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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: I finally have a job! |
JamesW |
Posted: Yesterday, 4:08 pm
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That's brilliant well done. Let us all know how it goes. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anyone with an IQ over 130 is automatically neurodivergent ? |
JamesW |
Posted: 29 Oct 2024, 4:20 pm
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timf wrote: I joined Mensa over 40 years ago
I tried to join Mensa over 30 years ago, but they didn't seem to have anyone who knew how to stuff an application form in an envelope. |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Female false red flag signals |
JamesW |
Posted: 25 Oct 2024, 5:31 am
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I'm one of the fortunate autistic people who is able to understand sarcasm at least some of the time.
I choose not to use it around other autistic people, because they may take it literally, and that may lead to confrontation. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Parking Lots and Parking Structures |
JamesW |
Posted: 24 Oct 2024, 3:37 pm
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Replies: 14 Views: 659
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Airports are a nightmare for autistic people. What saves me is the departure board; as long as I'm within sight of one, I can put my headphones on and zone out, knowing that I won't miss my plane. Otherwise I just make sure I'm in control as far as possible, and keep all processes linear, making sur... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: First Computer Ever Used/Owned? |
JamesW |
Posted: 24 Oct 2024, 3:29 pm
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Replies: 60 Views: 3,169
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Was there a Windows NT. operating system ? ever?? Yes it was the precursor to our present-day Windows operating system. At first it was marketed to "enterprise" users. Its precursor, in turn, was the VMS operating system. In parallel, DOS-based versions of Windows were marketed to consume... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: First Computer Ever Used/Owned? |
JamesW |
Posted: 24 Oct 2024, 3:24 pm
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Replies: 60 Views: 3,169
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First one I ever used was an RML 380Z. First one I owned: a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: What is your main phone? And, what's the best you've owned? |
JamesW |
Posted: 24 Oct 2024, 3:22 pm
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Current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S20FE.
Best I ever owned was the original Nokia 3310, in my opinion the best phone ever built. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Parking Lots and Parking Structures |
JamesW |
Posted: 24 Oct 2024, 1:19 am
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Replies: 14 Views: 659
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At an airport near me, you drive in via an automatic gate that reads your licence plate. When it recognises you have pre-paid, it opens and lets you in, without issuing a ticket. From there to the terminal, you are bombarded with electronic billboards at roadside and on the shuttle bus, reminding yo... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Trump Worked At McDonald's |
JamesW |
Posted: 24 Oct 2024, 12:57 am
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Incidentally it's not completely true that McDonald's doesn't hire convicted felons. From https://www.soapcentral.com/lifestyle/news-does-mcdonald-s-hire-convicted-felons-details-explored-jon-cooper-suggests-trump-get-real-job-fast-food-restaurant (click it if you must, but be aware it's covered in ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Vaccine scare |
JamesW |
Posted: 24 Oct 2024, 12:47 am
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Replies: 12 Views: 375
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Since she's gone im at loss, and I think it was covid vaccine that finally did it. I saw some Pfizer scandals on YouTube and then JF Kennedy talking about vaccines causing autism. It's at times of grief and stress that we are most vulnerable to misinformation. Please don't get your news from YouTub... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Missouri AG says decreasing teen pregnancy hurts Missouri |
JamesW |
Posted: 23 Oct 2024, 9:40 am
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Replies: 14 Views: 548
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<derail> Folks - can we please stop linking through click farms? There's been a spate of it recently. 1. It gives garbage people revenue while depriving the content owners of said revenue. 2. People who have spam blockers installed often can't hit the URL at all, and we have to go and google the con... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: My neighbors Phil and Anita found love easily |
JamesW |
Posted: 21 Oct 2024, 7:05 am
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Replies: 14 Views: 641
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Please do invite them. Don't hate them. Forgive them all their wrongs, whether real or imagined. Married people don't understand single people. NTs don't understand NDs. And vice versa. NTs don't know what to say to us, whether it's the right thing or the wrong thing, and whether it will upset us. Y... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Election 2024: beware of emotions |
JamesW |
Posted: 21 Oct 2024, 6:15 am
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Replies: 55 Views: 1,159
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Once again: I have no right to tell Americans to vote. All I ask is: please be careful where you get your news. By all means watch a conservative-leaning channel, but balance it with the liberal-leaning view as well. (In Britain that would be Sky v. BBC.) Never watch a news channel specifically set ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: AI over-hyped? |
JamesW |
Posted: 21 Oct 2024, 2:42 am
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Whether AI is now, or will in the future be, useful to the human race, isn't the point right now. What is is that the current corporate-driven hype around AI is nothing but grift. Don't be the one left holding the paper when the bubble bursts. And be very aware that far-right tech-bros can crash the... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Possible Dyscalculia |
JamesW |
Posted: 21 Oct 2024, 2:26 am
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It's definitely worth looking at. Grandin talks of 'pattern thinkers', 'picture thinkers' etc. and how she as an autistic person can have extreme difficulty handling information presented in a way her brain isn't wired for. I can identify. As a tech geek, if you give me an algorithm presented as a b... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Are we supposed to have everything sorted before 30? |
JamesW |
Posted: 21 Oct 2024, 2:13 am
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Replies: 14 Views: 875
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It's like the old question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?'
I don't bloody know. Ask me again in ten years. |
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