OK but if after the past decade I find it hard to believe someone may not understand plenty of reasons to flip off cops who are standing there.

That’s a reference to the passion of the cut sleeve where emperor Ai of China did the same for his sleeping boyfriend

No it isnt

It’s America, so in the modern day it’s mostly relegated to shit like reading the phone book or if lucky reading incredibly long relevant things. But we’ve had fist fights and duels as a result of congressional conflict.

Its root is in physical intimidation before battle yes, but on the floor of parliament it’s clearly intended as an act of cultural display of resistance, not one of “do as we say or we will hurt you”.

The modern suit comes from military uniforms. Hell, they have a guy with a mace when parliament is in session. This military imagery has come to the authority of the democratic process and appears at least throughout the anglosphere, but it’s using military imagery to do so.

Just as the colonizer uses military imagery to represent the authority and tradition of institutions, the colonized may use their own military imagery to represent opposition to colonial acts.

I totally get where you’re coming from, and I agree Christianity did snuff out a lot of that, but not necessarily the way you may be thinking of it. Christianity was a face, tool, and motivation of empire, and empire seeks to standardize culture for the sake of stability. Christianity has deeply powerful cultural performances too. There are traditional catholic rituals that by their nature as a force of colonizing power and as part of globally dominant cultures (and as part of our own cultures) we see differently from this.

This haka was powerful and beautiful, and part of that is by its own merit, but part is that it is people and culture resisting colonial power.

Also, the modern era has been immensely destructive to culture and ritual except where it is intentionally preserved. While it would be easy to pin it on Christianity and the protestant reformation, the reality is that it’s also caused by the formation of nations (the unification of Italy for example created a shared culture between Venice and Rome for the first time since the fall of the western empire), the advent of mass travel and communication, the rise of industrialized lifestyles, and the shift from generation after generation living in the same spot to the normalization of living somewhat far from your family, all of which combined to more or less radically weaken local cultures.

Also like, it’s fucking Aoteroa. In colonial nations one must be prepared for indigenous members of their government to perform cultural acts of resistance when the colonist faction of the government gets up to some shit.

From the other side of the world I saw her actions powerful and warranted. Though I do come from a country with a history of far less reasonable displays of dissatisfaction in our legislature.

Next the WASPs are going to demand a St George’s day parade to celebrate English-American culture

Adderall worked best of the meds I’d tried. Unfortunately it’s a massive pain in the ass to get

Yeah. I’m definitely my type

Also, this is new york city. They famously have a major subway. I hear it could use expanded, but trams are going to have to explain why it’s better to have a third public transit option rather than just busses and subway expansion

Hirohito was a prince and Roosevelt was old money. Idk about Eisenhower but American generals historically come from well to do backgrounds.

And for what it’s worth, Hinduism is an open religion, and yoga is a cultural practice that is encouraged to be shared.

Respectfully partaking in other people’s cultures is a joy when you’re welcomed. The talk of cultural appropriation is really about disrespectful utilization of other cultures or taking part in cultural practices you aren’t welcome to.

So reading what was posted my concern is that medical startups that sell it properly aren’t prepared for several decades of supporting it.

I’m quite supportive of disability assisting technology and the ability to use machines to connect the brain to the body or prostheses are things I’m generally in favor of (when the disabled are consulted and listened to).

Now, Elon’s cyberpunk nightmare version of this where minds and computers are swapping thoughts directly? No, I’m not on board with that. Fortunately it doesn’t seem to be anywhere near the horizon.

I’m a more exotic hillbilly: Appalachian and Alps

A negative Nancy for sure /s

Like many buzzwords it’s both a legitimate good idea and a concept a lot of people with no idea what’s going on get a bug up their asses about and use to mean “shake stuff up that had been working fine on a hunch”

Oh so we know punishment focused response doesn’t increase rehabilitation so the idea is punishment in a dystopian sci fi way?

We could like, try listening to the experts instead

In that context it just means deployed to ths conflict. Sometimes it means contributed to the effort while in the military. So someone who cooked on base in Vietnam would be a Vietnam vet, but someone who enlisted during the Korean war but was sent to Japan wouldn’t be a korea vet.

Those who don’t desire to think will attend university to not think. Those who desire to think will put off studying to discuss ideas with friends, but like they’ll keep doing that shit for life.