In the U.S. this is a controversial topic online because it centers around the idea of privilege. One of the progressive viewpoints around race is CRT (critical race theory). That argues that throughout history white people have created and benefitted from a system that oppresses other races and gives themselves advantages. In my opinion that's not very debatable. That being said I personally believe in the current day that social classes and education levels are what should be looked at more but race is a large part of the discussion. CRT is very popular with the very vocal left leaning Twitter folks and internet users.

Someone who is a proponent of CRT would argue that you can't be racist against the "dominant" (not the word in really lookin for) race within a state/country. An easy example of this is the lack of any kind of word that equates to a racial slur for white people. There really isn't one, because due to power dynamics throughout Americas history there hasn't been a time where white people were the ones being persecuted against and marginalized (which is where slurs and race based insults come from generally).

Where this falls apart is that even the idea of "whiteness" has changed over the last 150 years. For a long time the Irsh, Italians, Eastern Europeans (who would now just be considered white) did have a lot of persecution against them and there was significant "racial" bias against them. In reality those immigrants had much more in common with other poor people (regardless of race). But again, an Italian immigrant still usually had it better than a black person in many parts of the country (in terms of how they were viewed by most of society).

TLDR: Can't be racist against white people because they are the ones that "run" the system and hold the power in society. I don't agree with this 100% but get the merits of the argument.

That first paycheck feeling is so nice lol. First of many!

Traditionally I've done lump charcoal as the base and then some mesquite wood on top to add some more flavor and a higher heat point.

I do randomly have some basil/oregano briquettes laying around though so I might try that. That's a solid idea

Happy to hear it!

Lol not sure that's true for any of these kids!

Oh wow that's pretty cool. I didn't think they did anything to alter their voice live. I wonder what the science behind that is. I saw Luke Combs a couple months ago at a football stadium and was blown away by the fact that he just came out and sang for two hours (he's not really dancing and performing lol). So it's been on my mind for a little bit. And the speaker thing makes a lot of sense as well.

Oh I see, goodluck!

Happy to hear that. Said it yesterday but it'll be interesting to see where everything goes. Fingers crossed there isn't some sort of instance war where everyone starts blocking each other 😂

Oh that's dope, I've always wondered what backstage at a large concert is like. I assume hectic but amazing?

Should have bought a bigger house I suppose....

Mine's a lab. Great pyr and Swiss mt is crazy big lol. How much does that thing shed?

Yeesh, what kind of dog? Gotta be a mastiff or a St. Bernard or something right?