novacole

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by novacole 4y ago
I don’t think so. When I read that I don’t substitute the proper words in my head as I would with jawn. Also, “whatever” sounds negative to my ear, whereas jawn would be taken neutrally.
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by novacole 4y ago
As a Philadelphian, i can sum up the usage of jawn as: a place, a thing or a girl/woman. For example this is a valid sentence: “Person 1: I was at the jawn down the street when that bad jawn from up the block walked in. But she didn’t
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by novacole 6y ago
Hmm, This reminds me a lot like Zenos paradox. Also, I’d like to understand how if we can say 99.999... is = 100, wouldn’t we also be able to say 99.9999888999... = 99.9999..., and therefore also just 100? And so on?
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by novacole 6y ago
So 99.999..% of the speed of light is just the speed of light?
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by novacole 7y ago
Look at a light bulb when the filament is heated and is emitting light. Then look at it when it is not. The only people who can’t see the difference are blind, literally.
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by novacole 7y ago
What does this atom look like? Do you see an atom or do you see light? Of course, all pictures are pictures of light. But there’s a difference between taking a picture of the light coming from a light bulb and a picture of a light bulb, as
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by novacole 7y ago
It’s not an atom, it’s a picture of the light emitted from an atom. So it’s a picture of light.
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by novacole 7y ago
Yes, but Rome isn’t Western Europe. So western Europe’s entire history is a “dark age” before the Age of Enlightenment. (Edit: incorrectly said renaissance instead of Age of Enlightenment... the renaissance wasn’t Western European either)
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by novacole 7y ago
I’ve been using Jawn since I was a child in the early 90s. I remember my grandfather who was born in the 30s using it.
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by novacole 7y ago
As a black Philadelphian I have to disagree. I use Jawn all the time (in non professional all settings). And so does every other black person I know. Most of the black people I know are working class and they from my estimation use Jawn the
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by novacole 7y ago
For some reason this makes me think these bacteria or the mechanism behind them are the biological precursors to neurons.
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by novacole 7y ago
The phrase pure-blooded when referring to humans is utter nonsense.
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by novacole 7y ago
His politics are more closely aligned with the right. In fact I can’t think of one thing that’s liberal about him.
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by novacole 8y ago
> Great contribution. Allow me to expand. The known world to you consists of various tribes of humans who all share rather similar physical phenotypes (white skin, soft, slightly curly to straight hair, similar facial features), with r
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by novacole 8y ago
>and looked like different creatures These are your words. These are your thoughts.
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by novacole 8y ago
Putting people in Zoos is a good thing? It dehumanizes Europeans to say that it is sick to put people in Zoos? Also, I never said anything about white people. I was talking specifically about the Western Europeans who put people in Zoos. I
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by novacole 8y ago
I think you underestimate the sickness of the people and culture of said people who would put people in zoos. If you can do that, you can’t put anything past that person/culture.
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by novacole 8y ago
The only reason there is any confusion about this is because the modern day Egyptian looks non African. And the only reason for this is because the indigenous population was displaced by Arab people during the spread of Islam. Whether or no
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by novacole 8y ago
Why would it be a crackpot theory to suggest that for Western Europeans, whose civilization as we know it starts in the late 1400s, who convinced themselves of African inferiority for the purpose of justifying their theft, rape, and murder
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by novacole 8y ago
> the surviving representations of noses in statuary don't look particularly "black" I think this says the exact opposite of what you want it to say. The fact that they survived, may be that they were sufficiently non-&quo
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by novacole 8y ago
Well if Mali has 2000 ships, that would have been “technologically superior” to what the native Americans would have had, since they had boats, not ships. But Mali also had guns so I’m not sure how Mali couldn’t have been seen as more techn
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by novacole 8y ago
However, I am aware Philadelphia is a poor city, with around a 20% unemployment rate so, and many unbanked/underbanked ppl I can see the other side.
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by novacole 8y ago
As a Philadelphian, I find this odd and backwards. It’s cash only stores (Chinese food stores, corner stores, etc) that are annoying to me since I almost never have cash on hand and prefer to pay with my card. Plus I’m sure the city is brin
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by novacole 8y ago
Do sound waves have mass or transport/displace matter? The article does seem clear on this to me. Not a physicist so I could be totally wrong here, but having mass is not necessarily the same as being matter, correct? Since matter is m
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by novacole 8y ago
That they are more closely related to eastern Asians on a phylogenetic tree has more to do with their time spent out of Africa, leaving (50-70ka). Which means they would exhibit the same lack of modern African alleles as eastern Asians, the
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by novacole 8y ago
The paper suggests convergent evolution as a reason for simularity in phenotype with respect to African pygmies. I find this unlikely, unless they are referring only to stature. A more parsimonious explanation would be that, their phenotype
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by novacole 8y ago
The 13th, 14, and 15th amendments were specifically written for the special case of newly frees slaves. The 14th amendment was ratified in 1868. The total population of the US in 1870 was around 38 million. The total number of immigrants wa
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by novacole 8y ago
This reads to me as a way for the authors of the amendment to narrow any potential loopholes in the protection of the newly freed slaves at the time. All persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States. However, this say
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by novacole 8y ago
There was something seriously seriously wrong with those people.
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by novacole 8y ago
‘Msiri was the most militarily powerful ruler in the area, and traded large quantities of copper, ivory and slaves – and rumors of gold reached European ears. The scramble for Katanga was a prime example of the period. Rhodes and the BSAC

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