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2012-10-15, 12:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitp 27: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax
It is, but... Well, first off I'm not sure that most people nearly lack forebrains in their childhood. o.O
The rest of this post has been replaced by a mental image of a snake in a sleeping bag. Blame The Far Side.
It probably is a reproductive strategy, actually - just one that's pretty much obsolete because of the females' counter-strategy. It might be a bit much to assume that all ducks do it in the first place, though.
My wallpaper is Scrioge McDuck and Rarity high-fiving. I'm not sure if I should remove it or keep it. Bad fan fiction keeps scrolling before my eyes ._.
Pretty good. I've been second-guessing when writing my filly, phrasing things to remove pronouns, and I got the courage up to refer to mesel' as 'her' and she didn't bat an eye, so that's a plus.
Otherwise work, work, work, no pay, and not enough work either. >P
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2012-10-15, 12:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitp 27: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax
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2012-10-15, 12:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitp 27: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax
It may be there "in the flesh" as it were, just not connected properly. And I should add that the brain remains plastic all life long, although there is properly some loss of plasticity as age rolls in.
Edit: Ninja'ed. However, if you damage the frontal lobes in a chimpanzee, they are unable to complete the following task: Take two cups. Place a piece of fruit in one of the cups. Remove the cups from sight for a minute or so. The chimpanzee must point to the proper cup to receive the fruit.
I predict that most teenages will be able to complete this task, so clearly some parts of their frontal lobes are functioning properly.Last edited by Asta Kask; 2012-10-15 at 12:12 PM.
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Oooh, and that's a bad miss.
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2012-10-15, 12:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 12:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitp 27: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax
Neuroscience comes with so many brainteasers that it's ridiculous.
Example: A person has a stroke to the right parietal lobe. If you hold e.g. a plastic fork on his right side, he sees a plastic fork to the right. If you hold a plastic fork on his left side, he sees a plastic fork to the left. If you hold up two plastic forks, one on his left side and one on his right, he sees - one fork, to the right. Somehow, the fork to the right extinguishes the one on the left. What the hell?Avatar by CoffeeIncluded
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2012-10-15, 12:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 12:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 12:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Oooh, and that's a bad miss.
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2012-10-15, 12:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitp 27: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax
Whether it's finished developing is irrelevant; it's definitely there, and working, the whole time. She claimed (or maybe just sounded like she claimed) that it wasn't. She often brought it up to disregard anyone that disagreed with her on anything.
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2012-10-15, 12:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitp 27: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax
Well. Sort of working. Depends on whether you consider a fan that turns at 80rpm to be working. Or if you would consider my bike's brakes to be working (they'll make it stop, eventually, but they make a lot of noise and aren't any good for stopping short anymore; I'll probably end up hurting myself fairly soon).
Edit: I was going to say, doesn't that happen in aphasias sometimes? And Wikipedia says yes. Yeah, it's interesting how that happens.Last edited by noparlpf; 2012-10-15 at 12:50 PM.
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2012-10-15, 12:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitp 27: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax
Remember that the frontal lobes are anatomically axuiliaries to the motor cortex - the function of the brain is to produce actions, after all. It is actions that are selected for or against. So we have our enormous frontal lobes to prepare far-ranging strategies for actions (and they are auxiliaries of the primary sensory cortices).
So a person with massive damage to the frontal lobes tend to do nothing. They may do simple imititative maneuevers. They may answer your questions, but only if you're talking to the person in the next bed. Or they may be in a state of akinetic mutism, where you maybe can get them to say their name if you exhort them for 20 minutes or so. (There's some evidence that patients do not suffer when under akinetic mutism - there's just not much going on internally).Avatar by CoffeeIncluded
Oooh, and that's a bad miss.
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2012-10-15, 01:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well done for dealing with that. It's hard to walk the line between conflict and deceit, and I think you did really well!
Think about how devoted he is, to his sister and his vocation. That kind of devotion can be very sexy.
Congratulations!
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2012-10-15, 02:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitp 27: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax
Snell's Law. It describes how light refracts when it moves from one medium to another. The θs are the angles of refraction on each side, the Vs are the speeds of light through each medium, and the sins are what make Jesus cry.
This is cute.Last edited by Kindablue; 2012-10-15 at 02:30 PM.
... I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.
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2012-10-15, 02:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 03:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 03:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 03:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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On Friday I will teach a workshop in a grade 12 boys' gym class on gender and sexuality basics. I'm glad my organisation has gotten into gym classes, but this is really scary
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2012-10-15, 04:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitp 27: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax
Grade 12? Aren't those 17-18 year olds?
If so, I can understand a bit of trepidation, but unless the school is completely ineffective and laughably underfunded then they should be a lot better behaved than, say, a 10th grade boys' gym class.
Tama Sutra? The text of turtles?
