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    Quote Originally Posted by mkm5 View Post

    It's amazing how much peace and satisfaction I get by just working on my old cars and keeping up my home and property, and helping out family, friends and neighbors with mechanic or home maintenance/repair work.
    I’m not very good at it, but I derive much satisfaction keeping my 2003 Trailblazer with ~ 260K miles going. I think I can make it last forever.

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    California update: LA Teachers Making Six Figures Would See Pay Hike Under Socialist-Backed 'Green New Deal'

    The teachers' union lifted elements of the DSA's Green New Deal for schools, such as demands for free public transportation for students, "climate literacy" courses taught through a "racial justice lens," campus parks, and more school solar panels. The teachers' platform, titled "Beyond Recovery," also seeks city rent controls, taxpayer-funded parental leave, subsidized housing on unused school property, smaller classrooms, and a crackdown on charter schools. The union is also demanding that administrators lobby the federal government to make COVID-19 funds permanent and the state to increase cash flow.

    Los Angeles public school teachers earn on average $86,578 per year, with total compensation running nearly $115,000 with benefits, according to Transparent California. That is well above the city's average salary of $67,500. The strike would shut schools for three days in the state's largest district, where kids are still reeling from learning losses and behavioral problems incurred during California's longest-in-the-nation closures. Some 420,000 students would be affected.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    Biological Man wins Women’s 200m national championship… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS

    Men will always be better women than women. That's just the natural order of things. But it was a masters meet, and nothing but white people.

    Are Italians white people?
    The guy is obviously a shitty runner too, no wonder he decided to switch over.

    I think italians have enough blood on their hands to be classified as white. Although for us it's a little different. Our black people are the southerners, and our white people are the northeners. Even historically, our country was "united" through horrific wars against the south justified with racist claims but really only done for financial reasons. Pretty much same deal as the US but different skin color, almost

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    And couple this arrest insanity with the forcible loss of your preferred method of cooking: Biden just made his regulatory move to ban gas stoves — you have until April 3 to comment



    The 24 election has to be already rigged.
    Just to get everyone’s head in the right place, the Department of Energy was, in practice and intent, the Department of Nuclear Weapons. “Energy” just sounded better. In the late 90s the nuclear weapon part was separated administratively from the science and energy part, but still under the same department secretary. While most “studies” show this separation to have been a failure, the politics loves the Energy piece and hates the weapon piece.

    In this context you have unqualified people like Granholm in charge of nuclear weapons. That, to me, is much more dangerous and significant than ovens and stoves.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
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    Are Italians white people?
    Some of them think so. The older guys in mid to lower Italy take offense at being mistaken for a northern African. The language can be choice. Francesco should be able to refine this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VNV View Post
    Some of them think so. The older guys in mid to lower Italy take offense at being mistaken for a northern African. The language can be choice. Francesco should be able to refine this.
    Both of my parents' parents are from the same town in the south of Italy. Our ethnicity is complicated, but despite not considering ourselves "white" we definitely don't think of us as "black," either. When I met my wife, who is as mongrel WASP as they come, I started to refer to her parents as "the white people" to my mother. My cousin in Italy married a Roman; he won't let their children speak our language. Don't cross the Romans.

    That being said, both my brother and I have been mistaken for being Jewish in the past. It's likely the Eastern European blood. Talk about a group of actively variable racial providence for purely advantageous reasons.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VNV View Post
    Some of them think so. The older guys in mid to lower Italy take offense at being mistaken for a northern African. The language can be choice. Francesco should be able to refine this.
    Just look at our olympians and athletes, they are the pure representation of the italian genetic pool.
    Andrew Howe - Wikipedia
    Marcell Jacobs - Wikipedia
    Carlton Myers - Wikipedia
    Mario Balotelli - Wikipedia
    Taismary Aguero - Wikipedia

    Some of these names I got from a 2009 Sky Sport article that complained about racism while referring to Balotelli as "the black".
    https://sport.sky.it/altri-sport/200...ri_nello_sport



    To give you a more serious answer, our skin colors are pretty mixed. A guy from the south can look straight up egyptian, or have thick black hair but white skin. I've seen people who look like northern european, with no mix in the family, 100% italian, although they are rare.
    Even I don't look italian, everyone in the family has dark features, dad side is from sicily and they look the way you would expect them to look, darker skin, dark features (one of my uncles had a literal afro). Mom side is half north half sicilian, dark features, light skin. I was born with blonde curly hair and light colored eyes. Luckily my grandma looked a lot like me, or I'd have to start looking for the mailman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    A salary of $86K in Los Angeles is the equivalent of making $52K in Wichita Falls, TX. Just out of curiosity, are you suggesting that teachers make too much or that we should remove their benefits such as healthcare?

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    The media: Adulting 101: How losing 5 friends to sudden deaths from cardiac arrest led me to an existential crisis - TODAY

    Note the fact that this insipid drivel completely omits the word "vaccine" in a discussion about an increase in sudden cardiac death in a demographic that does not experience sudden cardiac death.
    How do you know these individuals were vaccinated? Maybe they were, but from the information you provided you cannot be certain. Maybe these individuals also got COVID which has been linked to sudden cardiac death with the highest increases occurring in the younger population.

    Since COVID, more young people are dying of heart attacks. Here'''s what we know

    Mayo Clinic physician weighs in on COVID-19 vaccine and sudden cardiac death

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    Quote Originally Posted by Satch12879 View Post
    Both of my parents' parents are from the same town in the south of Italy. Our ethnicity is complicated, but despite not considering ourselves "white" we definitely don't think of us as "black," either. When I met my wife, who is as mongrel WASP as they come, I started to refer to her parents as "the white people" to my mother. My cousin in Italy married a Roman; he won't let their children speak our language. Don't cross the Romans.

    That being said, both my brother and I have been mistaken for being Jewish in the past. It's likely the Eastern European blood. Talk about a group of actively variable racial providence for purely advantageous reasons.
    We acknowledge you guys from the south of Italy as not white.

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