Don't underestimate Colorado. Though it's largely the recent Denver transplants keeping up that stereotype, whereas it's the long-term Texans.

There's a cool thing where pyrex, Pyrex, and PYREX are all different kinds of glass, age only one of them is the really good scientific-grade glass.

Hey look! Someone who only read the headline!

Arid shrublands definitely isn't easier than a temperate forest biome. Tons of wood and berries there. I think they spawn more fertile soil than other biomes as well.

And a tribal start also makes things more difficult because it cripples your research speed.

When I want a chill game, I have a custom start that's basically the standard "crashlanded" but with 5 pawns instead of 3. Lets me cover more skills in the early game rather than struggling through until I can recruit to fill the gaps.

Interesting legal problem, but I object to the chess metaphor: knights more than any other chess piece do not occupy any intermediary spaces between where they start and land.

"One order for fried ice, Don!"

Who's arguing about conviction here?

I want the US to pull out of fossil fuels. In the immediate future, there is no presidential candidate committing to that, but one of them is completely all-in on expanding fossil fuels so I will be voting for the opposite candidate.

Less than a month before election day is not the time for purity politics.

700 people is a good sample size if they are a truly random representative sample of your population. In real life, polling error tends to vary far more than 1/sqrt(n) because of systemic biases in how you select participants. Depending on how the survey was conducted, it could intrinsically favor certain demographics.

Like what, West Virginia? Can me when they're a swing state, but don't hold your breath.

When people are employed by those corporations, they have a vested interest in their livelihood not disappearing overnight.

A survey of 700 people leaves considerable room for polling error. Without information on how they selected participants, I wouldn't say that's an overwhelming margin.

Taking a stand against fracking is all it would take, when the largest swing state this election has an economy that leans heavily on fracking?

It's not the instant win you think it is.

This is like, technically a weapon. It's a tool for destroying enemy missiles in the air before they impact their target. It's about as purely defensive of a weapon as you can get.

The US soldiers are operating the missile defense system, so there's not room for Israel to "creatively" repurpose them. They aren't assisting in any missions in Palestine, they're purely defending against Iranian missiles.

Scottish talk radio sounds like a trip.

Those also use a combination of many different sensors to see the road around them, while Tesla stubbornly refuses to use anything except vision because that's how humans do it. Nevermind that even with our best AI models, we've never even approximated how the human brain works.

On a related note...

Full Self Driving coming next year? Or the year after that? Or after that?

Sure, I agree. But the CEOs of McDonalds and Wendy's don't want to miss a single day of profits and their wealth gives them a lot more political power than I have.

It's not satire, it's 100% the reasoning that would be used in this argument. That's the train of thought that we took towards covid.

Why does a language have different words for different concepts?

It's an abbreviation.

Not all abbreviations are acronyms, only the ones that take the first letter from each word. Lego takes two letters from each word, so it's not an acronym.

On a similar note, some but not all acronyms are initialisms, if they're spoken as the letters rather than the "word" they create.

FYI, DIY, PS are all initialisms, and also acronyms, and also abbreviations. ASAP, SCUBA, and LASER are acronyms and abbreviations, but not initialisms. Lego, appt, and st are all abbreviations but neither acronyms nor initialisms.

That's...not an acronym. That'd just be LG.