And more bullshit “but no white people have been oppressed as well”.

And when did this happen to be black people oppressing white people, hmm?

I’m Finnish. We were under Swedish rule, then Russian rule. That wannabe gotcha there doesn’t make “whiteface” any more of a thing. You can’t come up with an example of anyone getting offended by it, yet thought to equate it to blackface.

Just like the idiotic “white lives matter” people.

My comment was in response to the question about people using <insert colour> face

It was about blackface, which you know very well. No-one has ever been offended by “whiteface”, because of what fucking happened in history.

You’re trying to equate these things. Like a person who would go to “white lives matters” protests and still convince yourself you’re not racist. That it’s “the same thing, we’re just making sure white people don’t get discriminated against”.

Hating yourself is pretty common, btw.

How do you enjoy those “white lives matter” protests?

He doesn’t need a rank to have authority over others. A duty station can give one authority, and he is the acting medical officer of the ship, so technically he can even order Janeway about.

Technically

and that just got a bit silly.

Not as silly as literal flamethrowers on the bridge which spew fire when the outside of the ship is hit in any location.

I never liked the whole “we can’t build a ship in which the bridge electronics are even semisafe” let alone believing that there’s thick gaspipes in several locations.

Who designed these?

been able to walk right up to very large “deer” species such as elk

I completely forgot that you guys say “moose” for the biggest fellas, and thought that you just walked up to moose and try petting them and I was gonna tell you what a bad idea that is, but yeah, you mean Cervus canadensis. We don’t have elk that big. Moose, reindeer and a few different deers, basically. I guess the closest would be the white-tailed deer. I started reading that, and seeing how it’s an American species more or less, I was very confused, as I walked up to one as a kid when I didn’t live in the city. But it’s been introduced to Finland as well.

Reindeer are fairly small. Smaller than what I feel like they look in that picture. (Perhaps it’s a small man or an odd angle. Or just a unit of a reindeer)

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rQj0TrKxwcY/maxresdefault.jpg

See?

Well, the article says “deer”, but it’s just reindeer, and reindeer are a semi-domesticated species. All the reindeer in Lapland are owned by someone, but they’re also literally free to roam around and graze wherever. When it comes time, they gather up the tokka (collective noun for a reindeer group ~herd).

People aren’t walking up to wild deer to paint their antlers.

I literally laughed out loud. Well, not too audibly, but still. Forcibly exhaled, let’s say.

Amateurs.

It was the late nineties and info on such matters freely flowed on the net.

As opposed to?

Gender and sexuality are two different things.

So Boimler could totally be a femboi and still be only into girls.

Learn a German word: “Digga”!

Improve on the model by getting a metal bat and welding metal plugs on it.

This ain’t bad either though, just a suggestion

In these temps anyone will understand how cold can burn.

I slept outside in -42 when I was in the army in Finland. Not a good night’s sleep, I’ll tell you that.

Suzy Eddie Izzard, is that you?

https://youtu.be/UTduy7Qkvk8

Not sure we can call it cocaine though, isn’t that term reserved for the hydrochloride salt form of the drug?

If these plants were brought back as marvels of the new world, they probably were presented to some sort of royalty or another, and there were a lot of alchemists in 17th century Europe.

Which brings me to my point that I don’t think “cocaine” is exclusively for the hydrochloride salt. Sure, freebase cocaine has its own name (crack), but it still is cocaine. So I’d wager a guess saying cocaine is defined as any extract from the plant.

Let’s see.

Well some so, yeah. Mostly it’s just referring to the alkaloid, but I’d agree with you that chewing leafs doesn’t constitute “using cocaine”.

Because I’m pretty sure that, say, Bohemian alchemists would’ve had no trouble making a potent concoction from the leaves. And I mean “Bohemian” and “concoction” in their literal meanings.

Like a tincture of cocaine. Hits like a hammer, easy to make.

Those are the worrying trends. We know to worry about the rise of the far right. Even globally. Global communication on this level was not a thing 100 years ago, and neither was fearing the far-right as much.

I could list hundreds of positive things which have happened in the world which definitely weren’t a thing 100 years ago. Thousands even. But those aren’t worrysome. Those don’t make you nervous. So they’re easy to ignore.

I’m not trying to say the far-right and their popularity isn’t an issue, but it’s an issue differently than it was 100 years ago.

It’s easy to throw hands up in the air and say “I’m out.”

I always preferred a challenge.

You’re a good person.

You couldn’t possibly know that, but it feels good nonetheless, true or not. Thanks.

“We’re headed back there”

“I’m not an apathetic pessimist”

Pick one

You’re taking the “history repeats itself” a tad too seriously.

Even if we looked at the US as the new Nazi Germany and Trump as the new Hitler, he hasn’t even remotely got the health or intelligence for even half the shit Hitler pulled off, and Hitler was not a stable genius in any sense of the phrase. Not stable, nor a genius.

What’s your evidence of “were heading back there” if you can’t use a saying as proof?

“Things improving here and there”

Everything has improved in the large scale.

Things have gotten worse “here and there”. Like my gen and buying houses. Not something that has improved in the past 20 years, but I would argue that the people are better informed of that specific problem than they were, so…

Things were not better 100 years ago.

“Rise of”

You do recall that 50 years ago segregation had just been abolished in the US? So you want to go back to times in which black people weren’t allowed to use the same schools, doors, fountains and pools, seats on buses? That’s when you think the US and the world was “great”?

Not only are you mired in apathy, you’re also fantasising about the past.

You didn’t even know — despite being an American (although I do assume there) — that you don’t have direct presidential elections?

No… Ignorance isn’t an excuse. If you use it as an excuse online where there’s literally all of human information, you’re not being just ignorant, you’re being willfully ignorant.