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[DHT]Osiris said:
I wasn't aware there were any college football teams in the Caucus mountains.
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Well crap. I knew I should have stuck with the word white.

I had no idea Caucasian quit being a real thing. Probably because it's on every form we fill out here in the US.

I now have another conspiracy theory 😛
 
balloonshark said:
Well crap. I knew I should have stuck with the word white.

I had no idea Caucasian quit being a real thing. Probably because it's on every form we fill out here in the US.

I now have another conspiracy theory 😛
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I mean, if you're 'white' by most people standards but you're more native american than anything, can you really be called caucasian? I'm neither caucus nor asian.
 
Indus said:
Who's in more deep shit with their dementia?

Trump

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NY Post

https://twitter.com/x/status/1846960710309630455
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It's sad that a former President doesn't even understand how our elections work, or the purpose of primaries, which are not even a requirement. I think it's time to institute a test of basic goverment knowledge, that a current and prospective Congress member, and Presidential Canidate must pass, before being elligable to be in office/run. Knowledge, that every person should have learned in High school. I mean how can you be considered to run a country if you don't even have the first clue how out goverment and elections work.
 
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NWRMidnight said:
It's sad that a former President doesn't even understand how our elections work, or the purpose of primaries, which are not even a requirement. I think it's time to institute a test of basic goverment knowledge, that a current and prospective Congress member, and Presidential Canidate must pass, before being elligable to be in office/run. Knowledge, that every person should have learned in High school. I mean how can you be considered to run a country if you don't even have the first clue how out goverment and elections work.
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Think he's too much of a fascist dictator wannabe to actually care. Only does campaign rallies because it feeds his ego anyways.

What's his standard line to hard questions, "Such a nasty woman!"
 
Indus said:
NY Post

https://twitter.com/x/status/1846960710309630455
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Lip reading is really not an exact science, though.


Lip-reading - Ways deaf children learn to understand speech

Learn how children develop the ability to lip-read, and how you can make lip-reading easier.
www.ndcs.org.uk www.ndcs.org.uk

It's estimated that only 30% to 40% of speech sounds can be lip-read even under the best conditions. A deaf person will usually need extra information to understand what’s being said.
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Mean-word-recognition accuracy scores were barely greater than 10% correct. Further, any individual who achieved a CUNY lip-reading score of 30% correct is considered an outlier, giving them a T-score of nearly 80—three times the standard deviation from the mean. A lip-reading recognition accuracy score of 45% correct places an individual 5 standard deviations above the mean.
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Biden might have been saying "he wrote a song about me" and Obama was just humoring him.
 
The whole concept of neurodivergence/neurodiversity is doing my head in. Every single mainstream media article, blog, and forum post I see about it seems to disagree with every other one as to what those terms actually mean (and which conditions the former term encompasses) but few of them ever seriously acknowledge or attempt to even-handedly analyse the immense semantic, moral and political complexity of the topic (even the blogs of actual academics who've written books about the concept seem to be rather lacking in analysis).

Everyone involved seems to just assume their definition is self-evidently the 'correct' one and just proceeds uncritically from there.
 
pmv said:
The whole concept of neurodivergence/neurodiversity is doing my head in. Every single mainstream media article, blog, and forum post I see about it seems to disagree with every other one as to what those terms actually mean (and which conditions the former term encompasses) but few of them ever seriously acknowledge or attempt to even-handedly analyse the immense semantic, moral and political complexity of the topic (even the blogs of actual academics who've written books about the concept seem to be rather lacking in analysis).

Everyone involved seems to just assume their definition is self-evidently the 'correct' one and just proceeds uncritically from there.
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Have you referred to the DSM V or ICD? It's still sort of a developing thing, with Asperger's as a diagnosis only having been removed a decade or so back.
But with the way the sources you're referring to often play fast and loose with medical and scientific reports/data, yeah, you're bound to see conflicting information. Some of this comes from a difference in approach, as some consider it a condition to be cured, and others do not.
 
nakedfrog said:
Have you referred to the DSM V or ICD? It's still sort of a developing thing, with Asperger's as a diagnosis only having been removed a decade or so back.
But with the way the sources you're referring to often play fast and loose with medical and scientific reports/data, yeah, you're bound to see conflicting information. Some of this comes from a difference in approach, as some consider it a condition to be cured, and others do not.
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Well, neurodivergence/neurodiversity (as opposed to "autism", say) are, I gather, political terms, not scientific/medical ones. And those are the things I see repeatedly referred to in the mainstream media, and which I find to be frustratingly ill-defined. I've become a bit fixated with the topic, and the more blogs and forums etc I see talking about it the more ill-defined those two terms seem to me to be (nobody who talks about them seems to fully explore the full political implications of the concepts, and everyone seems to define them differently).

Mainly interested because I've been on a waiting list for some sort of consultation with a neuro-psychiatrist since the brain surgery 4 years ago, but it seems it's almost impossible to get such a consultation on the NHS now, as they are so overwhelmed with demand. Not even sure what the appointment is for, exactly (some sort of assessment of the results of the surgery? Or of the effect of the underlying condition that went undiagnosed for about four decades? [Edit] technically more than 5 decades, but I suspect symptomatic for about 40 years).

I thus find it frustrating that I see so many reports in the mainstream media of this-or-that celebrity paying for such a consultation privately and announcing they are 'neurodivergent' with a late-in-life diagnosis of ADHD or autism, that then explains their lifetime of difficulties.

All my late-in-life diagnosis got me was the strong advice to undergo brain surgery within 24 hours (lest I go on to die from the condition), after which I've been left with more questions than I started with and pretty much left to my own devices/research.

At the moment I have absolutely no idea how what they found relates to my long history of (otherwise unexplained) symptoms. But I find myself second-guessing every psycho-emotional-behavioural 'issue' I've ever had ("was that the normal process of environment affecting my psychology, or was it this purely physical condition in my brain?")
 
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