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Mostly I reject the idea of personality types. They're forced categories that rather often miss detail. I've also been reading about this stuff for a few decades now given my background and consistently the data seems to suggest they're more fluff and marketing than accurate indicators. The real strength of personality typology IMO lies with the discussions they start among team members and colleagues. The conversations are what bring the benefit, the understanding that others think and respond differently than we ourselves do.

It's clear most US voters haven't even glanced at how other countries actually require their leaders to have a mapped out plan of how they will accomplish what they promise. Our politicians are mostly populists, and populists tend to represent emotions rather than ideas, so we're supposed to vote for the person rather than the plan, then trust that person to plan well. It's got to be one of the dumbest systems, shaped and crafted with billions of dollars to do exactly what it does, whatever that is. You are so right. The Republicans who live in southern Colorado and love their guns, or don't want the government to restrict what they can do on their land, have to vote for Lauren Boebert to represent those interests, so they're also voting for Christian nationalism, the destruction of democratic values, climate denial, avoiding equality issues, the stolen 2020 election, and whatever bizarre, ignorant, extremist, QAnon bullshit she thinks up. It's actually insulting to bricks to put her in the same league.

Frankly, it looks like a bunch of folks trafficking in sex with goats. The economy has taken center stage, and like most elections, folks are forgetting that Democrats grow the GDP about 1.6 times faster than Republicans, because the Republicans are better at claiming they do better with the economy. We continue to put politics into everything, 24/7/365. There's never a break from it. It's become the central hub for our Angertainment industry, which is also bleeding us dry and continuing to isolate people into ineffective little knots of resentment and pain. When the midterms are over, the next day the 2024 election starts. And as it consumes us, the process that governs us becomes more and more expensive to participate in. Crime is up, but we've always spent more to punish people than we spend to help them avoid being criminals, so that's probably just American business at work. It's also hard to stomach the supposed conservative right embracing radical elements that are probably responsible for rising crime, but it sure makes it easy to understand how it happened in Germany. Inflation is probably the biggest concern for voters, but I don't think they've listened to what economists have advised for quite a while. Many haven't figured out that putting businesspeople in political roles doesn't help the economy as much as it helps those businesspeople. Election integrity perception, thanks to TFG, is abysmal. Actually, I'll loop many Republicans into that crime as well. They continue to claim concern over voter fraud, and whine about the Constitution while actively trying to destroy the democracy it describes.

How's it looking from the US side of the Atlantic?

Double plus one, and a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie to you. (my personality is sometimes prone to hyperbole) (and then taking it back, ha!) And yes, a few moments of working on one's listening skills in conversation is worth a hundred personality tests. Not to get all maharishi on you guys, but meditation is really helpful to this. You really got something useful from whichever test you took. But then you would, being a Libra. (couldn't resist - after all, astrology is the Ur-personality mapper, and people have a habit of emulating whatever their "chart" says) But jokes aside, yeah, there are some tests that can give a sense of people's communication styles and life priorities, perhaps, at least as a snapshot at the time of testing and maybe that holds up for a while.

Given the sordid business some of the more fringe candidates seem to get up to, that comment verges on literal truth. US voters rarely listen to economists, who in this election cycle would be pointing out that current inflation has global causes and in no way reflects policy missteps on Joe's part. Media consumers in the RW bubble are hermetically sealed away from such facts. The form of populism that attaches zero importance to actual qualifications for public office. The dumbness of this came into blinding clarity in 2008, with Sarah Palin (and poor John McCain having to hold his nose and take her aboard his presidential ticket).

When the yeast is added to the wort there are around 3 billion yeast cells per liter after 2 days there are about 35 billion yeast cells per liter.

I once saw a fireball (big meteor), and I was sure I could hear it at the same time. A friend of mine noticed that this would be impossible: fireballs are still somewhere 50-100 km high in the atmosphere, so the sound would take much longer to reach my ears. Many years later, I read about a possible explanation: it seems that microwaves are capable to move dry hair slightly, and it is the 'fizzling' of the hair you can hear. As I had quite long hair in those days, this might be an explanation. But to be honest, I also am open to the suggestion that it was just an illusion.

Ah, so the meringues I make are hardened against an EMP, then. Good to know.

Gerrymandered. A freshly kilned red brick with a crack down it’s center could win against a clearly more competent challenger so long as they have the correct letter beside their name as ballots get cast (R-brick v D-other) They also haven’t listened to the candidates attacking the other side about it, for if they had they’d recognize that candidate has never once explained what they’d do instead to address that inflation were power transferred to them.

I found this demonstration, which doesn't seem to have an air-gap: Can I really just place a HDD inside a metal pot, with some tin foil, and that will protect it from an EMP ?

No, it's not. It's actually a very quick and surprisingly deep understanding of the question, IMO, from someone that declares not to be all that familiar with the mathematical formalism. @Eise has understood this very clearly IMO. He's a very careful and attentive, and deep reader, and he has corrected me when I (wrongly) quoted Bell, when it really was Einstein quoted by Bell. It's you who, for some reason, keep saying that non-locality has been proven. After the last entry on my part, you've decided not to respond. You do this again and again. Mind you, the most dangerous thing concerning this topic is taking at face value what many people in a half-arsed way think they understand about it. You may end up wasting millions of SGD (Singapore Dollars) in declaring such stupid things as "oh, wow, my tardigrade got entangled with my qubit, how about that?" Silly, silly, stupid, mind-numbing nonsense "scientoids" --rather than science facts--, hyped to the max, totally void of content, expressed in a deliberately confusing and ambiguous language, and responsible in a big way for the bad image of science in the minds of many intelligent laypeople in this revolting, repugnant, post-truth age!

Interesting. My loathing is explicit and I’m a ELPT

Or, I could just drive into a bridge abutment and wait for Him. They were serving buffalo burgers. Very nice with sumac chutney.

I believe Lakota is preferred, nowadays. (am easily amused by autocorrect)

The sensor is smaller than that. The “whole button” would also include the light source and the housing.

Yes, but grounding makes certain no charge lingers in the containment vessel. With a very strong EMP, this insures you won't get a shock touching it. Grounding can be as simple as just letting it touch the ground or a cellar floor. No, you are not. 😀

Am I the only one who regrets the passing of metal biscuit tins and their replacement by plastic ones?