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SAMUDRARTHA COVER DROP! [link in replies] This one has been coming for a hot minute but has finally made its way to a full video. I have fallen a bit behind in Honkai Star Rail but here soon when I'm not drained of all my energy I'll work on catching back up with the story!

Account is based outside the United States and outside of North America and claims to be "interested in speculative markets (ew) and learn about things." Learning requires basic effort, which you're not even putting in while "speculating" about teams you don't know the first thing about. Great way to lose all your money - but this posting pattern screams A.I. bot anyway, so I guess I'm just offering you some machine learning.

@talkSPORT_US None of these teams has won a championship in 2 years

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- 1 Jar of Marinara (I used Rao's) - 5-6 nice globs of Ricotta - I don't have Itallian seasoning so I used a couple dashes of MSG with some pepper and poultry seasoning - add about a third of a marinara jar worth of water MIX MIX - Add in broken up oven-ready lasanga (doesn't require a boil - I mixed mine in a bit to the sauce) - Add protein of choice - Add chopped frozen spinach - add about an extra fifth of jar water spread across the top - Top with a couple spread out handfuls of mozzarella Cover with foil and bake at 375F for about 50m --- at that time remove the cover and cook uncovered for about an extra 13m. Pull out, let rest for a few minutes and you're good to go!

FOOD BREAK! Just made a lazy shrimp lasagna and it looks good and tastes great!

All of the All-Star games in all the leagues are trash largely because the teams want their players protected from the risks of *actual* All-Star games. The Gambling/Prediction companies' angle is awful and no one should do it but Silver is not unique as all of the leagues are moving in that direction. Solving that problem - due to all of the money that is behind it - requires policy regulation at the national level.

@Apollo_VT @AidanLaPorta69 @ShamsCharania Silver is every bit of corruption as Stern with none of the competence. He ruined the playoff seeding with the play in tournament. He can’t make people care about the ASG. He sold the entire league out to gambling companies. He is a net drain on the NBA

Breaking: The NBA's Board of Governors has approved a vote for the league to explore bids and applicants for expansion teams exclusively in Las Vegas and Seattle, sources tell ESPN. A bidding process is expected to generate offers in the $7-10 billion range for each team.

@AidanLaPorta69 @ShamsCharania No the worst commissioner is David Stern. Adam Silver is at least trying to make things right.

@ShamsCharania The league doesn’t need 32 teams. Adam Silver is thr worst commissioner in sports history.

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It's not all pitch speed, the arc is what can make it harder to cleanly hit that kind of pitch. Also, with a slower pitch speed, more of the velocity off the bat has to come purely from the batter - so the potential distance is gated by the physical strength of the batter and how accurate/efficient their swing is on the pitch. Good knuckleballers - few and far between - are successful largely because their awkward, weak pitches throw off the batter, and the low power makes it hard for hitters to go yard against them. If there is a plus defense behind a knuckleballer, it can be a headache. No one in this chat is successfully hitting that ball and getting on base a majority of the time.

@CodifyBaseball I’m sorry but if you can’t hit a pitch that slow, do you really belong in the majors? That’s like throwing your own ball into the air and hitting it. That should be a day one test…

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Mostly correct. Because there aren't as many minorities [we're using the context of the United States] in proximity of any sort of power - there are less of them and they have less money on average and as a block - therefore less influence by many magnitudes. Not too different from 1+1=2. Could someone who is non-white in a position of power empower personal racial prejudice [more likely within a private business setting in this hypothetical] to disadvantage white people or other minority races - sure. The rate at which that could possibly be happening is infantessimly small when compared to the reverse, just due to base demographics - let alone where the average of most of the racial demographics fall on the wealth/income class ladder.

@Apollo_VT @SpinUpTheHeli @schizowithatank @ohaiyokaiyo So why can't there be racism against white people if the individuals themselves hold no power and thus have power exerted on them by people with power from other races? How was the statement in the picture correct if this is true??

