@pheonixed
I do see your point. But a lot of seasoned commentators are warning that China might be planning to annex Taiwan soon - in the next couple of years. China isn't assembling an invasion force, but they can blockade the country, and that seems to be how they will proceed, if they do.
Leaving aside the politics of Taiwan, it is clear that China, at least with its current leader, is aggressive, in that it is taking control of the whole of the South China Sea. Australia has been on the receiving end of basically unexplained boycotts from China of various trade goods, like barley and wine. The easiest explanation is that was to influence Australia's response to China, such as to permit China to take control of the South China Sea, and Taiwan, and to fall in line with China's views.
China could interdict trade to and from Australia. It can use its dozen nuclear submarines to sink or threaten cargo ships coming and going. Currently Australia can do nothing much to respond, except to give in, and follow China's line from then on. Now, that is an option.
But nuclear submarines would give us more options, including responding in kind.
#Keating is wrong, because our nuclear #submarines can operate a long way from our shores. Exactly where China's trade is located. China's submarines aren't going to linger off our coasts to stop our trade, and will be otherwise unreachable.
Can you think of anyway to handle that? Apart from giving in....

@autismsupsoc @actuallyautistic
One that isn't on the list "Bones" - I'd say Temperance Brennan is the poster person for on screen #autism characters...

@timdunlop
I wonder if the crash in the Tesla stock price, which is because of #SpaceKaren 's attempt to run Twitter, is because he (a) hasn't been devoting enough time to his other companies, or (b) the #GlassOnion realization - that the guy isn't actually all that good at running companies generally?
I think it's increasingly (b), but journalists are sticking with (a), tho investors might not be...

@TeacherGriff
Do you explain you have Asperger's?
Increasingly, I do. And because there is so much general knowledge in the population about this (every second tv show has an #autistic character for instance), this often helps a lot.
I know other people are reluctant to tell others they are autistic, which puzzles me. It's often assumed by other people (or they just label you as "odd"). Autistic people often think they are passing as typical people, but with our crap nonverbal skills, we usually aren't.
After all, blind or deaf people explain or indicate their disabilities, when it's useful to do so. We should too.

@pkrugman
Perhaps we may describe this as the "glass-onion" syndrome, after the current Netflix movie, where this behavior is amply demonstrated.

@TeacherGriff
Yes, I think that is common. As another autistic high-achiever, my theory is that with #austistic people, their language skills are poor in the non-language area, but often fine in the language area. Animals communicate with each other, but only humans do so using spoken and especially written language. But the major part of social interaction is non-verbal - such as body posture, intonation, facial expression, emotion etc, which autistic people are poor(er) at.
So autistic people manage best in purely written language situations, okay at purely spoken, and poorly when actually having to directly interact with other people.
Autistic people can improve these outcomes, by playing to their strengths and minimising their weaknesses - and the technology around today helps with this - using emails instead of phone call, using phone calls instead of face-to-face, and using formal social settings in place of free-form settings, for instance.