Thermosetty

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by Thermosetty 3y ago
It's all relative isn't it? To some 250k+ is a dream salary. To others it's just a start.
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by Thermosetty 3y ago
> The vast majority of people in the US and Canada are not buying minivans. They're buying comically large cars that endanger road users... This is true in the surrounding suburbs but vehicle size in city centers trend smaller.
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by Thermosetty 4y ago
> Exponential growth has not taken place in the fundamental economic activities on which modern civilization depends for its survival — agriculture, energy production, transportation and large engineering projects. This is inevitable in
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by Thermosetty 4y ago
> Chattel slavery still exists around the world, why aren't they the richer than the places where chattel slavery is outlawed? Chattel slavery no longer exists. That involved perpetual, lineage based bondage and breeding. The global
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by Thermosetty 4y ago
Chattel slavery not only fueled the industrial revolution but laid the foundation for our modern world. Capital accumulation, investment of capital, private ownership of the means of production (people), high levels of wage (free) labor and
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by Thermosetty 4y ago
The last American slave died 70 years ago. Ignoring the millions that lived and died between the early 17th and mid 19th centuries is disingenuous. The nature of slavery and the operational structure of this nation ensured that significant
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by Thermosetty 4y ago
"Not all were slaves, and writing letters" Your point? "Free" Blacks were exceptions (about 9% by 1850) not the rule. Preservation of their history too was an exception, not the rule. Controlling for literacy rates and e
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by Thermosetty 4y ago
"Expecting someone else to document one's own history isn't going to work that well." Never indicted that. Dorsey collection and 19th century travels aside, how would you say a Black person in early 17th century America
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by Thermosetty 4y ago
"....scholars recognize the profound importance of materials such as the Dorsey collection—resources collected and preserved informally by African Americans at a time when white historians claimed that African Americans had no history
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by Thermosetty 4y ago
Calm down - I never indicated any of that. In a functional sense when compared to darker skinned, non European people; in the US specifically, European cultural differences are far less significant as they are in Europe. This isn't lim
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by Thermosetty 4y ago
Of course you see yourself differently as an "Eastern European" - Those distinctions don't translate to the US because when juxtaposed with darker skinned people (particularly the Descendants of Slaves in the US), the differe
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by Thermosetty 4y ago
> I try to do a good job at whatever I'm doing, because it's more fun to do a good job than not. Yes it's "fun" and I'll add that it's a great primer for the more significant tasks.
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by Thermosetty 4y ago
It definitely makes you wonder how many brilliant Black minds were/are wasted due to conditions imposed on them by racism/ws.