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You are quite correct Jack. It takes a lot of practice to be able to do that.

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You are quite correct Jack. It takes a lot of practice to be able to do that.

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That goes beyond just practice...

I've been hitting nails with hammers for 24 years and I still manage to hit my thumb.



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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

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'Buffalo Crossing' pairs Northern Cheyenne traditional art forms with symphonic music
https://billingsgazette.com/news/local/buffalo-crossing-pairs-northern
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, not to be a buzz kill, but...

Culture is rooted on how people make a living. Supposedly, the Innuit had almost two dozen words for "snow" that would tell them how far, how fast, and with what kind of effort could be traveled by dog sled. But once you have snowmobiles, those words lose their relevance.

Same thing with being a tracker and Hunter: in a big city, car repair is a more useful skill.

Once upon a time, when people lived by farming, the hoedown (literally, you put your hoes down) pulled small communities together and gave respite from unending toil.

It's like blacks carrying over their resentment from past slavery: it does no good in today's society.

The fact is that we live in a modern financialist society, and except for sentimental attachment to cultural remnants, they are vestiges of a long-ago past.

At one time, this meant a lot to my dad:

. He grew up on a farm in Poland until WWII whisked him away to Siberia, England, and the USA.

BTW I believe we should keep the old skills alive, as the Japanese do.
We may need them someday. But the songs, dances, and food are unmoored without the production and society to anchor them.

You need to keep far more "alive" than demonstration dances in order to stay relevant.


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What that means, BTW, would be consciously creating a society and culture that revere's some of the old values (like cooperation, respect for the earth), teaches the old skills and language, but also teaches new skills so the society can survive in a inimical milieu.

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SIGNYM:
What that means, BTW, would be consciously creating a society and culture that revere's some of the old values (like cooperation, respect for the earth), teaches the old skills and language, but also teaches new skills so the society can survive in a inimical milieu.


BRENDA: SIG, the people in the north now call themselves Inuk.

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Then I can call you and your kind toothless-ignorant-poor-white-trailer-jackoff-trash, and you won't mind?

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But let me ask you this SIG, has anyone ever told you not call yourself an American?

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Also I will not deny my heritage.

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Woke capital incarnate’: Microsoft event opens with land acknowledgments & pronouns
5 Nov, 2021 00:11
‘Woke capital incarnate’: Microsoft event opens with land acknowledgments & for

Microsoft’s virtual conference Ignite 2021 was all about hybrid work, metaverse and the cloud, but it opened with “land acknowledgments” to local native tribes and featured speakers describing their race and preferred pronouns.

The virtual event that ran between Tuesday and Thursday had more than 200,000 attendees across the world and featured speakers from CEO Satya Nadella to project and marketing managers speaking about Microsoft’s plans for the future.
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Before any of that could happen, however, senior program manager Allison Weins had a ritual to perform.

“We need to acknowledge that the land where the Microsoft campus is situated was is traditionally occupied by the Sammamish, Duwamish, Snoqualmie, Suquamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Tulalip, and other coast Salish people since time immemorial,” Weins said, “a people who are still continuing to honor and bring to light their amazing heritage.”

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