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RetroGamer87
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28 Jan 2017, 3:56 am

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
From Time Enough for Love. One of my favourite books :D

What other book contains a bullet point list with tips for life?

Who else but Lazarus Long could win epic space battles while wearing a kilt?

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28 Jan 2017, 4:18 am

I guess i'm an insect. :alien:



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28 Jan 2017, 7:35 am

What is your field of specialisation?


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28 Jan 2017, 7:08 pm

Non-verbal languages.


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29 Jan 2017, 4:22 am

audio restoration



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29 Jan 2017, 4:47 am

auntblabby wrote:
Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein


and nudibranchs, and platyhelminths, and cephalopods, and scaphopods, and cestodes, and trematodes, and malacostracans, and euphausiaceans, and bony fish, and diplopods, and birds, and sea stars, and tube worms, and protists, and magnoliids, and dicots, and monocots, and gymnosperms, and angiosperms, and nonvascular plants, and fungi...etc etc.


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29 Jan 2017, 5:29 am

tubeworms are fun :alien:



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29 Jan 2017, 9:13 am

My vocation was in the use of human power, integrating fitness with daily activity. My work on flexible structures is still cutting-edge. Now, I'm most interested in exposing the false assumptions on which feminism is based. Gender issues don't respond like racial issues except for the rare people on the cusp between heterosexual and homosexual genetic disposition. Those became the avant-garde for women adapting to the Industrial Revolution, and now they are trying to impose androgyny on everyone. By nature, we are symbiotic, not substantially identical.

BTW, I now get around most of the crashes here just by "copying" my entry before trying to post it, so I can paste it elsewhere for later re-posting if necessary.



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10 Feb 2017, 12:04 am

I'm an NSA mole working as a Russian troll worming my way through the internet to bug.



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10 Feb 2017, 12:54 am

ok, i'll accept that.



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10 Feb 2017, 2:57 am

EzraS wrote:
I'm an NSA mole working as a Russian troll worming my way through the internet to bug.


Banned.




(muahaha)


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15 Feb 2017, 9:24 pm

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So, what do you other guys do to feel manly? How do you handle your masculinity, etc? Let's get the conversation going.


This is a great question, because I feel most neurotypical men are narcissistic sociopaths and the male aspies I met in the past were the polar opposite. What are "normal" men like.



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15 Feb 2017, 9:39 pm

I don't really do anything to feel manly.


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15 Feb 2017, 9:41 pm

I suppose i'd feel "manly" if I went out and wrassled a bear.



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15 Feb 2017, 10:38 pm

This has never been an issue for me. I look at a woman, and I know right away I feel like a man. Occasionally, people have wondered if I'm a "real man" for one reason or another, and I've found it more amusing to let them wonder than to correct them. One reality check is that no matter how hard I tried to satisfy feminists that I wasn't patriarchal, they never trusted me anyway. Ever since Ma Nature invented gender, every single critter has wanted to know if they are dealing with potential mates or potential rivals at every encounter. I've never felt any ambivalence about which way I swing.



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15 Feb 2017, 10:57 pm

Gender wasn't invented by mother nature, it's a social construct /sarcasm :P


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