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The inheritance can be put into a special needs trust, to be used for the benefit of the child.

I didn’t find the peanut rubber, but did find that

Dr. George Washington Carver’s work resulted in the creation of more than 300 products from peanuts, contributing greatly to the economic improvement of the rural South. source

OP’s article states that

He helped Henry Ford make peanut rubber for cannons for World War II.

But I can’t find a actual source for that just endless repeated comments to that effect. I wonder if whoever-originated-that-idea conflated Carver’s peanut work with his other work with Ford:

By the time World War II began, Ford had made repeated journeys to Tuskegee to convince Carver to come to Dearborn and help him develop a synthetic rubber to help compensate for wartime rubber shortages. Carver arrived on July 19, 1942, and set up a laboratory in an old water works building in Dearborn. He and Ford experimented with different crops, including sweet potatoes and dandelions, eventually devising a way to make the rubber substitute from goldenrod, a plant weed. Carver died in January 1943, Ford in April 1947, but the relationship between their two institutions continued to flourish. Source

Aka, "we just want to do this little opportunistic land grab while Syria is focused on other matters. Don’t mind us, we’re just gonna slide right in here … "

if they see a smashed window, that’s an obvious sign that the cabin is not secured for takeoff

lmao!

Pardons require a sympathetic governor, which will never happen.

Jury nullification requires that everyone on the jury votes not-guilty, which is a pretty high bar to hit.

A hung jury, on the other hand, simply requires one or more members of the jury to vote not-guilty. He could still be re-tried, of course, but having just one principled person is a lot easier than having all 12.

As for chores, I have problems with that as well, so I started watching my favorite shows on tv. But the annoying type of tv, the type with lots of commercials. And every time a commercial comes on, I get up and do a bit of cleaning.

When I start, the first hour might be something like collecting, bagging and taking out trash, moving dishes to the kitchen, and putting all my dirty clothes in a pile. But then the second hour of tv, I might set the dishes to soak during the first ad, put the clothes in the washer during the second, and start scrubbing the dishes during the third set of commercials.

I feel less guilty about watching TV, I’m not wasting time doom scrolling or playing Candy Crush during the ads, the housework is actually getting done, and yet I don’t feel tired when the show ends because the work was done in short bursts throughout the hour.

Another thing I do sometimes is that I’ll make a commitment to myself that today I’m going to walk into each area (bedroom, kitchen, bath, entryway, living room, hallway, utility room, pantry, etc) and improve one thing in each area. The improvement can be anything - pick a piece of paper off the floor, replace a dead lightbulb, fold one towel, whatever.

And I’ll do that for the first couple/few areas, but then I get some momentum going. I’ll end up picking up dishes or trash and doing a bunch of stuff over several rooms. After a while, I’ll find myself slowing down, so I’ll go through every area to make sure I’ve done something, then finish up anything I might have left half-done, then go take a well-earned rest.

I like the tv-commercials-cleaning because it doesn’t leave me tired at the end. I like the fix-one-thing idea because I got really tired of having one random room clean while the others were in disarray; I found it lifted my spirits if I had at least some progress in each room.

I don’t know if either of those ideas help, but they might.

I got stuck on presents as well, then someone over on tildes mentioned getting each of their friends a piece of a meteorite. I didn’t even know this was a thing you could do!

I checked out the site they were using and it seems legit, so I got meteorite-bits for everyone on my list. I got the cheap ones, they’re about $10-15 each. They’re pretty small, but I think it’s totally awesome to be able to hold an actual piece of outer space, regardless of size

The idea came from an entire thread of gift ideas so even if meteorites don’t tickle your fancy, something else there may catch your eye.

The Network Contagion Research Institute studies the spread of hostile ideological content. From an article linked in this article:

“We’ve identified highly engaged posts circulating the names of other healthcare CEOs and others celebrating the shooter," he said. "The framing of this incident as some opening blow in a class war and not a brutal murder is especially alarming.”