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Neurodiversity and Neurotypical civilization

I wrote this to a younger friend in his final dissertation for his PhD in urban studies.  His committee is pushing him to use autoethnography, a fancy word for lived experience, for his dissertation.  A saying common among neurodiversity advocates is "If you have met one autistic, you have met ONE autistic".  The spectrum itself is so wide, that being on the spectrum means that you will have little to no overlap in symptoms and difficulties with other autistics, let alone with neurotypicals.  Thus, while your difficulties and solutions, both coping and masking, work for you, they may not work for others.   An equal method that may help, at least in your notes, is Aquinian Scholasticism, where you state each point from the Neurotypical point of view, and only after explain from your autoethnic point of view why the current system is not working for you- being open to inviting others to come up with solutions, but realizing that ultimately, as all neurodiverg...
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From the Holy Rosary Chesterton Academy

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St Pier Giorgio Frassati Academy Presents Echos of Ascent Song and Art inspired by the Saints Aquinas Hall  340 NE Clackamas St Portland, OR 7pm May 26 $5/person, $25/Family CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS 
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How to assassinate a politician

It has been a while since I had a crazy enough idea for this forum.  I still need to turn this blog into a book. Here is how to assassinate any politician for an investment of under $50000 1.  Find an event planned months in advance they will be at, in a hotel that has the banquet room in the basement. 2.  Purchase $25,000 worth of chemical explosives. 3.  Purchase $5000 worth of wood and drywall supplies. 4.  Build a box 2ftx2ftx1ft 5.  Purchase a raspberry pi for $75, and an electric detenator.   Wire these together, put in the box with the explosives.  Code thd det to set off when a website returns a given code word, check once every 15 minutes. 6.  Put the box in a duffel bag. 7.  The week before, rent a room for two nights. 8.  Use the camera on your phone to match the paint in the closet 9.  Put box in the closet and paint it for camouflage  10.  The night of the event, change the website to include the cod...
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The full St. Michael's Prayer

 Offered for all of those underemployed by AI: O Glorious Archangel St. Michael, Prince of the heavenly host, be our defense in the terrible warfare which we carry on against principalities and powers, against the rulers of this world of darkness, and spirits of evil. Come to the aid of man, whom God created immortal, made in His own image and likeness, and redeemed at a great price from the tyranny of the devil. Fight this day the battle of the Lord, together with the holy angels, as already thou hast fought the leader of the proud angels, Lucifer, and his apostate host, who were powerless to resist Thee, nor was there place for them any longer in heaven. That cruel, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil or Satan, who seduces the whole world, was cast into the abyss with his angels. Behold, this primeval enemy and slayer of men has taken courage. Transformed into an angel of light, he wanders about with all the multitude of wicked spirits, invading the earth in order to bl...
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AI task test, data cleaning

 Well, so much for AI extracting information from e-mails. This is why I have my doubts about AI. I'm using Gmail Cloud HQ to separate out my mainly LinkedIn (with some other items) job search from all the spam I get. I'm then pushing that into an Azure SQL database. Using three separate queries looking for "%appli%" from "noreply@" in Gmail (because GMAIL doesn't actually support wildcards) I'm pulling in three slightly different CSV files into SQL, cleaning them, and putting them into my job search. This is *AFTER* CloudHQ used "AI parsing" to fill certain fields to begin with. Here's the script: /****** Object: Table [dbo].[CombinedCleand]  Script Date: 7/22/2025 10:59:29 AM ******/ IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[CombinedCleand]') AND type in (N'U')) DROP TABLE [dbo].[CombinedCleand] GO /****** Object: Table [dbo].[CombinedCleand]  Script Date: 7/22/2025 10:59:29 AM ***...
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