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CrazySalamander posted:The definition of white changes over the years- for example people of Irish descent were not originally considered white. Whoa that's a new one on me. I knew they were terribly oppressed along with Italians and others. I lived in Boston for a few years and picked up a lot about that, but yeah, not white? Got a good link about that? Busy Bee posted:I bought a monitor stand recently and the back mount does not fit perfectly with the back of my monitor. A good pair of tinsnips could make short work of that, or maybe even good (like pro linesman quality) wirecutters.
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Whoa that's a new one on me. I knew they were terribly oppressed along with Italians and others. I lived in Boston for a few years and picked up a lot about that, but yeah, not white? Got a good link about that? It's not really true, or at least it depends on a particular definition of whiteness. Book here: "How the Irish Became White" and discussion of contemporaneous laws here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...jews-and-so-on/ ...otherwise it would have been literally illegal for Irish to have married British Americans...
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AlbieQuirky posted:It’s a short story called The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale. It is entirely fictional. Thanks! I'd forgotten it was fiction, so that explains why I couldn't find it.
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veni veni veni posted:Someone explained to me the whole non-hispanic checkbox thing we have in the US at one point in a way that didn't sound insane, but I forgot wtf it was so it still sounds insane. There was some weird, but super utilitarian reason behind it but there is no way it wasn't probably dumb and racist. well part of it is that there are hispanic people of all races (black hispanics mainly from the caribbean, white hispanics from all over depending on when their ancestors arrived to start killing natives, asian hispanics, etc), and the societal conditions for two people of the same race where one is hispanic and one isn't might be different, so it's useful to know, even if only to know that this group of people of whatever race will need government services in spanish they do let you check multiple race boxes (I check white and asian) so they could add hispanic there but I think the view is that "hispanic" is a linguistic classification rather than a racial one, although if you live in let's say texas the vast majority of hispanic people you know are going to be mexican so that will make you automatically think hispanic = brown
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Badger of Basra posted:although if you live in let's say texas the vast majority of hispanic people you know are going to be mexican so that will make you automatically think hispanic = brown not only are there hispanic people of all races, there are also mexican people of all races. it's a nationality not a race, there are white mexicans and black mexicans and asian mexicans, but a majority of those who emigrate to the us are of mixed native american descent. there are also many hispanic people in the southwestern states who are native american, spanish speakers, have spanish surnames, and who's families come from the us, not mexico. this comes from spanish colonization and the mission system. Earwicker fucked around with this message at 22:47 on May 31, 2020 |
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Plenty of hispanic people don’t speak Spanish. It’s also possible to speak Spanish as a first language without identifying as hispanic. The census form doesn’t ask about language, but the American Community Survey administered by the Census Bureau does.
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Badger of Basra posted:well part of it is that there are hispanic people of all races (black hispanics mainly from the caribbean, white hispanics from all over depending on when their ancestors arrived to start killing natives, asian hispanics, etc), and the societal conditions for two people of the same race where one is hispanic and one isn't might be different, so it's useful to know, even if only to know that this group of people of whatever race will need government services in spanish Race isn't a thing. That "black hispanics" are "black" is completely arbitrary, they're only "the same race" because some racist in the 1700s decided so
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Back in the day, I used to make animated videos using Macromedia Flash, which had a super idiotproof frame by frame system for drawing and animating videos. Is there a modern day equivalent to that?
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Bioshuffle posted:Back in the day, I used to make animated videos using Macromedia Flash, which had a super idiotproof frame by frame system for drawing and animating videos. Is there a modern day equivalent to that? Pirate Adobe Animate.
