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[Jon Zingale]

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Also on Friday you said that you are happy when people my age die.  So it
doesn't matter to you that 95% of people who die are unvaccinated.

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Something similar to that, so thank you for this opportunity to
clarify. What are examples of goals that others not like yourself
might have? For one, they may not think that saving a few million
lives is worth preserving the status quo, the power structures that
have the world veering toward its death. I suggested (with tongue only
partially in cheek) that mother nature offered a solution for
recalibrating the power distribution and that we found a vaccination
for it. Sure, hot words, but not that much more triggering than the
shit we usually say in a Friam meeting. I hear ageist, racist and
classist remarks nearly every Friday, so shrug.


For instance, you made it clear that everybody in Pittsburgh knows who
is black and who isn't. Another suggested that life was easier back
then. EricC slid one under your radar by asking if it was based on the
standard definition that of having 1/4 black heritage, to which you
thoughtlessly agreed. Nick or maybe someone else pointed out that the
studies did not hold up in Africa and that the correspondence was
maybe not the result of "race" (whatever that is) but relatively
recent cultural pressures (the descendants of those that did not die
on a difficult journey across the ocean and into slavery to serve your
ancestors[!]).


It is clear that continuing to push your personal work is your own
narcissism and not because it is relevant to anything (like your
anecdote about StuK and you bullying some researchers that actually
did work into adding you both onto their paper). What could it mean to
be relevant? I leave that to you as an exercise.


All said, I care about you Frank, and I also must call a spade a spade
(that is a saying isn't it?) There is no reason for you to collect
more per month now than anytime in your working life when so many
people continue to work harder than you could have ever imagined for
yourself, often risking their lives so that some silver fox can demand
a refund for their steak being a little overcooked. I am not asking
that you give away your comfort, but to acknowledge and maybe even
attempt to set things right. Btw, I recognize and deeply respect the
good things you are doing for your grandchildren.


What I am asking for is the vulnerability to hear that others may be
upset and their reasons worth feeling. Generationally speaking, I am a
genX-er and we are very clear that there were never enough of us to
matter and that the protests of our generation were quickly silenced
by a phony war on terror. There is no part of me that wishes for what
you boomers had (and squandered in your great numbers), but rather, I
wish to understand how to support the generations after mine that are
left with the legacy of boomer self-obsession. So, um... whatever
dude.


[!] But please, tell me again about your native american heritage.
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