problems with buses transporting voters to polling stations

That's a fun way to say "fascists kept shutting down busses."

No sooner had we had our first dinner at the White House, which is a very seductive and beautiful place

Young Man. Cheesecake Factory Astounds.

I say Young Man! Cheesecake Factories Abound!

I just learned that this guy is not Ezra Klein.

Archimedean death ray technical

"What the hell? They just updated my job description to include "viciously bullying dorky oligarchs" as a responsibility?"

Yes, this is a major contributor. I teach a scientific writing class, and we spend the first several weeks work shopping a single piece of theirs from 750 words down to (eventually) 250 words. They have to unlearn the habit of saying everything in the longest, fluffiest, emptiest way possible. They developed that habit because most of their English assignments have heavily penalized them for only having 8 pages of stuff to say for a 10 page assignment. It's second nature by this point, and it makes for very bad writing. They're shocked to have to deal with maximum word counts instead of minimum, as well as by how much better (and shorter) their writing gets when you remove all the "of course, under some circumstances, it may well be true that..." style constructions.

I think the results are skewed because they're so often phrased as "your country." My answers would be very different if I lived in a nation that was actually benevolent instead of

I got anarcho-syndicalist though so not too far off I guess.

If I found out that some person I knew was secretly harassing Bryan Johnson, that would just make me think I should hang out with them more.

It already says "philosopher."

I also had seborrheic dermatitis for years. It got so bad on my face that it would bleed in the winter. Head and Shoulders did nothing, but an antifungal (ketoconazole 1%) shampoo completely knocked it out, and I haven't had an outbreak in years. I use Nizoral.