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nothing wrong with it, just seems extreme under the circumstances! courage connotes bravery; the opposite is cowardice. so it comes across like you're being really, really hard on yourself. that's all.

adarq, we need a "brittlebro" team once the forum switches over. charter members: me, acole, scooby, you, maybe mutumbo000.

lol! he's back!

https://twitter.com/Advil/status/738952251679465472

part of the point -- and i got into a shit fight with kelly baggett about it on here years ago -- is that "black" is a social category that has little to do with genetic characteristics apart from dark skin (and there are exceptions even to that! i have white friends, not to mention south asians, who are darker than many "black" people). ethiopians and nigerians are more genetically different from each other than swedes and koreans. but put an australian aborginal, an ethiopian, and a nigerian together in des moines and they're all "black." so it's a useless category when you're talking about genetics and sport.

also, fuck malcolm gladwell. look how smoothly he moves from "african-american" to "kenyan" in that piece. most african-americans are descended from west africans and the whites who raped them, not kenyans. are genetics a factor in allowing people of west-african descent to dominate short sprints, and kenyans and ethiopians to dominate 10k+? most likely. but those factors have little or nothing to do with them being "black."

high socks, XC flats, and tons of jumps at a bball court: adarq siting.

yeah but did you bring your knife and beanie?

^^^ +100

FP's not wrong about the racial breakdown in ultimate -- it really is almost all white -- and the common usage of a non-white person's race as an identifier. doesn't hold for just black people, either: there's an elite player in DC who's southeast asian, just an incredible athlete (for ultimate) with great skills, and i've heard plenty of people say stuff like, "man have you seen that asian dude on truck stop? dude can play." race is an easy identifier when almost everyone is white. doesn't make it a good habit.

fwiw, i try consciously to use some other identifying feature than race when i'm talking about someone, even when race would be the obvious/easy thing to use.

have only eaten one small chocolate: they don't have dark chocolate in the office and other than going out to dinner and drinking i haven't had any time outside the hotel or office. people here don't make a big deal out of it. i should probably pick some up tomorrow morning, though, since i don't have any obligations before i have to head to the airport.

today:

- daily routine

three of my colleagues were killed in northern afghanistan yesterday.