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Recent content by Shevek

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    What Do You Love About Winter?

    I like that the temperature fluctuations are greater in winter. After months of moving powder snow, some of which drifted in for a second clearing, today I'm moving snow by packing it into big snowballs to throw. 30 degree swings would amaze us in the summer. Also, sometimes the windows look...
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    What Do You Love About Winter?

    Actually, that's -40 C or F.
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    Ways Humans Can Help Other Animals

    Yeak, you, me, and Greta Thunberg. I've seen the world population triple, but I have not seen people adjust as if they had just acquired two roommates, to feed on the same little farm. I spent my life doing R&D for benign technology, but the investors prefer for people to remain wasteful and...
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    "Gandhi" was an epic film about an epic life. Quite a few scenes were based on elements of two or even three actual events, as well as condensing the action for brevity. So, that was not accurate. However, I thought it was quite true to the original for historical accuracy, while getting in...
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    List just one thing you did today

    Fabricated an aluminum bracket to mount a back-up camera to my car. How the heck people build whole cars by hand amazes me.
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    What a trip it's been. RIP Bob Weir

    Mickey Hart didn't keep a home, being on the road so much, so when the band took a break, he'd go to other countries to see what the drummers there did. Then one year he went to Africa, and when the customs agent typed up his papers, he did it with a syncopated beat. "I have come," thought...
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    What a trip it's been. RIP Bob Weir

    I always loved the lines "Sometimes the light's all shining on me, other times I can barely see." I thought it was about times when one is having a run of luck that could be a sign of divine cooperation, vs times when nothing seems to work. Actually, it was written about being on stage under...
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    AA sucks.

    I had a friend who got up on stage to help the singer. When her friends told her about it the next morning, she decided to go to AA. Then she decided that if drinking led to AA, she'd rather quit, and did. I should also point out that there are just as many people in Al-Anon as AA. They are...
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    Famous Sayings That Changed Your Life

    From my mother, I learned the first half only of "Wise men think alike, and fools seldom differ."
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    I think many NTs also struggle with social situations.

    In the textbooks, capitalism, socialism, and communism all work well at sharing things fairly. In the real world, all three systems wind up with a few greedy people beating the system. We evolved in a world where there was so little sugar, salt, fat, and wealth that it was safe to want as much...
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    Dentures, Implants, bridges, etc? Anyone?

    I'm resurrecting this thread because I have to decide between a bridge and a denture to re-fill my lower jaw with molars. They wouldn't make me a one-tooth denture, but the one remaining tooth is useless solo, and recently got an infected root. It seems risky as a foundation for a bridge, but...
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    I think many NTs also struggle with social situations.

    I don't think you have counted the effect of capitalist assassinations, wars and sabotage on the socialist economies that have dared to share oil wealth with ordinary citizens.
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    Debate: Christmas movies on Christmas?

    I try to avoid even hearing Christmas carols. The whole season just makes me sad.
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    Is there a point of me writing a book about my experience of living with Autism

    That is my favourite line in "The Life of Brian." The crowd chants "We're all individuals!" and the only individual says he is not, quickly getting shushed.
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    Post something Weird or Random

    Once, I was listening to the radio, and the DJs were doing the chant of the local football fans. As they did, a plastic bread wrapper on my counter slowly rose until half its length was in the air. A slug had gotten in, and the bag was just primed for action by its shape when the slug's weight...
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