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JakobVirgil  ·  3543 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Proudly Muted! But I still can't shut up about feminism.

misandry is a stupid word.

A word for folks in power

that want to steal even victim-hood.

JakobVirgil  ·  3550 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Suggestion About The Layout (Not A Bug Maybe...)

Yes

Urban Poverty = black folks?

Canada has close to the U.S. Ethnic / Cultural breakdown

I'll say what I always say. in Canada they hunt a lot but they also have very restrictive gun control laws. In Canada less people get shot.

Perhaps if Urban poverty is not just code for Black Folks (I am confident you are not using it that way but I like to tease people.) then increasing the minimum wage ending redlining etc would do more to decrease gun violence than less guns.

but remember the most common gun crime is a white dude blowing his own head off.

Erykah Badu

Coltrane

Thelonious Monk u

Morton Feldman

Benjamin Britain

John Adams

Pere Ubu

NWA

Nas

RZA

Jay-z

Miles Davis

Albert Ayler

Ike Turner

Buddy Holly

Billie Holiday

Elizabeth Cotton

Maybelle Carter

John Fahey

And a few others.

JakobVirgil  ·  3656 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why did we evolve to appreciate beauty?

Perhaps as a guard against the suicidal risk that comes with sentience?

JakobVirgil  ·  3754 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cis feminism is a failure to the trans community

If this was a diner party or a evening at the pub with friends. (which really is what hubski is at least to me)

What I would do here is say to geneusutwerk "this is Laurelai - Laurelai this is geneusutwerk I think both of you have an interest in gender politics"

y'all would shake hands, realize the other person is a person, mumble greetings/apologies and prolly hit it off.

so whatever the online equivalent of this is.

JakobVirgil  ·  3982 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bush: Terrible President, Also Not a Smart Man

hehe :)

actually on further thoughtful reflection maybe we can use this for a teaching moment.

I read Emily Post as a child.

(I have always had a hard time understanding the customs and habits of my fellowman and etiquette books gave me guidelines to pretend to be normal)

Well anyway Ms Post said something that has stuck with me to this day (I still can't remember which side the salad fork goes) She said when catching someone in a breach of etiquette is impolite to point it out. I think her example was someone eating chicken with their fingers. Her suggestion to a gracious hostess was not to call them out or even to take them aside and correct them but instead to eat the chicken with their own fingers as not embarrass them.

Simply put it is ruder to point out the rudeness in others than to accidentally make a faux pas

JakobVirgil  ·  4059 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: ‘I may be killed if I write this'

I am ambivalent. Of course Hedegaard should have a right to say whatever he wants and life should not be the punishment for any speech.

With that said if someone had a hobby of handing out mugs with this picture on them I may be a little offended. (after I stopped laughing.)

Lars is defending the right to free speech but how he uses that speech is to bully a minority.

I am still on his side but I don't like him.

JakobVirgil  ·  4076 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The social network where no one knows your name

mk!!!???!!!

JakobVirgil  ·  4089 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A fortification near you.

Confederate fort fisher built by free black men enslaved for the purpose. depending on were I park it is anywhere from a dozen yards to 2000 miles from where I live.

JakobVirgil  ·  4098 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Quantifying Thoughtfulness: Relationship between important Hubski user data

very nice I seem to be out of badges or I would slap one on it.