I later learned from a Palestinian friend that these forests were often specifically planted to obscure the sites of depopulated Palestinian villages, whose remains can be made out.
The reason for this Rube Goldberg arrangement is that PayPal, basically, acts like all Palestinians must be ISIS money launderers or something; his own accounts get randomly canceled all the time.
And, in the case of AI, to supercharge their price-to-earning ratios by backing their made-up claims that their machines are so powerful they will replace every job.
There's a whole intellectual tradition in the Marxist historiography from the 1970s and '80s analyzing incumbent firms' tendency to ask to be regulaled in times of industrial ferment, because, when regulators are captured, it is a way to crowd out challengers, and to shape the marketplace to your liking; also, to deflect, denude, and defenestrate popular political energy to actually regulate them in the public interest.
Because, if there ever was an actual affirmative cultural content to "whiteness"that didn't actually signify "not a member of a degraded caste", a concept of "white genius" that didn't make you sound like one of Stephen Miller's favorite accounts on X, it inheres in the style of jazz invented by "white" Americans from rural backgrounds in the 1970s and into the '80s.
In my judgement, it is (1) therapeutic, stanching existentailly paintful doubt about the future that is central to the human condition; (2) profitable (I need not say much), and (3) a useful source of grist for those seeking to manipulate public perception more generally
AAVE was how the enslaved forever integrated into English a more African than "Western" (a word I despise) connection of mind to body, and body to nature nature (as expressed by James' point about his body register changes in the atmopshere, except in his donnish argot); and a more African conception of musicality, especially rhythmic but also tonal ("melisma," the musicologists call it); not to mention an African conception of parody and play as a mode of human interconnectedness.
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