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In third place, I was commenting on why “white” and “Caucasian” meant, on a question about if Mediterraneans such as the Portuguese (sic) where white.
«Do you know why whites in the US are also called Caucasian?
Where does the word “Caucasian” originates?
It refers to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, currently under the recognized countries of Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey; as well as several de facto countries.
The word was used by German physiologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, one of the first people who attempted a scientific study of human races. »
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The second most upvoted answer is related to New World monkeys and vegetation rafts.
It might be the most upvoted, if we add that it was shared in another space, and combined they got more upvotes than the China one, in a lesser time.
«The split between Old World monkeys and New World monkeys happened nearly 40 million years ago. By this time South America and Africa were already separated by the Atlantic Ocean. The gap was shorter than today, but it was already an ocean. Other non-simian primates only live in the Old World (Eurasia and Africa). It is reasonable to think, and so far the fossil record confirms it, that primates originated in the old world and at some point they migrated to the Americas.»
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«The explanation is much more reasonable than assuming that New World monkeys walked to South America from the Ararat mountain where Noah's ark stranded.»
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My most upvoted answer in Quora is me talking about China.
«Officially:
There is only one China. China includes mainland China and Taiwan. There are two political entities that claim to be the rightful government of all China (both mainland and Taiwan): they are the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and the Republic of China (ROC).»
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The answer was posted in 2017, and it had a peek of views in early 2020. I wonder why.
Land grabs shall not be tolerated.
There are a few other things in international politics that while accepted in the past should not be allowed in the present given or current understanding of nation-states and self determination of the peoples.
Land grabs are one of these. Genocide is one other.
I'm a little ambiguous about making a principle regarding the forceful removal of leaders by international coalitions or foreign powers, as well as the support of separatist movements.
Have your cats en ever thought that your pants make a good hammock while you're sitting in the toilet?
So our kid is worried because one of her friends had a fight with her parents. She wanted us to go rescue her last night late.
One first question I had for myself is what kind of intervention would we perform. It is not like I can go to somebody's home, people whose only relationship is through our underage daughters, and tell them that they have to let us take her daughter. Calling social services? Doesn't seem a good option, particularly if we are not completely aware of the situation. It is not that I have plenty of confidence in social services or the police in this country.
Later this morning or kid told us (well, she told her mother) that her friend was in “the community” and get parents didn't accept that.
Now I wonder, which spaces or instances are the right ones for bringing a girl in her early teens protection in these situations, particularly if I'm not fully aware of how dangerous is it. Is the kid in real danger or is she just being grounded by intolerant but otherwise harmless parents? Or just well intentioned but ignorant and misled parents scared of their kid being gay?
Are there LGBT* support groups in the area that have some ideas to deal with this kind of situations? People who can assess the right kind of counseling and protection? Who can work with the parents if we'll intentioned but misled, or to rescue the kid if parents are an actual danger for her?
I s'pose that frustration will kind of be my constant for now on.
tl;dr: I knew it, but I had to say it.
I can barely live with myself and the high expectations I do have for me and the poor performance my life has been so far. Chronic procrastination had become a way of life as if ignoring my problems they will vanish themselves; a situation I'm aware enough to understand as wrong but I still fail to solve.
I don't blame the world. I don't recognize any agency in the universe or any external situation that I could blame. Fate? Fate barely as a descriptive state of the affairs not as something that was written. I have felt inadequate to what people expect from me, my family, my friends, my school mates and coworkers. And yet no blame. I can't blame myself for the cards live have me, neither can I blame life, or the universe, or some god, for handling me those cards.
And a great deal of this frustration is sexual in nature. I think I need someone to be vulnerable to. Someone I can surrender to, and feel protected. Someone that will embrace me with her skin. Someone I can humble myself as this little perv I am.
Also someone who can be vulnerable infront of me, who surrenders herself to me, so I can embrace her, and protect her in my arms, and for this little while, while we are making love, or just having sex, only we both matter to each other.
I haven't shared this physically with anyone in the last 34 months, nearly 35. I haven't shared this with anybody except the woman I once married and I once believed I loved. The woman I share a flat with, two teenage kids and three cats, but no intimacy and no physicality.
And I'm stuck. Too much a baggage to bring into any new relationship. I don't have much to offer to any possible new partner. Fear of rejection. Fear of not being enough. Fear of being a fraud. Fear of failing.
I'm probably too wrong in what to expect. Sharing being vulnerable? Who thinks like that? Probably not even me.
But I don't know shit. I don't even know how to flirt. I don't know how to pick. I don't know how to reach. And, probably, I don't even know who to reach.
Some people you should probably be following: @pezick , @Maysan@col.social , @mujerforestal , @asmodeo , and @wondertypa
When people attempt to revert an argument that doesn't fully understand, the conclusions might be... weird. 
https://www.quora.com/If-atheism-is-true-why-cant-atheists-explain-this-contradiction-Let-Christianity-be-defined-as-a-doubt-in-atheism-Everyone-has-some-degree-of-doubt-so-most-atheists-are-somewhat-Christian-and-so-atheism-is-unlikely/answer/Carlos-E%C5%AD-Th?ch=10&oid=398531226&share=85d8be37&srid=Ubl&target_type=answer
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Twitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”
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A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.
I took all the domains from https://fediblock.neocities.org/ block list and put it in a csv file that can be imported so you can block all hateful ...
@nomi the probable conflict of interests is that union members in the board might choose to favor their interests as board members over their interests as union leaders, for example profitability of the corporation over wellbeing of the employees.
@nomi why?
Wouldn't this create some conflict of interests?
[The sexiness of female bass players...]
[Attempting to understand what actually happened in Kherson this morning.]
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RT @lukaseder@twitter.com
BREAKING: JavaScript has been banned from Twitter for impersonating a real programming language.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/lukaseder/status/1590301562525876225
@Filolina en mi caso no hay síntomas obvios salvo la procrastinación y el autosaboteo. Eso ha dificultado el diagnóstico entre distimia, déficit de atención, incluso una psiquiatra consideró esquizofrenia silenciosa (sin alucinaciones) como algo que podría estar por ahí.
Como los síntomas no son obvios tampoco lo es el resultado de la medicación.
