There’s an analogy to medicine and experimentation:

From the listing:

Oh, how cool is that?! Thanks.

I agree. My original comment wasn’t well-phrased. I think that too often people in a group are assumed to have the characteristics of the average of the group or of most people in the group, and obviously that’s not always true. But it is reasonable, as you say, to associate a characteristic like “racist” with the…

Ausgezeichnet.

Sorry, bad assumption on my part.

I’m about sick of Texas people trying to pretend Texas somehow isn’t the things it does, the people it elects, and the racist, sexist, homophobic, Christofascist bullshit it constantly perpetuates.

This is indeed good advice for people who have an impartial mind, ingenuity, calm, skill, and good sense. A smart, level-headed person will have no problems Doing Something to Improve Their Circumstances.

Cool, thanks! That’s exactly the question that was in my mind.

What kind of sorcery is this?!

By failing to meet its production goals, Tesla is killing people.

Also a good point. I’m sort of in the second camp, even leaving out the “after taxes” part.

I dodged a bullet, now I’m thinking.

User name checks out.

Interesting! I didn’t know; live and learn.

Well, you are the best type of person there is, an engineer*.

Wow! And on this,

It’s not the tragedy of just any commons, but of an unregulated commons that people use in their own self-interest. In Japan (I presume) parks and public transportation may be lovely because people regulate their behavior, due to laws, history, customs and social norms, and so forth.

This is also a problem with a lot of college professors.

Tesla: