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Sun Oct 17 10:29:08 EDT 2021

My daughter is 30.  What gen letter is that?  She's the one who doesn't get
my humor.  When she was a teen she got furious at the witty things I said.

Once she was arguing about which side of the nose a piercing was on
indicated that you're gay.  She said, "Well, MY friends think it's the left
side so I'm going to move mine to the right side."  Her mom said that she'd
have a scar on the left side.  I said, "Well, her friends will think she
used to be gay."

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 7:39 AM uǝlƃ ☤>$ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is well argued, despite Frank's mischaracterization. We've had this
> conversation a lot, including the discussion of seemingly cruel actuarial
> dollar values of human lives:
>
> Risk-Aversion Sets Life Value
> https://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/06/the-value-of-life.html
>
> I often wonder if someone will eventually "cancel" me by weaponizing some
> arbitrary thing I say or write the way Frank's weaponizing Jon's comment.
> As we've discussed before, it can happen to anyone:
>
> The New Puritans
>
> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/
>
> We'd all like to think we're better than the New Puritans. But to me, it's
> simply more evidence this forum isn't appropriate for chat. Arguably, the
> zoom meeting would be appropriate. But because some of us can't/won't make
> the distinction, we end up in this awkward situation.
>
> My favorite recent example of a confused privied white dude
> misunderstanding appropriate fora is Peter Singer:
>
> Faculty at Rhodes College Urge Cancellation of Online Talk by Peter Singer
> (updated)
>
> https://dailynous.com/2021/09/28/faculty-at-rhodes-college-urge-cancellation-of-online-talk-by-peter-singer/
>
> The whole situation is absurd. And if you don't appreciate the implicit
> humor, you'll never grok the Zoomers:
>
> what makes gen z humor so interesting?
> https://youtu.be/a1LyTThf7V0
>
> On October 16, 2021 11:39:32 AM PDT, Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >"""
> >
> >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.
> >
> >"""
> >
> >
> >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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