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Ras Het posted:Race isn't a thing. That "black hispanics" are "black" is completely arbitrary, they're only "the same race" because some racist in the 1700s decided so sure but if we're talking about filling out forms that ask you about it, seems relevant to talk about it
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Over the past few months since lockdown I've tried following various Youtube workout programmes, and have only recently discovered that "the burn" does not mean a motivational, spirited energy, but some sort of ache or uncomfortable feeling in a muscle. I have never felt this feeling, and I believe it to be an important thing in improving one's body, and now I am completely demotivated because I don't know how to experience this feeling. I am not a fit person, so it cannot be that these workouts (I've mostly been following Chloe Ting, but others too, usually along the same vein) are too easy for me. Additionally, I have experienced exhaustion to the point of sickness, especially when I had just started. While googling this issue, almost every result told me I was not working hard enough, but I often struggle to complete a session, especially if it's an hour-long thing. A friend told me that I should strain to tighten the relevant muscle while working out, so I tried this, waited a day, and still did not feel the burn. Recently I went on a bike ride with my brother-in-law who was also aware of my problem- after a steep bank he asked me if I had felt the burn, because he did, but though he is significantly fitter than me, and I was gasping for breath while he was relatively fine, I did not feel a burn. I haven't made any effort to change my diet because I believe that I eat fairly cleanly; I eat meat 2-3 times a week, rarely snack except for on apples and satsumas, rarely eat cheese (maybe once a week), and cook all of my evening meals using fresh ingredients. Maybe this is an e/n post in disguise, but I find it terribly frustrating and upsetting that I've spent so much time doing the wrong thing, and now I'm upset because I've completely stopped working out, and whenever I try to get back into it, all I can think about is this lack of feeling, and then I usually quickly give up. I have no idea what I'm not doing that everyone else is apparently doing with such ease that I seem to be the only person on the internet with this problem. Goons, please tell me how I can feel a burn so that I can get over this!
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I am fairly fit and I wouldn't say I ever feel "the burn" during a workout, but I do feel delayed onset muscle soreness or DOMS after a good lifting sesh (I do not get DOMS after things like biking although i imagine you could if your biking muscles are really new). However I think you only really get DOMS if you push real hard, like lifting weight that is a significant challenge for you to lift 5 times. This is kind of hard to do at home with bodyweight-only exercises. So it's possible you are getting decent workouts without getting DOMS. idk honestly ask in YLLS, they are good with workout type things.
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Chatrapati posted:Over the past few months since lockdown I've tried following various Youtube workout programmes, and have only recently discovered that "the burn" does not mean a motivational, spirited energy, but some sort of ache or uncomfortable feeling in a muscle. I have never felt this feeling, and I believe it to be an important thing in improving one's body, and now I am completely demotivated because I don't know how to experience this feeling. How your body feels in response to exercise is a very personal thing and varies depending on your level of fitness, but if you're getting to exhaustion then you're probably Feeling The Burn™, though it may be masked by other feelings of miserableness. If you want to try to isolate the feeling, then sit down and relax, pick a muscle and clench it as tight as you can until you want to stop then keep on going: it's that feeling of the muscle getting tired and begging you to stop that is generally the sensation people talk about. But in general exercise, since you're new it may be that other parts of you (like your cardio fitness) are stopping you before you can push your muscles beyond that point.
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alnilam posted:I am fairly fit and I wouldn't say I ever feel "the burn" during a workout, but I do feel delayed onset muscle soreness or DOMS after a good lifting sesh (I do not get DOMS after things like biking although i imagine you could if your biking muscles are really new). However I think you only really get DOMS if you push real hard, like lifting weight that is a significant challenge for you to lift 5 times. This is kind of hard to do at home with bodyweight-only exercises. So it's possible you are getting decent workouts without getting DOMS. You're right, I should have asked in YLLS; I thought it was just a fashion forum! Finding the right place to post on SA is tricky because it is so large. I never thought about the biking thing, I cycle more often than my brother-in-law (just for transport, not exercise) even though he's fitter than me, so perhaps that's why he felt the burn but did not feel as tired. dupersaurus posted:How your body feels in response to exercise is a very personal thing and varies depending on your level of fitness, but if you're getting to exhaustion then you're probably Feeling The Burn™, though it may be masked by other feelings of miserableness. If you want to try to isolate the feeling, then sit down and relax, pick a muscle and clench it as tight as you can until you want to stop then keep on going: it's that feeling of the muscle getting tired and begging you to stop that is generally the sensation people talk about. But in general exercise, since you're new it may be that other parts of you (like your cardio fitness) are stopping you before you can push your muscles beyond that point. I think this might be the advice I wanted to hear. Hopefully it is my lack of cardio fitness which is preventing me from experiencing this feeling, I suspect I am unfit in that area as I quickly run out of breath when I exert myself, and once I am finished with a youtube exercise routine I usually collapse on the floor. I don't quite understand how having a more functional cardiovascular system would enable me to push muscles beyond a certain point, but I can appreciate that it is probably true. I'll work on this for a couple of months before returning to youtube tutorials again, and if I still manage to fail I'll post in YLLS about it. Cheers guys
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YLLS is the right spot to check. I don’t know what sort of video exercises you are doing, but you would probably benefit from a workout partner to make sure you are doing the exercises with proper form. It’s easy to unwittingly “cheat” exercises, so you don’t get much out of them apart from some light cardio. Doing push-ups without keeping the back straight and parallel to the ground is a classic example of this. Much easier! Less exercise! It can be hard to notice this without a partner (or mirror) to spot.
