I have a buddy with adhd and he’s also a musician.

He forgot he had to make a music video.

Not like he really ought to make one to market himself. He is contractually obligated to make a music video and he forgot… well he forgot until it was just barely possible if everything went smoothly and he ran himself ragged.

Or stronger notions of what body types are compatible with their gender role.

On food, write the expiration date with a big magic marker as a reminder to use them.

If it’s something from the freezer(and the expiry is now useless) write the date you thawed/ opened it.

I understand your anger and agree that anti-vaxxers are stupid. I believe public health education should be part of the school system.

I also agree that it’s responsible for a society to impose reasonable restrictions on members that endanger it.

I think people do have an ethical obligation to take reasonable precautions avoid potentially exposing others to pathogens. Vaccination is an example of reasonable precaution. People have the right to bodily autonomy, do not vaccinate them against their wishes.

I do not support the firing of workers for refusing vaccinations if they can do their job remotely. People shouldn’t have to decide between their religious beliefs and employment if their employment doesn’t bring them into contact with others. (Imo anti-vaxx is essentially a religion, this may say more about my beliefs regarding religion than about anti-vaxx sentiment).

By all means exclude the unvaccinated from places where they can be reasonably understood to endanger the public, or others that have a similar right to be there.

I have yet to see an electric vehicle fire, even on the news.

100% and you know the first time it happens is going to be super covered too because of the potential for “controversy”.

I’m like this for most things except for cleaning the kitchen. It’s essential to know she’s counting on me, but if she’s actually there I can’t do anything. It could have something to do with the layout of our kitchen (she has to stand behind me if I’m washing dishes).

If she was working on something at the table I could probably ignore her and focus on cleaning, but if she’s trying to clean too, I can’t.

This was anti sinovac because the Chinese vaccine wouldn’t have chips in it, pentagon wanted Phillipines to get American vaccines with mind control chips…

Not my belief but pretty easy to see how they’d deal with it.

I live in Vancouver but didn’t grow up here. I know of the 88->HH dog whistle, and um 14 words or something like that but are there any others I ought to keep my kids away from?

Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.

Oof.

In the defense of engineers, they are usually trying to optimize around a few more variables than ability to stand. Cost is a big one.

If a car has a warranty of 10 years, it will last 11 years.

…If it’s well engineered.

I’ve had lots of led bulbs die. I think it’s because I bought them at the dollar store.

You can’t destroy Nazism with your mind. You have to use your body.

I believe there are some rapists and pedophiles in elected office in the USA. But based on statistical probability, not specific evidence.

I’d read it, but I’m skeptical that you have reliable evidence.

If you have evidence of this claim you should share it.

Mate, no. I understand the practical existence of race (well… to the extent a nonracialized person can) what I’m talking about is the expert consensus that: the matter of where the boundaries between races get drawn is determined by social factors, not biological.

The question of whether an ethnicity was (and is) ‘white’ or not was a political question, not a biological one.

You say I’m in denial of biological reality but you refuse to give examples of how I am deluded. You are not arguing in good faith.

No I honestly don’t. I also think you may not be as racist as you sound, I think you just don’t understand the difference between race and ethnicity. How many ‘black African’ races do you think there are? Answering this question would help me figure out your understanding of ethnicity vs race.

Can you give some examples of the biological reality you think I’m denying? The Wikipedia article you cited did not support your position that race is biologically significant to health.

You didn’t deny that ‘yellow’ is a race. (Again, I don’t believe in races, you seem to) Can you tell me some biological realities that apply to ‘yellow’ people?

I’m of the opinion that there aren’t any biological races and that race is a social construct.

Is it your opinion that ‘African type black people’ are a single race?

If there are “a fucking lot” of races, are you sure you mean races, and not ethnicities?

I think race means like, “well there are several races of people: white people, black people, yellow people, brown people and red people” …

From your link:

In the study of race and health, scientists organize people in racial categories depending on different factors such as: phenotype, ancestry, social identity, genetic makeup and lived experience.

Overall, racial health disparities appear to be rooted in social disadvantages associated with race such as implicit stereotyping and average differences in socioeconomic status.

Cool cool I’m now totally convinced race is meaningful. How many races would you say there are? I probably agree.

I’m with you approximately %100.

One thing I’ve done when arguing with a person that insists race is real and meaningful is to ask the other person how many races they think there are.

It gets the gears turning a bit.

European, African, East Asian, Arabic, South Asian, Indigenous Australian, Indigenous New Zealander/Pacific Islanders (same or different?), North American Indigenous, South American Indigenous? are Mexico’s Indigenous people the same race as Amazonians? Peru? Are they the same race as the Inuit of the arctic?

etc etc