Blissfully unaware.

Because weed whackers weren't designed for cutting large areas. This is like comparing paper cutting speed with scissors vs. nail clippers.

A fair question. I'll try to answer it directly.

Your first paragraph is very close. What you describe there is the advantage afforded to you by the pro-white racialized society you live in. That's to say, all other things being equal, you are almost certainly better off as a white person than you would be had you been born a black person.

"White privilege" is the privilege of enjoying the benefits of the advantage you describe without even having to ask for it or condone it or even be aware of it. "Owning it" simply means acknowledging that this is the case and living your life accordingly. In your case, as a non-racist person, this might mean little change other than better understanding the situation every non-white person in most of the Western world has to actively notice, think about and deal with on a daily basis.

(Hope the bold wasn't too much. I wanted the "privilege" aspects to stand out from the "advantage" aspects.)

And that's stupid. We agree.

This isn't about guilt. This isn't about history. This is about the facts on the ground now. Now. Now. Not history. Now. Stop making out like this is only about history. That's a defence mechanism to avoid talking about now. Talk about now.

White people have a clear advantage over black people only because of the colour of our skin. Do you think that's good or bad or are you indifferent?

And aside: Yes, Canadians held slaves prior to abolition.

Either way, while history plays a part in understanding the situation, the situation itself is the problem.

Again, stop getting defensive. Nobody is talking about slaves. You and I have privilege because of our skin colour. That situation is not cool. That is all.

I agree. The channel manager may not.

@Deano?

Where's the rest of the segment?

Stop being defensive. Take some responsibility. White people have privilege just because of our skin. Own it.

You wanna split the hairs between "don't care if they die" and "they deserve death", fine. Go ahead.

Yes, teenagers shouldn't be driving.

Teenagers are less responsible than adults. That doesn't mean they should be killed. It doesn't make the bad people who deserve death.

Too many similar options == too much work to figure out and answer. Just "Completely hidden (old system)" and "Hidden with option to reveal (current system)".

IMO, if you don't want to read a troll's messages, then don't. My inability to ignore things I know are best to ignore isn't the Sift's problem. I'd rather the trolls were simply removed for damaging the atmosphere, but short of a Siftquisition or a radical change in management policy, that's unlikely to happen.

Don't feed the troll. They thrive on attention. You've doubled his comments in this thread by answering.

Air is friction, same as the spinning surface. I think you mean air friction versus friction from the spinning surface.

Assuming so, consider that without a surface, that top could slow down until it was at rest, but with a surface, the moment it gets below a certain speed, it wobbles and hits the surface and the surface contributes significantly to the slowing down. To truly compare the friction of the surface with the friction of the air, you'd have to factor out the force of the surface stopping the top.

This means, either eliminating the possibility of the top falling in the zero-air method, or only measuring the time until the top falls below the wobble speed threshold. The latter seems easier.

What an incredible shot. Someone on the controls has got real talent.