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The current state of the GOP suggests that involvement in sexual offenses is considered a job requirement.

And ocean (salt water) density is 1.02 - 1.03

The density of ice is lower than that of liquid water at the same temperature. Unlike most materials, ice expands upon freezing. Objects that are lower in density than the liquid in which they are immersed will tend to float in it. The reason it expands on freezing is because the molecules in the solid take up orientations that maximise the strength of hydrogen bonds between the molecules. This leads to a more "open" structure than in the liquid. The physics that governs whether and how an object floats is to do with the relative magnitude of the object's weight and the buoyancy force it experiences from the liquid. This is set out in what is known as Archimedes' Principle. There are details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes'_principle

Some GOP sources are now attempting to float the idea of Donald Trump becoming an interim Speaker of the House. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFeNmtnxntI The problem with this was pointed out yesterday by Rep. Sean Casten (D.Ill), who reminded his GOP colleagues that the Republican party’s own House Conference Rules for the 118th Congress (adopted in January of this year) state that: “(a) A member of the Republican Leadership shall step aside if indicted for a felony for which a sentence of two or more years of imprisonment may be imposed” (Rule 26A) Donald Trump is currently facing 91 felony indictments, many of which carry potential sentences far above 2 years.

And even that varies from ocean to ocean, hence all the markings on the Plimsoll Line on a ship's hull, showing the different limits to which it can be safely loaded:

Right.

Liquid water has a density of 1g/cm3. Ice has a density of 0..91g/cm3. Anything less dense than the medium will float, so ice floats on water. It's the same with atmospheric air: any gas or vapour less dense will rise through the air.

From what I have read, it is better to keep an old IC vehicle as long as you can, before trading it in for an EV, due to the large and unavoidable carbon footprint of manufacturing a new vehicle, of any type. But your next purchase, whenever it is necessary, should be an EV. The longer you can leave it , the greener the EV will be , since the renewable proportion of the electricity it consumes will grow as the years pass. Also the charging network will get better over time. I'm currently running a 19yr old petrol VW Golf, (the 1.4l one with both supercharger and turbocharger, which performs like a 2l but with much better fuel economy). It still works fine and does what I need it to do, so I intend to hang onto it for another year at least.

One of the very last credentials that any GOP member wants to see on the resume of a Republican candidate for the Speaker of the House right now is prior employment as a college wrestling team coach, and allegations of complicity in historical sexual offences against young men during that period. You don’t need to look very far into recent history to find out why either - as Alex Wagner explains in this MSNBC clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYtQ00hi3I0 Dennis Hastert the 51st Speaker from 1999 - 2007 (the longest serving Republican Speaker in history) was convicted in April 2016 of paying hush money related to previous sexual offences against a 14 year old boy in a motel room a decade earlier. He was also accused of sexually abusing 2 other high school wrestlers and a team manager at a time when he was employed as a teacher and coach at Yorkville High School Illinois. Hastert was convicted and sent to jail for 15 months - the highest ranking elected official in US history to serve a prison sentence (to date). Dennis Hastert was subsequently erased from the history of the Speakership. He is the one Speaker in living memory whose portrait does not hang on the walls of an exclusive picture gallery in the Capitol.

The Speaker pro tempore, who is now de facto in charge of the House despite not being voted into such an important role only below VP in terms of taking over the presidency in an emergency, has mandated that Nancy Pelosi’s staff clear ALL of her belongings from the large office from which she’s worked for years… and to do so immediately so this temporary paper tiger can use it for themselves and post selfies on their socials with their shoes up on the desk. https://www.npr.org/2023/10/04/1203566052/pelosi-office-patrick-mchenry-speaker And also in their own heavily gerrymandered districts. The elected officials act this way because they can and there’s practically zero risk of losing their seats regardless of how heinously they act bc they’ve redrawn the voting maps and gamed the entire system for raw power in place of prudence and good governance. Perhaps since the GOP majority is so razor thin, a few moderate paleo republicans might get peeled off and support Minority Leader Jeffries from the Democratic side. Lol. I know. Snowballs chance in hell, but fun to speculate

It looks like to me they are veering so far right, in total, and this is not even the the election cycle. Picture all these people who used hard-right tactics and platitudes to stay in the race.... they aren't going to look very convincing to the whole national electorate walking back to their previously more moderate lines in the '24 election. What should happen then is the GOP will get trounced, Trump will have lost all credibility, then the collective navel-gazing will start. They need to be left humiliating for some time by their own actions, with as little Democratic input as possible, as we have just seen with the deliberate inaction towards McCarthy. Sometimes, it seems to me, it's better to do nothing.

Yet you fail to identify them. You speak of jelly rolls and pianos. I speak of God and Biblical prophecy. I speak of the Kingdom of God. The internet is operational and widely available. Rather than amusement it should be used as a tool, it should be used as an instrument to dissolve division, conflict and military formation around the world. Funding, human resources, energy should be reallocated from military pursuits to healthcare, to construction, to more positive things. Stop wasting resources and lives. Stop championing conflict. Stop cheering as your sons and daughters perish on the battlefield. You create the society you create. You are responsible for your losses. Grow up. “And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” Isaiah 2:4