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It doesn't -- the original post is focused on MAGA, which is why I included it here. As a white guy who is disgusted with the administration and what people are willing to tolerate, I can very comfortably support the position of "not all white people are MAGA." That being said, in 2024 71% of voters were white and that 71% broke 57% for the racist dogwhistler/megaphoner. *shrug* It was a good way to functionally separate racism and bigotry as well as seperate a couple of different perspectives on racism, "classical" and "structural" both of which the MAGA admin scores poorly-to-very-poorly in.

@Apollo_VT @schizowithatank @ohaiyokaiyo This immediately assumes that all white people are Maga. Which could be seen as racism. You proved the point that was made by trying to disprove it.

Random white person with no power is not definitionally racist because they can't explicit exercise power/leverage - the localized exception would be if someone could carry out, let's say, hate crimes while knowing the local police and justice system would either not try very hard to go after them or in some cases actively support the act (police supporting KKK in the past would be an example of this.) The difference there would be an understanding that the "justice system" would be protecting the bad actor from carrying out unjust racially-motivated acts and thus enabling them to do those acts targeted at others based on race/other immutable characteristics.

@Apollo_VT @SpinUpTheHeli @schizowithatank @ohaiyokaiyo Definition useless as a measure of identification and a way to correct the flaws it claims to define. The idea that you are white and the system advantages you thus only you are able to be racist and racism can't be used on you due to your race being benefitted by the system ....

The system itself is not "racist" a system is an unfeeling and somewhat ambiguous element, it can't feel and has no emotion. "Systemic Racism" is prejudiced and racially bigoted people designing, implementing, and controlling said systems to disadvantage others purposefully. It all comes back to human input in the end.

@Apollo_VT @SpinUpTheHeli @schizowithatank @ohaiyokaiyo Racism against whites. This definition also makes it impossible for people to be racist,only systems can be racist as people are not the system, a white person isn't the system thus it can't be racist, the system may advantage them but they are not the system and the idea that...

That's not entirely true - the main remedies are likely to be class-based mostly due to the fact that severe wealth inequalities and accessibility inequalities disproportionately impact poorer and lower classes, which are disproportionately non-white but also not exclusively so. This is also an echo of the era of Red Lining, which led to white communities having upward economic momentum while largely minority communities stagnated or regressed and fell into disrepair. In some regions, like the Midwest in particular, the exodus of domestic manufacturing compounded downward pressure that minority communities were already burdened with. Civil-neutral social saftey net programs still aid in upward verticality of minorities without the policy itself being centered on race. That's not a complete elixir in the face of any policies, at any level, specifically designed (directly or in spirit) to disadvantage people based on immutable characteristics, but would still be a massive overall shift.

@Apollo_VT @SpinUpTheHeli @schizowithatank @ohaiyokaiyo Lets assume this definition is correct and efforts are made to fix this systemic issue. The only way this could be done is through the implementation of system wide benefits to non whitea since they are the ones not benefitting from the existing system,thus creating systemic.....

@schizowithatank @RLLibertarian @ohaiyokaiyo Yeah, the Southern Democrats (the Dixiecrats) who flipped parties after LBJ's presidency due to the Civil Rights Act. Everyone knows what "The Southern Strategy" was and understands how political realignments work.

@RLLibertarian @Apollo_VT @ohaiyokaiyo I’m going to add on to what you were saying, The democrats helped the making of the KKK in 1865. But they calling MAGA racist.

I'm not changing any definitions. Racism is the belief, action, systemic structure that ranks human groups as inherently superior or inferior based on perceived inherited traits, leading to prejudice, discrimination, and antagonism. It involves structural power that creates unfair advantages and harmful treatment of individuals based on their race. True racism takes individual prejudice and racial bigotry and uses it to actively disadvantage those that they target. I don't really care so much about the difference because, like I said, people have begun to use the terms interchangeably over time, but there is truly a difference. Random person hurling slurs and harassing people based on racial prejudice is bigoted. A person taking their personal racial prejudice and applying it to their job as a hiring manager - specifically throwing out applications of those they are prejudiced against and/or who does everything in their power to advertise job listings in a way to racially curate applicants, is a form of systemic racism within a private enterprise. Red Lining was systemic racism in the government via the banking system to disadvantage colored neighborhoods, which still negatively affects communities today. I'm just saying that the original meaning of racism was elevated and amplified forms of racial prejudice and bigotry. That is why Kaiyo's original comment is "mostly correct" because in America, which is our context for the conversation, the majority of the people you are going to find at the levers of power are typically white. People of all walks of life can be endlessly bigoted and prejudiced toward each other back and forth and it can get super ugly. Without the element of the power dynamic, it is not technically racism.

