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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk |
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Posted: Yesterday, 8:27 pm
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| Yes. Even Hitler wasnt "as bad as Hitler" until nine years after he took power in 1933. It wasnt until 1942 that Hitler actually sat down with the board of directors and planned the logistics of the Holocaust. On the other hand folks do go into hyperbole. A certain member of WP active year... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Neanderthal DNA has been implicated in autism |
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Posted: Yesterday, 4:08 pm
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| There is no single cause; it's insanely complicated and often multifactorial. But this is a subset of susceptibility factors that are playing a role in a wide range of folks' autism, which we happened to have inherited from hybridization from Neanderthals. Can you explain why some Aboriginals, Asia... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: If It's Weird, Post It |
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Posted: Yesterday, 3:26 pm
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The above track credited to "the Cramps" was actually collected by the members of the Cramps onto a compilation album by their fav predecessors.
The actual performers were the Sixties band "the Ventures".
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: A planet that moved at more than 99% the speed of light. |
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Posted: Yesterday, 2:33 pm
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| If it moved that fast it wouldnt stay in orbit. And would go flying off into interstellar space because that would be more than "escape velocity" from the gravity of any star. Maybe you could orbit VERY CLOSE to a black hole at that speed and stay in orbit. But you would be torn apart by t... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: 16 accuse David Copperfield Of Sexual Misconduct |
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Posted: Yesterday, 2:21 pm
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Fagen, the Artful Dodger, and Bill Sykes, I would believe.
But surely not David Copperfield.  |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Sodas come in bottles measured in liters. |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:25 pm
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| But even back in the day madison ave measured cigarettes in metric. Regular non filter Lucky Strikes and Camels were 70 MM. King Sized cigarettes were 85 mm. Then in the late Sixties Benson and Hedges introduced the 100 mm cigarette. https://youtu.be/YVsDeNN1MaE https://youtu.be/YVsDeNN1MaE Then a c... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Sodas come in bottles measured in liters. |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:16 pm
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| That is curious. The U.S. always had money that was ...essentially...metric in concept since we broke from Britain and their cumbersome system of money. But then Britain switched from Imperial to metric in everything else like over night. And we still use their imperial system. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Neanderthal DNA has been implicated in autism |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:11 am
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| Not impossible. But hard to prove. Or to disprove. Autism is probably mostly genetic. But its not like hemophelia, or sickle cell anemia. A descrete simple condition caused by one, or a few, genes, that can be easily tracked back to ancestors. Sickle cell, for example, is easily traceable to having ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Sarajevo - The Ideal Yugoslav Capital that never was |
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Posted: Yesterday, 8:06 am
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| The biggest issue IMHO is that in that region up until recently they were only diagnosing those with severe Autism, in Croatia only in the last 10 years is it possible to get a diagnosis of high-functioning autism. There are centres for Autism, but they are for those what they call these days level ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Neanderthal DNA has been implicated in autism |
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Posted: Yesterday, 8:02 am
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| Who, or what, is "rdos"? Ive actually run across that word before in connection with anthropology. the Swedish dude: https://www.rdos.net/eng/ Yes. An independent researcher. Non scientist. Though he seems well informed. That red haired Neanderthal picture made quite a splash on WP some y... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: 16 accuse David Copperfield Of Sexual Misconduct |
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Posted: Yesterday, 7:41 am
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| You may be an intellectual if: • Someone mentions the name "David Copperfield" and all you can think of is the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. ;) It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?!?! The joke used to be "if you heard the 'William Tell Overture' by Rossini ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Sarajevo - The Ideal Yugoslav Capital that never was |
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Posted: Yesterday, 7:28 am
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| Most Americans rarely think about cities of former Yugoslavia. So ..in this US dominated site you probably wont find anyone who either ...strongly agrees, nor anyone who strongly disagrees with you...about the primacy of any particular city there. And here we come to the root cause. The American-do... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Pod of killer whales attacks... |
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Posted: 17 May 2024, 11:24 pm
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| Eventually someone's going to respond with deadly force to the whales attacking their vessel and I won't blame them at all. I don't think that would be wise. It don't think it's wise for the whales, but the wisest course of action isn't always the one that occurs. The moment they either hurt someon... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Neanderthal DNA has been implicated in autism |
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Posted: 17 May 2024, 11:22 pm
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Who, or what, is "rdos"?
Ive actually run across that word before in connection with anthropology. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Sarajevo - The Ideal Yugoslav Capital that never was |
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Posted: 17 May 2024, 7:51 pm
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| Most Americans rarely think about cities of former Yugoslavia. So ..in this US dominated site you probably wont find anyone who either ...strongly agrees, nor anyone who strongly disagrees with you...about the primacy of any particular city there. How did that saying go? "Yugoslavia has five r... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk |
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Posted: 17 May 2024, 4:39 pm
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Replies: 34
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Musk is 'free' to do what he wants. And allow Neo Nazis to use his site as a sounding board.
And we have free speech to gripe about it. And the free speech to stigmatize anyone using his site as being a Neo Nazi. And to stigmatize Musk himself as such. |
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