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I will not go into genetics, climate change, vaccine efficacy, or even the shap of the planet, simply read @Chevdove's first reply to your statements 🙂

Penis and testicles Pioneer...

Maybe she was afraid to come out. Maybe she hid it from the public — who knows

She is gay man, why is that so hard to understand? I think being a celebrity is hard at any age.

WTF!? I was reviewing a newly created page on my cell phone. Google inserted this advertisement for the “manscaped” product. In my book, any time you have to preface a product with the word “man” then it’s not really a product made for men. This banner ad makes that completely obvious. Why am I being served this ad? Have I been spending too much time promoting books by gay writers on this site? It is a dumb ad.

Dude, those were gay guys telling you this. A heterosexual man does start blowing another guy because they are bored with women. This is true of most mature adults. Popularity and the extreme form of this, celebrity, does come with trade offs. The willingness to deal with the various trade offs is up to the individual.

Of course this is true but is no cause to believe we are getting less intelligent. To your point there very well could be man-made environmental factors leading to a drop in our collective IQ. This is absolutely true. In the old days I was often asked to muzzle someone or kick them off the forum. So I’m aware of this in fact you see this on LSA today. One popular poster here threatened to sue me a number of times, but she was a drama queen and was probably responsible for scaring a number of people off the site. Those were the days when people (lurking) would come up to me at a conference and describe something they read on the forums.

Answering your question as best as I can, I think it is hopeful. Much like the way wealth is shared in this country, it has to change or the country will collapse in on itself, so either way it will change.

Unless something changes dramatically, cops will always kill people and a disproportionate percentage of them will be Black. Hoping it will change, on it own, is certainly on the verge of being delusional. Hope alone is not enough, it will take a lot of effort and it will not happen over night.

Facebook did get a couple of reactions: Nini Thompson "fun fact"? in very poor taste.. Vivian Stuart This is not a Fun Fact! You should know better. FYI the Rhona V V@ccines, Operation Warp Speed is a Military Operation. To @Pioneer1's point @Mel Hopkins maybe there is not an intellectual decline; humanity, save a handful of geniuses, is collectively not very bright to begin with. I'm sure social media suppressed this post. This is nothing new. Again, on a site like this and LSA every thing is just posted their is no algorithm controlling what you see.

I think delusions reflects more of pathology, a mental defect. Hope is something that is natural for a normal human being. I guess there is a thin line l, and some overlap, depending on what you’re hoping for...

Yeah I saw that I was rather surprised. I did not comment on it because the reality is over the years we’ve always had more woman posters than men. A lot of the comments exhibit a great deal of ignorance particularly when it dealt with the specifics of this website, me, or the motivation for the meme I created. The Most shocking thing however was the anti-Vaccers — People are actually more afraid of the vaccine than they are of the effects of contracting Covid! They sound like freaking lunatics! Some people believe the vaccine is a way to kill black people. Now why would anybody come up with a vaccine to kill us when the virus is self was doing a terrific job of it already — makes no damn sense

If accuracy were your goal, you would demonstrate it more often in your own communication. 😉 Seriously, when I asked you if you thought the world were flat did you really believe I was talking about the financial world? Are you 100% convinced that the planet Earth is spherical?

No I don't the type of changes you are describing talk place over time scales too large for you to directly observe. Now I might argue that we are less well informed, and educated more poorly, which might make us seem less intelligent. Well I'm glad you swing through from time-to-time despite the lack of stimulation Pioneer provides. It is possible this forum will be revitalized, but that can not happen if there is zero participation -- thanks for helping to keep the lights on.

I largely boycott Amazon, so I have not experienced this Gloria. However, I was able to put three copies of your book in a cart and get very close to the check out. I do not know when the restriction would pop up. Keep in mind, Amazon treats customers differently. We are charged different prices for the same products based upon a variety of factors. Perhaps some customer/product combinations are restricted

My guess is changes to the algorithm on social are a much bigger factor than our collective intellect. Keep in mind I’ve been posting on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter since they were invented. Facebook announced several years ago that they were no longer allowing business accounts to reach their audience directly without buying an ad. This is demonstrably true. Very little I post with my AALBC account gets engagement. Even buying an ad does not get as much engagement as I did when the platform first launched. I could use my personal account to post book related stuff and things like that me and my created, But as I mentioned I don’t use social media for personal purposes... If I want engagement with my business related content it looks like discussion forms may be the way to go. I actually explained the meme to people on LSA. Read the comments they Ranged from reasonable to ridiculous.

