Talking about things you don't understand is a natural human activity. The poor as well as the rich are able to do it. It's very peculiar that you're so obsessed with this completely normal aspect of human life and view it as a character flaw. Please, seek professional help for whatever issues in your life are causing you to build up this much anger and resentment.

My father's family have been in Maryland since the 1600s. When my father made fried chicken, he made it with lard, a seasoned breading, and a milk gravy, somewhat like country fried steak. But he never billed it as "Maryland fried chicken" or conveyed any sense of "this is how ~we Marylanders~ do it" whereas with other things, like crab cakes, there was definitely a sense of This Is How We Do It Here And Those People In Virginia Can Go To Hell.

What would be the key attribute that makes or breaks a crab cake? That is, what distinguishes a Maryland vs Virginia crab cake?

He insisted on saltine crackers for the breadcrumbs and Old Bay seasoning in particular. (Old Bay is known enough now that I've seen it in random parts of the country and even overseas, but I suppose back in the day it was a lot more of a local thing. Personally, I can't tell the difference between the saltines and just making the breadcrumbs with bread that's a bit stale.)

edit: Also it goes without saying that an MD crab cake is blue crab. I think VA crab cakes would be blue crab too, but out west I've had Dungeness crab cakes and they aren't bad but it's not the same.

Old Bay for anything besides steamed hard crabs, for the boil J.O.'s is the seasoning you want.

In general the use of a shitload of breadcrumb or other filler will break a crabcake. Should just be a very light mayo based binder just to hold it together, and the lump of the crab meat should still be intact. I worked as a teen at one of the famous crab houses on the bay, they used really light mayo with the crab but then after weighing packed saltine crumbs around the outside tightly until it formed a ball, and then was fried. My grandfather, who was a chicken necker, did not use breading at all and shallow fried his crab cakes.

Man, I seriously hope people don't use what they post here to predict the outcome of future interactions.

I would never. I'm either genuinely interacting (with people) or genuinely shitposting in good faith (not sure what else to call it, I'm not necessarily going to stand behind everything I say, but the interaction is genuine). I assume many others here do the same.

One example is a little-known disreputable degree mill called Carnegie Mellon University

A civil war happened the last time a King Charles broke with Parliament.

In terms of ethnicity, isn't China something like 91% Han Chinese? I wonder if that has anything to do with the incentive structure behind why their media denigrates other races.

You really sound like you know what other people should be doing. Have you considered a career in management?

Euclid's Elements. I was gifted at most everything language-related in school, but I was complete dogshit at math. Studying Euclid changed my entire perspective. I don't think I'd have had the self-belief to do programming without having read it.

There is a nice reproduction of Byrne's colorful take on the first six books of the Elements.See https://www.c82.net/euclid/ .

The psychology involved in the response you're wondering about is really quite simple to understand.

It's something of a meme to say talk about shorting what he recommends his viewers buy. Sometimes people will come up with data showing that if you did that over such-and-such a period you'd be up like 50%, but I don't think that's necessarily worse than anyone would do if they had to pick stocks on national TV every day.