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So the alternative is what?

This is a natural consequence of a two-party system: you will be forced to choose between two parties that both deviate from your political preferences. Casting a ballot for a third party, or abstaining from voting, are both effectively the same as voting for the party you hate the most.

You may feel some semblance of true choice by participating in primaries.

Otherwise, the only path to installing politicians you truly believe in is to change the system -- be it by reform or revolution.

Did he cheat at other games too? I knew of the Path of Exile 2 incident, but I'd hardly call that a zero-skill game.

The problem is Google's AI results get even simple factual questions wrong all the time.

Earlier today, I searched "pixel 10 wifi 7" because I was confused that GSMArena showed my Pixel 8 supports Wifi 7, but the Pixel 10 only Wifi 6. Gemini confidently claimed that the Pixel 10 does support Wifi 7 -- but that's not true at all. Only the Pixel 10 _Pro_ supports it, as I discovered when actually reading the non-AI search results.

And this is a question about a Google product!

> Libraries that were made independently usually fit together like a glove because they are all just maps/vectors in -> maps/vectors out.

This is also the biggest weakness of Clojure (IMO). When everything is "just data", you spend a lot of time digging deep in libraries trying to figure out exactly what shape the data should take. Additionally, the shape of input data is almost never validated, so you spend lots of time debugging nasty type errors far from the place where bad data entered the program.

There have been some abortive attempts at solving this with things like spec, Prismatic Schema, etc, but nothing that has taken hold like TypeScript did with JS.

I'm still waiting for my dream language with the flexibility and immutability of Clojure, but without the pain points of an anything-goes attitude towards typing and data shape.

This is so sad to read. Knowing that the people actively making every aspect of life more monetized and addictive are acutely aware of the harm they create, yet are motivated by such base selfishness that they can ignore all that for the paycheck.

To be fair, risk calculus does not appear to be this administration's strong suit.

I think you would be hard-pressed to find any human who has been 100 pounds overweight for any amount of time that doesn't have an obesity-related comorbidity.

Hypertension, sleep apnea, high cholesterol, etc are all common in the general population and exacerbated or even caused by the physical and lifestyle conditions that beget obesity.

If you haven't used it, how can you judge its quality level?

A top "5 in the world" city is obviously an outlier.

It seems self-evident that simply turning off street lights in the vast majority of cities will not cause them to become world-leading bastions of calm and safety.

That's heavily dependent on regional/cultural factors. Among a younger and (mostly) gayer demographic, the once-feared "C-word" is very commonly used, especially in its adjective form.

Physics is the poster child of a discipline that knows its foundations are wrong. Basically every physicist understands that our current theories are full of holes and a new way of thinking is needed. So I don't really buy the idea that physics in particular is stifled by a rigid adherence to the status quo.

Anyone from Portland who can explain the dirt/gravel roads shown in the Eastmoreland/Errol Heights area? For example, on Malden between 45th and 52nd.

Street View shows these are residential roads mired in mud and muck -- surprising for being in a built-up populated area of the city.

During a trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in my youth, we portaged through Party Lake. I am sad to report no revelry occurred.

However, Mud Lake definitely lived up to its name.

Right, I didn't mean to imply it was a US-only phenomenon -- plenty of countries have fundamental rights enshrined in their constitutions, with varying degrees of difficulty to amend. I was specifically responding to the claim about countries that instead have "hard to change" laws, since laws are typically much easier to repeal than constitutions.