I've been back and forth on this for some time. My partner and I have discussed leaving, but we both seem to always waffle on it because we don't want to leave our family and friends.
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My 5 disc rotation the last few days:
Junior Kimbrough - Most Things Haven't Worked Out
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Charlie Mingus - East Coasting
Billie Holliday - Lady in Satin
Thelonious Monk Quintet - Monk
I've found that many people stop emotionally maturing at about 18-25 years old. I'd like to believe that there's some way to break these people out of this "rut" - possibly through class consciousness or some other thing that might open them up to more introspective thought patterns.
I was admittedly racist and Islamophobic and a bit of a bully as a teenager until I was about 19 or 20, having grown up in a very very rural American town where that was basically the norm. I found my way to where I am now via years of introspection, exposure to more diversity, and opening my mind to trying to understand things like class and anti-imperialism (probably initially by good faith exposure to Israeli apartheid and the Palestinian genocide). I'm definitely not a "finished product" by any means, but I'm a much better person than I was back then (over a decade ago now). This leads me to hold out some sliver of hope that there is some way to move the needle with the people who are like I was when I was younger.
At least for people with my background, I do think there are a surprising number of them that would be open to left wing beliefs if you could somehow break through the endless layers of right wing propaganda. If you talk to enough of them, they will occasionally say something that sounds like they're essentially paraphrasing Das Kapital, but somehow they come to the conclusion that the solution is hating immigrants and lowering taxes for the rich.
Below the iceberg: "Not all dogs have bones"
"Redwood are algae" is a similar statement to "Pterodactyls are fish" or "bees are crustaceans". Redwoods are land plants, thus are also members of Viridiplantae - the clade containing land plants and green algae. The sister taxa to Viridiplantae in clade Archaeplastida are Glaucophyta (unicellular algae), and Rhodaria (contains red algae among other things). Thus since land plants are more closely related to green algae than green algae is to red algae or glaucophytes, if we want to treat the term "algae" as a monophyletic clade, then we have to include land plants in that, which of course includes redwoods. Essentially, this framing would make the term "algae" equivalent to Archaeplastida.
Another simpler interpretation (same idea as "ducks are dinosaurs") might be that all land plants evolved from algae, and nothing can evolve out of a clade, therefore plants must be algae. My hesitation to put this first is due to the fact that I'm unsure if the most recent common ancestor of green algae and plants would itself be classified as algae - this is an exercise left to the reader.
Thanks for the rec!
Mingus is definitely my favorite artist!
Haven't listened to it much, still need to explore the genre more. I do like Herbie Hancock and Casiopea.
My album rotation in my 5 disc CD player for the past few days has been
- Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Buhaina's Delight
- Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street
- Charles Mingus - The Sound of Jazz
- Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Study in Brown
- Albert King - Live
I feel for you comrade. I've had a very different journey than you but I've struggled with loneliness and lost friendships as well. I think an important thing to do in the short term is to reach out to your old friends. Some may be uninterested, but you might be surprised how easily many dormant friendships can be rekindled - I've had friends that I hadn't spoken to for well over 5 years that picked back up like we didn't miss a beat once I actually built up the nerve to reach out. This could be helpful to getting you out of a negative feedback loop.
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To go somewhat deeper, the term football historically just meant a sport played on foot - typically played primarily by commoners. Historically, different locations had pretty wildly different versions of football, and to this day there are some hyper local, very obscure versions of it played in some places. "Soccer" was simply a slangy shortening of "association football" and was actually the common term for that specific version in Britain until some point (can't remember when). At some point, the British switched to "football" while the US stayed with "soccer" - probably to differentiate it with American football, which is very significantly more popular in the US.
Then of course you have other relatively common versions of football, like American football (mentioned already), rugby football (now commonly just "rugby" - started as a form of football played at Rugby College), Australian football, and some others.