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    Do you agree that Technology is going too far?

    An AI assistant on your 'phone? Tech is too far. It is an energy-gobbling monster being offered as a loss leader in hopes of making you dependent. It is also inhumanly treacherous. There are a lot of human executive assistants who effectively control their bosses by filtering their access...
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    What kind of music did your grandparents listen to?

    I don't know what they listened to, but when I showed my grandmother what I thought was a novel dance move around 1960, she immediately performed it herself. I presume she had been dancing to 20s jazz. Her son would not allow conversation when Ella Fitzgerald was on the TV.
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    What Really Makes a Genius?

    I estimate roughly that a list of geniuses compiled by average people would include 50% non-genius folk with one or two rare talents, and exclude 90% of geniuses because they don't happen to also have social skills. One brain can only do so much.
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    Ways Humans Can Help Other Animals

    Bats don't want to get tangled in your hair, but in a small room, they have to turn and then dive to regain flying speed, which takes them across the middle of the room where people are typically moving erratically. They also have lovely fur if you stroke their heads. If you ask an old program...
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    Post something Weird or Random

    Regarding his Board of Directors, Frederick Lanchester remarked "They seem to change their minds quite a lot, but then, if I had a mind like any of theirs, I'd change it as quick as I could."
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    Famous Sayings That Changed Your Life

    "Do what you love. The money will follow." - turned out to only apply to a very select group of things people love. I did some canny pre-selection on which path to follow, but still had too much faith.
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    Famous Sayings That Changed Your Life

    "Use it up, wear it out. Make it do, or do without." - Saved me a lot of money. However, the real grandaddy was just "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Before I heard that, I'd been getting in a lot of trouble I had not been warned about. After hearing and applying it, the...
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    Are you understood?

    That's an interesting expansion. I would argue that for a "born liberal" George Washington having false teeth from slaves is harder to accept than for a conservative. For people who see life as primarily survival of the fittest, seeing others who are worse off is confirmation of their...
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    Are you understood?

    I think that Ma Nature always wants to have some optimistic, cooperative people around to expand the community in good times, and some greedy, xenophobic people around to survive in times of trouble, still carrying the genes for both modes. At conception, the genetic lottery sets not only our...
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    Are you understood?

    Perhaps the most disturbing factor here for me is the futility of expecting people who consider themselves rational to respond to logic.
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    Deleted Scenes you wish had been kept in movies/shows

    Lord of the Rings left out the whole story of Sharkey back in the Shire. Lacking magic, it was of more practical value to young readers.
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    Vintage buses

    I was very disappointed at seeing a modern bus in "The Buddy Holly Story," not because I wanted to see an old one for its own sake, but just the glaring period error. The original VW bus was designed on a napkin by a VW dealer in Belgium. As far as I know, my mother was the only person who...
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    Are you understood?

    Hmm. Now that I think of it, I do feel one brief, isolated point of connection when I get a laugh.
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    Are you understood?

    Online or off.
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    Are you understood?

    How many people do you think understand you? How about your work? Maybe just one special interest, but no other areas, or other limited understanding. If anyone "gets you," are they relatives, friends, teachers, co-workers or? Do you get to brainstorm on your interests with others? I'll...
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