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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Quiet Reflections on a Growing Polyamorous Community |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: Yesterday, 10:03 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 303
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| Perhaps, but polyamory has some pretty significant issues related to personal choice. It completely breaks the guarantee that there be enough potential partners out there for everybody. It can sort of work in specific situations, but even a slight disturbance in the number of available men and wome... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: More setback with addiction |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: Yesterday, 7:51 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 121
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| I saw this yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6xbXOp7wDA and she talks a bit about porn and sex addiction, but mostly in the context of dopamine in general. As a recovered alcoholic and pot user, most of what she said seemed to be pretty much spot on for why I could eventually give those t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Nicknames - can't do them |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 10:09 am
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Replies: 44
Views: 2,657
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| People keep trying to give me nicknames, but they don't ever stick since I'm so particular about limiting the exposure of people I know to each other. It kind of just smothers any nicknames that would develop. At one point, I counted up a literal couple dozen things that people had tried to call me ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: More setback with addiction |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 10:07 am
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Replies: 11
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| I saw this yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6xbXOp7wDA and she talks a bit about porn and sex addiction, but mostly in the context of dopamine in general. As a recovered alcoholic and pot user, most of what she said seemed to be pretty much spot on for why I could eventually give those th... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Quiet Reflections on a Growing Polyamorous Community |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 10:04 am
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Replies: 16
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| I'm a boring monogamist But each to their own... Perhaps, but polyamory has some pretty significant issues related to personal choice. It completely breaks the guarantee that there be enough potential partners out there for everybody. It can sort of work in specific situations, but even a slight di... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Visiting USA |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 9:53 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 202
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| A lot of people here in Canada aren't happy with the USA, either right now, in case you haven't noticed. Mainly because of Orange Raving Lunatic. But Canadians are more like Americans than anywhere else in the world, and I'm sorry to say that the most Canadian thing I probably do is not wear shoes ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The United States is finally going to do away with pennies. |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 9:51 am
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Replies: 38
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| ^ I'm scared of non-metric units. To me they're as awkward as Roman numerals. They're really not though. I can't speak about systems other than US customary measure, but it's just so convenient for most things rather than being hobbled by arbitrary definitions and optimization for things that peopl... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Transphobic comment by someone I trusted. |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 9:46 am
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Replies: 20
Views: 256
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| People that take that view tend to be very good at ignoring situations that don't fit with that world view. I tend to just avoid those sorts just because they're not worth involving myself with. The thing is, he was going to take part in the knitting group, not to interact with that one crappy pers... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Transphobic comment by someone I trusted. |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2025, 7:03 pm
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Replies: 20
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| If God doesn't make mistakes, that means every child who's born with painful birth defects only to die not long after was an intentional and malicious act. Which is totally in-character for an evil demon, which is how many ancient societies viewed YHWH. Of course, that only matters if one believes ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Visiting USA |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2025, 7:01 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 202
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| Someone misunderstood me the other day, I was saying not very nice things about USA, and I was sort of accused of being a snob about USA like that posh woman on a film called Tea with Mussolini but l don’t think I am really like her I just refuse to visit USA until they’ve liberated themselves. Do ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Israel Bombs Tehran |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 22 Jun 2025, 8:37 pm
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Replies: 246
Views: 9,305
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ogdWPc7We0 Seems there might be a silver lining from America's trade war. No REM from China, no Israeli interceptor missiles. Yes, but that's also striking evidence that Israel always intended to drag the US into their war. Running out of interceptor missiles so qui... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Well I guess Israel and Iran are at war now. |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 22 Jun 2025, 8:36 pm
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Replies: 138
Views: 4,530
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| Huh? Saying that comparing US’ democracy to Iran’s political system is a stretch is now “strawmanning” . This is a clear, defensible opinion, not a distortion of someone else's argument. What is strawmanning to you? No one has claimed that the US and Iran's political systems were comparable, so you... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Well I guess Israel and Iran are at war now. |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 22 Jun 2025, 8:26 pm
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Replies: 138
Views: 4,530
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| The fact of the matter is that Israel is the problem here, they're the ones that refuse to accept offers to address their claimed concerns about security and have gone about attacking countries with reckless disregard for the legality or necessity of it. I don't dispute Israel and the US aren't man... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Israel Bombs Tehran |
| MatchboxVagabond |
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Posted: 22 Jun 2025, 12:04 pm
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Replies: 246
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| Are you just so bereft of ethics that you're just going to spread this propaganda? How many innocent people are you prepared to let Israel murder before you accept that Israel really is the bad guy here? wait, what? I just literally posted news feed. Look at your posts, you're very much complicit i... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Israel Bombs Tehran |
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Posted: 22 Jun 2025, 12:19 am
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Replies: 246
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| Israel-Iran war live: Trump says Iran’s key nuclear facilities ‘obliterated’ in US strikes and that Tehran must now make peace Trump says US has attacked three nuclear sites in Iran https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/21/trump-us-nuclear-strikes-iran US has struck three Iranian nuclear sites... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Well I guess Israel and Iran are at war now. |
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Posted: 22 Jun 2025, 12:16 am
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Replies: 138
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| I am aware Netanyahu has manufactured the the level of threat Iran's nuclear program has in the past. However do we know whether previous strikes on Iranian Uranium enrichment plants were successful enough to stave off their plans? In case funeral and matchbox live in self selected denial, Russia a... |
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