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The situation with the lack of fruit in this country is so dire I wonder if we need a constitutional amendment to correct it. Even with the available kinds, throughout the summer I kept buying then throwing those stones displayed in the supermarkets as fruit after failing to ripe them weeks later. They seem to pick those fruits from the trees long before their ripening time they can as well replace them with the plastic type. Unless you are in a situation like that of being starved to death in a desert those fruits are inedible. You instead better off weaponizing yourself with those "fruits". Start with the plum then move along to those dense peaches while saving the pears for maximum devastation to the enemy. Those are plastic museums not fruit markets.

I think that we could be in a vicious circle here. People do not feel much desire to consume fruit here because they are not accustomed to its availability. Because of that sellers have to pick fruit too early to have a better chance for selling  before they go bad but, in turn, also intensifying the low demand situation in general. 

If I were running a government permitted and trusted by the people to spend resources for the good of the country I could enter here trying to buffer or help support reducing the risk until the situation reaches improved balance.     

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In the preceding post what I had in mind when I spoke about "employing a device" is something analogues to the tin can phone using the like of some cable wires or water pipes.  

84:

I just want to know how is it possible for someone living in a house with more than reasonable distance from mine to hear the sound of even my inhale and exhale or the sound of  turning my body around even when I am laying on the floor at the opposite end (excluding the garage) to his house? How can somebody living that far in his house hear what can be considered soundless movement even for somebody living with you in your house like when you lay your head back on the chair? You could move in a way that is much more careful than a thief in the bedroom of the owner of a house and trying to avoid awaking the latter and still be heard while you are at the other end of your house. I wonder if there are special devices employed by those at the neighbor house to eavesdrop to every little sound I make like this or is it that all houses around this level or lower are built that bad for privacy in such a dehumanizing way and things depend merely on how much the other side is a cockroach? In any case one would still wonder Why these houses seem to convey and magnify the sounds instead of isolating them?

I was already questioning the dehumanizing of taking the privacy when living in those thin wall apartments before finding this as the alternative. 

  

83

I stand corrected. The two atomic bombs were dropped within three days of each other. 

Even assuming being wrong, and also having bad motive for some in "denying the Holocaust", that does not in itself take the position of accepting the death of civilians. But to acknowledge the occurrence of the event like here but still try to justify it, is entirely different question. 

If you stand with that use of the atomic bomb then you stand with Alqaida and similar Terrorist Organizations in spite of joining the opposing side. The contrast in the positions here are more like that in how two thieves may compete to steal the same thing.     

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Speaking about events from second world war, the west, and especially we in this country, need to stop dancing around the issue of dropping those atomic bombs and call it and those who participated in it by what they deserve. I would do this even without having that contradictory position toward politically motivated attacks on civilians in our time. The civilians there did not even have the responsibility a democratic system puts on the individual because they were enslaved by a tyranny.  

Let me take the first step for you and declare:

Harry Truman was a war Criminal of the Type described in our time as being a Terrorist and with that level of criminal effect. Moreover he insisted on that level of criminality by redoing it within less than two weeks.   

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Continuing from the preceding post:

Frankly speaking it is far from being supportive for confidence and trust to see a group with such level of power and a wide interest like that in an event that does not go much further in history than the middle of the previous century support their position with as much drama instead of evidence. In fact, having so much power in this group, especially the control on the media, would, with such behaviour, strongly suggests trying to impose an untrue thing as a fact. The Holocaust happened and its sites are in Europe  not in Iran, China or Russia to consider an inaccessibility to  investigate the event as a reason. 

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Probably about two or three months ago I brought that movie, The Pianist, as part of the Oscar watching list I have been going through. However, I could not tolerate any more of that like fiction Holocaust drama showing and returned the movie after viewing only a portion of it. I would not have reacted that way had I seen a scientific or proof directed discussion toward the reality of the matter instead of all that emphasizing on mere drama.    

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Continued from the preceding post:

The addiction of the main character in that show House to a soap opera also did not fit someone at the thinking level capable of reaching all the connections and discovery that character was supposedly making. However, unlike here, that same unfitting can make things more interesting. The difference is that the addiction to soap opera there was not suggested as an extension or general side effect to having the qualities mentioned above.  

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Continued from the preceding post:

The writers of that show seem to confuse two kinds of what people may call "nerds", those who isolate themselves in the world of comic books and science fiction and those who acquire such description because of how their focus on their field of science isolate them from the outside. Contrary to what the show suggests, the latter type of "nerds" are even less than the average person ready to allow themselves to accept science fiction beyond being a fantasy, if at all. Their involvement in their science and its rules would feel like a wall preventing them from attaching themselves to such shows like it is shown there. Take for example that space guy who appears on public TV. What happened after he saw the movie Gravity? I don't remember that he expressed fantasizing about it. Instead I remember that he objected to things in it because of his view that things would be different in real world. Same thing could easily be anticipated if you take an expert paleontologist to see Jurassic Park (even though there is much bigger room for the unknown here than in the physics and space sciences). The comedy aspect would have been much better served with showing the nerds being annoying to the average person with their constant pointing to how a science fiction show does not fit scientifically rather than making them themselves involved in those shows.

