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Post by Rob Allen on May 3, 2016 17:08:43 GMT -5
All it took was one cell improperly splitting while the two of them were in the womb together, and two men who should have been exactly the same physically turned out different. Things can get even weirder. My wife is reading about human chimeras - very rare cases in which twin embryos start to form but then merge, producing a person who has different sets of genes in different tissues. In one case, genetic tests seemed to show that a woman was not the mother of her children. They eventually found that her blood (which was used for the test) was genetically different from her ovaries. Biology can get strange. Dan, my sympathy to you and your friend.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 3, 2016 19:06:38 GMT -5
Well, I see that someone closed their account for this forum, just when I hoped they had returned. We're less diverse, less interesting and less an entire gender as far as I can tell. A real shame about that and hopefully something learned from it.
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Post by berkley on May 3, 2016 19:32:49 GMT -5
Well, I see that someone closed their account for this forum, just when I hoped they had returned. We're less diverse, less interesting and less an entire gender as far as I can tell. A real shame about that and hopefully something learned from it. That is too bad. It is not a good thing that there are no female members here. And it's a worse thing that the few we had apparently were made to feel uncomfortable in some way - if that is what happened? I haven't really been aware of whatever has taken place here lately in regards to all this.
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Post by shaxper on May 3, 2016 20:52:01 GMT -5
I haven't really been aware of whatever has taken place here lately in regards to all this. No one knows the full story beyond the parties involved. A lot of partial information has been given out to many folks here, but it's quite selective in its summaries of what transpired. I also sincerely regret the lack of gender diversity on this board, but, knowing what I do (even from my admittedly biased standpoint), I'm proud of the mod team and how this situation was handled, which is not the same as to say that I am pleased with the outcome. It is appropriate to miss a good friend, and it is appropriate to note that we need more diversity around here. Let's leave it at that and not jump to conclusions otherwise about who needed to learn what lessons.
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Post by wickedmountain on May 3, 2016 22:45:25 GMT -5
That's sad to hear.
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Post by realjla on May 4, 2016 1:35:11 GMT -5
As desired, I have nothing to say about Who did or did not 'need to learn a lesson'. I will say that we'll miss that departed member.
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Post by the4thpip on May 4, 2016 6:10:59 GMT -5
I don't smoke in hopes of living long enough to see the Internet turn into a place that is less threatening towards women.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 4, 2016 6:38:31 GMT -5
I don't smoke in hopes of living long enough to see the Internet turn into a place that is less threatening towards women. Or to anyone, for that matter.
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Post by the4thpip on May 4, 2016 7:17:35 GMT -5
I don't smoke in hopes of living long enough to see the Internet turn into a place that is less threatening towards women. Or to anyone, for that matter. It is a lot harder for women, though. I've been on the internet for 20 years now, and I have never been threatened with rape. Nor have any of the guys I know, as far as I know. Can't say that for several women I know.
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Post by shaxper on May 4, 2016 7:51:38 GMT -5
Or to anyone, for that matter. It is a lot harder for women, though. I've been on the internet for 20 years now, and I have never been threatened with rape. Nor have any of the guys I know, as far as I know. Can't say that for several women I know. The world, in general, is still a relatively hostile place for women, and that disturbs the hell out of me. We have a lot of work to do as a civilization.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 4, 2016 7:58:22 GMT -5
Or to anyone, for that matter. It is a lot harder for women, though. I've been on the internet for 20 years now, and I have never been threatened with rape. Nor have any of the guys I know, as far as I know. Can't say that for several women I know. True, but gender-specific threats are not restricted to the internet... Its anonymous nature just makes it easier for people to say the most heinous things without fearing anything worse than being banned from a specific online community (hardly a powerful deterrent, considering how easy it is to join a new one or to make up a new identity). Reading Youtube comments makes me despair of humanity. I look forward to the day everyone will behave in a civilized way on the web. (Actually I also look forward to the day they will in the real world too)!
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2016 8:10:41 GMT -5
Well, I see that someone closed their account for this forum, just when I hoped they had returned. We're less diverse, less interesting and less an entire gender as far as I can tell. A real shame about that and hopefully something learned from it. That's a real shame - it's bad enough when we lose any members - there's only about 100 or so of us who are "active" in the sense of even logging in over the last month - but it's real bad to think we're gradually conforming more to the "(not quite-)dead white males" segmentation. Dunno what we as a body have "learned from it", though - I suspect most of us have no idea what the catalyst was for the departure, or what the background was - I know I certainly haven't, and it's only by process of elimination I've even figured out enough to tell who had left!
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 4, 2016 9:42:39 GMT -5
For what it's worth, I'm not much of a mechanic, and most of what I've done on cars has been because I had no choice (couldn't afford to pay someone skilled to do it). But some 20 years ago I replaced a radiator and air pump on an old Chrysler by myself (without benefit of online video help) and managed to do it successfully. With the added advantage of step-by-step videos, you should do fine. Yep. Once upon a time I was a halfway-decent shade-tree mechanic, at least until they started computerizing all the shade trees. Uh ... I mean, until they started computerizing all the cars. If I could accomplish things (as I did, mainly on my mother's old '73 Pinto, my then-stepdaughter's I-think-'72 Pinto station wagon & my '88 Dodge Colt) like changing out starters, a U-joint, shocks, a master cylinder, etc., there's no reason someone like you can't do what you're hoping to. That was almost all before the internet, much less YouTube & the equivalent. These days I'm not as likely to get much done under the hood, even with a 20-year-old Maxima, but even so a couple of years ago I managed to save myself $300+ in labor by poking around on Google, heading out to a salvage yard & coming back with & installing a screen about the size of a silver dollar. I hear ya on new cars Dan. Hell I don't even bother to change the oil on my wife's Hyundai myself. It's too much of a pain in the arse. I'd rather pay for the convenience. But trucks like mine and cars older are much more diy friendly.
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Post by impulse on May 4, 2016 9:42:51 GMT -5
Yeah, I have no idea what happened, either. Sad to see a certain poster gone, and of course naturally curious as to what happened, but I know better than to pry, and I trust it was handled appropriately as Shaxper indicated.
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Post by shaxper on May 4, 2016 9:47:38 GMT -5
Yeah, I have no idea what happened, either. Sad to see a certain poster gone, and of course naturally curious as to what happened, but I know better than to pry, and I trust it was handled appropriately as Shaxper indicated. I thank you for that trust, impulse. We try our best to earn it around here.
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