The was no ‘just’, just as there was no equating.

Bring any nuance to a charged topic and the ones who think in black and white terms will come to misinterpret what you said in the least charitable way.

Maybe not, but the boundaries can be fuzzy, and statistics tend to get built on technical language that may not treat the fuzziness the way you or I would agree with. So I get the urge to use vague language like ‘affects’ or the difficulty in finding language that is general enough without sounding mealy mouthed.

In reality, it’s not purely about race. Most racism isn’t between groups that are culturally identical, it is between groups with significant cultural differences. Race is just the most obvious attribute used to identify the other group.

I get you, but how would you phrase it? I expect, BTW, that it might be intended to cover both the extreme of children forced to work in a sweatshop 12/7 and children who have to help their parents with some subsistence tasks.

It’s always a numbers game. The more times you roll the dice the sooner you’ll see success. The lower the chances the more times you need to roll em.

A general thing you can say about opportunity is to put yourself places where opportunities happen, even rare ones. But sorry I don’t have any advice about where those places are.

Also, non successful attempts can still be learning experience.

Believe it or not the Goldberg variations works for me.

As to what I am trying to accomplish: your comments, suggesting you have some theory about how the planets move that somehow scientists have missed, suggests to me some basic misunderstanding about how science or scientific knowledge works, and I’m trying to get at that, to possibly help you see something you are missing.

I don’t even know what you are talking about when you say ‘theory’. I can’t remember ever seeing a model of the planets rotating around the sun presented as a ‘theory.’ It’s just a model to explain what is understood about it, and of course a simplification. Of course scientists understand that the sun is also moving and if you combine that motion with the orbiting of the planets you of course get a spiral.

Did you really think that what you were able to infer from basic knowledge about the motion of the planets was not realized by scientists?

Fruits still have other flavors to my taste. Your sensitivity to sugar will change based on how much of it your eat, so if you’ve adapted to eating a lot less sugar you may have become so sensitive to sweetness that it overpowers other flavors.

You might need multiple ladders. An extension ladder if you think you’ll every need to get up on the roof, clean out the gutters, etc. Definitely a full size step ladder. A really light short step ladder can be handy too.

I’d also suggest a painters tool. A couple of putty knives and a can of patching plaster.

Start collecting tools from yard sales.

Definitely a shop vac. Specifically a wet/dry vac so if something good wrong and leaks all over, you have a quick solution.

Besides a typical big corded model, I also have a small cordless one which is super convenient. Depending what kind of stuff you plan to do, the small one might be enough. Be aware this can be another way to start the vendor-specific battery lock in. (Though you can get adapters.)

It’s misleading to equate the lizard people’s genders or sexuality with our own.

I’ve had good luck with kleen kanteen. Stainless steel with a steel screw in top. No gaskets.

I know what you mean about the moldy gaskets, I’ve had that problem with insulated coffee mugs.

I become aware of which eye I am looking at when talking to someone who has eyes that are misaligned. Like, maybe they have one glass eye or one eye that has some problem… I become self conscious that I might be looking at the wrong eye and worried they might be offended.

But I’m pretty sure I’m never aware of which one my eyes another person is looking at, or when their gaze switches. So I really doubt I could tell if someone were looking right between my eyes. Maybe if they were really close.

I haven’t seen croquet mentioned yet. Also many things could be low cardio if played that way (meaning with both people dedicated to playing it chill, possibly with some added rule around how much you can move). I could imagine, say, most raquet sports played that way, though maybe it requires enough skill that the ball isn’t going all over the place.

Here’s another crazy idea: both players wear heart rate monitors and going over a certain heart rate is a penalty.

Well there is a cultural thread out there that meat eating is masculine and vegetables are not, which certain macho types subscribe to, and even some not exactly macho types have been influenced by during their upbringing. So I would certainly expect a correlation, and have observed one. You don’t need to subscribe to this thread to understand it exists. It would be interesting to see data. I’d like to think we would see a trend of it weakening across the generations.

So human language is generally a problem. It always requires context.