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The Watergate scandal is a broad term used today to refer to the series of events that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in his second term.

Watergate specifically is a DC hotel and office complex where the Democratic National Committee's headquarters was. Some men broke into DNC headquarters, and Nixon's campaign clumsily attempted to cover up their involvement with this incident. Nixon's dirty tricks campaign and other issues gradually were unraveled through a series of events, most famously the Washington Post's coverage vis a vis the Deep Throat informant (much later revealed as FBI Special Agent W. Mark Felt). There is a lot more to it, but it was the domino that fell that led to huge upheaval in the federal government.

A good starting point is All the President's Men, the book by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, or the film of the same name.

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In 1972, Richard Nixon was running for reelection. Nixon Had a shady group of characters working for called the Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP) and many of the members were part of his administration or close personal associates. Officially it was a fundraising organization, but really they engaged in a number of illegal activities like money laundering, political intimidation...etc

The headquarters of the Democratic Party (Nixon was a Republican) were in the Watergate Complex in Washington D.C. Members of CREEP broke into the Democratic Party offices to steal documents and plant bugs. They were caught. Over the next 2 years, it became clear through whistle blowers, testimony at the trials of CREEP members, and the revelation of secret audio tapes that Nixon kept of conversations he had in the oval office, that Nixon was personally involved in covering up his administration's involvement with the break in and sabotaging official investigations into it. Facing almost certain impeachment and removal from office, Nixon chose instead to resign.

Yes, and if the comment had said "It's not legal anywhere except Iran," then there would be no confusion or disagreement, because that is an accurate correction.

But people do advertise kidneys for sale even in countries where it is not legal. It does happen in many countries. Saying it doesn't happen is different from saying it isn't legal.

Which is why I said they could have been more clear. I was wrong about who said it, because I didn't realize I was replying to someone else. Otherwise, I stand by what I said.

The Democratic National Committee had offices in the Watergate complex - which held both offices and hotel rooms. During Nixon's second campaign for President, those offices were burglarized in an attempt to ascertain the campaign strategy for Nixon's opponent. The burglars are caught during that attempt.

A tip was given to Bob Woodward that the burglary was committed by allies of President Nixon. This tip came from a man calling himself "Deep Throat" - later revealed to be FBI Associate Director Felt.

As the investigation into that burglary continued, it was discovered that not only were the Republicans behind the burglary, but Nixon himself had authorized it. This was discovered because Nixon secretly recorded many of the interactions that he had in the Oval Office, including discussions of the break-in among them.

Nixon knew that this was damning evidence of a criminal conspiracy, and ordered that the special prosecutor be fired, leading to the resignation of key officials in the administration.

When the SCOTUS ruled that Nixon had to hand over the tapes, it was basically the end of his term. Articles of Impeachment were being drafted, and Nixon was told that he didn't have the votes in Congress to survive. On Aug 8th, 1974, Nixon resigned. That September, Ford pardoned Nixon for all his crimes.

A full timeline is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Watergate_scandal

Richard Nixon was a Republican US president running for reelection and a group of Democrats, called the Democratic National Committee were trying to get their candidate elected. The DNC had their office in the Watergate Hotel, in Washington D.C..

One night there was a break-in at the DNC office, it wasn't a simple robbery, it was an attempt to steal documents and learn about the Democratic strategy. Lots of fingers got pointed and accusations flew quickly.

Long story short, it was in fact Nixon's administration who coordinated the break-in, the perpetrators were caught and found to be literally paid with campaign money from the Nixon campaign. Now this was bad, but the big "no-no" was the Nixon personally did all he could to cover up the crime. So it's a case less of the crime itself, more so that the President orchestrated a campaign to cover the whole thing up. The key was while Nixon was publicly defending himself and saying he knew nothing, the investigators literally got voice recordings, from the Oval Office, of the President talking about and directing the cover up process.

Many people were convicted or went to jail and facing legal action himself, Nixon stepped down from the presidency and his Vice President (who became President upon the abdication) pardoned Nixon. Ironically, had he done nothing at all, Nixon would have safely won his reelection anyway AND the act of pardoning Nixon was so unpopular it doomed his replacement, President Ford, to a largely do-nothing one term presidency.

Then "it" happens in many countries, it just isn't legal. Saying "it" doesn't happen just because "it" isn't legal is not accurate.

There may be free or low cost detox in your area- if you want. You can call SAMHSA 1-800-662-4357 (HELP) and they can help you find some. It's completely anonymous. You can also try 988- the national crisis line.

