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We all have our own preferences, myself included. Some of these are hetero-normative and accepted by culture, others are not hetero-normative and thus get shunned by culture... at least until the holdouts eventually die off and go away. Part of where I'm struggling here, however, is with the examples being used. In everyone's attempt to make themselves better understood, you're choosing very prejudicial comparisons. I mean, don't me wrong. If all you're saying is, "yeah, that's just not my cuppa tea," then super! Good on ya! I couldn't care less, and guess what? It's not my cuppa tea, either!! But that's NOT what is being said. Instead, we're seeing non-hetero sexual acts between a same sex couple getting compared to: - Pissing on someones face - Shitting on a salad and being asked to eat it - Shoving inanimate objects into ones asshole - Spitting, coughing without covering, picking ones nose, and scratching ones balls - Mental illness, disabled, defective minds, nasty... all right here just in this ONE thread! We've got scores of them here all doing the same thing... Now magnify that across all interactions homosexuals are having every single day of their lives... all just to be accepted for who they are. And you know what chaps my ass even more? You DON'T feel this way about "homosexuality." No... You've probably beaten your baloney pony more than once at the thought of two girls being intimate together, because that's about POWER. It's only when two dudes do to each other some of the exact same things dudes often do with dudettes (butt sex and blow jobs are hardly limited to homosexuals, my friends)... it's only THEN that you suddenly magically have a "disgust" problem. It's not the act you find distasteful since it's fine when its opposite sex couples engage in it. It's the same sex couple, specifically the males, that you just can't bring yourselves to accept. I don't care if you get hung up on the word prejudiced or if it causes you to feel some cognitive dissonance with the "good person" narrative you have in your self-identity. It IS prejudiced, especially since it's NOT an amygdala-level olfactory response like the way you feel drinking coconut water being described here. It's learned, and thus can be unlearned. Extinguished like a bad smoking habit.

Which people? Can you quote where they did this? Nobody is forcing anything. How would we? Weird comment dude. Is there a good reason for your distaste? As noted above, lots of people also used to find interracial couples distasteful. There’s a reason that was silly, and the same applies IMO to distaste for homosexual activities.

And if the current software version being run here even allows for such a configuration then I trust the staff will be more than happy to enable it.

As Markus stated in his OP, so we can easily reference them without links, quotes, etc. For comparison, imagine for a moment giving driving directions. Saying “take exit 137 on the highway” is vastly cleaner and faster than saying, “take the exit for Main Street in the town of Scienceville on the highway, but not the Main Street exit in Fictiontown.”

This sounds to me like a distinction without a difference, but perhaps my definition of prejudice isn’t as restrictive as yours. Repulsive is such a strong word that prejudice seems to fit. Unless you’re inserting gay sex into your mouth and swallowing it, I’m unsure of the relevance.

Find the URL under the text “posted 28 minutes ago” at the top of all posts and copy/paste it (whatever time interval has passed since submission). Here’s a link to your post I just quoted. https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/128812-numbering-posts/?do=findComment&comment=1230067

So was I, but it’s a distinction without a difference anyway. Correct, such as the spending that helps campaigns but isn’t directly allocated to their official funds

They can, but then they become subject to the limits https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/money-politics-101-what-you-need-know-about-campaign-finance-after

Oui. C’est vrais, quelquefois Moi aussie, mais presque jamais.

Unsure, but since neither will be campaigning in a Chinese or similar spy balloon, I reckon it’s even farther off-topic here than we already are

I’m sure I’ll see him at the Iowa State Fair this summer glad handing and flipping pork chops on the grill. In fact, Nikki Haley is already gonna be just up the road from me this coming Monday… VP Pence and Mike Pompeo (who shockingly also both have books) surely aren’t far behind, either.

You can like or dislike anything you want. Quit being so melodramatic. The point is we can tell you how certain of your dislikes are outdated and need to be softened, if not abandoned entirely. People used to dislike white women being with black men (some people still do). Some used to dislike Jews (again, some people still do). Some people used to dislike letting Italians and Irish into the country. Some disliked the Polish. Dislike of homosexuals and transsexuals and acceptance of both is just the latest in a long string of human hatreds and small minded ignorance. Some dislikes just need to go away and die. Some of us dislike how long that seems to be taking and are maybe trying to help accelerate the pace.

I guess some speech is more equal than others.

Why, indeed Why is our governance reliant at all on who the best fundraiser is as opposed to who has smart plans to achieve the maximum good? Why are the people ruled by laws about fund raising the same ones writing those laws?

+1 for this. That's not often an easy thing to do... to look inward in an attempt to understand why we think or feel what we do. I'm not a fan of simplistic, monolithic, one-dimensional labels and caricatures like "homophobe," or even "liberal" and "conservative" or "democrat" or "republican" etc., BUT... If we continue being honest with ourselves here on THIS topic... Well... then yeah. There is at least a modicum of homophobia in caring at all who other people prefer to love and engage with in intimate acts. You're already farther along than most IMO, though, with the fact that you're trying to understand and likely minimize those feelings which are sadly today still rather common. I wish MORE people would have the courage to consider these thoughts and feelings like you are, so good on ya!

He's selling a book

It seems they are the same event / phenomenon being described, yes... During the period of delay, this is the activity taking place. One describes ANY activity in this time period, the other describes only those happening within that same time period, but without any inputs from outside

Almost 4 pages in 24 hours. This one has a good pace! /metacommentary

Thank you for the helpful context and follow-up

“Orion’s Belt is a big waist of space.” Terrible joke. Only three stars. 😂

I love that y’all are still engaging this guy as if there’s ever been any semblance of good faith whatsoever in any of his posts. Hope springs eternal, I reckon.

What specifically did they say? How do they define “tracking?” Did it appear in radar logs only to be noticed retrospectively after the incident, or did intelligence groups alert the Pentagon the moment of launch? What evidence do they have to support any of this? Was the story framed more as a “what-if?” hypothetical, or something that really happened with time stamped communications to confirm? Apparently links and citations aren’t as common these days on this topic.

Science works in large part bc it doesn’t give a truck about your feelings.

The next one gets a free footlong sub

Not today, it wasn’t. But then again even t’were it not, humans are often rather smart when small passionate groups get set on similar missions and thus we invented treadmills to cache strategically somewhere within our heated winter domiciles. I guess what I’m saying Grandpa is, fine. We all know you had to walk uphill to school both ways barefoot in the snow. We get it, so… Have a cuppa tea instead, then. Vino. Brew. Nobody cares. These are times for wines, not whines. Whiskeys not, shit… what the hell rhymes with whiskey? /rhetorical Problems are for solving. Or ignoring, I reckon. That can get you by in a pinch, but use sparingly.