You're really going out on a limb. Let's get back in our lanes. The UFT seminar was ill advised. It should not have been offered. If race is a social construct as you say, then having a seminar on a racial construct ("whiteness") is absurd; having a woman of hispanic heritage (which in itself defies racial categorization, as Mark Texiera,A/Rod and Big Papa Ortiz are all "Latin") is an even bigger absurdity. Suggesting that "whiteness" is somehow pernicious is an absurdity.

The whole thing is a black eye on the Union (which I happen to generally support btw).

Hit the up arrow if you drove over cobblestone and it felt good for some reason like a massage chair

At some point if enough people use a word colloquially for something it becomes part of the meaning. There are plenty of words that didn’t originally mean something and now do because people believed a word meant something and it became that.

I’ve never heard someone say “wow this sett road is so bumpy!” it’s always cobblestone.

And the next part is “…although a sett is distinct from a cobblestone in that it is quarried or worked to a regular shape, whereas the latter is generally a small, naturally-rounded rock.”

Apropos when responding to a Post article

Oh, that’s fine. We can float you, bro.

Which apparently works for an auction

tore *

> You haven't explained anything. The answer to your question is No. I'm really not understanding you. That was a confusing explanation.

Could you please tell me what you're having trouble understanding, then?

>Moreover, a casual study of the history of the North African Barbary Pirates and their enslavement of Europeans (which prompted a fledging US Naval response by Thomas Jefferson) shows that if religion is justification for enslavement, people will use it. If race is, they'll use it. People will make up justifications.

So, two points.

1. I never said white people weren't enslaved. I'm part Greek, trust me, you're not pulling some "gotcha" on me by pointing out a time when a dark-skinned people enslaved a fairer skinned population. However, the European slaves of the Barbary Pirates were pretty much all used in a naval capacity and never became a significant minority in North Africa, unlike the African slaves of the Americas. In fact, very few of the people captured by Barbary pirates were enslaved, most were ransomed back to their communities. The Barbary pirates didn't want slaves, they wanted ransom, slavery is just what they did with the few no one was willing to pay for.

2. The whole reason Africans were enslaved was also based on religion. At first they were not enslaved based on race or skin color, but because they were "pagans" or "Muslims" (they didn't enslave other Muslim populations like the Turks or Arabs because they had armies and guns and could defend themselves, and the Native Americans were dying too fast to diseases that came from first contact with Europeans). It was only later, after both captured slaves and natives in Africa were Christianized, did race become the justification for their continued slavery.

>Moreover, even with a 99.8% similarity, there are subtle differences between races. That's a scientific fact. For example, there are hereditary conditions (e.g Tay-Sachs, Sickle Cell Anemia, Cystic Fibrosis) that exist in some races but not others.

See, here's where you're wrong, again. "Race" is made up, it's merely a conflation of culture and phenotype. Things like Tay-Sachs, Sickle Cell Anemia or the "Asian Flush" are rampant in certain populations, but those say nothing about "races", which are a category that pretty much popped into existence in the 17th century, reached their apex in the 19th, and have returned to obscurity just like other bunk science theories like Phlogiston or Geocentrism because we have other, better attested theories to explain the extant phenomena.

I don't think there's that many "creatives" that can afford the high price psf.

> But I've noticed that most places will give you croissants, bagels,breads typically heavy on carbs.

That kind of makes sense though. Things that go stale quickly and they couldn't sell in time. Bagels and the like tend to need to be fresh.

isn't that the definition of stealing something?

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Once you take the scaffolding down….

Best I can do is an IOU.

>another building in the financial district

Yup, it used to be the cocoa exchange, now there are all sorts of oddly shaped converted apartments (and probably a terrible place for a hotel/hideout)

Where's the gg at?

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They are pretending to fix the housing crisis. Hotels are getting built everywhere that will only house the homeless.

Lotta carbs, breads, some pre-made salads you might not actually like, etc. One time I scored a box of empanadas, and another time I got some kick-ass pizza. But I’ve stopped using the app because it so rarely seems to have anything I actually want, even at that price.

The best point is to look at all predictions for the 2018 law. Many of them came true. Landlords are pulling units off the market because they can't afford to renovate. Small landlords are getting crushed and are starting to lose their houses.

I got a babka from Breads on it but it was kinda stale.

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Such a shame about this building being so disrespected. It’s enormously influential and famous, has a rich history, is in a perfect location yet seems to attract awful owners who hire useless building managers.

This building could easily be half for artists use on the middle floors, a jazz club on the ground floor, and upper section for boutique tech or business HQ offices, maybe a wedding venue on a floor or even a small artsy pre-K school for kids. And the rooftop could have a beautiful green space with a day coffee shop/lounge for nighttime use.

It could offer a wide variety of uses for creatives who’d be inspired and have the best view of the park across the street, as well as the best view of the gorgeous old neighboring corner brick building across from it at 186 Fifth Ave.

About 186th 5th ave: “The attractive red brick and terracotta building was originally erected in 1883 by Henry J. Hardenbergh, the architect who is also responsible for the Plaza Hotel. The landmark building once housed The Western Union Telegraph Co. and is now partially converted to house four residential condominiums.”

You haven't explained anything. The answer to your question is No. I'm really not understanding you. That was a confusing explanation.

Moreover, a casual study of the history of the North African Barbary Pirates and their enslavement of Europeans (which prompted a fledging US Naval response by Thomas Jefferson) shows that if religion is justification for enslavement, people will use it. If race is, they'll use it. People will make up justifications.

Moreover, even with a 99.8% similarity, there are subtle differences between races. That's a scientific fact. For example, there are hereditary conditions (e.g Tay-Sachs, Sickle Cell Anemia, Cystic Fibrosis) that exist in some races but not others.

Not always... And hopefully never...