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I’m not so sure about that bruh. BTE, my 10% figure is probably in the right ballpark. If 90% of the people use something and 10% use something completely different. The 10% are fringe, marginalized, outside the main stream, “different.” And as such, they exert no influence and others wonder what’s wrong with them. So no, Google search is not a monopoly but for all practical purposes they are. Meta does not have a monopoly on social media among Black people middle-age and older but effectively it does. And because this companies have monopolies they have a great deal of power, which day exert to our detriment. Again, the people on these platforms, using them every day posting pictures of their grandkids liking some rant against Thomas Sowel or sharing some cute puppy meme could care less about what I’m saying. But that doesn’t invalidate what I’m saying.

@ProfD it sounds like you are equating conservatism with racism. Just because most racists are “conservative” does not mean conservatives racist. Shoot, the Klan are Christians.

This conversation is surreal. I would never image conversation of this nature and content taking place with an American President and 60 Minutes.

This is @Delano when he was a boy 👍🏾

No messages saying he could not login (I know @harry brown has been having difficulty) Did @aka Contrarian finally run him off? Did @Pioneer1 find a better Black forum with women willing to tolerate "real" men? Well your absence is felt. i hope to read your still-believing-in-the-concept-of-race posts soon.

With the way the "information" is disseminated today conspiracy theories are completely understandable. With all the trash being generated no one really know what to believe. so folks "do their own research" and come up with whatever makes sense to them. Of course with seemingly no floor to what the current administration is willing sink to why wouldn;t someone believe they are capable to staging another assassination attempt. Speaking of the Nation's birthday, the 200th celebration, 1976, seemed to elicit have a lot more patriotism. The 250th not so much...

Of course, that is true indeed modern computers are backed by more than a century of advancement. But still the technological progress since I started this website has been astounding. The tech back then was from the stone age relatively speaking and so much more expensive. The barriers to entry to creating something on the web back when I started were relatively high. Today the only barrier, besides the tech giants, is one's imagination. Perhaps that has always been the case.

This is happening right before our eyes and I don't think most of us are prepared for this. True, but this does not mean optimists don't worry we just believe things will ultimately work out. My ex saw this as a flaw as a flaw in me. I used describe her as the "glass-half-empty-woman." I think people come out the box inclined to see the world one way or the other. Humanity probably would not have progressed this far without both perspectives.

The pendulum will swing back.

I think his followers will like this one. When did the hippie white Jesus come into vogue?

He IS the embodiment of the American spirit -- THAT is why he is a 2-time president and multibillionaire.

OK I'm glad the regular logins work-- maybe that is for new accounts. I'll update my post. @ProfD There are some features of the main part of AALBC that require a login like following an author or adding a book to you bookshelf. My goal was to have a single login but to get over that tech hurdle is not something I'm not keen or starting right now.

Should I Feature first post? Basically featuring the first post by showing it at the top of every page in the topic? Sometimes on multipage conversation who forget the what the original point of the conversation was supposed to be. Maybe this will keep conversation on track -- maybe it does not matter.

Thanks, man. This whole website upgrade has been a challenge, but things will be much better overall.

There are a bunch of thing I need to work through, but the most important thing is that one. Resetting your password does not work yet (did it ever?). I hope to have that working sometime this evening. If you can login you are free to use the forum. After I get the password reset working I'm begin making some esthetic changes. Fun facts: We have been using this software since Sunday, September 13, 2009! The last time I upgraded to a new server was in 2019 and the forum was down for 10 days (at least)!