AlDente

I'd honestly love to loose about 20 pounds to get back to my college weight. It bothers me enough that I only eat twice a day now, but my weight has been pretty stagnant for the last few years. Antidepressants didn't help (with weight or with other issues).

*be fucked by both

Yeah, but alcohol and water are both heavy in volume. Gotta set priorities when hauling out to the wilderness!

No brake calipers or power steering onboard?

Article is paywalled, so thanks for posting the actual study. This section seems in direct conflict with the article's title:

Given the ... clear evidence that the epicenter of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was at one of only four markets in Wuhan that sold live wildlife from plausible intermediate host mammal species, either the closest-inferred ancestor or the direct ancestor of SARS-CoV-2 likely moved from an area in or around Yunnan province, to Hubei province, via the wild and farmed animal trade.

In sum, the study doesn't challenge that Covid-19 originated in Wuhan; but instead, explores the genetic backgrounds of the bats with the closest links to Covid-19.

Nope. That doesn't sound like a reasonable comparison at all. Ancestral heritage and cultural affiliation are significant parts of the artificial social construct of "race". And no, I do not believe you can defeat racism by mixing everyone together until we all share the same appearance and background. If anything, I think truly defeating racism would be celebrating those differences, not covering them up.

To be honest though, I'm mostly just being pedant because of your language in the original comment. You make some good points, but nobody makes any ground when they start off by calling people names. I suspect most of the downvotes are the result of the same kind of thinking. ✌️

Whether or not a generalizing bigot is a racist depends on more than that. Given the example, the chances are high. However, there is no French race and I find the calling of the entire population of France a single ethnic group a bit disgusting. So no, in isolation I would not call French-hate racism, but it still doesn't make it right. Just like calling someone a "piece of shit" on the internet.

There is no Italian race! Boarders are not ethnic groups, and by claiming they are you are generalizing the contents of those boarders.

That being said, sweeping generalizations are still wrong. However, your attitude in this whole comment chain has been abhorrent and it's surely not swinging anyone over to your viewpoint.

To be quite honest, I did some searching of race and racism before even my first response to you just be sure. I still dont agree with you and neither did what I found. Furthermore, unless there's some votes not federating to my instance, nobody on here agrees with your initial claim.

I think I understand where your coming from, but I'm uncomfortable with blurring the distinction between national boarders and race. After all, I think we both agreed that different human races aren't real, while nations are much more concrete. If we label all generalization as racism, I fear that it waters down the meaning of the word, just like when people call anything more authoritarian than them a Nazi.

However, we can definitely agree that sweeping generalizations are bad. Instead of spreading hate in the world, we should treat others how we would wish to be treated.

Oh, I misread your post then (E: I think you're missing a comma). I thought you were accusing me of diving into your history. I haven't, so I couldn't say what you have said. However, I never accused you of saying anything in the first place. Without that, your comments make no sense.