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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Quiet Reflections on a Growing Polyamorous Community |
| cyberdora |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 6:57 am
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| Like a lot of things, there's a spectrum from largely informal groupings to ones where it's formally required to have a specific ratio like they had with the FLDS and outright kicking out boys to maintain the 1 to 3 ratio they needed. People are going to be judgy, but the more formal it is, the mor... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Quiet Reflections on a Growing Polyamorous Community |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 6:54 am
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| I think the most natural situation for people is probably something along the lines of serial monogamy, I seem to remember that often times humans get together long enough to raise children long enough for the children to have some ability to participate in society. Beyond that, couples often times... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: First full genome sequenced from Old Kingdom Egyptian |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2025, 11:24 pm
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| Scientists have sequenced the oldest and most complete genome from ancient Egypt — and the DNA reveals that a man who lived 5,000 years ago had roots in both Mesopotamia and North Africa, a new study finds. https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/oldest-and-most-complete-ancient-eg... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Study: ChatGPT is Bad for Your Brain |
| cyberdora |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2025, 10:44 pm
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Replies: 31
Views: 899
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| too premature to come to this conclusion. Chatgpt is just an advanced form of google search. People still need to read and verify sources. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have you been shut out of group work (at seminars etc.)? |
| cyberdora |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2025, 8:23 pm
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Replies: 42
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| ^^^ Yeah I did something like that, confided with two co-workers about management decisions then plucked up the courage to confront management thinking they had my back. But after making my case, my so called "allies" changed their minds keeping quiet and said nothing. I looked like a fool... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Have you been shut out of group work (at seminars etc.)? |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2025, 7:51 pm
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Replies: 42
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| I worked in IT and instead of getting fired the group SIM swapped my phone number and compromised all of my emails and social media. Certainly a timely reminder to not make comments (in general, not you specifically) about management or co-workers on teams or google spaces. Alas I have years of suc... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: White Supremacist paper wins award at University of Florida |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2025, 7:37 pm
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Replies: 13
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| On investigation, it does appear the "Levin" College of Law at the UoF might have escaped further scrutiny in burying this incident. Under new Florida laws, underwritten by DeSantis and trump. Senate Bill 266, Florida's state universities are prohibited from using state or federal funds fo... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: America’s birthday in the era of Trump 2.0 |
| cyberdora |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 6:48 pm
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Replies: 6
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| In Australia we have a similar celebration called "Australia Day" on Jan 26 which celebrates three things 1. Founding of Australia 2. our independence from Britain 3. Birth of a nation For most Aussies its a time for patriotism, waving Aussie flags at parades, Barbeques and fireworks. But ... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Quiet Reflections on a Growing Polyamorous Community |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 6:27 pm
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Replies: 25
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| Perhaps, but polyamory has some pretty significant issues related to personal choice. It completely breaks the guarantee that there be enough potential partners out there for everybody. It can sort of work in specific situations, but even a slight disturbance in the number of available men and wome... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: An Interstellar Object Like Oumuamua Enters Our Solar System |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 6:45 am
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Replies: 5
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Sweetleaf wrote: my boyfriend said he thinks it looks like a poop. So, I told him that I hope it's not a poop because that would mean there would have to be some kind of space creature out there big enough to make such a poop like a planet eater or something scary.
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: An Interstellar Object Like Oumuamua Enters Our Solar System |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 6:44 am
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Replies: 5
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| It has similar odd dimensions to Oumuamua. we need to wait to see if it suddenly turns around and leaves the solar system like Oumuamua did. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Corporations and CEOs are too greedy |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 6:35 am
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Replies: 10
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| And the right wonders why more and more of the rest of us see the free market as just a colossal con, and that most of us are the suckers. People benefitting from the free market will naturally throw their support for keeping things the same. when trump claimed he was going to drain the swamp and r... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Corporations and CEOs are too greedy |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 6:30 am
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Replies: 10
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| ^^^ I have no issue with companies selling stocks, superannuation is largely property and shares. I am speaking about excessive wealth. Australia's richest woman, Gina Rinehart pays no tax and gives nothing back, she is notorious for not supporting charities or contributing back to Australia. Many o... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Quiet Reflections on a Growing Polyamorous Community |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 6:17 am
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Replies: 25
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I'm a boring monogamist
But each to their own... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: An Interstellar Object Like Oumuamua Enters Our Solar System |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 12:30 am
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Replies: 5
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Corporations and CEOs are too greedy |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2025, 11:19 pm
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Replies: 10
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| I think a lot of the shift was because of Milton Friedman and shareholder primacy in the 70's and 80's. Free market laissez-faire government has been around since the 19th century. Oil robber barons, mining magnates, big business cartels, automobile and banking tycoons greedily accumulated wealth a... |
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