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It's a confusing title. I think the toucan is just saying it is a bible hawked by Trump, who has been identified as a rapist. It doesn't mean the text has been altered in Exodus to advocate rape.

Perhaps the Trump is a rapist meme has lost its edge, given the general cynicism about wealthy men (especially those born into wealth) and their sexual proclivities. I think Zombie Bible works, given the sort of mindless followers of TFG who would buy it.

Wow. A bit like appointing a fox to head the henhouse department of health. This sort of thing is why I favor noncorporate controlled outlets like The Guardian or NPR.

Given that politics includes moral philosophy, I think one should consider that the actual use of a WMD tends to open up a tactical (and utilitarian) conversation that can drown out the moral one. For example, justification on the basis of saved lives is not always a compelling argument in other aspects of human life. A worldwide totalitarian regime which forced contraception on every person on Earth could save billions of future lives. Worldwide tobacco ban and death penalty for growers would save millions. And so on. Humans are not really utilitarians, for the most part. What is your moral sense of what America became, by using a nuke on civilians, and likely accelerating an international arms race? And based on that, what should we do NOW?

IIRC, WaPo mentioned it. Their coverage was extensive, since DC is close to Baltimore. @swansont posted a wiki article that provided a clear description of dolphins (structural). Dolphins are also used to protect structures from possible impact by ships, in a similar fashion to fenders.[2] A notable example of dolphins used to protect a bridge is the Sunshine Skyway Bridge across the mouth of Tampa Bay. In 1980, the MV Summit Venture hit a pier on one of the bridge's two, two-lane spans causing a 1,200-foot (370 m) section of the bridge to fall into the water, resulting in 35 deaths. When a replacement span was designed, a top priority was to prevent ships from colliding with the new bridge.[3] The new bridge is protected by 36 dolphins: four large dolphins protecting the two main pylons supporting the cable-stayed main span plus 32 smaller dolphins protecting bridge piers for 1⁄4 mi (1⁄2 km) to either side of the main span.[3] The cost of the dolphins was $41 million (approximately $90 million in 2017 dollars).[3]

I found the Dali's electrical problems kind of surreal. (too soon?)

I heard somewhere that long continuous truss bridges like that will sometimes have their support columns centered on a small artificial island (e.g. a big pile of rock) to serve as a buffer against ship collisions. It's my understanding that nothing will really protect a support column from a container ship, unless it's actually islanded in that way. The ships are just too massive now, averaging much greater mass than in the 70s when construction began.

Sounds like junk science.

Should we keep quick-tempered people in a short fuse box?

Second that. There are a fair number of us neurotypicals (possibly a misnomer in my case) who just aren't much interested in jumping onto the consumerism treadmill or filling our nests with shiny things. I'm married to someone who is more towards the center of the having-stuff-keeping-stuff spectrum, so it's always been something of an adjustment for me to deal with her clutter and Museum of My Life and Heritage. It can be liberating. I also imagine my spinal health if my wife had had my minimalist approach to stuff during our household moves.

$$$, unfortunately . Though in this case, trying to define a joke like that as intellectual property is really reaching IMO.

Having a close friend who is coeliac, I am more aware of research into enzymes that might break down gluten in the stomach (before it reaches the small gut and causes inflammatory havoc). Most are still in a trial phase. I know that some studies of latiglutenase found it effective for coeliacs accidentally exposed to gluten. (they sneak the damned stuff in everywhere - soy sauce, e.g.) AN-PEP is another promising one. Derived from a fungus. I would guess it unlikely these proteases would work on the industrial application you are looking into.

@Markus Hanke remarks were helpful and I agree with his observations, born from more direct knowledge. I hope it is clear I was speaking of support and developing coping skills to further life goals and not a "cure" for neurodivergence. Among staff I worked with, during my brief time working with ASD folk, there seemed to be some varying views on stimming, but I would trust MH's observations. My training pointed me towards looking around at the environment and seeing if stimulation could be reduced so as to ease the felt need for it - and, with some clients, see if they could articulate where a reduction in excess stimulation could be effected. This is what I earlier meant by "finding a path" past stimming - i.e. finding a quiet corner where other engagement could be enjoyed and not suppressing the stimming as something wrong. I recall one client who was overstimulated by the appearance of certain foods and so, enlisting the help of a nutritionist, we helped them develop a nourishing menu where they could look at their plate and eat with contentment (vs finger-flapping and running away from the table).

