Yeah, again a group of people that are incentivized to look down on another group, because it's nice to have someone lower than yourself. I think another factor that drives racism is lack of exposure to another race. Like Irish and Italians rarely interacted with black or brown people in their native land. Their first experiences with black people in America were in close proximity with downtrodden folk a generation or two removed from slavery and operating under Jim Crow and who had fewer opportunities to escape the ghettos than even Irish and Italians.
Interdasting and I think valid observation. In copyright law, there is a subtle and not so subtle discrimination against commercial art (as opposed to "art for art's sake") in originality and scope of protection. Here, I mean artworks that are driven by commercial or external concerns, rather than the artists' inspirations and inclinations, solely. There are some possibly valid reasons for this in that we can't let copyright drift into protecting utilitarian designs or objects that are properly the subject of patents, which are examined more stringently and have a much shorter "monopoly" term. Probably has nothing much to do with AI, but sort of an interesting data point on the nature of art.
One thing that tends to characterize racism everywhere: it's always a problem among the lower classes who are some combination of just ignorant and have been fed a steady diet of LBJ's observation and that _______ wants your cookie, mate. In the south, it probably extends further up into the middle classes and even upper class than elsewhere.
Yeah, I may be somewhat unusual, but nowadays when I travel, especially to a place where I have been before and seen the major sites, I like to visit areas where people actually live. Like last time I went to NYC, I made special trips to the outer boroughs and Long Island to see some things and also how and where real people live. And even if I don't make some kind of special trip, I tend to be observant of the locals and how they live. But a whole lot of people just go to the big tourist attractions and gawp and maybe see the richie rich parts of town en route and where they stay.
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2017370992436249025Community note didn't post. Look at the origin of the Y axis. Steel production increased between 1.1 and 1.5%. Which is probably within the measurement error.
I sense that for better or worse, Beard is likely to be "forgiven" like Petrino and others. How long do we think that's gonna take? Or his he going to wallow in relative obscurity so long that he won't get another good job?
I think it's just a nod to their edgelord notion that women can't lead, shouldn't vote, work, etc. because they're too soft. They also like to tiptoe around the notion that something bad has to happen or be done to save America. Trying to pave the way to authoritarianism.
Knock me over with a feather. Although I remain somewhat shocked that college and pro athletes can spend so much time in close proximity and presumably close friendly relations with other races that they don't pick up some empathy along the way. You don't really have to be a bleeding heart empath to hate Trump's guts, or at least completely reject him.
And, I think the biggest point is that while the Confederate south has a nasty association with racism, for obvious reasons, it hardly has a monopoly on it. Yankee types can't get too self-righteous about it. And I don't really mean that as some way of keeping score between Texas and some other state, or one region or another. I mean it in the sense that we've all got problems and work to do.
It's probably been mentioned, but from Season 1 alone, The Wire looks like maybe an above-average police procedural, with some excessive focus on the targets of the cops. That genre has kind of been done to death, in the 20 some odd years since The Wire premiered, if not before. Then you get the Season 2 wtf, and then the greatness of it begins to dawn on you. And it does have a ton of incredible scenes and dialog, but I get that that's not enough to hold people.
I think, way back in the old days, they might have muted booing of say Nixon out of "respect for the office" or something. It was disingenuous then and worse now.
A friend has a MAGAt at their gym that wears a lot of gear and attempts to engage the friend and others on political topics constantly. Most recently, he was heard stating that he was losing faith in dear leader because of too much foreign stuff, too much focus abroad.
Also among rurals I bet there's a good bit of surname not matching birth surname, as I can see a lot of those births coming out of wedlock or followed by multiple remarriages and name takings, if not adoptions.
It's a bit of a quandary. Mass is one of the most intelligently liberal states in the union, and Boston is more or less the epicenter of it. But going back in time to the busing riots, it exposed a pretty savage underbelly of racism there. It was every bit of Little Rock Central HS and Selma, Al.
Jack shit. I think that was pretty out in the open here. This was regime change/no nation building from jump. Maybe this notion of trickle down from revitalizing oil using US O&G, which is proving to be a pipe dream that just about anyone could have foreseen. As disastrous as our efforts at post-regime-change nation building have been, it seems immoral to do one without the other. So, maybe no regime-change, eh?