The same number of Americans chose him this time as last time. What changed is that 13M Americans stayed at home rather than vote for Harris instead of Biden.

The Americans aren’t in the war. They’re just dealing in arms.

Don’t need a degree, but computer programming is fundamentally logic and algorithms. You need to have internalise reasoning logically. In some ways critical thinking is closer to programming than trig is.

So how will you know if he changes anything?

The US isn’t in anything right now. It’s deployed (it always is), but not in active hostilities.

(Unless I’m missing something in Central or South America)

Honestly. No country should have the military spending that the US does. It’s too much power in one place. I understand the cold war made it necessary though.

Apart from the “Magna Carter Islands” bit… it’s kinda right.

Not ban. Regulate, like food. Have standards and enforce them.

Secondhand nicotine does you no harm. The reason cigarettes are so bad for you is that you’re smoking tar. That’s what makes the walls of a smokers home yellow, and what gives them cancer.

Nicotine is addictive, but largely harmless at the levels in cigarettes and vapes for the primary smoker. A secondhand smoker will be getting almost nothing. The problem with vapes is, I suspect, the flavourings. I’m aware of mounting evidence that they’re not harmless, but I think that’s only to primary vapers, not secondary.

I think that last point is an important one.

Banning things often does more harm than good. In your case “Nicotine Bad!” as a policy removes your options.

So regulate them and enforce it.

Oh boo hoo!

People being mildly annoying means they should be banned? Cigarettes were killing smokers and those around them. That’s the line for me. If your actions harm others, then it gets restricted.

Vapes are nowhere near that line. They just smell weird.

You know this, but nicotine isn’t the problem. It’s all the other crap in them.

Nobody is saying to you that blocking shouldn’t be available. They are saying to you that blocking large numbers of people to create a bubble is harmful to you and the wider community.

Hence blocking people who agree with a certain post is going too far. The action is too heavy handed for the “crime”. It would be a harmful feature. It’s"shooting people in the head for laughing at an edgy joke" levels of heavy handedness.

I’m not sure there is. The whole point of these anti-cheat systems is to detect running on modified setups that allow for the injection of code. An emulator is one such system.

Is 20% faster than intel a step up, generation on generation?

…because if you stop listening to other opinions you end up in a divided society that has no way of healing.

Lots of other new cars have lane keeping assist and automatic braking, BLIS, adaptive cruise control etc, and so on with more capable sensors and can for the most part drive without input from the driver better than the Tesla

Self driving is a huge step on from these things though. Hyper cruise control is easy in comparison and that’s what those features give.

Self driving means capable in all situations and all conditions. Not just highways.

It’s an issue for society.