Sometimes a doctor can help you with a home detox. Basically, they will give you librium, or another benzo that you can take when you start to get withdrawal symptoms. This is usually the same thing they do in the hospital as well- they'll just monitor your vitals.

You can also try to slowly taper down to like- like, have one less drink a day for a week, and keep going until you hit 10 drinks a day before you quit- but that can be harder to control.

Either way, good luck! Addiction is a bitch but people beat it every day. :)

Someone else already mentioned caves, which have very stable temperatures overall.

I'll also add that temperature stability is one of those things that scales with mass. 500 grams of water/milk/cheese/whatever will have more variation in temperature than 50 kg of the same substance.

So cheeses were usually made in really, really big wheels, because that way the temperature would be more stable throughout, and then they'd just cut pieces out of the big block.

Imagine the processor as the really smart classmate that can quickly do any form of mathematics you throw at it. They don’t know why they are doing the equations. They just get the equations and do them.

The equations and what to do with them are on a piece of paper. On a device, this would be something like ROM (read only memory) or other storage (like an SSD).

If you want to make a toaster, you get a processor, and feed it instructions to make toast.

If you want to make a missile, you get a (possibly the same) processor and give it instructions on how to fly and read GPS data.

Thank you!

As others have noted, our tendency to use "want" or "designed" around evolution tends to lead us to more intention from the process than is factual.

For viruses the primary issue is R0 ("R naught"), which is the number of people who become infected for every infected person, so an R0 of 2 means that if I catch that virus I will infect (on average) two people. Anything over 1 means that the virus will spread to more people for each generation of spread.

A virus that is highly contagious will have a high R0 value. If a virus has a high R0 and also kills people after they spread the virus, that's irrelevant for the virus because it has already spread. The severity of the virus will often correlate with its contagiousness because the symptoms go along with the method of spread -- for example, respiratory viruses make people cough, which spreads the virus in the air, and a particularly virulent respiratory virus may make someone cough/spread a lot and also kill the host. If a particular virus evolves to be "worse," and that means it spreads to four people instead of 2 and also kills the host in 20% of cases, that virus will still spread faster than the old virus, even if the host is now dead.

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Ok, just asked because it sounded similar to what I experienced. Hope you get it sorted out!

A microprocessor is a microprocessor. How and what it is interconnected with, and how it is programmed is what matters.

That said, common household products typically use custom chips dedicated to a specific purpose - but many everyday devices can be broken down and used for other purposes.

That's all true, you're absolutely right. I was just trying to keep my anecdote from getting too lengthy by leaving out details...in this case the code in question was written in Java in 2009 and running on IBM WebSphere on contemporary datacenter hardware so there were really better ways to have laid it out. Maybe the robots are stack limited which makes sense, but refactoring it is still a good thought experiment if nothing else.

Convention. It's like the alphabet. The alphabet isn't required to be in ABC ordering by a fundamental force of nature but rather just some particular ordering for better communication.

Caves helped a lot to develop cheese making. They are ideal as their temperature and humidity are relatively stable.

No, I've been tested for apnea. This isn't me saying " I am afraid of sleep" this is an actual Dr's diagnosis of a real thing called Sleep Anxiety. It is kind of a silly thing tho, tbf.

Yeah, people don't really get it. But it is a very silly condition tbh.

Viruses don't "want" anything. You're ascribing motive where there is none. Viruses aren't even alive let alone sentient. From an evolutionary perspective, it doesn't matter if your host dies once you've reproduced and spread to new hosts, so there's no pressure for a virus to evolve to be less deadly so long as it doesn't kill the host so fast that it can't spread.

If we dyed the bottles instead I wonder if it would be a significant drop off

Generally things like this were discovered through trial and error, being done by LOTS of people, in many different places, over a LONG period of time. Pre internet, pre movie theaters, pre entertainment, people had a lot of free time, and not a whole lot to do with it, and so they tried making stuff to see what would happen.

Another thing is that until recently, a lot of things that require exact temperatures or demanding environments simply DIDN'T get created.

That’s what the soap is for. I guess that just rinsing in warm would be better than just rinsing in cold, but neither is particularly effective.

From the CDC: “Is it better to use warm water or cold water? Use your preferred water temperature – cold or warm – to wash your hands. Warm and cold water remove the same number of germs from your hands. The water helps create soap lather that removes germs from your skin when you wash your hands. Water itself does not usually kill germs; to kill germs, water would need to be hot enough to scald your hands.”

https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/faqs.html#:~:text=Is%20it%20better%20to%20use,when%20you%20wash%20your%20hands.