AOC Reveals She's a Sexual Assault Survivor: 'Trauma Compounds on Each Other'
While discussing the aftermath of the Capitol insurrection on Instagram Live on Monday night, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) revealed for the first time that she’s a survivor of sexual assault. Ocasio-Cortez, who has spoken at length before about “narrowly escaping death” during the seditious riot, grew emotional as she described her harrowing experience hiding from the Capitol rioters.
“I started to hear these yells: ‘Where is she? Where is she?” Ocasio-Cortez recalled, explaining that she heard someone storming into her office as she hid in a bathroom.
Recounting that the door she was hiding behind began to open, the congresswoman added: “This was the moment where I thought everything was over… that’s when I thought I was going to die.”
“I’m a survivor of sexual assault,” she said with tears in her eyes. “And I haven’t told many people in my life. But when we go through trauma, trauma compounds on each other.”
She then said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other Republicans who supported overturning President Joe Biden’s election victory are using “tactics of abusers” by denying their own responsibility for the Jan. 6 insurrection and telling her to move on.
“They are now telling me to apologize for saying and speaking truth to what happened,” she said, adding that she is “not going to let this happen again.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/aoc-reveals-shes-a-sexual-assault-survivor-says-trauma-compounds-on-each-other
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I’m trying to show that there is an infinite list of pairs of primes that differ by 2. For example {3,5}, {5,7}, {11,13}, {17,19}, etc. I’m stuck trying to show there is such an infinite list. No matter how hard I try. Math is hard. 
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No, I’m not really working on the twin prime conjecture! 
Terry Tao has made substantial progress on it, but not done yet. Terry also made progress on the Goldbach conjecture that any even number > 2 is the sum of two primes. I like to mention these two unsolved problems that even an average third grader can understand!
The Riemann hypothesis is still far from being solved.
The Poincaré conjecture somewhat recently solved was closer to my wheelhouse when I was in grad school, but now I do applied stuff to earn a living.
... it crossed my mind that you could be some young student given an impossible extra-credit task by a sadistic math professor. Lol.
I've never really applied my degree in the work world much at all, unless I count my part-time job as a grad research assistant.
I foolishly married after getting the BS degree, and I had to drop out of grad school (full scholarship) because she turned out to be a drug addict who was secretly getting cash withdrawals on my credit cards. So I divorced her and then dropped out of school to quickly find a full-time job, being stuck with those bills.
That was back in the 90's when billing was mostly handled through regular mail. I was so naive about drugs back then that I didn't recognize the signs of her cocaine usage, but I obviously realized that her behavior was different at some point. (I later learned that she'd stopped using drugs before our marriage, but she secretly fell back into old habits afterwards.)
I've only had a few opportunities to creatively use basic math skills at various factory jobs, where I've worked mostly in quality control, such as estimating the total length of a roll of flat material after a counter stopped working. Measured the total diameter of the roll, the core diameter, and the thickness of the (thin) material itself. Those random situations will often impress my blue-collar coworkers, of course. 
