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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Tech's 'Little Havana' Thread |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2023, 2:46 pm
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Replies: 16
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How do you think slavery arose? |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2023, 1:27 pm
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Replies: 62
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| Back in the Seventies anthropologist Margaret Mead would say that "the average suburban American has 80 to a 100 'energy slaves' in their home". That is...the average middle class american - with our electrical appliances, and modern conveniences, has the equivalent of 80 human slaves work... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: General predicts China War, preps officers |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2023, 7:58 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 543
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| I dont know why he wasted breath talking about shooting a handgun to the head (since he is not an infantry commander, but a commander of pilots who fire missiles at other planes) unless he is speaking metaphorically ...like about taking out the enemy's command centers with airstrikes early in the ga... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why are other dictators judged less harshly than Hitler? |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 11:31 pm
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Replies: 34
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| Starting another "whose holocaust was the worst?" debate is inane and stupid. Hitler is not judged "more harshly", but about equally harshly as others. Stalin or Mao might have killed more people in camps, but they didnt start a world war that killed more millions. And if Hitler ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Can you understand poetry as a person on the spectrum? |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 11:28 pm
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Replies: 53
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old_comedywriter wrote: Conventional poetry is fine - haiku is crap.
Haiku has no meter or rhythm or rhyme, just a format.
Haiku is fine ...in Japanese. But not in any other language including English. The format fits the structure of the Japanese language. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Tanks,German ones, American ones, British ones 2 Ukraine |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 4:06 pm
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Replies: 52
Views: 1,081
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You cant live by infantry alone.
You need speed, armor, and firepower, in a symmetrical war even in this age of stinger missiles. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Tech's 'Little Havana' Thread |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 11:31 am
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Replies: 16
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Tech's 'Little Havana' Thread |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 9:36 am
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Replies: 16
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| I'm in a position where really I only want to do a couple per week and sitting outside with one is almost like an hour long meditative practice of sorts. There's also a sense of history with it as well as the various flavors that can come through the tobacco. One of the things I had to give up in d... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Tech's 'Little Havana' Thread |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2023, 9:57 pm
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Replies: 16
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Am more into music than I am into nicotine.
Though at 1:25 there is footage of local lady smoking a cigar ...as big as a human child!
https://youtu.be/tGbRZ73NvlY |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Saudi Arabia’s very rapid social change |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2023, 5:51 pm
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Replies: 21
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| Yes. Most of these Arab nations are jury-rigged bundles of random content. loosely tied, and left by the Demster Dumpster by the powers of Europe after World War One. Tiny little Lebanon fell apart in the Seventies. Iraq was held together by the brute force of Saddam Hussien. And its a miracle that ... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Animals A to Z |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2023, 4:22 am
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Replies: 950
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Classified documents found in Pence’s home |
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Posted: 25 Jan 2023, 4:12 am
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Replies: 32
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| "You get classified documents! You get classified documents! Everyone gets classified documents!"\\ Well...I packed a bunch of glassware, and china, in boxes when I moved. Packed in wads of paper to cushion them as packing material...lemme unfold some of the wads... OMG! The President's s... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Coin-operated television, electric, gas meters in the UK |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2023, 12:28 pm
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Replies: 14
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| In the US we had coin operated TVs in the back booths in porno shops. But thats it. And now porno shops have been supplanted by the Net. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Fusion: Really just around the corner? |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2023, 9:39 am
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Replies: 10
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| I seen this on the news. More often than not, if the media airs it, it happens. For some reason I think if the above debaters compare this new type of energy production to say when we discovered nuclear power and how long that took. So, yeah, maybe 20 years.. My Sherlockian cross referencing is jus... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: everythings always been old school alan turing |
| naturalplastic |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2023, 3:37 am
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Replies: 81
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| I don't care to change the world for the better anymore because now I realize changing the world for the better will never happen or it's impossible when everything's always been old school obviously. Again when everything's always been old school people have free will in life to do negative or evi... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Chimpanzees doing simple math task better than humans |
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Posted: 24 Jan 2023, 3:00 am
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Replies: 2
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| Have seen that before. Its quite interesting. |
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