrens-outcomes/ Your anecdotal observation does not reflect reality Common behaviors in white communities can lead to removal in minority neighborhoods, often because police are more likely to patrol there. Black parents are more likely than white ones to be reported to child protective services and more likely than their white counterparts to have their children taken from them. Common behaviors or hurdles in white communities can lead to removal in minority populations. Once taken out of their homes, the situation of children in foster care often rapidly deteriorates and paves the way for juvenile detention, followed by prison. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/police-feed-foster-care-prison-pipeline-reporting-black-parents-ncna1235133 Black children constitute 14 percent of the total child population in the United States today. However, Black children represent 23 percent of the total population in the child welfare system. Of the 37.4 percent of U.S. children who are the subject of a child protective services investigation before their eighteenth birthdays, 53 percent of those children are Black.The disproportionate representation of Black children in the child protection system can be traced back to the Reconstruction era, when apprenticeship statutes afforded local law enforcement officers and judges broad discretion to take Black children away from their families. http://fordhamlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Kumor-May_Final.pdf

Well, the American legislators raked TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew over the coals for a few hours today. The questioning was often ridiculous and the statements from our politicians reveal what they don't know. Right now the video views on TikTok are two orders of magnitude more video views on TikTok than I do on YouTube and I have 10 times the number of subscribers on YouTube than I have followers on Tiktok. It remains to be seen if TikTok raises AALBC's profile and increases the number of engaged visitors coming to the site. I have to figure out how to measure TikTok's impact on user engagement here.

Yes Racism is design to keep the black man down....we concur on that. But that's not its primary purpose.....Makin Money is its real Purpose Who/whom Profits from the suffering of the Black people? True Whites have been a minority in South Africa for years... Power comes from controlling the means of Production(economy) and Communication(media). Zimbabwe is the first Africa country to try and take back its Economy......South Africa has yet to do so They are to a lesser extent.....depending on how white they are thought to be, or according to political expediency of the Times. Gangsta Rap is not Black Culture...it's a Racist commercial venture Labelled as Hip Hop. If as the sayings goes a "picture is worth a thousand words" I can reference many hollywood movies with "smacking hoes" and "robbing a n***a" - Westerns/cowboy and Games like Mortal Kombat. If you haven't Realize that Racism is One of Biggest Industry In America... then you have lived long but being drinking the "kool aid" the whole time hook line and sinker. Rap music was originally progressive but Racist studio executives thought to make money shifted direction to promoting what was label "gangsta rap" an expression of a dysfunctional maladaptation to ghetto life. the new chairman of Time Warner's music division yesterday dismissed Doug Morris, the chief executive of the division's United States operations.......Mr. Morris is one of the company's staunchest defenders of the gangsta genre, which is known for its sometimes violent and sexually degrading lyrics. https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/22/business/the-media-business-a-defender-of-gangsta-rap-is-dismissed-at-warner-music.html I congratulate you and your family.. Black people are the hardest working people I know....from my experience. The Truth is not an excuse....If anything it is an obstacle we overcome. You don't....That's for sure. You speak only for yourself...Here and Now. Are You a Racist? Black people are under attack from people who make money from Racism... That affects me. In order for then to continue doing so "they blame the Victim" and Criminalize and Pathologize Black Culture. With billions of Dollars at their disposal it is easy to convince the questioning and recruit the willing. You have yet to show a part of Black Culture that's "ugly" Are Hollywood Action Movies ugly to you?

