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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: I want to remember this friendship as it was |
| Stormyweathers |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2024, 2:54 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 2,819
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| Sounds like you handled it better than I would have. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Undesired physical contact |
| Stormyweathers |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2024, 2:50 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 3,909
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| What unwanted physical contact have I experienced? Wow, I hardly know where I would begin. Physical contact without consent is rapidly being abolished. For a lot of people, this change is not natural, so I don't assume that everyone is on board yet. In twenty years, I bet this will be a different co... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Free Will or Otherwise |
| Stormyweathers |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2024, 2:38 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,962
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| Depends. Did you make that choice or did social conditioning make it for you? Free will is an illusion. Humans, like almost all primates, are tribal. We feel biological pressure to subjugate our individual thoughts in order to find a place within a tribe. That's why when you are raised in a place, o... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Confronting people and thus losing them as friends |
| Stormyweathers |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2024, 2:25 am
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Replies: 50
Views: 5,897
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| Being right is never enough. You also have to be persuasive, powerful, or sometimes both. Most people don't realize what lies underneath their social choices. If you are Christian or take wisdom regardless of source, the operative phrase here is "They know not what they do ..." and they wo... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: I can't keep female neurotypical friends |
| Stormyweathers |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2024, 2:17 am
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Replies: 237
Views: 11,000
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| Well, I can't keep friends at all these days, but I think it's because I got too tired to care. I suspect you are coming across as "clingy". They engage with you. In return you engage with them too much. It's subjective, but when you see someone first responding with enthusiasm and then tr... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Needing to conform! |
| Stormyweathers |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2024, 2:04 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,254
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| You wrote that guy "has functioning aspergers". What does "functioning" mean in this context? Good question. With only one exception, I have held down every job I have ever had for at least a year. I've only been in institutions twice, suffocated by law enforcement once, and oth... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Needing to conform! |
| Stormyweathers |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2024, 2:00 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,254
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Quick, hide, pretend to be neurotypical before someone sees you. /sigh
Decades later, you too will savor the masochistic pleasures of masking exhaustion.  |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: eye contact, How would you describe it |
| Stormyweathers |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2024, 1:56 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 4,414
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To me, direct eye-contact is a little aggressive. Most people instinctively realize that when I focus my attention on them, I see a lot more than they want me to.
I kind of get off on making them uncomfortable.  |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: What do you wear on a blind date? |
| Stormyweathers |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2024, 1:53 am
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Replies: 2,871
Views: 101,302
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| Something dark colored. At least you can properly enjoy the meal. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Is This A Scam |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2024, 1:43 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 5,820
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| As an email administrator and political junkie, I'd like to offer you a tidbit of advice. Inside Outlook, or whatever client you are using, find the inbox rules. Most decent clients have some variation on the theme. Build a rule that looks for the phrase "campaign for" in the subject or bo... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: I hate getting these |
| Stormyweathers |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2024, 1:36 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,744
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blitzkrieg wrote: You need to mark emails (if it is an email) - like this, as spam.
And then delete them.
My thoughts exactly. Then block the sender. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: 50 year nuclear battery developed |
| Stormyweathers |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2024, 1:34 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,673
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| A Chinese company has developed a radioactive battery using a radioactive nickel isotope (Ni-63) and doped graphene. They claim that it could last up to 50 years off of the beta decay of the source. It does not have a high output, so do not plan on it going into your smart phone anytime soon. The s... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Gorillas Are Monkeys, and So Are You! |
| Stormyweathers |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2024, 1:25 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,657
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cyberdad wrote: Monkeys and apes might be a little peeved to be called human
Yeah, I feel that. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Who remembers what a floppy disk is? |
| Stormyweathers |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2024, 1:21 am
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Replies: 52
Views: 13,007
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| The first media storage I used was my cassette tape drive on a Commodore 64, same kind of tapes people used in the Walkman. I played Sargon II, an old chess game. It's also where I stored the very first piece of code I ever wrote which didn't disappear with my RAM after I hit the power switch. 8 in ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Does the average person need a PC? |
| Stormyweathers |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2024, 1:09 am
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Replies: 33
Views: 29,067
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It depends on what the average person is doing.
A pad is convenient for consuming content.
A laptop is better for generating content. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Gorillas Are Monkeys, and So Are You! |
| Stormyweathers |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2024, 1:07 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,657
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I'm a chemist. My wife is the biologist, so take this with a grain of salt, but I'm pretty sure that apes, monkeys, and homo sapiens all descended from a common ancestor.
We are ... well, I guess you might call us species siblings if you follow the misuse of that word. |
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