My theory is that nano and microplastics accumulate differently in women due to fatty tissue differences , and this is somehow an intermediate step

Often, but not as a rule, progressive organizations age badly

I personally like the fact a lot of people are using AI to learn fundamentals, but only because this improves employment of real coders.

It’s also going to harm many predatory startups too, run by idiots with deep pockets. It’s better to handicap them this way than they actually have scalable stuff which works in the real world.

Most of the programming job cuts this year are untreated to AI, it’s another bubble that is bursting. But the above is creating another bubble that will burst in a year or so, and those who can code will see improved salaries, in my opinion

This is Darwinism in action

I stand up for elections that are accurate and fair. If you look at my bio it’s my central belief in what needs to be done in American politics.

I cannot progress any leftest beliefs without accurate elections. So I’m ok if fair elections promote things I dislike very much. But they must be accurately counted.

I think I would respect many democrats more if they shared the same belief; but over the last few years I have become convinced that to be a card carrying Democratic Party member, one must be willing to turn a blind eye to how this country is not very democratic.

So yes, while democrats are better in many ways than republicans, both are harmful

• Trump — I wanna buy it
• China — no
• Trump — I’ll do something bad
• China — here is x million, go away and come back later
• Trump — yay

Yea, they might be incompetent while still fully implementing bad ideas

I also think our primate brains simply cannot handle being in a group larger than some small number; and most of us have lost the ability to shrink back down to that level of interactions for sustaining ourselves .

So we have exceeded our design parameters.

I think if one follows the same practices as what is implemented in the UK and France and other democracies, then the issues we speak of with American ballot counting will simply go away.

I would not trust any improvements over the ballot counting methods perfected over 200 years ago. Scantrons, as mentioned, obfuscate witnesses trying to spot issues, and anything else is simply worse.

The modern crop of voting machines are not that much better than the Diebold machines, its hard to tell due to everyone being locked out of investigating them. Most people do not understand that these systems can have the owners throwing the elections without the employees being any wiser. We do not know this is happening, but with the exit polls and other hints going on, I would rate is as probable.

I think my issues with voting machines are influenced by me making similar systems myself. But still, I have no idea why people think they are a good idea. I do not think its a matter of education, or lack of awareness, because I tried for a few years to educate people, and have talked to others who tried too. I think it boils down to some taboo against calling out cheating in the American culture, to be honest. But that is just my idea

Texas is ok. Yes, it has a corrupt bad government steeped in endless corruption. But the big cities are just regular North American cities in both outlook and being cosmopolitan in nature (there are dozens of ethnic groups that have a huge impact on Houston, for example). And most of the rural population is allergic to politics. There is a warming trend that is going to cause mass migrations out of Texas in the next two generations, though.

First, I’m rather far far left. Both mainstream parties have traditionally been against things I hold dear. So things promoted by democrats can be poison to me.

But that is not the point.

When you have a party supporting the fascists, and a party that is less so; and that other party is against enabling, asking, paying token lip service: to democratic principles that every real democracy in the world holds dear, practices that would make the fascists loose.

That makes them a passive enabler.

There is nothing wrong with being a professional looser, and a corrupt mess, if that is what your voters want. But when it’s something that important and there is still no mass awareness of the situation, or even a glimmer of interest to do better.

That does make them equally bad. Much like a child abuse scenario where one parent beats up the children and another parent lets them.

And I think future historians will agree with me

Reminds me of that series of novels that had a knight and dragon team up to fleece villages. Dragon would come in, terrify folks; then folks pay knight to kill dragon. Repeat a few dozen times

What is the most ethical thing to do here?

the hanging chads in FL

Those were really badly designed ballots. Look at France or the UK or Canada or Virginia etc for how they should be. No self respecting democracy should ever use a half mechanical design that fails like that.

What really made me angry later was that this was used to justify worse ways counting ballots. But my main issue was the shut down recounts. Busy was never properly elected, in my mind, and he made several problems for the USA that still have ramifications to this day.

His dad introduced modern computer voting. He used his contacts to form the first private voting companies we know today. And in my view his son was elected to Texas only because of that.

an expat now. Did you leave?

No, still in Texas. Unfortunately, during the gw era I was not interested in politics much. If I sound like an expat its because I am totally not on board with any of the major political movements

Edit: confused bushes