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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Coffee, tea, red bull, alcohol, soda |
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| Careful on the self medication,with these products , from the above, Whereas he was much more social after drinking , Me too. but often I think it maybe likely that Aspies are prone to Anxiety, especially socially . And relieving that anxiety someway,does wonders , but underlying the Anxiety is som... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Controversy over Jewish-Israili actress playing Virgin Mary |
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Replies: 21
Views: 639
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Honey69 wrote: It is just a movie, after all.
Exactly. I approve of criticising films, but in most cases, including this one, I find the anger hard to understand. Religion can bring out the worst in people, which is something of a paradox. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What did you achieve today? |
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Replies: 4,962
Views: 135,282
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| uhm..willing to share how to fix broken windows...... :D I spoke too soon - the workaround started giving strange results today. So I created another workaround, and then just as I was about to try it, the strange results stopped happening, and then the broken "Show windows side by side" ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Elon Musk calls homelessness a ‘lie’ and ‘propaganda’ |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:42 pm
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Replies: 21
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| Elon Musk, the well-known social scientist of great wisdom who always presents objective, real information to back up his research conclusions before he opens his mouth. Couldn't be just a rich man trying to justify his wealth, could he? Less sarcastically, I blame the media for hanging onto his eve... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: $$$$ |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:15 pm
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Replies: 16
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| What kind of extreme financial situations have you been in? I'm somehow still dodging that situation. How close have you been to not being able to pay for: rent, utilities, groceries, health insurance, transportation? So far I've always been able to pay for house mortgage, rent, utilities, grocerie... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Coffee, tea, red bull, alcohol, soda |
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Posted: Yesterday, 12:44 pm
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| Currently just one non-decaffeinated cup of green tea in the morning, then about 8 cups of decaffeinated green tea during the rest of the day, with one jasmine pearl added to improve the flavour. Zero alcohol, and that's unlikely to change over Xmas. Zero "soda" (I presume that means fizzy... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Why Do Some People Choose to Be Sarcastaballs? |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2024, 10:32 am
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Replies: 13
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Fnord wrote: Why do some people seem deserving of sarcasm?
When people ask me stupid questions or make stupid claims, it is my moral obligation to give them sarcastic answers.
You know you don't mean it.  |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Is I.T. life without " The Cloud " possible ? |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2024, 10:27 am
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Replies: 6
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| Unfortunately, the tech industry has decided that the cloud is the way forward and they're going to push everyone to use it as much as possible. Currently it's mainly files but increasingly processing will be done on remote servers, applications will be 'served', not running on your own computer. T... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What did you achieve today? |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2024, 10:05 am
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Replies: 4,962
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| Discovered a good workaround for the broken "Show windows side by side" feature in Windows 10. I'll wager there are very few people on this planet who know how it's done. I haven't seen the fix anywhere on the Web. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Is I.T. life without " The Cloud " possible ? |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2024, 12:42 pm
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Replies: 6
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| It does offer the advantage of being able to access your stuff from anywhere you are, as long as you've got an internet connection and the service providers don't let you down. Me, I've only bothered using the cloud to familiarise myself with how to use it, never for anything serious or private in a... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Technology of the 1980s/90s/2000s (Decade), How I Love Thee |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2024, 12:24 pm
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| Upgraded technology does often have a downside, and then there's the price of upgrading, so the old stuff can feel a lot better in many ways. I still use a Windows XP desktop computer for recording music. It's the only thing that I can plug my old sound cards into (no PCI slots on new computers) and... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What song are you listening to now? |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2024, 12:16 pm
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Se Perdo Anche Te (Solitary Man):
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Why Do Some People Choose to Be Sarcastaballs? |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2024, 12:10 pm
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| I presume by sarcasm you mean irony - the opposite of what is meant - directed at people in order to annoy them. I suppose it's always better to just say it straight, especially as an alternative to using irony on other people. If somebody has a criticism to give me, it doesn't help their case if th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are you, 'you'? |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2024, 10:54 am
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Replies: 7
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| I'm wary of the term "masking" because I've seen it applied to behaviour that isn't particularly trying to conceal or deceive. I think all human beings present themselves to some extent. If I know that nobody is going to be anywhere near me for a long time, I might let my dress standards s... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What makes autistics happy and living good lives? |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2024, 10:32 am
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Replies: 28
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| I'm not sure there's a lot of difference between what makes autistics happy and what makes neurotypicals happy. Certainly I don't see anything unusual in what I would like. These aren't in order of priority: 1. Financial security, though it's hard to set a particular figure on it, because life is un... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Goals |
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Posted: 10 Dec 2024, 1:28 pm
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Replies: 22
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| I suppose financial security would be a good goal for me, if it were achievable. There was a time when I had a lot of savings and felt pretty much secure, but due to circumstances beyond my control that's been spent down to a fraction of what it was. And as a house owner, I never know when the place... |
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