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Think of a van as an enormous truck storage bin.

I think you replied to the wrong person. I was writing about stealing data.

stochastic terrorism

the use of mass communications to stir up random lone wolves to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable

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You don’t even need the word Chinese

Sol 3: Harmless Mostly harmless

Oh yeah. I’ve definitely heard fried chicken and watermelons being used in racist context.

I’ve only ever heard soul food referred to in a positive (I.e. tasty) manner.

Joe Biden corrected himself and said he “shouldn’t have been such a wise guy”. There was no need for Harris to correct or distance.

Where are Trump, Vance and Loomer’s corrections?

Do you see why your equivalence is false?

If I had directly quoted them and cited the quotation would the reaction have been the same?

No, especially if you used quotes.

Satire can be difficult.

Associating Soul food with (southern) African Americans doesn’t feel racist to me. Am I in danger of accidentally offending someone?

How easy do we forget when Biden said…

Biden isn’t running anymore. What we remember or forget is irrelevant.

You need to download the latest version of the Republican attack points. Yours are outdated.

Is it possible for the bike to fall off the rollers, sending everything crashing into the nearest wall?

probably an author or inventor out there who made something really nice and everyone they worked with was also well taken care of.

JK Rowling should be a billionaire, but she keeps giving money away.

Easier to focus on a few, very public individuals.

Billionaires are a problem, but not the problem. Weath Inequality inherent in the economic system is the real enemy. Billionaires are only a symptom and a lightning rod.

Fruit?

R is better if you want some very specific, niche statistical packages.

Python is better if you want to combine statistics with any other compute process.

Given we haven’t even defined Enlightenment between ourselves it’s unlikely everyone else who claims to have achieved it will agree have the same definition/experience.

You are correct I have no idea, but my prior expectation is that these experiences are independently located within each person’s brain, without any external connection.

My point is that we have no idea they all had the same delusion. What each refer to as Enlightenment may be very different.

Even so, they may have all watched the same film, ingested the same chemical compounds or suffered the same childhood injury.

Your hypothesis would be comforting if true (particularly as we are not discussing supernature) but I remain skeptical.

You seem pretty certain that this “single truth” is achievable and that people have done so.

What if their reported experiences are just delusions?