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I find myself in the embarrassing position of having to back down on one point -- "tokens" today are actually smartphone apps. The "tokens" I used to use (computerized little metal cards with a window to display the authentication numbers) are a thing of the past. I guess I'm showing my age.

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1 - I have used tokens. The trouble is that they are expensive, everyone who is going to use your service needs one, they get lost, and their batteries have a finite lifetime, after which they must be replaced. Calling/texting/emailing you with the code certainly isn't foolproof (If ...

In some cases, when a website wants your cell phone or number it's not so much to track you but for "two factor authentication." I don't know about the site(s) being discussed here, but if that's the case (the test: can you provide an email address instead?), they're not doing it to track people but ...

I saw a meme a few days ago that said "Put the Christ back in Christmas? How about putting the Christ back in Christian." IMHO, followers of Christ should be compassionate, and "shunning" someone else because they are not "like me" is unbecoming to any human being, Christian, atheist, or whatever. I ...

Unfortunately, young people are the most convinced they "know it all." When they ask you for your counsel, frequently what they really want is confirmation that what they have already decided to do is what they should do. Paraphrasing from "My Fair Lady,"

"They will beg you for advice.

Your reply ...

I have been reading posts on the archive for a long time. For years, I avoided creating an account because I didn't want something that connected me to my account. It was great that I could read without being a member. I just couldn't post. I avoid some Facebook groups for the same reason, I want ...

I wonder if the question is phrased correctly. One way would be, "Would you object to being castrated." The other way would be, roughly, "If the function of your testicles could be performed internally, without needing to have this sensitive part of your body external and exposed to injury, would ...

AnneK_TG (imported) wrote: Thu Mar 05, 2020 12:46 pm At one time, there was no explanation other than some being or spirit controlling things. We've only had science to explore things for a few hundred years.

My point was that this debate is probably as old as mankind and not likely ever to be definitively won or lost.

Why should there be a "god". There is already something called natural selection, due to all the random variations that occur naturally. Read that article I Mentioned or maybe watch the Nova episode and you'll see intelligent design for the nonsense it is.



As far back as history records ...

Interesting thought: We human beings use random mutation + selecting those organisms that have characteristics we like all the time. It's called "artificial selection." It sometimes comes up with some pretty strange kludges, but it works. No reason a god couldn't use evolution the same way.

Without going into what it all means, there is another place where un-intelligent design is obvious -- the human eye. Sometimes when having your eyes examined you can see a web of dark lines. These are the blood vessels that nourish the retina. They might just as easily and just as effectively have ...

This may be off-topic, but some of the replies have referred to "social status," and I have noticed in a number of the fiction items the notion that once a guy loses his balls, or especially if he loses "everything down there," he is somehow overcome with the need to be subservient to "real men ...

In English the distinction between "Mrs." and "Miss" actually serves a useful purpose.

"Miss" means she is using her birth name, "Mrs." means she is using her husband's name. Back in the day she would have be introduced as "Mrs. John Doe," using her husband's full name, rather than "Mrs. Jane Doe ...

I can't say I hate my balls, but I've long wondered why the hell I have them after the dumbasses ablated my penis.

Hell, they performed that surgery on "normal" 46 XY baby boys after circumcision went *really* bad.



Zach

Actually, that case, which was cited for years as a triumph of "nurture ...

I believe "Mythbusters" did a segment on this. Their conclusion was that because the stream of urine breaks up in the air and is not continuous, it is almost impossible to get real a shock that way. Sounds like someone here has busted that myth-bust.

Just saw a weird YouTube video on male aggression...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV5uY3sN4ko

In passing it suggests that if aggression is an uncontrollable inborn male characteristic, perhaps most men "except for a few lucky studs for breeding" should be castrated before puberty. However most ...

I knew of a young boy, an only child, whose parents raised him as gender neutral or pro feminine since he was very young. They gave him female toys and encouraged female behaviors in him.

I ended up being his phy ed teacher in his 7th to 9th grades. I felt terrible for him. He hated sports, didn ...

The question is whether these studies have taken age at castration into account. If you are looking primarily at boys castrated before puberty, you might get a wildly different result as compared with, say, men aged 30+ at castration. And if you lump them all together, the results are still likely ...

(1) I saw a quote somewhere -- maybe Facebook -- to the effect that anytime a politician says he/she is "doing it for the chil-drun" hang on to your wallet...and watch out for your civil liberties, too.

(2) There are a lot of scammers out there. The worst I've heard of was someone who posted a ...