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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Trump blows up a third Venezuelan boat |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2026, 11:39 am
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TheLivingDead13 wrote: gwynfryn wrote: (with far more evil consequences than even WW2)! Boy is that a stretch! 
I did answer this charge, but it seems to have been deleted. Not sufficiently politically correct? Does anyone here (outside the admin) give a stuff about political correctness? |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: A-Z of mathematical terms |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2026, 11:35 am
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Mean root square
Hmm, didn’t that use to be root mean square? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The empathy lie |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2026, 11:30 am
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Replies: 163
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| I once read a beautiful story about an autistic child with such remarkable empathy that he couldn't show or articulate but really went above and beyond to help his dying brother. Yes, it's fictional, but even so, it still feels plausible, that an autistic person can and do have empathy. Reading thi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The empathy lie |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2026, 11:24 am
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| ^ It depends on what your definition of empathy is. I don't have low empathy. In fact some autistics can have overwhelming empathy and be very sensitive people. I think the more creative types are more likely to have higher empathy. You say you have "low empathy" like it's a defining trai... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Thoughts about AI |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2026, 11:48 am
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| Smaller companies in the area,I live in, you cannot get through to a live human . Without interacting first through their AI overlord answering prompt system. And processing you and your request first . Was pizzed off enough about phone tree selections to get through to anybody human. In the past. ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Happy to be done with school |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2026, 11:36 am
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| It has been more than two years now since I graduated college. I am happy to have finished the school chapter of my life once and for all. I enjoyed school immensely until, for reasons never satisfactorily explained, I was held back to re do my final year in primary school. Up till then I’d been a ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The empathy lie |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2026, 11:24 am
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Replies: 163
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| Some would even argue that psychopaths have "more capacity for empathy" than autistics. Of course they do; they are practically ruled by their empathy, and the ambition it triggers. It pretty much defines them! Autistics, on the other hand, having low empathy, find the thinking or emotion... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Post something that made you UNHAPPY today. |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2026, 10:26 am
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| Choking on a vitamin C tablet. On my own, with no convenient projections to fall upon (a last ditch resort!) it would have been quite easy to panic, and it took some considerable discipline to breath in slowly (so as not to block the windpipe completely) so as to have enough air in my lunges to give... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: A-Z of mathematical terms |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2026, 10:09 am
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| Euclid’s fifth postulate, which I have no problem with; if those parallel lines meet before infinity, then they are no longer straight, right? |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Post a book you're reading |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2026, 10:03 am
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Replies: 4,957
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| “Little Brother”, a modern “1984” about a young hacker finding himself at odds with the all powerful (and abusive) Department of Homeland Security. It’s chock full of info on cryptology (albeit a decade behind the times; much of it is still relevant) and very well written; a real page turner. The se... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The WP Drinker's Club |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2026, 9:40 am
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Replies: 2,203
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| Would it be impossible to get a buzz on 1.75 percent beer Can you even get beer that weak You certainly can from the factory surplus shops around here, many of which have no alcohol at all (French law requires only that they translate the labels, even if they tell porkies). Same with liquor like th... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The WP Drinker's Club |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2026, 9:28 am
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| I have a benefit that I seem to prefer cheaper wines... For once, my taste is cheap :D Have had some slightly more expensive wines recommended by others but not for me. Champagne ends up as cooking liquor over here... really don't like it :lol: Contrary to what one may believe, the French are more ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The WP Drinker's Club |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2026, 9:09 am
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| I figured out how to get FedEx to deliver wine to my dry county. I mostly did it for a hoot since they claimed to ship anywhere. The first box of six various wines was a bargain for $ 44 but after that the price goes up to slightly over an $100s and I can’t really afford that.So I will cancel my wi... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The WP Drinker's Club |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2026, 9:01 am
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| Is 1 pint an hour with a 20 min wait between each beer a sensible pace? I suppose so, if you’ve nothing better to do for the next 4 hours or so? It depends on context, and what you propose would be perfectly reasonable for an evening down the pub, but drinking alone (which I never did when I was yo... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: A-Z of mathematical terms |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2026, 8:53 am
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| Curve of Brachistochrone? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The empathy lie |
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Posted: 26 Dec 2025, 11:42 am
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Replies: 163
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| Some would even argue that psychopaths have "more capacity for empathy" than autistics. Of course they do; they are practically ruled by their empathy, and the ambition it triggers. It pretty much defines them! Autistics, on the other hand, having low empathy, find the thinking or emotion... |
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