Area Man
jzelten.bsky.social
Area Man
@jzelten.bsky.social
Iconoclast. Abyss-starer. Low tolerance for people not acting in good faith. Possible space alien.

Unsolicited DMs will result in instant blocking.
"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, backwards, in high heels, and without pockets"
October 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Surely you can't be serial.
October 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
What if he's just an asshole with dementia?

Looking for a logical explanation might be a fool's errand
October 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
You're welcome to DM me, if it helps.
October 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
You're welcome to DM if you wish. I understand entirely your point about skeets being a difficult medium for complex ideas.
October 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I'm surprised it's as much as half. I watch some Finding Your Roots, and it's pretty much inevitable that anybody white whose family have been in the US long enough has some African heritage, and vice versa. That's another reason the whole "one drop of blood" standard in the South was stupid.
October 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
My wife's family are all from Southern Italy and Sicily. When her father did a DNA test, he found that he had about 5% Arabic heritage. Sicily in particular is an absolute melting pot of the Med.
October 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I'm 50% Ashkenazi (which itself is not as homogeneous as many people think), 50% English mutt: English, Welsh, Norse, Cornish, ...
October 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Chronic anxiety?
October 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
*hate, not had. D'oh.
October 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Let's also not forget Operation Paperclip, which whitewashed the Nazi records of "sufficiently valuable" engineers and scientists.
October 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Prove me wrong. I'm not making this up, it's right there in black and white for everybody to read.
October 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Bonus fun fact: Jaguar started out as the Swallow Sidecar Company before becoming SS Cars in 1935 and introducing the SS Jaguar. After WWII [oddly, not during] they renamed the company Jaguar, for reasons obvious to everybody except Elon Musk.

Anyway, the SS Jaguar 100 is an amazingly beautiful car
October 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"Sir, it's not the vehicle."
October 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"Sir, it's not the vehicle."
October 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
BTW, I had the term "scientific racism" because it sounds like it is validating the concept, but unfortunately that is the term in common use, even by critics of it.
October 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Indeed. If people were dogs, we would all be the same breed. There is more genetic variation within the population of Sweden than between the average Swede and the average Nigerian (to pick two random countries). "Population genetics" as a basis for racism is silly. But so is all "scientific racism"
October 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
You are not engaging in good faith debate.

Instead of responding to the (valid) claim that women are less prone to these behaviors, you leapt to the fallacy of the excluded middle and hyperbole.

If you want to be taken seriously, respond to what was actually said, not the voices in your head.
October 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
As usual, Luigi gets left out.
October 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM