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Recent content by Shevek

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    De-extinction

    We don't leave room for hundreds of still living species - I'd rather put that budget into saving their homes. Also, regarding mammoths in particular, it may be a situation like Horses vs Zebras. They look similar, but the Zebra can't be domesticated. Mammoths look like elephants, but they...
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    Adjustable Metal Watchbands- Are they the way to go?

    In that ad, I see an infinitely adjustable but not stretchy band. Long ago, I had "expansion bracelets" - all metal bands with springs in each section and hinged links between them to let it stretch to go on and off. I used to remove some links for my small wrist, which was surprisingly easy...
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    Can you please tell me fun facts about spiders?

    Tiny spiders travel long distances hoping for good hunting by "ballooning." They just extrude one fine filament, and due to the static electricity that builds up in the atmosphere, they can then float to great altitudes and move with the wind. I have also read that the most primitive spider...
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    The last thing that made you laugh

    One night I wanted to use an ATM, so I locked my bicycle to the nearest pole. As I was doing so, another guy just leaned his bike on the glassed-in bank vestibule, and got in ahead of me. I waited until he had stopped pushing buttons and then asked "If somebody grabbed your bike right now...
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    Is this place really safe for me to write?

    There was one thread on here started specifically for open-minded opinions. It still had dogma poised to attack. We should also assume that our conversations are being used to refine the profiles used by commerce and government to control us.
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    Do you agree that Technology is going too far?

    People don't have any general agreement about our own programming and consequent vulnerabilities to untrue statements, Nor do we have any solid evidence of how consciousness enters and leaves our bodies. This leaves us prone to having many opinions about what AI is, all of them wrong. Our...
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    Do our pets relate to humans on the Autism Spectrum differently than NTs?

    Maybe pets discover ways to play with us that other humans don't. It may help that they don't judge our proficiency. I'm reminded of the only dog I knew who didn't play. He was a retired service dog. He had no idea why he'd been replaced while still doing fine, and had had all his puppy...
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    Do our pets relate to humans on the Autism Spectrum differently than NTs?

    Dogs are drawn to me, and I understand their body language. If a friend's dog just looks at me and then quickly sniffs toward the door, I know it wants to go for a walk. I think they really appreciate that I don't ask them repeatedly if they want a walk, eliciting ever larger jumps. They...
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    Just joined

    I made some candles, and accidentally made an interesting one. I had a bit of leftover wax, so I made a ball by hand with soft wax and then gave it an apple shape and poked a wick in. Then I dipped it in some apple-green wax I had going a few times. However, my leftover wax was slightly red...
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    Do you believe there's extraterrestrial life out there?

    The descriptions of UFOs never suggest that they use chemical rockets like ours. They seem able to ignore both momentum and gravity. Our stuff must look incredibly primitive. We have gone from the Victrola to ear buds in just a few generations. I'm sure that there is a long way to go in...
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    Do you believe there's extraterrestrial life out there?

    Our communications are low-wattage, but those nuclear tests made huge, distinct spikes. "Clever but not smart beings here!!"
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    Do you believe there's extraterrestrial life out there?

    "Firmament: The expanse of the heavens." Is there a clear distinction between heavens and space? Is "above" not a direction?
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    Share good puns and jokes.

    A Texan was driving an Easterner across a place where they have "miles and miles of nothin' but miles and miles." Suddenly, a bird flashed out of the ditch, just missing them. Startled, the passenger exclaimed "What was that?" "Bird of Paradise" came the laconic reply. "Long way from home...
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    List just one thing you did today

    I had a back-up camera left over from a project that didn't get finished, and today I got it working as originally intended, updating my old car. I had to rush to get it done on a milder winter day. As usual, it has taken several times longer than expected, but it looks well integrated.
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    Hello, a mom of a son with Asperger's

    "The essence of modern management is to make individual strengths productive, and individual weaknesses irrelevant." - Peter Drucker I really wish that there was more effort devoted to introducing complimentary partners to aspies rather than trying to make us emulate NTs. We'd never have...
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