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Looking at the recent murder of an Insurance CEO and the attempts on Trump, it seems that anti-right wing, anti-Trump, anti-conservative young white males know how to buy a gun and pull a trigger. Christian Nationals and Corporate/MAGA officials live in a physically more dangerous world now. Perhaps the proposed “draining of the swamp” cuts to…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
@jakelafort – I’ve been asked it a few times as well. I just don’t fit the picture. My nephew is as autistic as it’s possible to be, apparently. He’s a nice young man. There was a scandal about language boards a few years ago, my nephew faced a lot of cognitive dissonance from professionals who insisted he was an imbecile.

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@jakelafort – I’ve been asked it a few times as well.  I just don’t fit the picture.

My nephew is as autistic as it’s possible to be, apparently.  He’s a nice young man.  There was a scandal about language boards a few years ago, my nephew faced a lot of cognitive dissonance from professionals who insisted he was an imbecile.  This article is shi…[Read more]

Simon, i’ve been asked if i have autism. Other than sensitivity to noises and weirdness with language including speaking backwards i don’t think so. My theory of mind and high empathy along with pig pig sooiee disorganized and untidy ways suggests no.

I had to look up language board. What is your nephew’s diagnosis?

jakelafort wrote:
Hope it wasn’t a Zebco. Fortunes are made on comparitively small investments. I had an uncle who was brilliant but not able to function. As a child he would always go to a brokerage after school. (He dropped out of school before 10th grade) Anyways he had a stock he loved and my dad begged his to buy it. But nobody in his f…

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heatherspoonheim wrote:
Come to think of it – that may apply to me.

I definitely have some autistic traits but I don’t feel I’m on the spectrum.  I don’t feel a shock of recognition when I hear what it is like for people.

I like things to be neat and orderly and I’ve been told (by a boss who didn’t like me) that I’ve got an organised mind.  I’m…[Read more]

Hope it wasn’t a Zebco.

Fortunes are made on comparitively small investments.

I had an uncle who was brilliant but not able to function. As a child he would always go to a brokerage after school. (He dropped out of school before 10th grade) Anyways he had a stock he loved and my dad begged his to buy it. But nobody in his family listened. It…[Read more]

No, but I bought a few shares 🙂 See graphs in article.

@Reg, that kid should buy you a whisky. I tipped a buddy about this new website called ebay.  I bought a fishing reel. He bought stock.

That is not how or why it was created. Returning to ancestral homeland was a no brainer political strategy to stop the endless persecution. Europe and the world did not give two shillings for welfare of Jews before, during, or after holocaust.

Britain like the rest of the Colonial powers in the wake of world wars was never gonna continue their…[Read more]

I was talking to a teenager 3 years ago after a park run. Just after Covid. I was 40 years older than him and I finished 40 seconds ahead of him. (No, I am NOT competitive!!). He said his disability forced him to be “a geek” and was obsessive with numbers. He said he had an unusual type of autism. I told him that it was not a disability that he…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Think how much the middle east has changed as a result of the invasion and religious rapture of Hamas two octobers past.

Think of how much the middle east has changed as the result of the creation of Israel by Euro-American external politicians 76 years ago.

Think how much the middle east has changed as a result of the invasion and religious rapture of Hamas two octobers past.

Iran and its so called axis of resistance is toast. Iran is militarily weakened and so are its proxies in Hamas and Hezbullshit. That enabled rebels to topple the Syrian dicator. In its wake a great big power vacuum.

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Come to think of it – that may apply to me.

It has been reported by Russian media that Assad and his family are now in Moscow, and have been granted asylum on humanitarian grounds.

Enjoy the weather Basher el Sad.

I was in jr high when CUMPULSORY prayer was taken out of school.
An alternative my school district tried was similar to the ‘released time’ Friendly Atheist talks about.
Once a week we were allowed 2 hours to WALK to a nearby church to learn about their dogma.
I remember visiting 2. I don’t remember what denominations.
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@heatherspoonheim – I think the most creative people are probably on or very close to what we normies call ‘the spectrum’. That’s a good thing.

I included the video of JP and Harris today to show how Harris uses plain English to make his points and JP, while he has an extensive vocabulary, never take a straight line to make his. If I was to describe him in his own terminology, he tergiversates and is the personification of an ultracrepidarian, roughly speaking.

Here is an interesting rev…[Read more]

Seems to me that all JP was saying is that for him, stating a belief in God is hypocritical unless he can actually fully walk the walk of what a truly dedicated belief would require, e.g. in some form of heretofore unattainable perfection. [and I have the impression he’s caught up in his ability to out-intellectualize even some of the most i…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Elon Musk calls for ACLU to be defunded.