I remember how I saw things were far from fitting the behaviour of a psychologist in that show Frasier. But one could easily argue back that a comedic aspect of the show there was based on that contradiction or conflict. Here on the other hand I cant find any connection to a comedy except through the exaggerated stereotype which failed very miserably because it was not based on stereotype beyond that resulting from failing to distinguish between the two types of "nerds" mentioned above.   

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I was looking at those other versions of the show Law and Order and thought thank God this action is not replicated as much elsewhere. Imagine if a restaurant expects you not to recognize the difference in taste in something other than what you ordered just because it copies and arranges the table the same way like it is expected from you not to sense quality writing here. Much of the original sears was high quality from all sides, drama, mystery, investigation, dialogue and I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be the best ever in at least the legal complication and arguing aspect. 

Speaking about quality writings, or the lack of it, I cant let this pass without mentioning this. In the past I thought that the writers of that show Lost should be sued. Following that I thought that no one could cause me to top such feeling until I saw the show The Big Bang Theory and started feeling its writers should be criminally prosecuted. If not, then, I don't know, probably outsource show writing to China or some other place. Just save the world. Even though the main idea of the show is okay, the writing is so bad as if it was intentionally intended to be so. This is not how "nerds" act. In order to make your exaggeration funny, shouldn't it be based on the typical or stereotype behaviour? Instead of the mess of making the nerds read Batman and watch Star Trek the comedy could have been instead focused on their rigid thinking as physicists and their agitation to hear things like flying faster than light and other things that do not fit their science knowledge. Also, that character, Sheldon, gets changed to the level that makes one sick in his stomach. He also has deep knowledge in other social fields and history despite being a Physicist "nerd". Where is the funny stereotype exaggeration here? If that is not enough, science sophistication was mixed with sense sophistication combining the character of the scientist that is supposed to be a nerd one with that of an artist which conflict with that. Also that same character was shown to severely changes its views from one episode to another and contradict itself according to what suit its situation. That fits a very much morally deprived person not a nerd.    

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The acting of the main character in the movie Juno (2007) made me feel distinguishing a sense for what acting is like it is a sense  for a physical attribute. 

75

Think that the embargo reference was just a joke? I see grocery stores with probably more than a third of its fruit section, which is not that big anyway, being dedicated to apples. I saw similar thing happen in Iraq during the economic embargo when people started substituting  other things with dates. Here apparently those running these stores are interested more in showing their american identity than what their business is supposed to be about. 

      

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Some people here call rice boring. But apparently people are contend with the fruit markets they see. These fruit markets make you wonder who is imposing the economic embargo on this country?

By the way, why fruit are so costly here? Is it the lack of rain and water? To cut open an onion and find it had gone bad because of water, never occurred to me as something that could happen back where I came from.  

73

I was thinking that the Allen's character was killed before that of Charlie with the change that happened to it in the last years of the Two And A Half Men Show. However, looking at the earlier episodes I started to recognize what seems to be an obvious pulling struggle for that character between the shallow superficially opportunist side and the serious less lucky but dependable one of that character, but, I, the veiwer, had consolidated the two into one. The stretch is big enough to make one feels bad for the actor who is supposed to convert actions into a character the totality of which is as hard to be mentally visualized as this one.   

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Continuing from the preceding post

Compared to what I remember from where I came from, the level of varieties of fruit offered in the grocery markets here does not seem to fit the average level of living in this country. You can make a flag  with a picture of an eggplant crossed over and it could be easily seen to uniquely represent this country to somebody who came from the outside and lived here. But at least eggplants depend on  how they are cooked. On the other hand, fruit are directly ready for eating. When was the last time you saw a grocery market selling figs, for example? And smaller size fruit are apparently forbidden things to begin with. Even with the big size fruit, how often you see pomegranates, for example? 

I have already thought about the issue with eggplants being a manifestation of that thing which looks like identity establishment need or desire I talked about before. Although abstaining from eggplants may not be as far as you may think from as if you traveled to some place and found that people do not eat eggs, for example, there, the issue with fruit, because they are directly consumable, seems to suggest clearer relation to that identity establishment thing .       

       

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No wonder many here do not like fruit much. The level of variety (or the lack of it) in the grocery markets here is depressing . It is as if those "super markets" just want to offer what count as fruit in order to fulfill an obligatory contract.