That implies that the goal is to create big companiea.

Can someone from the US explain what race even means in this context and how it is determined?

It is self reported according to the US census recognized racial categories: white, black, asian, native American/Alaskan, native Hawaiian or Pacific islander, and other (or two+ categories). Hispanic/latino identification is a separate box you check for reasons that are hard to explain without going over decades of bureaucratic decisions.

> US census recognized racial categories

Thank you for a googleable term.

Are there any guides on how to decide which "race" you are? Because I cannot imagine that everyone knows exactly which part of the earth all of their ancestors originate from.

It is not a perfect or rigid system, but it's the one we have (and any attempt to improve it would get caught up in the weeds of how much 'racial science' can be endorsed by the US government).

Practically speaking, most Americans over the past 300 years knew of specific near ancestors who came from somewhere else (with little interbreeding among immigrant populations) and answered based on that. The obvious exceptions were descendants of slaves and Native Americans, which is why those were the first non-white (where 'white' includes all Europeans as well as large parts of the Middle East and North Africa) categories tracked by the census.

They can pick "mixed" or the race they identify with the most.

There are various risk factors, and some lab tests, that differ among racial groups.

For example, my labs include at least two that have different specified thresholds for "African-American" or "non-AA" patients.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_cell_disease#United_Sta...

All levels of the US education system teach (now at least) that race is a social construct. There's no concept of population-genetics taught, until much later, in hard science classes.

Yes, this is a common point of confusion when talking to Europeans about racial issues in the US (as I found out myself recently). Race in our contexts refers to your background/birthplace/heritage. On our government forms: "What race are you?" "White, black, hispanic, etc."

This is fundamentally different by intent than in Europe (using french here) where we refer to 'la race humaine' which is the _species_.

The nuance is critical during debates. While I was discussing racial differences to some Swiss folks, they thought I was talking Nazi propaganda! We are all part of the human species, the human species has many races. We are all equal!

Most Europeans are NOT confused by this. Sheesh.

I am European, I have had this discussion with Europeans back home from various countries. This is a common point of confusion. Do you have something to add?

Try asking anyone in Europe what race they are, especially in an administrative context lmao

The government asking race questions on official forms would be rather unthinkable! We don't mention the war.

> background/birthplace/heritage

Are those slashes AND or OR?

> they thought I was talking Nazi propaganda!

well, I mean, listen, if it's part of the census, that's... still government-level racial discrimination. It might not be a duck, but this thing has a certain duck-shaped silhuette.

i believe it is self-declared.

That link seems to reference this post.

Sorry, copy/paste error. Fixed now.

Why would you describe windows 10 as great? Forced updates and the beginning of ads, massive increase in telemetry while basically giving you a mediocre reskin and virtual desktops. Windows 11 sure moved the overton window.

Compared to what was before and after it was pretty great.

I remember windows 7 being better.

I agree that fax machines belong into the past, but cash? I'd like to be able to pay even if the internet/power goes down, thank you very much.

Cash will have relevance as long as internet and cloud failures are still an ongoing thing .. both for lovers of privacy and viable fallbacks as required.

Of interest, today in Australian media:

Why cash has made an unexpected comeback in Australia: new study - https://theconversation.com/why-cash-has-made-an-unexpected-...

which includes figures that show while only 8% of Australian transactions are cash (by some metric, see article) 33% (a third) of the population fully supports keeping cash on.

And that is fine and I do the same.

In Germany in many places you can only pay with cash.

> There's no mechanism for pressing politicians except threatening not to vote for them again...

That mechanism seems uniquely weak due to the american voting system.

Can you really shrug of responsibility that easily?

Homeopathy is not a "folk" tradition, it is simply an insane concept.

I once sat next to a mint plant and it cured my cold, the farther I sat the better I felt. Obviously diluted mint particles in the air cured me.

How was your chakra alignment? That may have contributed to your recovery.

My aura turned purple

That's great news! I think that means your chakras are in a lotus formation.

We must eradicate mint plants. Over time the dilution of mint particles in the air will become so small that all diseases will go extinct

We need to research what the distance from mint plants on earth did to the Artemis crew.

Correlation != Causation. Sitting this close to a mint plant gives you a dose that is way to undiluted to have any effect. Now if you were to sit roughly two kilometres away with a gentle breeze going from the plant towards you... (but make sure that there is not anothe mint plant on the path of the wind.)

and yet it moves :^)

Does it though?

The US is a sovreign state. As such it is alone responsible for its actions. The conflict with Iran wouldn't be as hot without the US.

Was it worth it?

Absolutely.