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Thanks for the insight, just be cautious here and recall: If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism. Sharing to highlight the diversity of autism spectrum disorder and the different ways people with autism experience it

It was my focusing on the buffering function of the thalamus through our discussion. An autistic respondent in a previous discussion in another forum of this website described their condition as like having a gatekeeper who allows entry to everyone. My epiphany, through this discussion, was that this individual's form of autism likely involves a malfunction of their thalamus' ability to buffer incoming neural impulses (external stimuli) while at the same time maintaining an ability to target the focus of their thalamus on specific and well-defined areas of feedback (behavioral commands) from superior regions of brain beyond the thalamus--it's letting all the noise in but only responding to that noise that activates a specific channel of feedback or behavioral responses. I believe I now have a better visual perception and understanding of the input/output function of the thalamus in the autistic brain. Even more, I'm beginning to consider what impact malfunction of the thalamus may have in the structual variances we find in some autistic brains--indeed, a delightful and illuminating discussion.

Group V elements (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Antimony, Arsenic and Bismuth) have allotropic forms. The Antimony in particular that exists in its common most stable form at room temperature is called alpha Antimony and has a boiling point of 1587o C In addition there are 5 other forms of Sb, two of which are formed at higher pressures and show the higher BP of something over 1600oC, depending upon the pressure. So Greenwood and Earnshaw have the alpha form (Chemistry of the Elemnts) - 1587o C Lange has the types I and II forms - (Handbook of Chemistry) - 1640oC Yes metal vapour is given off by the boiling substance. Antimony also exhibits an unstable form which gives off an explosive gas form.

Keep yer woke mind vaccines away from me and muh guns, libtard

A big issue is that the lack of critical thinking creates a positive feedback loop where you do not even need forces with an agenda to create harmful movements. I think in the past it was necessary, as otherwise these trends would fade away, but due to the viral effect of the internet (which is a fitting description in more than one way), it can sustain itself. In some cases I suspect that the propaganda was not actually started by certain players, but that it was harnessed by them. Many of these are examples have started as joke and got accelerated themselves to a point where they could be weaponized. I think one has to start thinking of these issues less of a targeted weapon by enemy forces, but rather a self-perpetuating disease where the only defense is inoculation with skills that allow us to critically evaluate and gain knowledge.

The attack is against truth itself. Classic flood the zone with shit propaganda tool. Manufactured realities micro targeted into specific tribes and groups. The premise being pushed is that nothing can be trusted. That sounds reasonable enough, even almostscientific. Verify everything, right? Except, the verification piece is missing. Stephen Colbert years ago called it “truthiness.” Your facts and my alternative facts are equal because I feel mine’s right… so there! That’s what free speech fights are about… my freedom to choose my own facts and my own realities, not the freedom to avoid punishment from government for saying something. Why bother beating your opponent in chess when you can instead dissolve the board itself and let the pieces fall to the floor. The earth is flat. Birds don’t exist. Trump won the 2020 election. Russia is defending Ukrainians from nazis. Hillary Clinton is raping children in the basement of a pizza place. The Jersey drones are nuclear buses and this $15K device for my muscles is surely not just a placebo. Humans have always been influenced by and vulnerable to such things, but lately the tech is making it easier than ever for the crooks and cronies to outpace and put scale cool headed critical thoughts. This is why the TikTok ban is being considered. It’s a brain tuner like a radio antenna for our cortex and we don’t like who’s controlling the knobs and levers and picking the stations.

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You really need to be readmitted to KG school. You have no sense of even the ABCs of science. Don't you know that the universe is not only composed of ordinary energy and matter? The fact is that 75% of the universe's composition is a mystery or unknown stuff that scientists have arbitrarily named dark energy and dark matter.