Yesterday I created this meme in reaction to a WP article @Delano shared covering the rates at which people are killed by police. I shared it on the platforms below and here is the engagement; Facebook (zero engagement no comments, likes, or shares), Instagram (I through I posted it yesterday), Pinterest (I have not checked), Twitter (zero engagement no comments, likes, or shares), and Lipstick Alley (20 comments in less than an hour) Now the comparison is not equal because the meme has, as of the time I'm writing this, has been on Lipstick alley for less than 60 minutes and on the social media platforms it has been up for over 24 hours. I created a short link https://bit.ly/96times which allows me to see how many people actually clicked the link I shared with the meme. In the last day only 8 people, in all of social media, clicked the link to come to the discussion forum. In an hour 21 people from Lipstick Alley visited this website. Of the 29 total visitors to the site no one posted a comment.

Your definition of science is irrelevant. So is mine. If you want the definition of science simply look it up. It is the definition I use, not my own and certainly not yours. If you wanna nitpick; if you believe the Earth is "round" then you may still believe it is flat. The planet Earth is spherical, an oblate spheroid. In fact, you could roughly calculate the circumference of the Earth with simple observation you can make on your own -- Science!

I hear you pioneer, but I'm not being clear because you seem to be missing my point. Facebook/Instagram developers deliberately design the site to hack in into your brain to addict you to the platforms. What we are subjected to is unprecedented! Of course people will use the sites they are addicted far more than any other websites. So it is not merely people leaving because of a disagreement and having social as an option. Lipstick alley can get pretty rough on posters, but LA is so much bigger than this platform and has far more people on it if a few folks get disgruntled and leave it is not a big deal.

Man you are talking out of both sides of your neck, with a forked tongue. You can’t make up your own definition of science and use it to reject science. You have previously rejected science because white people are in it. When I said the “world” I was talking about the planet earth, Not some concept. So do you believe that the planet earth is flat?

So when I talk about the impact of social media on people I usually don’t speak about specific individuals I speak about us collectively. That said, I don’t believe that most people truly know how much time they spend on social media. They probably greatly under estimate the time when asked. People who are being manipulated are generally unaware of it, and will virtually always say they are immune. Of course there may be some people who are entirely unaffected but they are in the small minority. I know I’m no different than most people and am affected by social media too. This is the primary reason I largely avoid the platforms. There is no way to use them and not be affected, and I mean adversely. Sure Cynique continues to post on Facebook and she, like Del, say they are unaffected by the platform. Again, I don’t believe you can regularly use Facebook/Instagram and not be manipulated by it. It is like the person who has four drinks at the bar after work and feels they can drive home unimpaired. Sure they may get home safely, but if they believe did so unimpaired, and did not pose a greater risk to themselves and innocent people around them, they are in denial, perhaps delusional 😉

I hit a paywall with the last Washington post article you posted the link to; What d does it say? yes I say the graph it is the source of the stat I used to create the meme.

@Delano what you wrote is unclear to me; are you saying your said the same thing as me or Cynique? I disagreed strongly with Cynique at the time and still do; the evidence is only piling up. Now "delusional" seems like a strong characterization of something you may have written here, but if you agreed with Cynique and depending upon how you agreed, I may have characterized your position in such a way -- I simply do not remember.

That makes sense @Delano and is what I expected. Now if the Washington post really dove deeper and looked at the race of the shooter, the race of the one shot, and what the person shot was doing you'd probably discover a far more alarming story. But we'll never hear that story because the Washington won't do the research. Another good question is which violent white perpetrators, caught in the act, are NOT shot. Image if the folks storming the Capital were in the New Black Panther Party or the Nation of Islam... A white mass murder is far more likely to kill himself than for the police to kill him. Based upon the WSJ's data a Black person is 96 times more likely to be killed by a cop (36 per million) than to be killed by a blood clot after taking J.&.J. COVID-19 vaccine (0.375 per million).

So you reject all scientific findings for this reason?! Do you believe the world is flat too?