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A marketable skill for sure in the looming post-crash economy.

Economists have successfully predicted 10 of the last 4 market crashes

Not hours; minutes. But many. Why? For all crackpots out there: https://www.gapingvoidart.com/

Agreed, neither capital punishment nor life imprisonment serves as a deterrent to the first offence. However they certainly put a damper on the ability to re-offend ...

This is in today's AP news:

Non-empty open sts must have positive measure, so your approach to the first question is correct. The second question is almost from the definition.

Christianity and Islam are responsible for some of the most heinous crimes in human history for their perseverant attempts to "proselytize". Judaism is much much less so. In point of fact , Jews themselves have been repeatedly subject to pogroms and holocausts many places around the globe. Rights of minority believers ought to be preserved. Be they soul-worshippers or wizards or Yezidis or Druses or whatever. Semi-organized/Organised Groups that persecute them have to be prosecuted themselves. there must be a difference between the world before UN Charter of Human Rights and after that.

But that’s not the sole goal of the justice system. Protecting society, rehabilitation and impacts on the aggrieved (i.e. “closure”) are factors, too.

It's a duplicate of Is There a 5th Force?, also in Science News. I got distracted before I could send a PM. Sorry.

Panic buy toilet paper.

It really depends on context. Online many of us have been openly critical for tens of years now, whereas IRL it’s sometimes better to just keep quiet. For example, we’ve got some great neighbors, our kids play, and we enjoy their company, but they’re pretty religious. We just don’t talk about it, and that’s okay. People believe all kinds of silliness (like Donald Trump was the best president ever). We need to find ways to continue forward regardless.

The period over which tidal locking would occur is highly sensitive to the distance between the bodies, and varies by the distance to the power of 6. It is less dependent on the mass of the primary. The relationship ( assuming all else is equal) is T = a^6/M^2 So, if we take a very luminous red dwarf like Lacaille 8760 with a mass of 0.6 that of the Sun, and a Earth equivalent position in the habitable zone of 0.268AU, you get a time period for tidal locking of roughly 1/1000 of the the time it would take for the Earth to tidal lock to the Sun. For a smaller star like Proxima Centauri at 0.12 solar masses and a habitable zone distance of 0.032AU, the tidal locking would take 1/13,000,000 of the time. Red dwarfs also have spend a longer period in their pre-main sequence stage (a billion years or so), Thus a planet would be subject to tidal braking for a long period before even being considered as hospitable. So the odds are pretty high that a planet within the habitable zone of a typical red dwarf would be tidally locked.

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