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  • Yes, those groups are all typically considered white by pigmentation except the ones that are Indian brown, including light skinned romani people. Just like light skinned gay people would be generally considered white, or ethnic Jews who are light complected.

    The boundary between black (or brown, yellow, red, purple, or green) and white is not black and white, but the social implications can be pretty cut and dry if you find yourself strongly in one category or another in many parts of the world.

    Trying to assign someone as "Asian" is a somewhat more difficult task with more nuance, skin color though is pretty straightforward. You can google peter griffin skin color chart and figure it out.

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  • Good? I don't know that you have to judge it as good, but it's easy to understand WHY and also that is serves a purpose in the US it may not serve other places.

    People naturally separate into like groups as a matter of being fundamentally tribal, even though these are barriers we generally try to break down. The point though is that in the US there is often a cultural difference when splitting between white or black, just like there's a cultural difference for "grows payot sideburns", "dresses flamboyantly or effeminately as a man", "speaks Spanish at home", etc, etc. Sure, people are just people and we don't need to point out differences maliciously, but we ARE different and those are often things we like to celebrate. At the root, we want our differences to be a positive not a negative, but by and large we aren't changing our cultures anymore to blend into one big homogeneous, colorless group.

    In most of Europe, black and white (or brown or purple or whatever) isn't a meaningful cultural distinction. In the US it is. Now whether or not we should police language or even whether or not the situation is sometimes uncomfortable... those are different topics altogether.

  • Seems like maybe reality is at odds with a generalization. Maybe every cop is not a bastard, every landlord is not an oppressive monster, and every person who makes more money than you is not a net drain on society.

    Maybe you have just discovered something rare and elusive: nuance.

    This post reads like a lefty caricature by someone hard right, esp the last sentence.

  • How many grams of fire to make 88000 calories?

    To heat from 40F to 200F with 10 pounds of milk is 1600 degreelbs and we can heat 16000 degreebls with 10 buffaloxen of firewood, so, conveniently, we know this process takes one clean buffalox of firewood. Pretty trivial in imperial* units.

    I agree of course with the use of metric (even if it's fun to take the piss), but you've arrived at an equivalently meaningless result in either case. Now if you want to use a calculator and go from calories to kWh, it's a different story.

  • What's it like being stupid?

    I was here ready to support someone who says "hey don't break into people's houses" and then you start acting like a shitbird and I gotta downvote, I can't even back you up.

    I'm a dirty gun-owning Democrat, and it doesn't matter what your political affiliation is, if you break into my house with my wife and children inside, you're gonna have trouble.

  • Ah yes, femicide... a very common turn of phrase I have seen readily discussed many times before today.

    This is rank with the kind of fearbating that lives on fox news. I wasn't expecting it here. Even if true it reads like rage bait.