I like turtles!
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2012-10-15, 04:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitp 27: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax
Best wishes and good luck. It sounds very scary, but congratulations on reaching broad audiences. Education is always amazing.
That just made me imagine a children's picture book with Helio teaching about turtles. It is an adorable image. ^_^Treasured Quotes
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2012-10-15, 04:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 05:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitp 27: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax
I'm getting seriously ticked off with the way "ally" seems to be becoming a slur. I wouldn't be coping with my gender weirdness nearly as well as I am without my friends, most of whom are straight and cis. But there seems to be an overriding ethos of "you must be this queer to have a valid opinion" out there, and I hate it. For example, I just went on lgbtlaughs - normally quite amusing - and found this gem.
this blog was not made for straight (cis) people, no matter how allied they are.
straight people, you are guests in this space.
if you can’t handle a member of an oppressed community being angry, snarky, teasing or mean about the oppressors (a group you are still part of even if you’re an “ally”), then leave.
*three paragraphs more of ranting*
tl;dr: straight people, you are guests here: i do not care about straight feelingsLast edited by Heliomance; 2012-10-15 at 05:04 PM.
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2012-10-15, 05:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitp 27: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax
Members of oppressed groups being intolerant pisses me off even more than members of privileged groups being intolerant, because they of all people ought to know better. >:|
As long as we're being pissed off at people:
Trigger warnings: Rape culture.
SpoilerI just saw an article on facebook about a flier at Miami U. "Top Ten Ways to Get Away With Rape".Jude P.
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2012-10-15, 05:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Oooh, gotcha!
I never actually started doing the wallet list - I tried to start it, but I ended up needing a full page of notebook paper just to get down brief descriptions of each incident...
This sounds incredibly frightening...I both want to know the details, and yet dread them...
This goes back to that left handed thing. Yes, scientifically the brain is not at full development. It is however far above minimum capacity to be considered a working brain. There's no inherent judgement in the statement "the brain does not finish developing until around 25" but there is inherent judgement in its use. If she points out the teacher meant it literally, for the sole purpose of disparaging another and discounting their worth, and you agree with the statement which is being used to discount that person's worth, you are actively supporting discounting thy person in that instance.
Science is neutral, but that is a lie. Science isn't important. What and how science is used for is, and science's inherent nuetrality doesn't enter Ito the equation.
That is wry cute~
So would I be correct in surmising it is a LGBTA+ joke?
Hahahaha no.
High school seniors have reputations which are seemingly well-deserved. The only kids who didn't get their phys-Ed requirements out of the way by junior year are those who subscribe really hard to the cult of athleticism, and those who go to school because it's what is done, and they do the bare minimum along the way - including developing as a person.
This is an inherently judgmental statement without much support besides anecdotal evidence though, so feel free to discount it.
Tama Sutra? The text of turtles?
I like turtles![/QUOTE]
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2012-10-15, 06:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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... I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.
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2012-10-15, 07:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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the oppressors (a group you are still part of even if you’re an “ally”)
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2012-10-15, 07:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitp 27: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax
*Hugs!*
:s *Hugs*
*Nod* To reference Nope's analogy, even an imperfect brake is still a brake. That teacher seemed to imply that both they and the pedals were absent altogether. And that disagreeing somehow challenged that her own were attached.
Science is neutral, but that is a lie. Science isn't important. What and how science is used for is, and science's inherent nuetrality doesn't enter Ito the equation.
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2012-10-15, 07:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitp 27: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax
Only a little bit so far. Very little is changing overall, just rings and legal stuff.
Nope, didn't get married last month. Just this past Saturday. Not unpleasant, either. Just very aware of the existence of my left hand right now. Honeymoon is yet to be determined.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Well, we've been together for four years. I'm not sure what kind of story you're looking for, but if you want story tell me what kind of story you want and I might be able to tell you.
I'll get one in the thread later tonight.
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Thanks!
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Now to go back to my diabolical ally ways, sowing mischief and discord in gay safe spaces with my straightness. Bwahahahaha!
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2012-10-15, 08:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Urge... to destroy... humanity... rising...
Seriously, telling people who are trying to be your friends that they count as enemies is a TERRIBLE WAY to triumph against your enemies. And that... flier... That is easily one of the most despicable things I've read. It's beyond sick, it's just...
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2012-10-15, 08:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-15, 08:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Whoa, guys, hold on, let's not be hasty. Some people out there have world dominations plans, you know, and I--er, I mean, they don't want to rule over a radioactive wasteland. Which is of course a topic I know nothing about; I'm just a pair of flaming d6s, how could I possibly take over anything?
(This forum really needs an innocent "Who, me? I don't know what you're talking about..." smiley for times like these.)
Now, giving certain select members of the population a stern talking-to with some sharp implements for some of the stuff they say and do? That I can get behind.