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Now this is the pragmatic solution. Very clever

It is difficult, a lot of it was very subtle, and I don't know a book that deals with it specifically. You would have to read one of the biographies, but to see how different it wa…

But you don't know the circumstances? Just a statement, and one that may not be true. I've seen good people have a complete breakdown over a sick child. Maybe his wife asked him to…

Perhaps this will help. There are quite a few things about the body I was born into that are not what I would choose. Contentment is about being happy with what you have got. I wou…

Well after that article and these comments, I need to burn a lot of books, art and music that I once loved. I used to love Millais' 'Ophelia', but he now seems arrogant and even be…

I am quite sure that not a penny from my purchase of Master and Commander went to Patrick O'Brian.

Indeed, unless the artist is some kind of moralist, where i may be concerned about hypocrisy, I believe their public appearance to be part of the act, what they are like at home is…

This element of Jack very much comes from his admiration of Nelson. If you are interested in management at all, Nelson's style of leadership was ground-breaking. Whereas Jack's fea…

Really, the article referenced a few snippets of information, none of which is new. Its like the press only knew 5 things about him and they were all bad, so keep going. I can't br…

I don't get this examination of the character of the man, an extremely private man, behind the books. I don't think he ever held himself as an example to people. He didn't claim to…

Funnily enough I think it is much less funny out of context. It is an in-joke that Stephen has picked up very little of nautical life, despite being on ship for many years.

They won't get a cure, because autism is not a disease. It reminds me of the idea that 'curing' people's homosexuality would make them happier. Turns out it is not possible, but in…

What I really don't understand is why the security people who sent to jail didn't drop their boss in it in return for diminishing their role

Are they desperate for the cure, because they are forced to work with people can't accept them for who they are? Because they are exhausted from years of masking, because you can't…

Does it not? When you 'cure' the lateness you lose the superpower too. Now you have another boring normie doing a workmanlike job. I think the reason for the animosity is the assum…

Because many autistic people have superpowers in some areas, like systems thinking, thinking outside the box and maybe suprisingly reading people. If you had a superpower, but it c…

Oh yeah, they have a kind of ratchet on the tendons. It needs the load to be on terra firma for it to let go

At my nieces birthday party she had a new trampoline, but didn't know what it was, as my bothers were assembling it for her. She kept asking and they kept deliberately evading. The…

I followed the github issue you posted. There is a pr they are trying to merge, last comment was...10 hours ago. I'm not sure how this is 'actively plans not to fix'

Do you not just make them much wider?

I would happily live in the forest and keep a subsistence holding whilst managing the forest. Just give me minimum wage, a small startup grant, a couple of hundred acres of forest …

Oh I'm in that camp. I live in a country that didn't produce its own fertilizer. Sounds like a terrific risk to me