Okay, the guy credited with splitting the atom was a New Zealander, working in Cambridge university.
Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish, working in Canada.
Both world wars were won by a coalition of countries, all of which played vital roles. To say that any one of those countries “won the wars” by themselves is a huge distortion of the truth.
And don’t even get me started on “settled the wild west” 
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I’m so glad it’s not going to be a ballache for me…
I’m on another forum where some people were bashing BLM and LGBT. I actually posted this.
I think I’m going to post an unpopular opinion here, but I feel strongly, so here it goes.
BLM is not about making white people bow down. It’s about addressing the fact that black people are regularly given harsher and longer sentences than white people for the same crimes. It about the number of black people who have been killed without the same coverage or care as white people. It’s about making us aware that racism is alive and well here in the US.
LGBT is not just about bedroom preferences. Being gay is not a choice. I’m CIS (born female, happy with the gender I was born, and straight). When I see someone that turns me on, it’s not a choice, it just is . For LGBT people, though, they are often criticized, verbally or physically abused, and even killed for something that is not a choice. Did you know that 1 in 2000 children are born IS? It’s not talked about, but it’s a biological fact.
/me steps off of soapbox.
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A good quote I heard about this can be paraphrased as “If someone comes in with a head wound and a scraped knee, both injuries should be attended to. In practice you might want to focus on the head wound as it’s potentially a lot more serious and troublesome.”
That’s my understanding of BLM: It’s focusing on a specific subset of societal issues. There’s other issues, but data shows that I’m a lot less likely to get targeted for police than some of my coworkers. It’s bad if either of us get hassled, but one is a more likely issue.
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This is what goes on paper. What happens on the streets has almost no relation to that. Some of what they do I support, most of the actual actions taken in the name of BLM are reprehensible. The movement has lost it’s direction almost as fast as it started. And the fact that Democrats are benefiting financially from the movement disturbs me since most of the worst cities for minorities have been democrat run for decades.
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That’s what it’s supposed to be - and those ideals I’ll support, wholeheartedly.
But the BLM organization is not about that. It’s Marxist down to it’s root. Two of the leaders have said proudy and publicly they are “trained Marxists.”
Protests in the street, large crowds making themselves know and making their concerns public - no problem from me.
Random acts of violence, taking whole blocks of otherwise innocent businesses and wrecking their buildings, setting fire to whatever you feel like - major problem.
I read an article today that compared the cities with the worst damage 2020 to the cities with the highest Hillary Clinton support 2016.
Very positive correlation - no surprise.
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I’m not opposed to censorship per se. It’s your game, and you are entitled to stop people saying things you don’t like.
What I am opposed to is censorship done badly, and yours is done conspicuously badly.
Not only have you committed the cardinal sin of pattern matching rather than context pattern matching, but you have censored patterns that make absolutely no sense, and are in common usage.
For example. What I typed and saw: “Conspicuously bad censorship”
What everybody else saw: “Con****uously bad censor***p”
Somebody figured out what the second censored part was (not difficult) and said/saw “idk wtf shi is”
What I saw was “idk wtf *-*-* is”
You really need to get your ***t together
Edit: And yet Scunthorpe made it through intact.
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And Penistone as well probably.
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Dear Not Always Right. You are correct, using an ad blocker is not always right.
But when ABP has blocked 323 adverts on the page, yes it damn well is right.
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My cough, which I’ve had since March, has not accelerated to where I am coughing about every third breath. It has not woken me up every ten seconds for the last three hours and I didn’t just throw up because I was coughing so hard.
CAT scan Friday said sinusitis, appointment with ENT is late Sep tember. PCP heard call for help but CVS is out of the antibiotic… Yuck.
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Omg, the antibiotic is apparently made of pure evil. Four pages of warnimgs, including relatively common tendon damage up to and including bursting. Also, at least two side effects include death. Now I know the possibility to make it in the list is a low bar… W Tf is that sentence? Ok, it doesn’t take a lot of deaths in testing for that to be listed as a side affect.
Just one, and it doesn’t even have to be related to the drug’s actual workings.
The way clinical trials go, ANY odd symptoms (headache, nausea, etc.) or any outcome that happens while you happen to be on the drug have to get included in the list of possible side effects, even if that one “death” happened to be because that one participant got hit by a truck crossing the street one morning.
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Sometimes I want to go back to when the internet was fun.
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This is why I dread my wife reading the fine print. She has acid reflux, and I’m pretty sure it caused an ulcer a couple months ago, but she won’t take the reflux meds because they might cause calcium loss or something. A ‘maybe’ in the future isn’t as much of a concern as ‘YOU ARE IN PAIN RIGHT NOW!!!’ Drives me nutz. So she just got finished with her second round prescriptions of multiple antibiotics, each with their own potential side effects. It didn’t help when one of the first round of meds DID cause her to have a sore throat - started about 20 minutes after she took the pills and lasted 3-4 hours, and it was for sure on the list of side effects. (I can’t remember if it said likely side effects, but when she was Googling, it was not uncommon.)
Hawaii is not a bust this year. The new rules don’t close all Airbnb and car rentals to out of state vacationers, and the 72 hour window to get a test before arriving there is plenty of time.
Hang on, you are complaining about not having used up all the toilet paper you bought the last time you did panic buying and now you are doing another panic buy and getting more?
Are you aware that panic buying actually causes the problem you are trying to “fix”?
Are you stupid? Don’t answer that, it was rhetorical.
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Ahh, the wonderfulness of simply buying a little bit more than we use in a month every month. We’re easily two months ahead of the curve now.
Worst fucking birthday ever.
(I wish I could say this everywhere, but the only place I can really say it is here where most of you don’t know me personally…)
No, but we can still sympathise
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I’m sorry. I know what that’s like.
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