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Without reading the article I’d say if it is one with any market penetration it would be duckduckgo. Note i will read the article… DDG was #2 smile I never heard of the others. Here is a the source article: https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/best-private-search-engines-true-no-log-services/

This would be true 🥵

Welli have not yet read the trolls post, but i God I’ll get to them shortly. I’ll ban them immediately and remove their posts — thanks for the heads up, but next time let me know name too Ok i get it pee air 🙂 funny

I have not been paying much attention to the crypto space in a long time. Over a year ago I spent time researching it and ultimately purchased both Ethereum and Bitcoin, bith are down a full 50%. I purchased it as a learning exercise with no intention to sell it in the short term. I have no hope of recovering my "lost" money in the short term. I did not "invest" enough that a total loss will make a difference to me. I did intend to buy an NFT, to actually go through the process of transacting with my bit coin to just go through the process, but there was literarily nothing that interested me enough to spend my crypto on... There we plenty of people who got in at the right time and sold at the right time, who made money, but there was too much hype around the space to make me comfortable that it wasn't anything else than hype. Crypto is far too complicated for mass adoption. Most people keep their money in exchanges which makes no sense, to me, if you understand crypto... sure it is easier, but you expose yourself to a lot more risk. The metaverse is different. There are actually many practical use cases for it and it does not take a genius to get involved. The only thing that bothers me is one or two companies owning the the metaverse. In much the same way that a handful of companies run the WWW today

LOL! I'm only laughing because I presume you are attributing this characteristic to Del who in reality is the opposite of this. But we all have different perspectives of each other someone loved Hitler and others hated MLK...

@Stefan, the fact that "Mexican Cartels" can setup shop and illegally grow weed in a state that it is already legal is unbelievable.

Now that would be a VERY bad move. The WNBA will not pay players what a Russian oligarch will pay them. How many WNBA games have you (anyone here) paid to watch in you entire life time? No I don't remember this, but I agree it does sound like a crazy tactic. One I'm sure China did not engage in. Yes, it is. None of really know all of the details and should not feel so confident in understanding what is truly transpiring. No matter what happened ending up with a nine-year sentence in a Russian prison is a tale of woe. That is not to say there are not many more tales of woe right here in this country.

I guess I'm in the minority when it comes to reading articles that people post, I would never comment on an article, book, movie or anything without experiencing it. Sometimes this does result in a waste of time; there was one poster here, who turned out to be a troll, that posted articles which purportedly supported an argument they were making. Often the article refuted the person's argument. This always surprised me, but I guess if people really do not read articles you can get away with linking to articles that reject one's argument.

I did even know it was possible to block people here. The are so few regular posters that it does not seem necessary. I'm saddened to read that any of the regular posters feels it necessary to block someone. In the words of that guy who caught the beat down in LA so many years ago, "Can’t we all just get along?" Cynique not does block Pioneer, and she loathes him. Can we sometimes agree to disagree without it rising to "disappearing" someone? @Stefan I'm glad to read that you admit to finding some of the things Del writes interesting and that it overrode your desire to block him.

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I’m sure @Pioneer1 did not read the articles. In fact I’d be willing to guess that he does not read all the articles he posts himself. This is not to disparage Pioneer, because commenting on articles one has not read is pretty common. People will read headlines which are often misleading. for example the heading of this post stated that genius is pattern recognition. Neither article made that sole assertion nor did either article refute pioneer’s statement.

Look, the the correlation between illegitimacy and poverty is not causal. This is what you (and Greg) failed to see. The conditions that cause poverty are the same ones that cause illegitimacy. Also just because a child is born out of wed lock does not mean there is no man -- even the father -- in the home. The movie Claudine illustrated this quite well.

You can not be a seller of books and not have an issue (grudge is not the right word) with Amazon. Who are these back book sellers? I've offered affiliate programs over the years, but there was no demand for them. Besides there is really not enough margins in books to give away a meaningful percentage -- Amazon is only giving away 4%. I could do 5% but if everyone is going to Amazon Affiliate will not make very much money using an AALBC affiliate program. I don't do an audiobook of the month, but I do share a continuously updated list of 100 New Audio Books You’ll Love ♥ @daniellegfny you answer to my question of where you buy your ebooks is exactly why I had to link to Amazon or stop trying to sell ebooks.

Well people can legitimately argue that i let Greg go on too long. When i first considered dropping him most were indifferent or wanted to use him for target practice. So i did not drop him. i suggested that i would “miss” him but that was because i enjoyed y’all’s reactions at times. When the posts he started began dominating the forum that was the end for me. Still sought the opinion of the other group members.

