I've heard that a non-Mensan asked a Mensan what it's like at a Mensa event. They replied, "If I have to explain something during a conversation, I only have to explain it _once_."

I see your point, but voters are not voting based on the candidate's intelligence levels.

Crashing the economy in order to put all the blame on already marginalized scapegoats may well be the point.

> Uppercase doesn't distort shapes

It distorts the shape of the words. Many people recognize many words as a whole, not by checking each letter in (eg) "the".

Distortion is the wrong term to use.

Yes, all-caps and lowercase have different word shapes. This is something that slightly slows down native or highly experienced speakers (readers), because they have so much exposure to reading the language that they use the word shape to help.

This is not something ESL students are doing to any appreciable degree. They have not put in the 1000's of hours of reading in the target language to read even faster by identifying word shapes. That is a level of optimization they are nowhere near.

Yes! I had a QA person apologize once for finding a bug in my code. I thanked him for not letting it make me look like an idiot.

> There are no fully electric, or even hybrid, options for the type of vehicle I drive.

So fucking what? Keep driving your air-pollution vehicle. No one (not even Obama or Biden) is trying to take it away from you.

Interesting historical overview: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/03/aviation-fai.... (Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494469.)

It's a trade-off: better info versus handling an immediate crisis. If it's not an immediate crisis, you can take more time.

Engineering is trade-offs.

People are dying of these diseases every day

And killing them with an insufficiently tested treatment is not optimal.

Scroll down a page or so, the article is there. It's identical to just going to CNN's article, not sure why it's needed though.

Because NOT enriching uranium worked so badly for Gaddafi.