Your point being?

Oh no, no more Mercedes, Toyota, Lexus! Buy Ford, General Motors, Fiat Chrysler instead! Oh, wait, Ford parts are made in China, as are General Motors and Fiat. And Toyota has a number of plants in the States. What to do in this Global Economy, what to do....

The description of the process of the photo was interesting. I'm not sure I agree with it being just a shot of "wild carrots".

As I understand it, they have proved that birds are descendants of dinosaurs based on … well, he**, I can't find the reference where I read it … but this article is interesting …

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-dinosaurs-shrank-and-became-birds/

From Harvard Medical Review which points out that parents would rather have a diagnosis of ADHD rather than autism.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-it-adhd-or-autism-201510278462

Is it ADHD—or Autism?
Posted October 27, 2015, 8:00 am , Updated October 29, 2015, 5:40 pm
Claire McCarthy, MD
Claire McCarthy, MD
Senior Faculty Editor, Harvard Health Publishing

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism can look a lot alike. Children with either one can be very active and impulsive, and can have trouble focusing and interacting with other people. In fact, it can be hard to tell the difference between the two.

But telling the difference is very important.

In a study just published in the journal Pediatrics, researchers looked at about 1,500 children between the ages of 2 and 17 who had a current diagnosis of autism (as reported by their parents). They found that those who got an ADHD diagnosis before they got an autism diagnosis were diagnosed with autism an average of 3 years later than those who got the autism diagnosis first — and were 30 times more likely to get the autism diagnosis when they were 6 years old or older.

Why does this matter? While there is a lot we don’t know about autism, one thing we do know is that the earlier treatment starts, the better the child does in the long run. While autism can be diagnosed as early as age 24 months, the median age for diagnosis is over 4 years. Every year the diagnosis is delayed is a year a child isn’t getting help — which can have lifelong ramifications. So to have the diagnosis delayed by three years — and delayed past those crucial early years — is a real tragedy.

It isn’t always easy for general pediatricians to diagnose autism in young children. It takes special training, and it takes time, something the average busy pediatrician doesn’t have. And given that the social aspects of autism may not be obvious before a child starts school, parents may not realize that their child has trouble socializing with others — and may not report it to the pediatrician. Given this, and given that most parents would rather hear that their child has ADHD than that he or she has autism, and therefore not push for further testing, it’s understandable how this happens.

Autism isn’t the only diagnosis that can look like ADHD. Children with learning disabilities, sleep disorders, hearing loss, and other problems are often misdiagnosed with ADHD.

So before settling on a diagnosis of ADHD, especially in a young child, parents should talk with their doctor about whether doing more testing would be a good idea. These are hard conversations to have, but they are important ones: they can make all the difference when it comes to getting a child the help he or she really needs.

For a non-medical/scientific person our president seems to have a decent understanding the important issues.[/quote]

Important issues like how much he can steal from the US Treasury? How he can corrupt the Justice Department? How he can be sure nobody is held accountable for their actions?

As far as masks go … your reference is from 7 years ago and actually appears to prove the opposite of what you're saying, that masks don't make any difference.

This is addressed to Architect1776

Compassion: sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.

Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another

I know they are not in your vocabulary .. but even an old dog can learn new tricks!

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Good video. Thanks.

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And yet, with English being his second language (or 3rd or 4th), he has made himself perfectly understood in his posts. Therefore I would suggest that his communication skills are good enough for him to know when he is being screwed over.

I wonder if your response is a result of xenophobia, as opposed to wanting to be helpful?

I think the original point was that the US couldn't have done anything because we are not an autocratic society. I beg to differ.

Saying that "oriental societies" seem to tolerate.... implies that all people who have a certain look have a certain personality. I'm sure that's not what you meant, because that would be unbelievably racist.

I believe more tolerance of autocratic government is based on the history of the region. There was a study done in Italy that I read about years ago, that showed how democracy in some regions was more successful than in others. There was an interesting correlation between the success of democracy and the historical form of government. As I'm sure you are aware, Italy has been formed, very recently, by a number of different city-states, each of which had their own form of government.


Here's a reference - not the article I originally read, but which has come to the same conclusions... I don't have access to Jstor.org, alas, but maybe you do

Journal Article
Explaining Institutional Success: The Case of Italian Regional Government
Robert D. Putnam, Robert Leonardi, Raffaella Y. Nanetti and Franco Pavoncello
The American Political Science Review
Vol. 77, No. 1 (Mar., 1983), pp. 55-74
Published by: American Political Science Association
DOI: 10.2307/1956011
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1956011
Page Count: 20

Apparently this article came from the oxford original

Explaining Institutional Success: The Case of Italian Regional Government
Robert D. Putnam (a1), Robert Leonardi (a2), Raffaella Y. Nanetti (a3) and Franco Pavoncello (a4)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1956011
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2014

Abstract
Why do some new representative institutions succeed and others fail? This article tests several hypotheses about the ecology of institutional performance, drawing on a ten-year study of Italian regional governments. Institutional success is greater where socioeconomic development is more advanced, where the political culture is participant and sociable, rather than passive and parochial, and where social stability is greater; these three variables alone account for more than four-fifths of the variance in institutional performance. Of particular importance is the impact of historical patterns of social solidarity and political mobilization on contemporary institutional success.

So you think the miscommunication was on my part?

Well then, I'm sorry I inferred that you're an idiot.

And by the way, South Korea is a democracy.

Yes, everything bad that’s happened in the world in the last 50 years or so has totally been the “dems” fault. AVery simple answer to a complex and convoluted problem.

How special!

Why did we go into Korea?

Dems

Vietnam?

Dems

Poverty?

Dems

1% having all the wealth?

Dems

Covid-19?

Dems

Kids on drugs?

Dems

Divorce?

Dems

Thank goodness you’ve made life so clear to me!

That was the only other option ?

a-totally ignore it despite warnings from the CDC and WHO

b-authoritarian rule

Or, gee, I don’t know, maybe have a plan in case something like this would happen? Like the one that was already in place before TrashMeister disbanded it?

or Help the states acquire testing?

Or Help the hospitals acquire protective gear?

Or Actually listening to the professionals who might have some CLUE as to how to handle this?