The “86 47 guy” did not “allude to threatening” the president.

Good point. Racism is real even if race is not.

My first point was too hasty.

I see your point.

What’s your point? Do you really think I was asserting that “black” is a race?

No, they actually can’t be. Because “white” is not a race.

Look up the history of that term. Most of the people who are white now would not have been 100 years ago. And still no one can agree whether hispanic means white or not.

ETA: The whole idea of race is a social construct and a fantasy with no basis in reality, much less biology. By stating that “white” is not a race, I did not mean to imply that the idea of race is legitimate.

I like this take. A lot. But I can’t just pass by here and not point out that

1. The big bang was not an explosion and didn’t take place in a vacuum (because there was no space yet).
2. There is no “edge” of the big bang for light to come from.

Being the world’s original source of silk is not something to be ashamed of.

The number of dimensions in space is three, and that has nothing at all to do with language. When you eliminate one of the dimensions (“up” in your example), you are left with two, and you’re describing dimensions in a plane.

The reason all languages use four words for the two dimensions is because there are two directions per dimension.

ETA: why there are three (plus one for time), and how do we know that, are very interesting questions (to me).

There are other ways to talk about this. We don’t have to torture these words into pretending to be something they are not.

High court precedents are not the the same thing as a constitution because they are not above all branches of government. They are of one branch.

Israel doesn’t have a constitution.

The only way we can make moral decisions is by doing our best to anticipate the results.

The business of being human and the business of speculating about the future are one and the same.

What is the point of this hostility? Do you not get the point of this community?

Anyone who has done any fight training at all, even for simulations, could “wipe the floor” with me.

But Keanu could wipe anything he wants with me, if you catch my drift.

It wasn’t in North America.

Didn’t happen in the US.

Murder has a very specific legal definition. That is not what Matthew Broderick did.

indeed. don’t know where my mind was…

ts eliot did alright

What you’re describing is just email.

Yes, you can host an email server.

Maybe what you’re asking is if this can be done within a private network, so you wouldn’t need to buy a domain and set up dns and all. The answer is again yes, but it wouldn’t be much good. Either both servers are on the same LAN, or they each have a static IP that is known and trusted by the other. In both cases there are much better ways to communicate than email.

I apologize for not directly answering your question, but I think you could benefit from this insight that helped me tremendously:

Boredom comes from within. Nothing is objectively boring. Introspection is your friend. Understand what is happening inside your mind when you find yourself bored, and you can turn it off - just that simple.