@adityaag Openness to change is behavioral, not age-related. Usually, though, older people have much less *incentive* to change, so they don't. Something like this, though, it's off to the races.
@baybal2@TrentTelenko "Spending armour piecemeal" was also historic force doctrine, presumably unintentional. Ger AFVs, outnumbered, outgunned, and often qualitatively inferior, routinely tore apart repeated disorganized Sov attacks. (Sov AFV numbers won in the long run.)
@seconds_0@cruelsardaukar I mean this with love--they don't want to do this for you. Getting to why may or may not be helpful. But as a qual researcher w/psych background...it's about something else. Hesitation here is a social defense mechanism.
@mert@paulg I might also add that one candidate has said repeatedly that he intends to suspend or remove many checks and balances if elected. Is he lying? Is he telling the truth? Both should disqualify, it's a low friggin bar he nonetheless can't clear
@mert@paulg One tell is her indictments (zero), her impeachments (also zero), and her pending felony trials (once again! zero!). If you're ignoring or discounting that, my friend, you do not understand how to price risk.
@tsludwig The real customers are his client's family. Which, when you look into one, is probably how you'll end up finding the one you use. Always ID the real incentives, first thing
@FYREFestNCF Oh, there is definitely a Republican way to teach medieval English literature. And a white supremacist way, as many medievalists are pointing out with alarm. (Also, they're not really a jargony theory-y crowd, so)