@Apollo_VT @schizowithatank @ohaiyokaiyo I'm not going to follow someone's change in the definition of racism when the reason for the change is specifically so they can be racist and say they aren't. Racism is discrimination based on ethnicity, period. No "systematic component" is necessary.

I'm just going off of textbook definitions in general - not all bigotry is based on race, but not all race-based bigotry is TEXTBOOK Racism because that requires more of a systemic component and leverage from the abuser to the abused. I'm not ascribing that, on a personal level, racial bigotry is in any way better than racism. Both are terrible regardless of how they differ. As for Biden, I said "functionally" strictly regarding his presidency because his domestic policies were pretty race-neutral and, in some cases, fairly solid. One of his first acts was signing an executive order focused on racial equity, and most of his economic bills and acts were race and gender-neutral. Obviously, his foreign policy choices completely undermine all of that. Outside of his presidency, there's his history regarding busing as well as the 1994 Crime Bill, which were both functionally racist from earlier in his career. I think in general he was kind of a weak dude - ideologically - in general who sought "political expediency" for most of his career. As far as the specific direct quote, bro's brain was fucking porridge even before he was elected, so I don't think his intent was anything close to the plain-text reading of the quote. The full quote/gaffe was actually "Poor kids are just as bright and talented as white kids- wealthy kids. Black kids. Asian kids." He knew in the moment he fucked up because he was intending to say "wealthy" as a rich/poor contrast, but his tapioca brain shorted out on him. Maybe there's something underlying that helped to cause that moment, but that would just be speculation. That's why I say "functionally" racist. His policies caused net harm to people in the world (mostly abroad in this case - the Palestinians), and he enabled people who he absolutely knew were ideologically racist. I'm not convinced that much of what he was doing was fueled by ideological racism of his own (like with Trump or Woodrow Wilson e.t.c.) that is where the "functional" element comes in. He was a stupid, weak old man who had very little in regard to strong ideology to begin with.

@Apollo_VT @schizowithatank @ohaiyokaiyo Only "functionally racist"? He said, *direct quote* mind you, "poor kids are just as bright and talented as white kids". Second, the difference is only that bigotry is the broad term, racism is the specific one. All racism is bigotry, not all bigotry is racism.

I mean... definitionally that is mostly correct. "Racism" and "Bigotry" are functionally different, even if people have started to conflate the two and use them interchangeably. Trump/MAGA is structurally the most racist administration in around 100 years. The only other Presidents/Admins in the same realm are probably Woodrow Wilson and FDR from 1900 on - Wilson was eugenics-level bad while FDR had internment camps (something Trump is also rapidly trending towards.) Classically, you're still in the upper half with the Trump/MAGA admin - probably in the Nixon range (Nixon started the War on Drugs mostly to attack "blacks and hippies" who were never going to vote for him, was personally a racist dirtbag.) Biden (to be fair) was also incredibly functionally racist, supplying weapons and political cover to a genocide-enacting state. Even if Biden didn't personally believe some of what Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, Gallant e.t.c. were saying, you have to ascribe his actions to enabling and uplifting their worldview and framework - he becomes directly complicit in Israeli war crimes. Trump is also doing that, but to an even greater extent - so that's just another negative for him. So Trump/MAGA is literally like trying to take some of the worst of all of the admins across decades (both domestic and foreign policy-wise) and acting on it all at once. There is not a serious position that anyone can hold that would suggest Trump and the MAGA administration (and other elected officials who enable them) are not very high on either classical or structural interpretation. Actively cheering for most of what is being carried out is textbook bigotry at minimum.

@ohaiyokaiyo Same person btw.

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Coffee is also said to dehydrate, but that is just incorrect because coffee is mostly *water.* If someone had not had caffeine in a long time, that can make diuretic effects stronger (which would also affect tea.) Even then, that would be negligible compared to the amount of water we're drinking with coffee.

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