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He said," A lot of white men died fighting for black men's freedom." l looked up the statistics, and found the following on Wikipedia: 365,000 Union Soldiers died +290,000 Confederate Soldiers died _____________________________________ = 655,000 soldiers died (and many hundred thousands more...

I don't get it. Would you elaborate?

People get stuck in the past. Maybe ten, certainly twenty, years ago a 700 point drop would have been a calamitous event. If one doesn't update one's perspective from time to time it might be cause for a freak-out. Also, it's a larger swing then usual, but the market's been anything but usual...

No one likes war, and the chance to sit down and talk is a chance for peace.

Welcome to spring?

Which alien is most minion-like?

There are many different assumptions that imply racism. Sadly, even when arguing against racism, we use those same assumptions and imply racism.

Squirrell Nut Zippers is a candy?! I thought it was just an alternative rockabilly retro-swing type band.

Did you know that tofu is bean curd?

Oh, yeah, that one's sweet. I'd heard it about fifteen years ago and it stuck out. It reminds me about the Leonard Cohen Hallelujah version, they don't sound alike, but they really stick with you. There's some songs -some artists - that can do that and I'm always amazed.

The War On Drugs' Holding On. (Dr. Dog's good too. Philadelphia's music doesn't get any respect)

I'd contribute to the thread, but everyone seems interested in the original series which I never watched. Like Donnie in The Big Labowski I'm out of my element.

What's the story about the Cardassians? I only ever saw them in DS9, and I didn't watch it that much.

I noticed somewhere, as little more then gossip or hearsay, that the Olympics used to have a art category that judged painting and sculpture and the like. I don't know if this was the 1920 Olympics, the 0020 Olympics, if at all.

As a cat fan you may like this link I found for The Cat Earth Society: https://i.redd.it/bygfublrwdi01.jpg It seems you can draw a line around the globe's continents and make it look like a cat.