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If French Guiana is fully integrated into the French state and has, as far as I can tell, the same status as any department in Metropolitan France, why does it seem to be labeled like a different country on maps, or at best labeled “French Guiana (France)” whereas Alaska and Hawaii are often labeled “U.S.A”?
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I was thinking of starting a "the best windows freeware that you never heard of and didn't know you needed (till now)" thread. (I desperately need a constructive diversion that'll get my mind off current events for a while). Is there already something like that somewhere?
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Hipster_Doofus posted:I was thinking of starting a "the best windows freeware that you never heard of and didn't know you needed (till now)" thread. (I desperately need a constructive diversion that'll get my mind off current events for a while). Is there already something like that somewhere? How close is this? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3921033
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Kevin DuBrow posted:If French Guiana is fully integrated into the French state and has, as far as I can tell, the same status as any department in Metropolitan France, why does it seem to be labeled like a different country on maps, or at best labeled “French Guiana (France)” whereas Alaska and Hawaii are often labeled “U.S.A”? Come to the maps thread and get your exclave on. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3531615
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Platystemon posted:One of his book titles is even The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. I loved this book but Sacks had a real goofy voicing when he would give dialogue to the people in his stories. They all talked basically like Sacks, which is like a streetsmart newsie from the 20s.
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I haven't had coffee in about a monthish. Today I had essentially 2 cups in one go with a new blend I've never had before. I'm breaking out in mega hives which has never happened before with coffee or caffeine. Did I just blast my system and I'm having a reaction or is there a chance I just developed a coffee allergy in the span of a month? I'm gonna be so mad if coffee fucks me up from now on.
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George H.W. oval office posted:I haven't had coffee in about a monthish. Today I had essentially 2 cups in one go with a new blend I've never had before. I'm breaking out in mega hives which has never happened before with coffee or caffeine. Did I just blast my system and I'm having a reaction or is there a chance I just developed a coffee allergy in the span of a month? I'm gonna be so mad if coffee fucks me up from now on. While it is possible develop and lose allergies, I would be wary of jumping to this conclusion. You did say it was a new blend you hadn't tried, so maybe it's something in the blend itself. Wait for the hives to go down and then try a cup of a favorite blend. If you still get a reaction, you will then want to get an allergy test to confirm if it's the coffee or caffeine.
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I remember reading an account of European explorers who were greeted by the locals when they landed (I think somewhere in the Americas) and treated with great hospitality. What they didn’t know is that the locals’ custom demanded that the visitors present gifts at the end of the stay and were incensed when they tried to leave without giving gifts. Where could this have been?
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Alright I'm finally sick enough of wildly inconsistent volume levels coming from my TV that I'm willing to spend money to fix it. I'm talking about how you're watching a movie and the dialogue is literally too quiet to hear but the explosion is as loud as an actual explosion. One tv show has to be turned way up to hear it, then you switch to a game and it deafens you because your sound is up so high. How do people usually fix this? Or is it just one of those unsolvable problems?
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Manager Hoyden posted:Alright I'm finally sick enough of wildly inconsistent volume levels coming from my TV that I'm willing to spend money to fix it. I had that problem and bought a sound bar. It has mostly solved that problem.
