People often use Greek or Latin roots for new terms if they want them to be used internationally, without biasing usage to one language.

This was probably the case for Smuts, who was a committed internationalist and whose native language was Afrikaans rather than English.

Dont say Prometheus

Ok... it was Προμηθεύς.

The article is semiprotected—it’s possible OP already tried to make the edit himself and wasn’t able to.

It means he wants to see how people react to him saying it.

I presume the goal was to put the remains in low earth orbit, where they would eventually have reentered anyway—right?

Who would even follow Elon Musk?

Candidates looking for funding.

I can’t see a significant percentage of Trump’s MAGA supporters abandoning him in favor of Musk. But I can see Musk being a divisive figure among the non-MAGA Republicans, with some refusing to work with him while others are happy to take his money.

The most likely outcome is nothing.

The second most likely outcome is a fracturing of Trump’s opposition, further weakening their ability to impede him.

If they weren’t such incompetent idiots I’d suspect it was a ploy to create a controlled opposition.

You could restrict it to cases where the victim and defendant belong to significantly different demographics, then.

You could expand that to a general principle for all criminal cases: select one judge that matches the demographics of the defendant as closely as possible, one that matches the victim, and one that differs to an equal degree from both.

He was originally jailed for life but at an appeal doctors told the court the rapes arose of sexual frustration arising out of his marriage to an “ambitious and demanding” wife. The sentence was reduced and he spent only about two years in jail.

Why are rapists seemingly the only category of offender judges always manage to find sympathy for?

It’s interesting that the same stimulus (COVID) could cause crime to spike in the short term, then decline to below the original level.

I wonder if that could be a general pattern with societal trauma or social change in general—there’s an initial period of disruption, then a re-adaptation that creates an opportunity to resolve long-standing issues with the previous status quo.