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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Thoughts about if Harris became the next US president |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2023, 2:39 pm
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| Not a good comparison. Be aware that Cleopatra was herself a foreign ruler of Egypt, and not actually an "Egyptian Pharoah", nor even a real Egyptian. She was a Greek Egyptian. Egypt, along with the whole rest of the Middle East had been ruled by the Persian Empire for centuries (the actua... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: My tarot reading regarding those classified documents |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2023, 1:44 pm
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Replies: 2
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Biden equals "a domestic dog"
Trump equals "a wild wolf"
Pense equals "a crustacean crawling out from under a rock in the creek".
Sounds about right to me!  |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Awful Psychotherapy Acronyms |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2023, 1:30 pm
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| I did some Dialectical Behavious Therapy work last summer, to help with the depression and anger management problems I've been having. I thought the theory was brilliant at the time, but I've got nowhere with applying it. One problem is the acronyms / abreviations that are supposed to help you reme... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Connecticut Latino lawmakers propose banning 'Latinx’ |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2023, 1:11 pm
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Replies: 15
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| As quoted above: Only 2 percent of those polled refer to themselves as Latinx, while 68 percent call themselves “Hispanic” and 21 percent favored “Latino” or “Latina” to describe their ethnic background, according to the survey from Bendixen & Amandi International, a top Democratic firm special... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What is your overall political outlook? |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2023, 11:04 am
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Replies: 87
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| Funny there are no Libertarians here. They are very small in number, but usually dominate internet message boards. What is the difference between Libertarians and Liberals? I may have clicked the wrong one. Originally the term Liberalism ment what today in America call Libertarianism. In Europe we ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: you say theres no severity levels with autism but |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2023, 10:21 am
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Replies: 48
Views: 1,158
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| As applied to autistics the term is a rough sketch, and a piece of shorthand. But its better than nothing because the term became necessary in 1994 when they expanded the range of people who are classified as "autistic" to include folks (like me) who blend into society better than do clas... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Listen to these lyrics |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2023, 10:12 am
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Replies: 3
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Listen to these lyrics |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2023, 10:07 am
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Replies: 3
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Yeah...so?
It is kinda dumb. But Ive heard worse. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Connecticut Latino lawmakers propose banning 'Latinx’ |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2023, 2:47 am
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Replies: 15
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| Number one All European languages, except English, arbitrarily divide the universe up into 'masculine and feminine' with some also throwing in a "neuter" category. As Mark Twain observed "In German a young woman has no sex. But a turnip DOES have a sex." English abandoned gender... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Six-Year-Old Orders $1,000 Worth Of Food On Grubhub |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2023, 2:32 am
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| At least he didnt...shoot his teacher with a handgun. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: you say theres no severity levels with autism but |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2023, 6:45 pm
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Replies: 48
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| Many folks on WP actually DO cry about how "there are no severity levels of autism". So I assume that she is addressing those folks. Makes sense to me. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How do you think slavery arose? |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2023, 10:27 am
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Replies: 72
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| Yep…high infant mortality did skew the “life expectancy” statistics. Many people lived to at least their 60s even during medieval times. The one wild thing I remember hearing about medieval serfs is that they had strange deaths such as drowning in cricks and when historians looked into it further i... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: you say theres no severity levels with autism but |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2023, 9:48 am
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| The OP is right. There are levels of severity. The term "high functioning" was used by the psychiatric community long before they applied it to autism... to mean "a person with a serious condition, but who blends into society". The first time I heard the term it was applied to sc... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: you say theres no severity levels with autism but |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2023, 9:34 am
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Replies: 48
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| I'm really a quagmire....contradictory....I'm both "avoidant" and "blunt." A "quagmire" is like quicksand. Something you, and your horse, get stuck in. Vietnam, and Afghanistan, were both "quagmires" that the US got "stuck in". We get what you mean.... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: NASA Captures Image of a Bear's Face on Mars |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2023, 9:28 am
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Quantum duck wrote: That is not a bear. It is obviously a chick!
That could be a bear's muzzle.
Or it could the turned up shorten bill of a baby duck.
So its either Winnie the Pooh (but without ears), or its Hewy, Dewy, or Lewy (one of Donald's Ducks three kids). |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Measured 172cm |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2023, 9:17 am
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Replies: 15
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| I just did the math. The math translates 172 cm to "67 inches", or five foot seven. But I just googled metric conversions, and it translated 172 cm to "five foot seven and......23/32! Lol!" Seven and two thirds. So you are closer five foot eight according to the later, more preci... |
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