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So, I think it's safe to say that BLM is harming the lives and livelihoods of other races in its supposed "effort" to improve the lives of black Americans. And so, when the author says:
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So, I think it's safe to say that BLM is harming the lives and livelihoods of other races in its supposed "effort" to improve the lives of black Americans. And so, when the author says:
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Their argument is flawed in that my response _totally would_ be to say "All forests matter" to a protester to save the rain forest if their solution to cutting down the rainforest is to burn down all other forests on earth - which is comparable to what BLM is doing but with race divisions. Another example: I would respond "actually, all oceans matter" if somebody's solution to the Atlantic Ocean's sea level rising was to dump all the water into the black sea and flood several countries. The author trips himself up in his original post when he says that it "doesn't mean that we think the other forests have no value" - which, ironically, is how the BLM organisation treats the livelihood and relations to other races: worthless. The point being that a major part of the conservative backlash towards BLM as an organisation is their attitude towards other races and their seeming inability to actually follow through in their promise that they simply want all lives to matter equally. If BLM wants my confidence back that they are a simple, honest organisation focused on equality, they should start by publicly opposing affirmative action in all forms and remove the sections from their manifesto which state that whites should be "[giving up property for black families](https://nypost.com/2020/08/14/seattle-blm-protesters-demand-white-people-give-up-their-homes/)". Until they make these fundamental changes to the things that their organisation believes in, you are going to keep hearing this retort to your protesting - so I'd get it done sooner rather than later, if I were you.
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Their argument is flawed in that my response _totally would_ be to say "All forests matter" to a protester to save the rain forest if their solution to cutting down the rainforest is to burn down all other forests on earth - which is comparable to what BLM is doing but with race divisions. Another example: I would respond "actually, all oceans matter" if somebody's solution to the Atlantic Ocean's sea level rising was to dump all the water into the black sea and flood several countries. The author trips himself up in his original post when he says that it "doesn't mean that we think the other forests have no value" - which, ironically, is how the BLM organisation treats the livelihood and relations to other races: worthless. The point being that a major part of the conservative backlash towards BLM as an organisation is their attitude towards other races and their seeming inability to actually follow through in their promise that they simply want all lives to matter equally. If BLM wants my confidence back that they are a simple, honest organisation focused on equality, they should start by publicly opposing affirmative action in all forms and remove the sections from their manifesto which state that whites should be "[giving up property for black families](https://nypost.com/2020/08/14/seattle-blm-protesters-demand-white-people-give-up-their-homes/)". Until they make these fundamental changes to the things that their organisation believes in, you are going to keep hearing this retort to your protesting - so I'd get it done sooner rather than later, if I were you.
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In this image, a few things are very apparent. Firstly, the player in the center of the screen is very visually distinct: you can't miss him. The soldier stands out from the background very easily, despite using the exact same color pallete and using complementing colors. Why is this? The answer is _saturation._ TF2 ensures that players will always have a much higher level of color saturation to that of the background, meaning that it is really difficult to miss where he is standing. Secondly, you can see exactly whose base you are in. TF2 uses contrasting color palletes to ensure that you can always tell where you are in a level at any time. Observe these two images:
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Which team do you think occupies each part of the map? To even the minimum of pertinent observers, it is fairly obvious that the left base is occupied by blue, whereas the right goes to red. This is entirely down to Leyendecker's genius of contrast: everything was based on color. Whereas a lot of art uses other techniques to contrast things (such as positive and negative space), Leyendecker could place two different objects right next to each other (maybe even inside each other) and still have the eye naturally contrast them.
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Which team do you think occupies each part of the map? To even the minimum of pertinent observers, it is fairly obvious that the left base is occupied by blue, whereas the right goes to red. This is entirely down to Leyendecker's genius of contrast: everything was based on color. Whereas a lot of art uses other techniques to contrast things (such as positive and negative space), Leyendecker could place two different objects right next to each other (maybe even inside each other) and still have the eye naturally contrast them.
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I have been dealing with spam on my public email address for quite some time now, and it finally got to the peak of my patience with the the following email, sent to my email not so long ago:
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I have been dealing with spam on my public email address for quite some time now, and it finally got to the peak of my patience with the the following email, sent to my email not so long ago:
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I mean, not the most convincing fake in the world, but it did give me a good laugh. And, for quite a long time, I was perfectly willing to leave my public email out there so that these hillarious messages of spam could get through to me, as I don't use any filter other than explicitly banned addresses. Among other very funny spam messages, here are the two runner ups of best spam emails:
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I mean, not the most convincing fake in the world, but it did give me a good laugh. And, for quite a long time, I was perfectly willing to leave my public email out there so that these hillarious messages of spam could get through to me, as I don't use any filter other than explicitly banned addresses. Among other very funny spam messages, here are the two runner ups of best spam emails:
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