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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Hurricane Helene |
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| Hospitals take steps to conserve IV fluid supply after Helene strikes critical factory Hospitals across the U.S. are taking steps to conserve their supplies of IV fluids after Hurricane Helene struck a critical manufacturing plant belonging to the country’s biggest supplier. Baxter International, a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Firefighters union won’t endorse a presidential candidate |
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| The decision is a blow to Democrats, since the International Association of Fire Fighters endorsed Biden in 2020. The International Association of Fire Fighters announced on Thursday that it would not be endorsing a candidate for president this year. The news is a particular blow to Vice President ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Autistic could be first executed for “shaken baby syndrome” |
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| Texas man could be first to be executed in case of 'shaken baby' death A condemned man in Texas is set to die this month in what would be the country's first execution for "shaken baby syndrome," a scrutinized diagnosis that has been successfully challenged in some criminal cases. After h... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: 5 Memphis cops fired for death during traffic stop |
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| 3 ex-Memphis officers found guilty of witness tampering in Tyre Nichols' fatal beating Three former Memphis police officers were convicted Thursday of federal witness tampering charges related to the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols in 2023, according to NBC News affiliate WMC. Demetrius Haley, Justi... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Dockworkers Strike |
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| Dockworkers on East Coast and Gulf Coast to return to work after reaching agreement on wages Thousands of dockworkers on the East Coast and Gulf Coast will return to work after reaching a tentative agreement on wages, ending one of the biggest work stoppages in decades. In a joint statement, the Un... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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| Biden says holding ‘discussions’ on possible Israeli strike on Iran’s oil facilities US President Joe Biden on Thursday told reporters in Washington that the idea of Israel striking Iran’s oil in retaliation for Tuesday’s ballistic missile attack was “in discussion,” as reports indicated that Israe... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: An inflection point for the anti zionist movement? |
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| I decided to avoid the long term in my OP and to keep it short term because of the immediacy of the first anniversary is on my mind but that doesn’t mean I intended that others should not discuss long term. I do have some general thoughts about long term that I have posted elsewhere. I am thinking o... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: The most unautistic music genres/scenes |
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| I did title the thread Genres/Scenes. From the 70s through 90s genres of music were closely associated with certain types of people and scenes. In 2024 all of that is irrelevant, people like the old stuff purely for the music That is something I have become aware of in the 13 years since I created t... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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| Israeli air force strikes Hezbollah Intelligence Headquarters in Beirut Israel Air Force aircraft targeted Hezbollah's Intelligence Headquarters in Beirut, the IDF reported on Thursday, following reports of large explosions in the Lebanese capital. The IDF reported that IAF fighter jets, guided by ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mideast War blowback |
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| Germany arrests teen suspected of planning terror attack on Jews during school trip to Holland The Düsseldorf Public Prosecutor's Office arrested a 15-year-old Turkish-German teenager for allegedly planning Islamist-style attacks against European Jewry, Spiegel reported on Thursday. The police repo... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Conflating the LBGQT rights movement, ND movement mistake? |
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carlos55 wrote: That was quick 
Finally figuring out after 11 years that this topic deserves its own thread, not quick 
I am always editing my replies after I post them. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Conflating the LBGQT rights movement, ND movement mistake? |
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| Of course, LBGTQ is not the same as Autism. Cancer is not the same as autism, Other non physical disabilities are not the same as Autism etc. IMHO opinion there are enough similarities to be relevant. Different as we may be LBGTQ people were viewed at the time of Stonewall as mentally ill and charac... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Conflating the LBGQT rights movement, ND movement mistake? |
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| OP's Note: This was taken from another thread. While this topic has been often brought up I don't recall having its own thread which to me it obviously deserves The logic of mixing up LGBT progression & autism is always a flawed one Being gay was never a disability, who you wish to have sex wit... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Men and Masking |
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| -Are you diagnosed / self-diagnosed, and at what age? Diagnosed at age 55 - Did you have difficulty finding a diagnostician as an adult? I am lucky. One was found for me. It was a soft intervention. My sister is a speech pathologist who works with Autistic kids and saw traits in her older brother. S... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: An inflection point for the anti zionist movement? |
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funeralxempire wrote: I would expect that the fairweather AZ folks will move on once the situation dies down, but probably not before that.
This begs the question of how many of the anti-zionist protesters are fair-weather friends. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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| Enough of them think a whole lot of people want to wipe Jews out. This way of thinking goes that even America the friendliest place towards Jews in history will turn on the Jews just like Germany where Jews were also assimilated. The pro-Palestinian demonstration validates this in their minds. Any ... |
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