I've been watching a lot more TV lately usually a couple of hours in the evening streamlining movies and the TV Series and a couple of the HBO talk shows like Bill Maher or John Oliver. I don't watch any commercial TV -- the commercials just get on my nerves. I have to say I tend to agree with Pioneer on the portrayal of Black men. here too the opinion is probably a biased due to gender. It seems to me that strong positive Black men are disproportionately underrepresented on the ole boob tube. Another thing I noticed is that interracial couples are over represented in comparison with Black couples. Again Black men may be more sensitive to these things. I imagine someone has collected data on these things; maybe it is something that can be looked up.

OK @Pioneer1 wake me when when the feds start charging little old Black ladies for their medicinal weed. Again, this is not a law that the feds are going to enforce. Now if you get caught moving serious weight from on state to another with intent to illegally distribute that is another story. 'Sides the Feds have many other tools with which to jam a brother up.

Ignoring the generalization about African women, men traditionally paid all the bills giving women the time to play their “traditional” role like minding the kids and maintain the household. Those days are over, as in many households everybody has to work including the kids. Kinda hard to be “mild and meek” when you are providing, often most, of the family’s financial support.

Who are the Fed’s busting for personal use of marijuana?

Hey @Xeon!

... people said similar things about Trump. I'm not making any predictions, but I will not be surprised if he is elected into office. I was on the field once and saw Hershel run the 100 meters. He was like a freight train. I don't see how anything human could have stopped he once he got going. Again, we have to do something with our warrior class 🤨

OK @Greg, other members have served notice that your anti-Black rhetoric has no place here and that is no longer interesting enough to shoot down. I've come to that conclusion sometime ago. I know you are probably delighted, and even surprised, that you've been allowed to shit all over these forums for so long. It is a courtesy I extend to everyone 🙂 On some level I'll miss you. If you think you can actually post something more constructive email me and I'll think about it adding you back, but I'm not holding my breath.

The fly and the finger pointing turd emoji were cute 😄

Men and women will typically disagree along the lines we see here. I tended to agree with Prof and Pioneer for most of my adult life, but we were reared in America and are from the same generation. As a kid, if I cried while getting whipped my mother would whip me longer and tell me that she'd give me something to cry about. My mother also told me if someone hit you you better hit them back, harder -- I don't care how much bigger they are than you. She was old school, and she raised me in a way people raised boys back then -- Don't let anyone one punk you, and you better not let me see you cry. Buy today's standards that might be considered child abuse 🙂. But it is how men were raised. My own children (girls) have never been in a fight. I don't think anyone my age (especially men) escaped childhood without being in several fights or even catching a real beatdown. This is why Will Smith's slapping of Chris Rock actually angered me -- and I usually could care less about the shit celebrities do. What Will did to Chris was a profoundly offensive -- bitching slapping a man in public. My gut instinct would have been kick Will's ass or die trying. Today I the best reaction was exactly what Chris did. I imagine if Chris started weeping that would have been acceptable, by today's standards, too. Chris is from my generation so I know his reaction and composure took a lot of heart. I know some men considered Chris weak, but I disagree. Today we live in a different world; we have little need for "real" men. Todays "warriors" drop bombs from drones they control with a joy stick from some trailer out west. What few real gladiators we have now can play football or box, but these sports are being frowned upon because too many men are getting hurt. Men are indeed different from women. I do feel that the culture is trying make men and women that same. I think this is wrong. We should use our resources to understand those differences rather than making believe none exist. One simple and easily observable difference is that men are stronger than women. Of course there are some women who are stronger than some men, but on average men are physically stronger. This fact makes a difference in how men and women behave and the roles they might place in a culture. In 2022 technology has rendered the need for physical strength obsolete, but this change is brand new compared to he 100's of thousands or years humans have been on earth. Our genetics and attitudes will not change over night. Maybe it is technology that has "pussified" men. Maybe some men see women exerting equal rights as a treat. Maybe some men do not like effeminate, gay, or any aspect of manhood that does not conform to the traditional standard of manhood elevated in any way. Men are different than women and those difference should be explored and understood in the context of a modern society rather trying to make men the same a women. Men will always reject that -- even if they can not articulate, or understand, exactly why. Women, on the other hand, don't seem to mind making men the same as women. This may be another manifestation of our differences. More likely women see these changes as getting the same benefits, rights, opportunities men get, something they deserve.

@Pioneer1 I moved the post. I originally put it in the Literature forum because it was an interview with Claude Brown. Silly me i did not realize that people don't even look over there.