Now another artist, a London-based artist who operates under the name The Misfortuneteller, says the idea was stolen from him. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/25/its-not-banksys-its-mine-artist-says-bristol-plaque-to-adulterer-is-a-copy Who put up the plaque commemorating the “husband, father, adulterer” – which included the payoff line “Roger, I knew” – remains unknown. But while locals speculated that Banksy may have been involved, another artist has now suggested they are the victim of a rip-off. The London-based creator, who operates under the name The Misfortuneteller, said he created a near-identical plaque in March 2020 after wandering around New York’s Central Park and looking at the inscriptions on benches. “Plaques are fine but they’re not really that truthful,” he said. “I wanted to do honest memorial plaques. Bittersweet ones.” He mocked-up a series of images featuring offbeat tributes to the deceased. Some of the designs were sold as real engraved plaques. An ex-girlfriend is commemorated with a real-life plaque reading: “For Barbara – Who was awful when hungry but otherwise pretty solid.” Others took on a life of their own after going viral, often being shared without credit or posted by meme aggregation accounts on Instagram. No one bought his design paying tribute to a “cherished husband, dad and adulterer”, even though the image proved popular online. As a result, The Misfortuneteller said he was surprised to see his original design and phrasing reappear on the Bristol bench this week, prompting him to say: “It’s not Banksy’s; it’s fucking mine.”

The decision is made when a person wants to communicate and relate with others, hold a job, have their own home, pay the bills, travel around unassisted... and has a disability which prevents these. That's what disability means. There were persons I worked with who faced such obstacles and yes, welcomed a path towards surmounting them. Their lives were better for seeing such a path and being able to move past, e.g., flicking their fingers back and forth in front of their faces for hours while spinning a coke bottle on the floor 3000 times while their loved ones silently weep.

Died at 54. From this anecdote I hypothesize that trying to please two women is exhausting and life-shortening.

The focus should be on a cattle ranch where the male children run the operation....because the focus is where the sons raise meat.

And how would a hermit know how to evaluate whatever answers he received, having no knowledge of the candidates? The randomness of his "sample" is irrelevant - he lacks the knowledge base to critically examine their opinions or determine their veracity. If his cave is in rural Alabama, he will likely be strongly directed to vote for TFG. If it's in Eugene, Oregon, he will be steered towards Biden. Either place, he lacks the contextual knowledge that literacy and reputable journalism can provide. How has the irony of this thread not inundated you yet?

I'm hearing US intelligence is now indicating strong evidence that the concert massacre was indeed Islamic State, as IS has claimed. But the chinless thug is certainly using it to smear Ukraine and justify escalating attacks there. And no doubt it will also mean bigger boot heels crushing Russian faces, too. IS provided sort of a windfall for Poots.

It's a spectrum. At the high functioning end, one might argue it's just a different cognitive style and I'm open to that. But I worked for a while with people elsewhere on the spectrum, where there were severe cognitive and social disabilities, and for them a cure (or, realistically, any amelioration) would be most welcome.

What field of natural sciences is your MS ? If you could relocate, that might help. Generally speaking, getting an entry level job means not setting too many requirements like those you mention (home based, flexible, not too routine). There is an old saying along the lines of you have to sweep the floors before you can sit in the corner office. Think of your first job as a conduit to the later interesting job, a way to build connections and show your reliability, and just roll up your sleeves. The world owes you precisely nothing - it is entirely up to you to go out and get what you want, first climbing over obstacles, and enduring some grunt work as cheerfully as possible.

Yeah, to formulate his famous field equations of 1915 he spent a couple years learning tensor theory from his friend Marcel Grossman, instead of bellyaching that he couldn't do math and insisting others do it for him.

That would depend on your field of inquiry. Neuroscience gives serious attention to a functional definition of consciousness. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222861/ Normal human consciousness is defined as the presence of a wakeful arousal state and the awareness and motivation to respond to self and/or environmental events. In the intact brain, arousal is the overall level of responsiveness to environmental stimuli. Arousal has a physiological range from stage 3 non-REM sleep, where strong stimuli are required to elicit a response, to states of high vigilance, where subtle stimuli can be detected and acted upon2. While arousal is the global state of responsiveness, awareness is the brain’s ability to perceive specific environmental stimuli in different domains, including visual, somatosensory, auditory, and interoceptive (e.g. visceral and body position). The focal loss of awareness, such as language awareness in aphasia or spatial awareness in left-sided neglect, does not significantly impair awareness in other modalities. Motivation is the drive to act upon internal or external stimuli that have entered conscious awareness. In the next section, we describe the brain regions that support these three aspects of consciousness and show that they are not independent, but rather heavily interact with each other....

Oh, good! I understood perfectly that I could bond the neutral in my breaker subpanel and save the expense of a grounding bar kit. Guess I didn't need the knowledge of that written electrical code, that neutral is only bonded to ground in the main panel. So the metal subpanel box and EMT conduit back to main panel went "live" and sent a grounding fault through me instead of back to the earth rod. NOW I understand everything!

But this still only establishes a correlation, i.e. it could be an indirect causation. For example, antibiotics temporarily alter our colonies of gut microflora (and do so in other mammalian species). This can change nutritional absorption, which in turn can affect fertility markers. So it is possible that humans, if they combined antibiotic treatment with probiotic treatments in the gut to counteract shifts in population of microflora, would not see the same decline in fertility. So "clearly causal" can have many hidden assumptions that need to brought to light and studied. Humans are incredibly complex ecosystems.