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This display is lowkey bias because on the “not eaten” side they are showing two species of mammal in a bunch of different phenotypes and a horse. 60 percent of the species shown on this display are eaten by human regularly at least 73 percent have been eaten by humans in historic record.

That tiny red nub sitting between the G, H, and B keys on keyboards has been quietly dividing the tech world for over 30 years. Half the people who encounter it have no idea what it does. The other half refuse to use anything else. It’s called the TrackPoint. And it was born out of a single frustrating observation. In 1984, a researcher named Ted Selker conducted a study showing that it takes a typist 0.75 seconds to shift their hand from the keyboard to the mouse and a comparable amount of time to shift back. That 1.5 seconds of lost time, multiplied across an entire workday, felt like a solvable problem. So he built something that would eliminate it entirely; a pressure-sensitive nub planted right in the middle of the keyboard, so your hands never had to leave the keys at all. IBM introduced it commercially in 1992 on the ThinkPad 700 series. The way it works is not what most people expect. It doesn’t move like a joystick. It responds to pressure. Beneath the rubber cap sit strain gauges that measure the force applied in different directions and translate it into cursor movement. The harder you press, the faster the cursor moves. There is no repositioning, no lifting your finger, no running out of space. Infinite cursor movement from a single fingertip that never moves more than a millimeter. The red color almost didn’t happen. IBM’s product safety division had reserved red exclusively for emergency power-off switches on mainframe computers. ThinkPad designer Richard Sapper got around this by calling the color IBM Magenta and when the first batch shipped, the engineers made it decidedly more crimson. A loophole dressed in plain sight. Power users programmers, analysts, executives who live on their keyboards swear by it. The reason, according to Lenovo’s chief design officer, is that your hands never leave the home row. You type and navigate simultaneously, without the constant interruption of reaching for a trackpad. Once mastered, people say it feels less like using a tool and more like an extension of thought. Most laptops abandoned it. Lenovo never did. And the people who know, know.

@Theoverclassman No one group is a monolith so there’s that also if you think we weren’t influential in Africans coming over here do your research it’s documented to think white people wanted Africans in America is laughable in my opinion

Jamaicans are 100% responsible for wallabees popularity in street fashion going back to the early 1980s. They never went out of style. A select niche still wears them

Once again history is grey not black and white. For instance we are two African Americans having a discussion in 2026 and one is more inclusive leaning and one is more divisive leaning. I’m sure it was the same back then. Also I don’t think African Americans hated them they just made fun of their customs hence causing hatred towards us. Hate is usually developed not transferred.

@Theoverclassman Also the 65 crime bill that allowed Africans over here was due to Black Americans so we are literally the reason they are allowed here so all that immigrant hate is historically inaccurate

This heart breaking man. He never got to get closure on that either. Damn we got to do better

What you stated is historically correct therefore it makes sense why that group of people would be passionately against their kids associating with familiar imagery in the place the relocated to due to said imagery. Also what state are you from? A lot of that tension Black Americans caused by making fun of immigrants when they got here. Are you familiar with that history? Therefore we gotta bite the bullet on that. That’s the progressive thing to do

@Theoverclassman They literally have 7/8 in assault rifles killing Entire villages I’m not buying that. They have been coming to America since the late 60s how long do you give them excuses for ignorance I think 40 years is enough

@MAllen27536 They stay away from us because America has made African American ignorance the face of ignorance in this country. They make sure no one ever forgets when we fall short and displays for all to see. Some of us be walking around this bitch 15/16 with assault rifles 😂

@Theoverclassman Another reason why I don’t believe in this we all the Same narrative Africans have been taught to stay away from us still have access to our resources

First black is a race he is black just a different ethnicity small mishap on that one. Second is it like.. an accountability term? Like is the non American man who helps inner city youth a tether? Or is he not a tether, but the non American man who prides himself in only marrying in his ethnicity yet has fucked and mislead dozens of African American women a tether? I don’t agree with its use either way but I’ll agree to disagree if it’s a term made from accountability.

@Theoverclassman The melanated immigrants who cosplay as their Black American but really they aren’t from this soil for example Bryon Donald’s is a politician who says he’s Black and doesnt support reparations. His reason was that Since he’s carribean he wouldn’t be able to get benefits

@MAllen27536 The what?? Lmao what is a tether

@Theoverclassman @mtoney919919 Respect just had ask the tethers do a lot of cosplaying

My family on both sides is from Georgia but my mothers side migrated to Florida (my great great grandmother was the first woman on that side not born into slavery) my dad side is still in Georgia my great granddad was a share cropper who eventually bought his own farm after that became taboo or something idk the whole story. My 103 year old great mother still lives on that same farm today.

@Theoverclassman @mtoney919919 Where is your family from?

@MAllen27536 @mtoney919919 Well that’s nothing new in the black community, but the initial focus of this whole convo was how each ethnicity’s influence on modern black culture in America not about if they got along or not.

@Theoverclassman @mtoney919919 The only thing he said about Carribeans were how they discriminated against him 😂😂

@MAllen27536 @mtoney919919 Also he rubbed shoulders with other Carribeans if I remember correctly the gangster that wanted to kill him was Trinidadian. History is more grey than black and white my brother.

@MAllen27536 @mtoney919919 He from Lansing not Detroit and he moved to Boston with his big sister which was his first exposure to big city living then he went to jail and found Islam through his brother who was trying to get him on a better path. Malcolm thought it was a get out of jail quick card.

@MAllen27536 @mtoney919919 … debatable his father passed relatively early but that’s neither here nor there Caribbeans and Americans share a lot of history and influence among each other

@Theoverclassman @mtoney919919 Malcom father was fba you get your lineage from your father not rhe mother well here in America that’s how it goes you are your FATHERS seed the mother isn’t really Important

@CHEF2BLUNTS @mtoney919919 Man wrong island same premise Jamaican and Black Americans share influence from one another in the states I don’t see the big deal

@Theoverclassman @mtoney919919 Dont even know what you talking about

@mtoney919919 @steff11only Lmao omg break this down 😂😂. This shit gone go platinum in the barbershop I’m already knowing

@Theoverclassman @steff11only Garvey was a sellout bruh

The way you niggas stressing over gas I know them chains fake as fuck 😂

@steff11only @mtoney919919 Damn. He’s not Jamaican but is Caribbean American. But they were Garvyites and HE Jamaican. Not too shabby

@Theoverclassman @mtoney919919 His mother was a partially white woman from Grenada. This is easily researchable.

@steff11only @mtoney919919 …. I’ve read the book myself I’m at work it’s at home I’ll revisit this I swear when I get there I swear it’s not a Mandela effect when he was explaining her loosing her sanity he talked about Jamaica not Grenada I’m on 50/50 cause they were follower of Garvey

@steff11only @mtoney919919 That man is Jamaican his mother is Jamaican passing white woman it’s in his autobiography all facts I swear

@Theoverclassman @mtoney919919 Your bugging. Malcom x is not Jamaican you’re probably thinking about Marcus Garvey.