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Q: What makes someone look like they have down syndrome and/or mental retardation when they do not have it?

CandyCatAlienPeople at school, since ninth grade (now an eleventh grader, almost twelfth grader), have been saying that I look “retarded” or “dumbfounded” or “stupid” and more. I know none of these idiots, and I don’t even have classes with some of them, but they can still point me out and make fun of me. I d...

 
 
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4:11 AM
Good morning everyone!
I'm about to leave for Amsterdam
I laughed because there's a man about to board the plane and he has "JAD" written on his cap! Are you travelling in France incognito @JAD or is it just that you're famous? :p
We'll be off soon. Have a great weekend everyone!
 
 
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7:52 AM
@avazula Welcome to rainy Netherlands by now, I guess!
 
 
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9:54 AM
@avazula have a fun adventure!
 
12:02 PM
@Tinkeringbell it's almost sunny in Amsterdam! We're just doling back from Keukenhof, it's as beautiful as I remembered it to be, and is it just me or are Dutch people very smiling?
 
@avazula It's Koningsdag, I would expect them to look a bit happier than usual :P
 
A J
@Tinkeringbell so are you both planning to meet at some point? ;)
 
12:24 PM
@AJ nah, at least, not this weekend :)
 
@AJ we're not in the same city right now IIRC :)
 
A J
Ah. Okay.
Post a picture together when you do. ;)
 
12:41 PM
@avazula Juvenile Asinine Drats?
Huh, that made more sense than I intended it to
@avazula Dutch people . . . smiling? I need to readjust some of my mental images then
I rewatched The Dark Knight. Did you guys notice that if Gordon did the decision making, Joker's plan could have been thwarted, more or less?
 
A J
Maybe.
 
What does that mean?
Well, I did have to watch something. I can only get to watch Endgame in at least 2 months.
 
A J
but who stopped Gordon from making decisions?
He works with Batman to catch mafia's black money and then Joker.
 
 
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5:41 PM
@Rainbacon I used caret browsing, but I found it difficult.
 
 
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7:35 PM
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ more like juridically allowed drugs (as this is the Netherlands?)
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ how come?
 
7:51 PM
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Q: Professor gets cursory requests for advice from total strangers -- how to make them be more considerate?

yo9cybI am a professor in a popular STEM field with a reasonably prominent list of publications, enough that if you Google AREA or method XXX you may encounter my name. About once a week I receive emails like this (copied textually). Hi MYFIRSTNAME I realized that you have experience in THIS ...

 
@avazula I live in Iran
Apparently people aren't okay with toppling over regimes that regained power thanks to a US coup in the first place and haven't been for 40-something years. It's more like a shallow totalitarian theocracy right now, but still. And all of that interprets to me not being able to watch Endgame as it doesn't air in the cinemas here and having no way to purchase it due to the economic walls
Trump did want to build a wall after all
Not that it was anything less of a wall before America became large again
Hmm, gigantic. Gargantuan. What was the word? Oh, 'great'.
So for example, I got to watch Black Panther when everyone was talking about Infinity War's ending.
C'est la vie. </rant>
@AJ Oh, somehow I forgot to mention which scene I meant. I meant after The Joker told Batman the locations of Harvey and Rachel
If it was Gordon, he'd have said "OK, you're faster. Go after Harvey." He'd have ended up saving Rachel, and Harvey would have died a hero without Batman sacrificing his reputation
 

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