Well sure, but that belief is almost always based in faith, not medicine. Having protections of religion is all well and good, too, but we don’t allow murder-cults to go around murder-culting even though it’s based in their self-proclaimed faith. Religious organizations change their tune all the time on issues with…

Yeah, I don’t know much about how they treat their workers, but their public health contributions are great. Walk-in flu shots, too.

The worst part to me is that it isn’t even named after Obama, the republican party called it Obamacare to make a boogeyman out of it. They’ve spent the greater part of the last eight years building up an enemy out of nowhere so they could posture and squeal about it. They created this mess just so they would have a…

Clinton and Trump were never comparable candidates. She was never the perfect democratic candidate, but to cite her character, friendliness with Wall-Street, and fondness of military action as a way to discredit her against what we now have instead seems awfully foolhardy, don’t you think? Donald speaks with the…

Even if we ignore the fact that nearly all illegal immigrants come through valid checkpoints and airports, the fact that anyone thinks a wall is going to deter someone who’s willing to cross potentially hundreds of miles of desert, ford a dangerous river, and then cross even more desert is nothing short of absurd, to…

Flat tax rates don’t exist so long as you can get exemptions, for one, which are the single most useful tool governments have in encouraging certain types of spending for corporate and high-income entities.

I’m sure if you picked through every possible case and threw away the vast majority of them you could, too.

I tend to agree with these sentiments, but I’ll add that for the auto bailout, at least, those companies weren’t given free money. They were given giant standard-interest loans, which they have or still are paying back to the fed. It kept the auto industry from crashing and helped bolster the federal budget, which was…

First of all, UT makes it very easy for people living in the state of Texas with good grades to get a full ride there. I personally had a nearly-full ride offer there when I was looking for undergrad, and I wasn’t a valedictorian. They also allow any student from a Texas high school in the top 10% of their class into…

If it’s any consolation on the precedent, faithless electors aren’t all that rare, and have happened in tons of elections throughout US history without destroying the election process. Texas, at least, even allows members of the electoral college to defect. They’ve never changed the result of an election, as far as I…

you can stop them from calling by hitting them with a status ailment. Paralyzed, asleep, etc pokemon can’t call for help.

Because using military spending/gdp ratio is arbitrary, in part. Admittedly almost any metric used would be arbitrary, but even knowing that, defense spending as part of GDP doesn’t actually tell you much about a nation’s defenses or military strength. Even if we spent significantly less on military spending, we’d…

In part, it’s because a not-insignificant reason we spend so much on military is because our gdp is high enough that doing so doesn’t cripple the rest of our government systems, though one could argue we spend more than we should already.

This is probably in part because Clinton and Obama were actually pretty popular presidents, and Bush was leading a military campaign—not exactly a time a sudden change in leadership is usually wise, and in part because at least for the last two, the opposing party offered up fodder to stand against the incumbent. John…

It prevents one president to become too established for too long. There are downsides to not allowing an especially good president stick around longer or forcing a decent one to step down to a worse one barring other options, but it also means you don’t get to pull what Russia is trying to pull off, where a single…

Well that was all kinds of endearing. It’s the little things, I guess.

Yeah, that spy thing drove me nuts. I made spies for all my cities and spaceports because Spain kept trying to break things, but having to tell them to stay put every 30 seconds got old fast.

They spawn in little armies from time to time, now, too. On multiple occasions I would be working on the spearman they always seem to put in their encampments only to see 3 or 4 new units pop in around it, or early on I watched an encampment way at the top of the map spawn in a new warrior every single turn.

What most people notice when they look at Kukui is his shirtlessness—it’s a character trait that seems a little suspect when you’re a man of science.

You realize they’re in Cambridge, right? That’s peanuts.