Well, criminals generally don’t like law enforcement officers…

Are we? I’m looking to buy a car now and I think gas cars make the most sense even now, because the change in the price of gas seems like a relatively small part of the cost of car ownership. A one dollar increase in the cost of a gallon of gas works out to about $300 a year in extra costs for me. That’s not enough to tip the balance towards an electric car.

My guess is that Trump personally has neither a good understanding of the political situation in Iran nor a contingency plan for what to do if this war isn’t won quickly, but Netanyahu presumably does have both and Israel can’t “chicken out” and leave the region the way that many people expect the US to. Thus while I remain pessimistic about the possibility of victory through air power, I presume that Israel does have some plan that isn’t clearly a bad idea.

I didn’t expect someone explicitly opposed to majority rule to call me an enemy of democracy…

As a matter of fact, I agree with you that there’s a difference between maximal democracy and good government.

There’s a difference between reinterpreting and simply considering a quote in context.

Would you say the same thing if you didn’t know that it was AI? I think it actually looks pretty good overall, although some of the changes (like deciding that this character dyes her hair had has undyed roots) are odd.

He clearly meant defending the Strait of Hormuz specifically, not attacking Iran generally. Still a bad idea, but not what people are taking the quote to mean out of context.

It’s not enough to have fair elections - a democracy needs elections generally perceived as fair. It would have been better if the Republicans hadn’t created the widespread, false perception that voter fraud is common, but the fact of the matter is that they did and merely trying to convince the public that there is really no problem hasn’t worked so far. If 71% of the voters want to have to show proof of citizenship, and if most of the ones prevented from voting because of that are low-information voters likely to vote for Republicans anyway, I say let the Republicans shoot themselves in the foot.

I feel like Democrats shouldn’t have been fighting the Republicans on this. The law is popular, not entirely unreasonable, and potentially going to hurt Republicans rather than Democrats at the polls.

Yeah, although I admit that I thought biotech was the most interesting and important thing I wanted to do back when I chose it over 20 years ago, but knowing what I do now, I wish I had gone into machine learning instead.