Also busses, tractors and combines and all sorts of farm equipment, everything that could be looted from businesses and homes was looted. Hundreds of thousands of children were kidnapped.

ruzzia is a scourge, always was always will be, unfit to exist on this planet.

Every time I say it here, I am moded down as a troll, doesn't change the reality.

Playing devil's advocate, there may be some give on the "assuming room temperature" part. I recall reading about "negative thermocouples" a while back where they played tricks with materials and geometry to get a high view factor into cold space straight from the ground and used basically 2.7K of the sky as a heat sink.

what happens if a Westerner drives his Porsche into a tunnel (they have those in Germany, for instance) or parks in an underground garage?

Russian's are happy to deliberately contaminate their own people, rivers, lakes and forests with nuclear waste. They fly nuclear powered cruise missiles over their own land. They leak weaponized anthrax in their own cities. They have solders dig and occupy trenches in land they know is contaminated with nuclear waste.

What could possibly make you believe the Russians would hesitate to spread yet more nuclear waste around in Ukraine if they thought it would bring them some military advantage? In all likelihood this damage to the confinement shell was accidental, but I don't know, and neither do you. What I know with absolute certainty is that Russians don't give fuck number one about the consequences of this, deliberate or otherwise, whether they eventually occupy the land they hope to or not.

There's people I get along with and there's people I don't. I feel no need to bend over backwards to please the latter given that I don't need to bend over backwards to get along with the former; I'm an adult, so I am comfortable with this.

There are and always have been people who like buying old stuff whether its tech, classic cars, clothes or 101 other miscellaneous things. The only problem with tech is that once it breaks that may be the end of it because even an electronics expert cant repair something that requires a replacement ASIC that's no longer made (eg pretty much every 70s, 80s and 90s electronic toy).

I dont want to pay a subscription to a media company ( I already have to pay a license fee for the BBC and that's enough). If theres a film I want to watch and keep I'll buy it on dvd otherwise ill wait for it to turn up on FTA TV.

The wonderful thing about a "spectrum" is that everyone is on it. Even on the "extremely high functioning but want to feel special about an aspect of my personality I may otherwise be insecure about" end.

Pathologizing the human condition is unhealthy. I'm not interested in playing.

"Privileged"! "Rich"!

The number of people who are powered by sheer envy is just depressing. Envy isn't a good thing, folks.

NYT had an article last week about how stressful it is for autistic white collar professionals to constantly mask their perceived antisocial behaviors and fake being normal in the workplace.

This was said earnestly. Apparently it is a form of psychological trauma to refrain from interrupting your boss and forcing yourself to stop what you're doing to make eye contact.

I told the wife about this, and naturally her reaction was that I must have aspergers on account of I'm blunt anddon't always prioritize the emotional well-being of my interlocutors, thus I must be blind to it.

I told her
a) Asperger's doesn't exist in DSM 5 (was folded into the "autism spectrum disorder" everyone and their mother now has
b) It's never a good idea to bring your whole self to work. You bring your professional self, because your whole self may not refrain from the urge to tell your colleagues *exactly* what you think of their deeply-held subjective opinions on politics, religion, or lifestyle choices. And that would be bad for unit cohesion.
c) I'm not blind to other people's emotional states. Sometimes I just don't give a fuck. Especially when time's a tickin' and safe space calm down time with playdoh and stuffies is not on the agenda.

Hi, Prof. Here for the test. I've brought my emotional support nerd. Nerds aren't people, so he counts. Don't mind if we wispers emotionally supporting right answers into my ear.

TFA has a bit about a kid who brought his mother to class and she ended up doing all of his class participation for him.

To fuck with gentle reminders. Bring back caning, I say.

Sorry Chief, I need a little extra time
a) putting out this house fire
b) catching the axe murderer
c) appllying CPR to the patient
d) cooking up this burger the customer paid for
e) preparing the regulatory filings ahead of the legally binding deadline
f) sitting on the couch and smoking pot instead of making myself useful

Suburb of Boston. Median household income well into six figures. Houses going for a million-plus. And over a quarter of the kids in the school system have IEPs on file.

Even worse in some of the other rich towns around here.

Granted I didn't grow up in a million dollar school district, but back in my day, maybe 2 or 3 percent of the kids in my class had IEPs and you could tell they had problems.

A quarter of my graduating class did *not* have problems. And back then they did not have IEPs.

It is 110% a scam to cheat on tests and it has been for a long time. Let me repeat: there are real disabled people out there getting necessary accommodations, but they are outnumbered at least 10 to 1 by fakers and grifters at places like rich towns outside of Boston and the Ivy plus schools they tend to attend afterwards.