Hmm 🤔 I got so much to say... where to start... 😭 My perception of dating now is that it's severely broken. Here's why from my point of view. Do not court someone and expect them to chase you. Too many men in my gen do this. And it is ridiculous. They will approach you, and after so many times talking, expect you to prove yourself as to why you'd make a good wife to them. Like they want you to chase them, beg them, and do wifey things for them. If I was the one courting him, I'd understand, but he walked into my life. Not the other way around. You're supposed to be convincing me that when you propose I should say yes, while also seeing if I'm actually the one you wanna propose to. It didn't used to be that way, but too many guys think they're slick and irresistible. I also don't like that men in my generation want a traditional modern woman. It's one or the other. Like, the black community is very matriarchal and so women are expected to work as hard if not harder than men, but then we're expected to submit and pretend like the community is patriarchal and do the cooking and cleaning all by ourselves to prove our womanhood. If you want a traditional woman you have to be a traditional man and take on the "outside" duties and responsibilities. You can't expect me to work along side you and then take on all housework by myself. I know some who live like that and I'm not doing it. That's a scam. We split evenly in duties, or you take yours and I take mine. My own mother was a housewife and wasn't expected to do anything but housework. Cooking, cleaning, decorating, organizing, HOUSEWORK. And she was 🔥at it. I always wanted to be that, but with this world as it stands I don't think I will. 😅 Plus, there's the difference in opinion in when sex is supposed to happen. So many men now think just cause you like them that means you drop your panties or it's not sincere. There's no build, no playfulness, no sparks, no crush, no butterflies to a lot of dating anymore. Just "let's go out, eat, text, eat again, fnck, then never talk again." I've seen and heard about it too many times and I refuse that lifestyle. It's self destructive. So yeah, that's just my take. I'm sure others have their own experiences with the dating world.

@Troy you and many others. Not merely online but my offline connections are talking about how useful they find chatgp. I admit I haven't used it and don't plan on to, but it clearly is the place of functionality that other services are not. What Youtube shorts prove is how reactionary the business model in the usa firms are. They only move when endangered, and thus tiktok is like the automotive manufacturers of Nippon. Everything toyota side company did was done by the european economy class brands earlier, but europe had badly thought brand names in the usa, or suspected the usa would demand on their manufacturers what they did to nippon. But tiktok is like toyoto , a company that merely did what had already shown value but with a concerted effort in the usa market which has led to industrial domination , now the usa government will act as it did in the past. I see your tiktok, you are posting the correct kind of attention getting videos and have a nice set of followers and followings. And since the younger ecitizens are using tiktok more than google search, I think it is adviseable to be on the platform advertising the website. An artist acquaintance of mine, suggested i get on tiktok but I am trying to improve my e profile where I already have more followers and more presence, so I have not generated as much content and only plan to do certain content, not a ton of things. Unfortunately for tiktok but fortunately for ecitizens, tiktok is at the epicenter of the battle between usa side china in the technology wars. Websites owned in the USA dominate the online presence in most countries on earth, china being one of the few that is not dominated by usa firms, but the usa does not want china to have a dominating firm in the usa, so they want to force a tiktok sale to a usa firm, the one thing schrumpf and biden agree on which says a lot. This could end bad for tiktok in the usa. but I will say that we ecitizens are blessed because we will all get a glimpse of the internet in the future. If the USA forces bytestream to sell tiktok, then that act will validate in china or russia similar actions and will create a wave of government demands on online firms throughout humanity which means usa based online firms may lose a lot of marketshare overseas by governments cutting a usa plug into their countries. If the chinese government allows a chinese firm to be bullied like this it will be a huge win for the usa. If Bytestream make an exit from the usa, the chinese government will be sad a chinese firm was assaulted but happy cause it will be an undeniable statement of the usa's imperial position. The USA will be happy cause it will put a younger rival government in their place

White people: "They are so inferior!! We are the best!" Non whites: *Has civilization and women and gold* Whites: "Steal it. Rape them. Bomb everything."

White people: "Europe is for europeans! Leave!" Non whites: "Okay so that means..." Whites: "Nah, we called dibs on everywhere outside of Europe too so yeah, go to the moon. Monkeys.😘"

🤣 Thank you for the giggles this morning. I was feeling off. Your frankness sometimes sets me straight! lol Troy, you have excellent editorial and publishing insights. I'm still blown away by the science you dropped on the Wall Street Journal platform. You held us rapt - and that included the other panelists and host. There is NO ONE but you sharing insight on the future of Black people publishing - and we need it now more than ever, especially with the juggernaut that is am*zon.com. By the way, you've taught us through your knowledge how to work with am*zon instead of having am*zon work us. You already do the deep dive into the statistics -if you make it fun for Tik Tok your audience will grow - and by association, so will Black publishers and authors.