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  • That feels like a different but related topic.

    “I don’t hate this ethnic group, just the religion with which they are strongly associated.”

    and

    “You can’t hate that country, that’s the same as hating this ethnic group with which it is strongly associated.”

    sure do feel like the same idea. Hypocrisy is one of the most difficult beasts to slay within yourself. It doesn’t seem like racists are really worried about that, though. To start from a foundation of thinking one ethnic group is superior to another, you have to be comfortable accepting arguments from emotion. There’s no way to logic someone - even yourself - out of a position that they didn’t arrive at by logic in the first place.



  • I’m not Republican but I can - technically - explain it without racism. The word Muslim can mean adherents of Islam and it can also mean a specific ethnic group from what used to be Yugoslavia. Being anti-Islam would make you anti-Muslim (the religion) but not anti-Muslim (the ethnic group) although most ethnic Muslims are also religious Muslims.

    The attack on the world trade center was carried out by an extremist Islamic group. If you subscribe to a broad scope of hate, then you would blame all Muslims (religion) for the attack. Zohran Mamdani is Muslim (religion) but not Muslim (ethnicity). If you hate him because of his religion, that by itself is not racism.

    I would except that a Venn diagram of people who hate Mamdani because of his religion and people who hate him for racist reasons is virtually a circle, but there is room for a non-racist explanation of this propaganda.











  • What, did the Hippocrates Compensator break? Are you going to bleed out in the pattern buffer? It’s impossible to scan an electron if it has a boo-boo. Lifting them bodily on to a stretcher can’t be better than beaming them directly into a bed.

    Aside from all that, though, I would love an explanation from someone who’s read the technical details invented by the showriters about why injuries impact transporter effectiveness. I genuinely want to know the in-universe explanation.





  • I cannot imagine that a significant percentage of Excel power users care what column number ABC is. You use either A1 notation or R1C1 notation based on your need. You don’t have to convert between the two. You can even use the INDIRECT() function to reference a cell either way regardless of your general settings. In VBA, you can use Range(“A1”) or Cells(1,1) to reference cells with either notation. Either are always options. Conversion is not necessary.