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I want to bring this video by Black Pigeon Speaks to everyone's attention, and if you don't want to watch the whole thing, here's the gist (and some items that I want to mention that weren't in the video) He speaks about excellent alternatives to Google services - I am already using all of them and can attest to the fact that they indeed work really well: 1) Brave Broswer - clean, minimalist look, so far I love it. https://www.brave.com/ 2) A search engine that works pretty well https://www.qwant.com/ 3) Email server: https://mail.protonmail.com/login - the provider promises encryption and the layout is familiar and takes no time getting used to. The phone app for iOS is also very crisp and simple. The only limitation is that you don't get storage (something I personally don't care about at all. 500 MBs is more than I need) 4) Vid.me - a reasonable alternative to YouTube (this one - understandably - is lacking in features when compared to the BEHEMOTH that is YouTube. But hey, they're not fucking fascists. That alone sells it to me). 5) Minds.com - good facebook alternative 6) Gab.ai - alternative to twitter - but Apple and GooglePlay stores both refuse to shelf it. The browser version works just fine though and personally I prefer the layout to Twitter's. 7) Finally, we have an unofficial discord channel (not endorsed by Stef/Michael - not yet anyway) that has really taken off - forum people: please come by and say hi, we have wonderful conversations going on most every day in text/voice https://discord.gg/9QujQ2k There's also a program called CyberGhost 6 which hides your IP over wi-fi connections. It doesn't seem to work with brave browser, but works with Chrome. If anyone figures out how to make it work with Brave (or has another suggestion) please let me know.

A recent audit of the Baltimore Police Department (https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3009376/BPD-Findings-Report-FINAL.pdf) concluded "intentional discrimination" by the police. This has been a big point of anger for the Black Lives Matter movement and social justice warriors of all kinds, groups which generally clash with libertarians, especially the more conservative. Should police keep to ideals and not stray to pragmatism in the name of order? If a group of people is committing disproportionate amounts of crime, is it legitimate to target that group disproportionally? Is this a sign of things getting worse or better?

So apparently this is a test that can determine if you are racist. http://www.understandingprejudice.org/iat/racframe.htm I figured I might as well try it.. Oh boy. My results: Welp, looks like I'll have to cut ties with all my black friends No but in all seriousness, it seems like the way the test is done is biased. It's a reaction based test, and on the second half it switches the controls around so that I went through much slower. Is this really a valid test as the site claims? I have a feeling if it were to reverse the order of races in the test it would show me as a strong automatic preference for "African Americans".. I wasn't very surprised with those results honestly. What really bothered me is the fact that a tool is on a website supposedly for "students, teachers, and others interested in the causes and consequences of prejudice.". Yeah it's been 5 years since I was in public school, but damn, indoctrinating students into feeling guilt by using pseudo tests? Seems they've really ramped up the propaganda. Apparently there are even textbooks conforming to the narrative of social justice in the USA.. http://www.understandingprejudice.org/anthol.htm

I've just taken notice of some articles that claim that it is a myth that the black community suffers from absentee fathers more so than other races. Here is a link to one of the articles. You will quickly notice just how liberal this article is, but the statistics and visual aids are there. Link here. Is there anything flawed with the CDC study? Are the statistics wrong? I've been persuaded by reason that - because of a great many factors - black fathers are abscent from the family picture. It is tragic. But the articles I've seen, such as the one linked above, beg to differ. Please let me know what your thoughts are and how you would respond! Here is the link to the CDC document.