I had to read your post a couple of times before I figured out that your use of dark matter was as noun and not with dark being shorthand for people with dark skin color and matter being a verb that in this context means Is it pertinent, relevant, significant, important, of consequence, or is it inpertinent [?], irrelevant, insignificant, unimprtant, of no consequence {or, should I have said "inconsequential".

I think it was the "spaced out", "black hole" sentences that helped me see that your post was at least part snark. Or was it? If so, it was a good play on words, especially since the title for this thread is a play on words of another Mudcat thread about "outer space".

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Excuse my experimenting with fonts. Thanks to some instructions like this one that a Mudcat guest & several Mudcat members shared with me, I finally learned how to change the font from one appearance to another.

But I have to keep practicing how to do it or I'll forget the instructions that make it work. I know that eventually using those instructions will become second nature. But now, I have to concentrate on each step and go back a couple of times to try to catch the errors I make before I hit the submit button.

I think there's a lesson in there somewhere about how we can help change the world from a place where certain kinds of differences make a difference to a world where those kinds of differences don't matter at all.