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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: All's Fair In Love And War |
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Replies: 6
Views: 166
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| Well, I was using the term loosely, which is probably the only way it can be used. I mean the kind of chap who out of principle would be loathe to nobble the competition, seek undeserved brownie points by hiding his shortcomings and exaggerating his strengths, or use other dirty tricks to improve hi... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: First full genome sequenced from Old Kingdom Egyptian |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:46 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 260
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| It's amazing what they can do these days. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Tandy (radio shack), Maplin |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:23 pm
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| I kind of liked Tandy but I agree about the quality problem - the hi-fi items always seemed to have one thing in the spec that wasn't up to scratch, and a lot of their stuff seemed overpriced. And the marketing was a bit over the top. But it was the first place I knew of where you could get a "... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: All's Fair In Love And War |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:36 am
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Replies: 6
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| What I don't understand is why the perfect gentlemen didn't go extinct a long time ago. Is there something else going on to balance it out, or are the perfect gentlemen all faking it? |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's on your mind right now? |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:10 am
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Replies: 48,735
Views: 1,590,371
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| Well I suppose the gods are more dominant than humans, though nobody's ever managed to catch one in a box, so they're a bit like Bigfoot. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Fired “Master Chef” blames autism - inappropriate behavior |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 10 Jul 2025, 10:06 pm
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Replies: 2
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| https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24lxl85wyo The problem seems to be that whether you call it explaining, excusing, or blaming his behaviour on autism, he does seem to have linked it with autism, and he does seem to be trying to use his autism as a defence against accusations of sexual harassmen... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Does Shakespeare annoy the wits out of you? |
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Posted: 10 Jul 2025, 6:00 pm
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Replies: 31
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| He used to do when I was force-fed him at school. I was about 14 or 15 years old and the language made no sense to me at all, and I was struggling to follow the plots of almost anything that had more than 2 or 3 characters. I felt quite relieved when the English teacher happened to say that the scen... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's on your mind right now? |
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Posted: 10 Jul 2025, 4:49 pm
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| I wonder what the first person ever to hear a fart thought Here are my speculations on that awesome question: Animals don't find farting at all funny or offensive as far as I know, and I'm pretty sure it's a fairly modern thing to react to it - some uptight people decided it was rude so that made i... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Free drinks at the Gas Station? |
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Posted: 10 Jul 2025, 4:15 pm
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Replies: 7
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| The toilet's still free. And most of the gas stations used to have free hot water so you could have a free pee and a free tea on your travels as long as you remembered to take a tea bag and some milk, but those hot water spouts aren't as common as they used to be. I suppose it's all done in the hope... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Study: ChatGPT is Bad for Your Brain |
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Posted: 10 Jul 2025, 1:57 pm
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Replies: 37
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| I might be unusual, but I've always found AI stimulates my brain rather than rotting it. I suppose it could have bad effects on somebody who just copied and pasted its output and passed it off as an original essay or whatever, without bothering to think about what it meant. But in my case I wouldn't... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Have any of yall ever lived or been to a dry place??? |
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Posted: 10 Jul 2025, 11:33 am
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Replies: 21
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| Oh I thought you meant physically dry, like low humidity and not much rain. I don't think I can change my vote now :-( I don't think Arkansas is "dry," but I've heard of such things nearby. Doesn't bother me because I don't drink much alcohol. I think it's nice in a way because according t... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: All's Fair In Love And War |
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Posted: 10 Jul 2025, 11:26 am
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Replies: 6
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| I think it means that when it comes to war and the mating game, people tend to play dirty tricks, probably because it's usually so important to win. It's pretty obvious that war is going to be a dirty game because it involves mass murder and blasting people's stuff to smithereens. I think they just ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Which imagined world would you like to live in? |
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Posted: 10 Jul 2025, 11:09 am
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Replies: 204
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| I think I'd like to try being a Gaul in that place Asterix used to live in. It was great - a tiny place in France holding out very successfully against the Romans by being stronger and way smarter than they were. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Thinking before acting |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 10 Jul 2025, 11:03 am
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Replies: 6
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| And you've got the bruises to prove it. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's on your mind right now? |
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Posted: 10 Jul 2025, 10:52 am
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Visiting USA |
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Posted: 10 Jul 2025, 9:20 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 517
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| Well I've never heard of "snob" having that kind of definition in the UK, and I've spent long enough there. My guess is that he just got the wrong word. There's a lot of it about. I suppose his real meaning was simply that he likes the USA more than you do and he wanted to get back at you ... |
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