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Recent content by Spinning Compass

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    Desperately need help and advice on this man

    All right. This is starting to get into the area of sexual harassment. I think you might have a case here depending on your company's culture and how you present your story. If I understand you correctly, he was the one who pursued you despite your resistance and eventually you "gave in."...
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    Desperately need help and advice on this man

    Sounds like classic "gaslighting". This guy is dangerous, do not underestimate him. Thank God my situation was not like that. And it has been resolved. I agree with you about the psychologist. Don't try to figure out his head any more. What you most likely need is a lawyer. But before...
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    To My Readers

    I want to let everyone know that I have no hard feelings over the censorship incident that happened last month with my blog. But I think in a way it was a good thing, because it has freed me up to work on a project that is really important to me. Those of you who have been following me know...
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    On Political Correctness, Censorship and Free Speech

    A while back at church I was asked to write a short article for the newsletter about the anti-racism discussion group I had participated in. The other members had all had their turn and now it was mine. So I wrote what was in my heart, even though I knew that some of the things I had to say...
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    Where I am Coming From

    A while back someone told me that I did not know anything about GLBT issues because I said that the transgender phenomena, like vegetarianism and other diets, was a sign of of an affluent society; that people who are really poor do not have the luxury of focusing on being picky about food or...
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    Announcing your secret to the world

    Telling your secret to the world? One word: Don't. I understand what it is like to carry a burden and how it is hard, even unfair, to have to hide part of oneself. But, once your secret's out of the closet, it's impossible to put back in. There is a very real risk in revealing your status...
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    Two Perspectives on The Workforce

    My feelings towards SSI and/or disability are colored by seeing how my neighbors who live SSI/disability struggle to make ends meet. I do not recommend it unless there is NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE. Once you get into the SSI/disability/welfare system, you will find that your choices in life will...
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    Another Insidious Form of Legal Discrimination

    In my last blog I talked about how the protests over Ferguson and other instances of police brutality may actually be working against poor communities of color by discouraging investment in or near those communities. I talked about how one large historically African-American inner-city...
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    The Legal Discrimination No One Talks About

    We've been hearing a lot about police brutality lately in the wake of what has happened in Ferguson and other places. While I agree that police brutality is an issue that needs to be addressed, and some communities have been addressing it long before Ferguson, there is another issue that is not...
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    Internet relationships- tips for young players

    Here's another internet safety tip that I see violated all the time: forwarding emails with all the previous addresses intact. That is like giving out the keys to everyone's house on the list. Don't do it. If you must forward on something that has been forwarded to you, remove all previous...
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    Finding / seeing faces in things?

    I do too, I see a lot of faces in things other people wouldn't, but I've learned to keep that to myself.
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    Comment by 'Spinning Compass' in 'Apparently I'm in Limbo: Not Normal but Not Anything Else, Either'

    Thank you, too. I didn't realize that about Nurse Practitioners. That's a relatively new field. Apparently they are also legitimately called Doctor as well--at least mine is.
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    Court

    This morning I went to court with my neighbors to see what it was like and to pass out information to my fellow tenants who had been served with past due/eviction notices over the weekend. It was a very interesting experience and I learned some valuable information. One is, make sure you have...
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    ????? Am I Correctly Aiming For Girls In My Own League ????? --Assuming leagues exist--

    It is a big problem, women's trust being betrayed, and I just don't understand why guys let other guys get away with it. Maybe that is what it is going to take, guys like you speaking out against other guys' bad behavior and saying, hey, you are ruining it for the rest of us. But men--and...
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    Comment by 'Spinning Compass' in 'The Chinese Room Experiment'

    I suspect the Turing Test is more a measure of how easily people can be fooled rather than an indicator of true artificial intelligence. I have to admit some of the computers answering phones are pretty good, but I can still tell when I am talking to a machine and when I am talking to a human.
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