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I was in junior high school around 11 or 12. All of us kids used to fight at that age and younger. But I avoided fights because the kids that want to fight me, were gangs and I didn’t have any kind of back up and I wasn’t down to catch up beating from a bunch of other dudes. I remember this one punk walk by me in the hall and we collided and his notebook fell down and he told me to pick it up. I was like why and this girl I liked was a witness and this guy was in a gang I could’ve easily have beat him in a fight but again he was a tough guy cause he had his boys. I picked up the book and kept moving. That guy is probably in jail now.

Agnostics and atheists just question or reject respectively, the existence of a God or Gods, which is completely separate the issue believing in consciousness after death.

And that is the scary part. This is why journalism is exceedingly important — paramount. If say, The New York Times publishes something an article, a video, a podcast you can take it for granted that they did there best to vet sources and tell the truth. But even this is in jeopardy Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, any prevented them from endorsing Kamala Harris, when you have multi billionaires controlling the editorial content of media, that poses a real danger in an AI world. On YouTube unless it’s a source that I trust I’m not watching the video.

Did you take high school biology? Do you know what X and Y chromosomes are? I’m gonna take a page out of pioneers playbook and relate an experience I had on my job. I knew a white guy from South Africa. He was explaining to me how his ancestors built a life in South Africa. I didn’t particularly care for the guy. He struck me as low-key racist, but any right, I said hey you’re an African-American. He said no I’m not, almost as if he was insulted. I thought that was kind of funny, but I did not argue the point.

Oh, it’s not a rationalization it’s a realization. It is happening right before my eyes. I don’t think there’s much you and I can do about it. On it’s present trajectory AI will take over anything that humans can creatively produce. That includes this websites, Literature, music, art, movies… Well, it depends today people are looking at YouTube videos to do all kinds of home maintenance. The AI will just make it easier. Then there are AI powered robots, 60 minute show one working in the factory. Hey man, have you seen the Richard Feynman AI videos. I guess they’re my feed because I watched that Feynman documentary a couple of times. I don’t like the videos because I can’t trust that he actually said the things he’s saying. I listened to one about 30 minutes and it was very interesting but still I can’t trust it. Because after spending so much time with it, I know that I can almost always get the answer I need. Sometimes it’s modifying the prompt or providing information that you don’t want it to forget. Again, I can give it a 500 word prompt with some pretty involved tasks and Gemini will respond brilliantly and sometimes I can give it a prompt. That’s just one sentence and it’ll make a mistake.

Some go by the country which is easiest for Americans to understand (ex. Nigeria). I imagine amongst themselves they go by their ethnicity (Yorba, Hausa, etc.)

That is scientifically false. No Mr. Strawman I was rejecting the analogy YOU drew with Race and gender.

Yeah I just heard this on the radio. They wanded people as they entered the venue fortunately. She could have been sprayed with acid! @aka Contrarian Tension are rising, but does the mid 2020's come close to rivaling 1960's America?

I'm revisiting the 7+ year old post because it is ranking high in search the past couple of weeks (at least) and has attracted more than 31K visitors (@richardmurray this would be mostly real people, not bots). If folks with influence in the media cared about sites like AALBC viral posts, of which we have many, this would be newsworthy. It seems MLK's sexual predilections are of interest to a lot of people. I guess because of his recent birthday. I just ran a search on the phrase was MLK gay and this post came up #6. Reading some of the earlier posts on the conversation, I must have been in a mood (sorry @Delano I was bit critical over you use of the word illegitimate when referencing children. I still don't like the word used in that context, but thanks fore starting this conversation :-) Maybe I should return Google ads to the site. I the crappy Ads Google likes to server here, but AI told me how to step up the quality... we will see. The site as a whole

40% bot 40% Male 19.9% Female 0.1% Non-binary

Why are you introducing the "government" into the picture now Mr. Strawman. Sure, but it is certainly enough to easily absorb the current immigrant popular and more -- it that is what we wanted to do. You completely ignore the fact the people actually generate resources. It is not a zero-sum situation -- think increasing the size of the pie. Consider this in your analogy: Did you know that approximately 50% of the PhDs awarded in the sciences go to foreign born students?

90% of social media visitors are lurkers. It is probably higher than that on some platforms. How many of you actually created TicTok or YouTube video for the public but have used the platform. The number of lurkers here is probably higher than 90% because of some very popular posts generate a lot of traffic.

If homey want to be a woman that is fine with me. I'm not sleeping with him, but I'm sure there is someone who would. Genetics play a MAJOR role in determining one's gender (if you have a Y chromosome you are very likely gonna be a dude). While race, as has been demonstrated abundantly here, is PURELY arbitrary. The problem with your reasoning is that you treat race the same way you treat gender.

🙂 Oh I intend to watch the series, so I'll see Cicely soon enough. As far as Google search, no I don't care for how you run their search engine. I only use it now to see how I rank on certain search terms. But I've probably put in at least 100 hours with Google's Gemni AI product over that past two weeks. Eventually Gemini will be used against people that may likely be the beginning of the web of the web as we know it--for the worse.

So, you are likening the US with a university PhD program? Colleges have limited number of seats the US has plenty of room and resources. Our problem is how our resources are utilized and allocated.

Factually correct. Opinion based upon a flawed foundation of racial stereotype (sounds like more of your big penis belief).

@aka Contrarian I thought about Mr. Universe and the like, but that is different, a body building competition which women also participate in. It is not a "beauty" pageant, though I'm sure some observers may see it as one. 1963 CBS TV series, East Side, West Side James Earl Jones was 31 or 32 in this scene and looks so young -- I guess I'm only used to seeing the barrel chested gray-breaded man. I have not watched it long enough to see Cicely yet

Ditto. @Delano that is an interesting subject

Sure there is! @Pioneer1 since you are willing to let some groups in and nothing others that is inconsistent with your statement above. Either you believe we have the resources or we don't. You can't have it both ways.

Sure, if they identify as such. You can keep them out the Black club. I choose not to and welcome them with open arms. Again, I assert rejecting, embracing, or assigning characteristics to people based upon how they look is simply dumb.

Why do you say that? Now you can get you grass cut for damn near free and your strawberries cost a lot less too. meanwhile YOU get to sit in an air-conditioned lounge on your job hitting up on the ladies 😉

You know the answer; we live in a society founded and steeped in white racism. Racists have their hands full now. huh? Too busy worrying about Latinos while their medical insurance, student loans, jobs, and social security is being taken away...

Yeah my list was focused on primarily on the literary folks who had some form of presence on the site but the three you mentioned are icons.

Everytime a new and different group comes to the country in significant numbers it is the same thing, the Jews, the Irish, the Italians were all a stain on the country until they weren't.

Y'all can't know what the majority think why they don't actively support us. Do you think the majority of Black people actively participated in the civil right movement? Even the majority of other group were actively against us why throw the minority who support us under the bus? You base this opinion on what? Does this opinion extend to our Brothers and Sisters from African and the Diaspora? I did not hear about the latest ICE murder in MN. Was the victim yet another white person who scarified their life fighting for the rights of Immigrants?