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Manager Hoyden posted:Alright I'm finally sick enough of wildly inconsistent volume levels coming from my TV that I'm willing to spend money to fix it. I've just taken to turning on captions all the time. IDGAF.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I remember reading an account of European explorers who were greeted by the locals when they landed (I think somewhere in the Americas) and treated with great hospitality. What they didn’t know is that the locals’ custom demanded that the visitors present gifts at the end of the stay and were incensed when they tried to leave without giving gifts. Where could this have been? Something like this happened on Cabot’s 1526 expedition to what is present-day Argentina.
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Manager Hoyden posted:Alright I'm finally sick enough of wildly inconsistent volume levels coming from my TV that I'm willing to spend money to fix it. If you want actual hardware and signal processing, you can get an audio compressor, though you're going to lose dynamic range. It will crunch all the sounds together to similar loudnesses. Also, some content is mixed for like 5.1 and if you have a stereo setup, the levels are going to be off in the down mixing (like the sound from the back speakers gets overrepresented in the stereo mix). This happens with  as well, especially if the content provider does a 5.1 -> 2.0 reencodingie, something like this: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1316007-REG/fmr_audio_rnc1773_really_nice_compressor.html PRADA SLUT fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Jun 4, 2020 |
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Some TVs have a setting to set floor and ceiling values audio coming out of them so poke around your audio settings. On TCL's its called leveling.
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My mom "needs" steel containers like contegos, but she uses them for sugary drinks and they get moldy pretty fast. But finding replacement lids that fit her assorted steel beverage things has been a challenge. I've been tasked with finding her cheap contego type bottles that have cheap lids, a uniform style of lid that can be replaced after they get too dirty. They also need to have some kind of spout. This is very wasteful, but my folks won't change their ways and I'm sick of trying to deep clean those loving things. Tossing out lids honestly feels less wasteful than them throwing out entire bottles because they can't get a new lid. So, does a cheap thermos type product with cheap lids that are easy to clean or toss and that have a standard lid type exist? RandomPauI fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Jun 4, 2020 |
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Penguissimo posted:How close is this? Hmm ok so that's in gibbis, so lots of joke answers and whatnot. Seeing that I'm not angling for comedy, y'all reckon a thread like I'm pondering might take off in SHSC? Perhaps PYF? (Also, is there in fact another thread like this already?)
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I remember reading an account of European explorers who were greeted by the locals when they landed (I think somewhere in the Americas) and treated with great hospitality. What they didn’t know is that the locals’ custom demanded that the visitors present gifts at the end of the stay and were incensed when they tried to leave without giving gifts. Where could this have been? pretty much everywhere they've gone lol. "incensed" is a pretty lame way to describe it though. here's an example near and dear to my heart https://alaskahistoricalsociety.org...squicentennial/
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RandomPauI posted:My mom "needs" steel containers like contegos, but she uses them for sugary drinks and they get moldy pretty fast. But finding replacement lids that fit her assorted steel beverage things has been a challenge. Contigo replacement lids are like $5 US. How cheap does your mum need the lids to be? Edit to add: “universal replacement” lids on Amazon are all at least $4. It seems like just buying the Contigo replacement lids would be the money-saver 
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My chrome spell checker has been turbo hosed for a while. It barely works and drives me nuts. Anyone else have this problem? I've tried to look at solutions online and nothing has worked to fix it.
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I know this is going to sound crazy, but hear me out: I think our new dishwasher came with ants. We got the new dishwasher a couple of weeks ago and the ants showed up this week. They are only ever in and around the dishwasher and I can't find any evidence of them coming in from outside. What the gently caress should I do here? Here was my original plan:
But I was worried about the possibility of poisoned ant bodies contaminating the things I wash my dishes in. Think that would be an issue?
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I'd just do 1 and not worry about the rest.
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Moo the cow posted:I'd just do 1 and not worry about the rest. Yeah I kind of figured I was overthinking it a little. Would it be safe to lay one of them inside the dishwasher? I'll remove it before running it, of course.
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