I did a double-take too, but she’s wearing skin-colored shorts with a red stripe on them over tights.

One day we might be able to create operators with three or maybe even four question marks. Imagine the possibilities!

What gets me is when I’m not allowed to remove an external drive. Deleting a file can be delayed until later but here I am with a physical object that I need to detach from my computer and first I need to play hide and seek with the OS.

I’m not sure how the members of Congress of both parties who voted for the (imo unconstitutional, despite what the court says) TikTok ban expected government control of which media companies are allowed to operate in the US to end in any other way. Did they have fantasies of an apolitical forced takeover? Forced takeovers aren’t generally apolitical things.

The aggravating factor is not the identity of the victim but rather the intent of the murderer. There have already been two more murders inspired at least partially by the murder of Brian Thompson (at least to the extent that the killers also wrote messages on the shell casings). If the rule of law is to be preserved, then it must be made clear that those who try to use violence as a tool for extralegal social change will not succeed, and that they will be punished severely.

I feel like unbanning them due to pressure from the Trump administration is compounding the harm done by banning them due to pressure from the Biden administration, rather than undoing that harm.

This particular murder is a challenge to the rule of law as a basic principle in a way that, for example, multiple murders by a serial killer are not. The serial killer does more direct harm, but IMO this murder requires more forceful repudiation by society.

This sort of America-centric analysis neglects the fact that birth rates have also dropped to well below replacement in other countries with governments and cultures very different from those in the USA, and that neither expanding the welfare state nor attempting to restore traditional values has reversed this trend in the countries that tried that. Thus a discussion of either potential causes or potential solutions which focuses specifically on the USA is fundamentally incomplete.

I don’t think it’s a matter of the people’s ignorance. His constituents may agree that the park is good for San Francisco as a whole and still oppose it.

I don’t mean literally the entire globe but rather any group larger than his consistency. And he doesn’t represent all of San Francisco.

Appropriate, given that he chose to act against the interests of the people he was representing. They’ll have a hard time undoing the damage (if I understand correctly, the entire city would need to approve) but at least they can prevent more of that sort of thing.

He might be right when he says that San Francisco as a whole is better off with this park, but I don’t think the role of local politicians is to maximize global well-being, as opposed to the well-being of their constituents, unless their constituents want to maximize global well-being.

Yes, but that’s not what the guy I’m replying to is saying.

Ok, but you’re not starting with the belief that Americans are having fewer children because they can’t afford to, the way that the poster I’m replying to is.

But then how do you explain why the within-county trends match both the trends across countries and the historical trends?

How do you explain why people had children throughout most of human history when conditions were far worse than they are now? Or why people in the poorest parts of the world continue to have children now? I believe that from your subjective point of view, what you posted feels true, but I don’t know how you reconcile it with the objective facts that people in poor countries have more children than people in rich countries, and that even within the United States poor people have more children than rich people.

They’re small but they actually have a pretty good reputation.

The Pope isn’t a good role model if you want to reduce the “continuously wider gap between the income levels of the working class and the money that the wealthiest receive”. I’m not saying he shouldn’t live in splendor - I think that the Catholics get to run their organization however they want. But so do Tesla investors…

Yes. He doesn’t say “One of them.” There’s nothing wrong with “One of us” when “us” in this context is clearly “residents of Utah”.

I guess so, because what I cook looks like a pancake (when I don’t burn it) and is actually a little gummier than I consider ideal (which is why I need to try cooking them longer with lower heat) rather than crumbling.

It’s this stuff.

INGREDIENTS: Enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, dextrose, leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate), salt, food starch-modified, soybean oil, buttermilk.

So I think that’s a no, but I don’t know what the “food starch-modified” does.