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ProfD

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  1. Personally, I do not have disdain for FB. Just never had a reason to use the platform. Alao, I don't find appealing the thought of people I haven't seen or talked to in 40+ years tracking me down.๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜Ž
  2. MJ seemed relatively normal until Thriller catapulted him into the stratosphere. Then, there was skin bleaching, surgeries, exotic pets, children as friends & his adopted white kids & drug addiction. Mike left up outta here a whole mess.๐Ÿ˜ Prince went out from Fentanyl but his drug use started with painkillers. Otherwise, he had always been clean & didn't tolerate drugs & alcohol around him.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  3. Obviously, I haven't been around here long enough to know of any former posters. It is great that they are still producing content. Would be great if those indiciduals were still posting here but we know the net effect of the white man's ice. Even the most intelligent, educated, astute & well-written/spoken brothas & sistas fall for the ice. Amusing to me is Black folks who talk sh8t about the same white folks who own the platforms they are using to host their content i.e. Fa*ceb**k, Y*uT*be, Gram, Tok, X, etc.๐Ÿคฃ There's always the hope that Black folks will find their way out of depending on white folks & become independent & autonomous.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  4. @aka Contrarian...thanks for sharing the article here @ AALBC. Enjoyed reading it. Of course, I've never had any use for folks like Thomas Sowell & Clarence UncleThomas. There have always been & will always be Black folks who willingly take up a seat of contentment within the system of racism white supremacy & support it. Unfortunately, whenever Thomas Sowell closes his eyes for eternity, another conservative coon will take his place.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  5. The current administration & state of politics is a whole reality show circus.๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜Ž
  6. Only a Black man could be dead for 17 years & folks are still trying to sue his estate. Interesting that charges have been filed upon the release of a Michael Jackson (MJ) biopic. Nevermind the 100s of millions of dollars white folks stand to make on the movie alone. Now, the same white folks will try to redistribute any money due to MJ's estate to others. White people know how to insure that others eat at the expense of non-white folks. Just as when MJ was alive, I had no sympathy for his circumstances because he chose to give money back to white folks between 1) scandal & 2) adopting white children.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  7. Right wing-nuts who are usually pro-guns & have a mouth-piece in POTUS OJ who says all types of outlandish sh8t...now they want the Left to tone down their rhetoric before someone else gets killed. It's impossible for POTUS OJ to do everything he's doing & saying whatever he wants wirhout someone getting angry enough to want him silenced. The Right should be encouraging POTUS OJ to shut up & stop f8cking with people & maybe he won't have target on his forehead. It's really that simple. Especially in a country with *mentally ill* people who have access to lots of guns. The media needs to stop reporting that POTUS OJ got shot in Butler, PA &/or was almost assassinated. A bullet grazed POTUS OJ's ear the 1st time. Saturday, the gunman was captured long before he could have taken any significant shots. That won't stop people from being violent nor prevent the media from gaslighting them.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  8. Back in June 2025, Operation Midnight Hammer supposedly took out Iran's nuclear producing capability. In February 2026, Operation Epic Fury supposedly took out more of Iran's nuclear capability & wiped out their Navy. Yet, one of the conditions of a deal is Iran turning over enriched uranium & any other nuclear material & promising to never pursue a nuclear weapon. The question is how can they do such thing if everything has been destroyed. Then, Iran is supposedly laying mines & threatening the Strait of Hornusz. Seems like that would be harder to do wirhout Navy ships. The US has spent $55 billion dollars blowing up sh8t & killing Iranian people. Part of the negotiation is unfreezing about $20 billion in Iranian assets. The current administration complained about previous ones wasting billions of dollars in Iran. Go figure.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  9. Maybe forum upgrade coincided with the sabbatical @Pioneer1 takes sometimes.๐Ÿ˜ Hope he's able to find his way back here. ๐Ÿคฃ Looking forward to him tapping in whenever time permits.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  10. It is interesting the politicians condemn violence stateside while killing people in Iran & Lebanon. True. From POTUS OJ promoting the high-security ballroom being built on the East Wing of the White House to having so much information about the gunman immediately. Right. A Caltech grad with a BS degree in Engineering & a Master's degree doesn't seem like someone stupid enough to try this stunt. Something doesn't add up about this situation but that won't stop these folks from spinning it to the benefit of the current administration & anything they come up with to justify tighter surveillance & control over certain groups of people.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  11. The annual White House Correspondence Dinner was interrupted by a would be shooter. A law enforcement officer was shot in his vest but he'll be fine. Nobody else was shot or hurt. Don't know how far the 31-year-old gunman from California expected to get &/or who were his targets. Since he's still alive maybe a debrief will provide more details. They claim POTUS OJ wanted to return & finish the dinner event. Secret Service felt otherwise. An alternate dinmer will be scheduled for a later date. Surely, security will be on another level. The nation's 250th birthday celebration events will bring a ridiculous amount of security too.