You test it, yes, but you have to be willing to be wrong. Just looking for everything that proves you’re right is not scientific.

Is that an oddly historically accurate sequel to Age of Conan: Age of Lincoln?

There was also a worldwide effort to fix any potential problems before they happened.

I research, then set it aside for a while (dependent on cost, cheaper = less time, expensive = more). If I’m still seriously thinking about it after that time, and I have enough of a budget that it won’t cause issues, let’s say if I have to put it on a credit card and can’t pay it off without interest, then I generally will buy it.

Any workplace with halfway decent IT will disable it by default.

Which may be about 50% of workplaces, but still.

For an update or two, at least. Windows features tend to get turned back on after updates quite frequently.

But scary robots will take over the world! That’s what all the movies are about! If it’s in a movie, it has to be real.

The Thin man did have the perfect marriage…

It’s also contingent on them realizing that if they call out all the abuses and corruption, when it comes time for them to be held to account, they won’t see any more mercy than they show their “compatriots” across the aisle.

Less so, often, as the “team” they play for tends to forgive and forget much less.

You dont have earbuds?

There are now sixteen competing standards.

All the people telling him he should just write and direct the prequels himself instead of getting someone to do it for him ruined it more.

For the first part, why he doesn’t have a formal education: Nog is living on a space station with his uncle and father. Not in a Ferengi society. The Uncle doesn’t want to shell out for an education for the kid cause he’s Ferengi and doesn’t want to pay for things, and the father just goes along because he’s kind of a doormat. There’s not enough opportunity for job-shadowing that allows Nog to learn from a Ferengi mentor that’s capable of teaching such things as literacy, so he remains ignorant. Also explains why he gets into so much trouble (aside from the bad influence of his uncle), as he has too much free time from lack of mentorship.

He also shows that he’s very hard working when he applies himself. So, in addition to tutoring from Jake and probably Keiko, he just buckles down and does the work. Especially when he gets to the academy. He specifies in “Homefront” (Or “Paradise Lost”, I don’t remember exactly) that he’s doing all right at the Academy. Not excelling, so he’s struggling. Probably not the least of which is because he’s behind in education as compared to his classmates.

Because opportunists love a tragedy they can exploit?

Lots of things cause harm while also doing good things. It’s a balance.

The problem is when that balance skews more one way than another.

Depends on how you define intelligence. If intelligence is only your max possible ability to process thoughts, yeah. Clarity won’t increase intelligence, just increase utilization of intelligence. But if it’s a more dynamic measurement, then intelligence would be improved by clarity of thought.

It would be nice if it were above politics. But what you’re attributing to nefarious deeds… is literally what politics is. Power players trying to leverage anything they can to accumulate as much influence as possible. Sometimes these come in the form of scheming plans, but more often than not it’s just manipulating any convenient happenstance that falls at their feet.

That’s not because they’re Jewish, though, it’s because they’ve let their ego and pride overcome their empathy for their fellow human beings.

There’s plenty of non-Jewish people who are also perfectly happy to profit off the suffering of Palestinians.

There’s different types of microfiber cloths. The ones you’re thinking of are generally used for cleaning glasses or phone screens. There’s others that have a more carpety texture that are often used for dusting or cleaning larger objects.

Billionaires are a symptom, not the cancer itself.