But how would one say “saxophone” in Old English? Adolphe Sax was Belgian, but still, inquiring minds want to know…

Sounds like you trusted someone who regularly lies to score rhetorical points. There may be a lesson worth learning somewhere in that.

He was actually bad then, too. His polling numbers peaked with the first debate. The moment he got that level of attention, he started sliding downhill. Barely eked out fourth in Iowa.

Possibly underperformance relative to his ground operation, spending, charisma, & cetera. Certainly Rs thought “Hussein” was negative baggage. But we would expect to see the effect of stereotyping reduced in higher-profile races & therefore minimized for the presidential race.

Quantifying it is hard, but this is the kind of thing you can test in a lab setting without worrying about real-world confounds, and there are studies pointing to this as a real effect. Based on the existing literature, I would expect interaction with spending & hard to poll.

Who’s next, James Buchanan?

It works pretty well, IME, although I have only played one-shots.

OH and GA have major metros that are often both slow + vote differently. NC+FL make a point of counting quickly & will probably be the first battleground states to finish counting.

Circumstantial evidence obviously suggested that her marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was fraudulent. The similarity to her father's name (Nur Said Mohamed Elmi) suggested he was a relative. MN prohibits first cousin marriage, so him being a cousin would also show fraud.

Vivek is really bad at this. I have no idea why Republicans lined up behind him, this was obvious when he was a presidential candidate. I guess he had enough high-placed friends and they thought Ohio was safe?

It’s wearing Hugo Boss, but it’s not actually fascist. There is a lot more to fascism than “wears shiny uniforms” and “has a military,” and the actual substance isn’t there, just superficial aesthetic symbolism.

Your understanding of the film goes no deeper than Verhoeven’s understanding of the book. And he had a friend read it for him and give him the Cliff’s Notes summary after he couldn’t make it past the opening chapter. Lotta difference between humans and Bugs.

A lot of them over the age of 45 probably wrote fan fiction offline. I remember reading an author’s note from the 1970s where the author asserted a majority of the other female authors she knew had started with fan fiction.

Verhoeven didn’t even read the source material he was adapting, much less understand it. That means the actual contents of the film are a mismatched melange, with Verhoeven’s intended messaging constantly undermined by contrary elements.

Higher rates of admixture in Spanish vs English colonies mostly has to do with higher ratios of native populations to migrant populations. North America, the southern Cape, New Zealand, and Australia were quite sparsely inhabited compared to Latin America & the Philippines.

There was very little negative stereotyping of Indians in the US even ten years ago. Twenty years ago, Indians were often lumped together with East Asians as “model minority” immigrants. Call centers & outsourcing customer support may have as much to do with it as immigration.

Sent you a DM. Should be enough to give at least a modest test. Curious to see if it can figure out anything at all beyond “male, likes SF&F.”

As a data pack rat, I should have some short stories from when I was 11-12. File format could be an issue, but I may also have printed versions.

Burning down this building saved approximately 0 human lives. Committing arson likely endangered lives, and the expected net effect of burning it was entirely negative for everyone involved. There is a term for this - "senseless destruction."

The Ottomans’ main solution to ethnic tensions near the end was genocide. So, perhaps it might be peaceful and not have very few people in it other than the Turks. Not quite sure that is the better outcome.