StringJunky

If it's new, it's probably because it has no scratches or marks on it to to disperse light in random directions.

OP: They will find outlets somewhere. That cohort is a significant fraction of nearly half of the US voting population.

The House is considering 'inciting insurrection' for Trump, and the legal authorities, 'sedition' for the invading protesters. The penalties , respectively is a fine, ten years and being disallowed from holding any office, and a fine and 20 years for the protesters.

I think, given how close the 20th is, that door is best left closed. I can't handle any more excitement this side of the pond.

Maybe he knows Trump and his allies will ask him to pardon him.

I hope that there will be a bipartisan analysis of what can be learned and what remedies are needed to prevent the accession of the next dictator-type. If nothing is done they may well exploit those known weak points and actually succeed.

Facebook and Instagram have suspended his account for the rest of his term. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-election-facebook/facebook-instagram-to-block-trumps-account-for-rest-of-his-presidential-term-idUKKBN29C29M

Yeah, you are probably right.

It looks like he could get served with breaching the US code on insurrection.

Whodathunkit? That it could actually happen in the US?

I noticed, reading the news, the Republican top brass are starting to become more autonomous in their public thoughts. I get the feeling he will be buried politically by them, as well as the other things going on. Insurrection's even been bandied about, with the storming of the Capitol... one woman has been shot and killed in it.

Yes, but the potential is there and symbollically it's good news. There's two or three swing voters on the Republican side isn't there... like Collins and Romney?

Looks like the Dems have the Senate. .. just.

There are named amendments, so it has been in the past. I think the stars haven't been aligned in terms of having the necessary House and Senate votes to have allowed that to happen in recent history, AFAIK

Your reading the pioneering experiment from 1940, which was a semisynthesis. Read the paragraph underneath that for tthe total synthesis done in 1971.

The first stage of a submarine-launched Trident missile is done by high pressure steam generated by the sub's nuclear core. I think it lifts the missile about 30ft above sea level before the rocket engine kicks in.

Sounds like something my mother would do... she misses nothing.

The scientist in question was handling a laboratory-grade compound, which is off the charts compared to what a non-chemist might be exposed to. At the time, the standard safety protocol she followed wasn't sufficient but, obviously, things have been tightened since then.

Do you ever hear scientists speak of 'truth'? It is not a goal serious ones aspire to because there is no way to know. History shows us that it is a moving target.

Somewhere on the evolutionary tree, we had a common ancestor(s) that carried those common traits and then the respective lineages diverged to what they are today..

I corrected your post. You're framing the above as absolute.... it is a spectrum disorder after all.

Being a piano virtuoso doesn't help you navigate you through lthe practicalities ife, although it it may prompt more help because they have gained others attention through that ability.

You clearly don't have a clue how disabling it can be. Much of what we see on the internet is about autistic savants, with specific, extraordinary abilities, and focuses just on that aspect of their life.

Autism is a spectrum disorder, so some can and some can't.

Physical danger, like walking across a busy road without due consideration to traffic, or using knives. The two I know will sit for hours doing the same thing. What we call "commonsense" is lost on them. Bear in mind, as I'm sure you know, they are all different in the challenges they face. Being bullied in school is another because they can send out the wrong social cues and don't respond in the way their non-autistic peers expect. The two I know, one is in his twenties and the other about ten, don't have a realistic prospect of being fully independent, I don't think.