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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Talking about your day |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: 24 Mar 2023, 12:00 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 93
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| I have always struggled to understand the tendency for NT's and most of us on the spectrum to chat about one's day. When people ask me how my day was or what I did today, my kneejerk response is "I don't care". I am good with "getting" social conventions in general, so I know tha... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why is Biden moving to the Political center? |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2023, 7:50 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 153
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| The overwhelming majority of democrats are center-left at best on economics and as far left as is convenient on social issues. Biden is and always has been a fairly mainstream centrist capitalist. He has shifted slowly left on social issues over the decades as it became politically convenient. As fa... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Florida Governer to expand don’t say gay to ALL grades??? |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2023, 6:16 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 239
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| This will definitely see legal challenges if it passes. And pushback from....just about anyone who isn't a republican. What do they expect queer teachers to do? Pretend to be straight? Never talk about their spouses if they are married? For some reason, I'm guessing this bill doesn't forbid discussi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is Hollywood Actually Woke? |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: 09 Mar 2023, 7:11 pm
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Replies: 105
Views: 2,407
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| No actually it originally meant "Alert to and concerned about social injustice and discrimination." until it got corrupted and misapplied to the point of losing its real meaning. Yes. A problem I've noticed with any discussion of what "woke" is, is that the term has become a par... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is Hollywood Actually Woke? |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2023, 9:56 pm
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Replies: 105
Views: 2,407
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| Hollywood occasionally puts on a veneer of woke-ness to seem progressive to limousine liberals and other liberals who gravitate towards superficial, feel-good conceptions of egalitarianism. they also seem more progressive than they actually are, since even surface-level lip service to progressivism ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Hate being alone but hate being around people more |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: 03 Mar 2023, 10:00 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 317
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| On top of all this. I have learned that since our parting ways he has continued to vilify me and my family online. Which puts me in a constant state of seething blood rage. But I have no outlet for that. As much as part of me wants vengeance, I realize that that would just set off a cycle of recrimi... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Hate being alone but hate being around people more |
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Posted: 03 Mar 2023, 7:49 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 317
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| Maybe try to find online friends? I didn't see my offline friends for 13 years, but I've had online friends in that time. Online friends are significantly less stressful (until they want to meet lol). Too much disconnect from online friends. I also tire of primarily dealing with friends via the int... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Hate being alone but hate being around people more |
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Posted: 03 Mar 2023, 7:18 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 317
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| I lost all my friends a few months ago What kinds of friends were these? Were they isolated friendships or were they all part of the same friend group? Did you typically hang out with them one at a time, or all together? Also, were they people whom you interacted with as part of your normal life (e... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Hate being alone but hate being around people more |
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Posted: 03 Mar 2023, 6:19 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 317
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| I am happy being a virtual hermit in real life, but I am not a spring chicken. Being free from interacting with ppl is such a relief, and for me, so much better than social intercourse in the real world. But I think you are a much younger person. Have you considered online gaming? Some socialising ... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: Hate being alone but hate being around people more |
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Posted: 28 Feb 2023, 4:09 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 317
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| I lost all my friends a few months ago and I'm living alone for the first time. So I find myself sitting alone all the time. I don't go out much besides for work. Part of me enjoys being alone for a change. Part of me desperately wants to find new people to hang out with. But then I remember what it... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: Games |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2023, 6:54 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 657
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| Some games are worse than others in terms of manipulating players to spend money. Some are built around it, others aren't. Most games are somewhere in between. It's hard to know what to recommend without knowing your gaming preferences. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Thoughts about if Harris became the next US president |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2023, 5:12 pm
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Replies: 17
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| Harris as an American Cleopatra? Finally, I will see the realization of my Xi Jinping × Kamala Harris × Kim Jong Un love triangle! Honestly Harris would be a deeply ineffective and unpopular president. The right is going to hate her almost no matter what she does, and she won't be much more popular ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Peter Thiel blasts "Greta and the autistic children crusade" |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: 19 Jan 2023, 8:32 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 521
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| "Humanities are flaky and pointless! Unless they are pro-capitalism, then they are indispensable! STEM are the only worthwhile subjects! Except climatology! Which was politicized to persecute those helpless oil companies!" This from the same crowd that usually goes on ad nauseum that class... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: David Crosby dies at age 81 |
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Posted: 19 Jan 2023, 8:12 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 471
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It feels like every time I turn around we've lost another rock icon. It was just a few years ago I saw Graham Nash in concert. Wonder how much longer he has.
RIP |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do people honestly hate capitalism so much now? |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2023, 6:02 pm
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Replies: 247
Views: 6,683
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| Ironically it's the hipsters and trendies who complain about capitalism while enjoying the fruits of sweatshops. I never much understood this fixation on this tiny segment of self-described socialists. Why fixate on people who are only into socialism because it is trendy? It's low-hanging fruit. Wh... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Classic rock guitar virtuoso Jeff Beck dies at 78 |
| roronoa79 |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2023, 4:55 pm
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Replies: 1
Views: 504
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Another rock legend passes
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