Before you started correcting people on this, I kind of thought ICE was created as an interior immigration enforcement branch, as distinct from the border patrol's focus on the border. But if border patrol already operated throughout the country, what was the point of making ICE?

"first, do no harm" isn't actually in the hippocratic oath

what's extra funny is that there are 4 combinations of growth/inflation, and we got the only one he didn't list

As big as the big AI companies are in terms market cap, are they really that systemically financially important in the way the financial institutions that crashed in 08 were?

I'd say it's a suburban neighborhood, but it's not "a suburb."

isn't there a theory that non-college workers will be harmed less by AI, and may even benefit from it?

as with so many cancel culture pieces, this one doesn't define what "cancellation" means

like this line was pretty telling:

"On March 10, 1994, a now-cancelled Bellow, age 78, wrote in The New York Times:"

what does it mean to be canceled if you're still writing in the NYT?

I think it's more that people who choose to respond to surveys are more likely to be people who choose to participate in protests/vote/etc.
People who are totally uninterested in politics and just don't like participating in stuff are more likely to just not respond to surveys.

if they were going to make scream 4 they should have made ghostface a zombie or something, do something different

go halloween 3 mode, lose all the earlier characters, have a wacky ethnic white businessman trying to do an apocalypse as a prank

Maybe this is naive, but shouldn't the extremely angry reaction from obvious local citizens create some cognitive dissonance for the DHS agents? Aren't these local citizens supposed to be the people benefiting from the deportation of notionally bad illegal immigrants from their neighborhoods?

It's popular. It's a winner.

Do they just list a random selection of the voter's personal views, or do they pick the ones that will be most likely to confuse you?

It makes more sense than voters wanting to abolish the police but thinking it would go too far to get rid of prisons.

It certainly makes more sense than abolishing the police while keeping prisons.

part of it is that even if you are pro-immigration, it doesn't make sense to think that immigrants improve public safety (as opposed to not having an effect)
but it is kind of nuts that many people believe immigrants don't have a negative effect on culture but do have a negative effect on safety

a couple of kids prank the cops in Michael masks in Halloween 4 too until Loomis nearly shoots them

I don't get why you'd be looking at this kind of indirect evidence for the Big-SUV Hypothesis. Doesn't NHTSA have records of the vehicle type (SUV, passenger car, pickup, etc.) involved in fatal crashes?

To this day, everyone in the Midwest still speaks like they're in a Sinclair Lewis novel. The problem with It Can't Happen Here is that it's mostly set in New England.

I don't understand, can you translate that to modern english?

I assume the "somewhat approve" are just people who forgot that he's not RFK Sr.

idea seems to be that it would make self-filtering on politics worse, but presumably political self-filtering would be just as bad for people meeting in person

but would these low-information voters be aware of these long litmus tests that bluesky-types try to impose?

could be a driving teacher who frequently has students driving in his car with him

Sinclair Lewis, the midwestern liberal novelist known for It Can't Happen Here was a member of the America First Committee

one of the big issues for the everyman is what kind of vestiary politicians have

yeah, that does seem right

and I suppose the whole anti-immigrant attitude is premised on a fixed-pie, anti-abundance assumptions, so maybe it is uniquely bad for an "abundance" movement to embrace anti-immigrant activists

I think this guy and his ideas are bad, but him and his anti-immigrant ideas aren't being "legitimized" by his appearing at a YIMBY conference--Anti-immigrant policies are already plenty "legitimate" in US politics and aren't going to be stopped by keeping their advocates off conference stages.

In Plato's Euthyphro, Socrates runs into a guy who is on his way to the court to prosecute his own father for murdering a slave. While this intra-family legal action was taken to be unusual, it didn't sound like it was outside the bounds of the basic legal structures of the courts.