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  12. What percentage of the population is the most destructive & to whom or what? Humans can only destroy themselves. The planet will be fine for another 5 billion years. People are allowing it. There is no public outcry or demand for them to stop killing people for oil. That's not how thw US military works in this country. They do not take out idiotic politicians. Again, it isn't that they do not know. The question is do they care enough to divulge it without risk &/or consequence to their well-being & livelihood.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  13. Only a very small percentage of people really cares about any type of science or math. To this day the culprits are doing & getting away with all types of stuff to which society remains indifferent. What would they have gained &/or accomplished in doing so? Who would have paid their bills if they had gotten fired? Who would have taken care of their families had they been killed? Human beings have been believing BS since the inception of their existence. No amount of knowledge &/or technology will change it. Some of the smartest people the world has ever known believed in things they could never prove.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  14. Collecting knowledge & caring about thing over which one has little or no control requires a level of effort that most people do not have the bandwidth to endeavor. There are much easier things to do in life that make people feel good which they are running on treadmill, chasing bread and performing in the circus.๐Ÿ˜ Listening to music, drinking & smoking & having s8x is much more fun than thinking about conspiracies, events, politics, etc.๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜Ž
  15. The average person does not really care that much about these events. They are too busy trying to figure out how to survive & enjoy the short amount of time spent on the planet. The majority of people are simple with basic needs. No need for anything that requires too much thought & no pleasure.๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜Ž
  16. Never too late but the people POTUS OJ is enriching are very glad they put him in place. He's doing exactly what he was elected to do.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  17. The point is that there is no lack of knowledge as it relates to physics. From structural engineering to mitigating disaster, there's no shortage of people who know how to build solid structures. New York City is filled with buildings. Same goes for other places all over the planet showing visual proof of engineering genius. Elastomeric bearings are being added to buildings in earthquake prone cities. Physics is child's play to a lot of folks. Right. The engineers knew better between shaving the footings on the south building to failing to reinforce the foundation at signs of water damage. Although lawsuits totalled more than $1 billion dollars...follow the money to understand initiall motivation. It wasnt bad engineering more than poor decision-making. Beyond physics...follow the money. Again, the experts who really know what happened are not at liberty to discuss such things. No different from US assassinations & other events.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  18. Aways great to hear that African countries are doing for themselves instead of being used by & depending on colonizers & imperialists & opportunists.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  19. No surprise...POTUS OJ has extended the cease-fire in Iran. POTUS Oj is giving the fractured Iranian leadership time to come up with a reasonable proposal.๐Ÿ™„ IOW, these people are kicking a can down the street. Follow the money.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  20. Time flies. Prince was truly a musical genius. Thankfully, he left us with a treasure trove of music both composed & inspired by him.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  21. It is well-known that J. Edgar Hoover's FBI surveilled & undermined Black progress in every imaginable way. Of course, roses grew up through concrete.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  22. The planet will be fine. Humans will be extinct long before the Earth becomes devoid of sunlight & too cold for habitation. This system has benefitted the USA for a century & counting. Despite our knowledge of construction & engineering, there has been no shortage of disasters. Back in 2021, the Champlain Tower South condo collapsed. The subsequent investigation revealed structural flaws & issues with regard to how it was built & the elements that contributed to it. Every generation believes the future is doomed to fail. I remember those days when my long gone elders talked about the last & evil days & how the world was going to h8ll in a handbasket. That was over a half-century ago... Yet, the beat continues as it only takes a small percentage of the population to innovate &/or maintain the status quo.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  23. The question is something that is so essential to human existence yet very people feel a need to know eveything about it. Maybe they enjoyed living more than being unalived. They are doing whatever it takes to survive & take care of their families & enjoy this ride called life.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  24. Human survival is dependent on oxygen too. Yet, the average person does not think too much about &/or knows scientifically what it takes for them to survive. Being out of touch with reality is subjective. It is dependent on that which is important to a person or a group of people. For example, rich people have no idea of what other people are talking about when it comes to their reality of the cost of groceries, gas, healthcare, etc.๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜Ž
  25. Less than 0.00001% of the population cares about it. That's hilarious. One day, AI aka SIS will put a whole lot of people out work.๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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