The article specifically says that those other people are engineers, though.

Amusingly enough, it's the same underlying motive, you just have to peel more layers. Repubs do what they do these days because "own the libs" is what their constituents want.

If you like classic western CRPGs (e.g. Baldur's Gate), Pillars of Eternity and Pathfinder: Kingmaker are both very good.

Such an approach is often advocated by the libertarian left (anarchists, libertarian socialists, libertarian municipalists etc). As such, it is implemented in those places where such ideas were put in practice. The two modern examples would be the Zapatistas in Mexico, and AANES (Rojava) in Syria. Rojava is a particularly interesting example, because they have codified it in a written social contract.

The USSR claimed to have this system in theory, but it wasn't really working in practice.

For one thing, it was intentionally skewed in terms of representing different classes. Basically, people in the cities (mostly factory workers and such) would get about 5x the representation of those in the countryside (mostly peasants) - and this was done because peasants generally supported more moderate socialist parties over Bolsheviks, and there were a lot more of them.

But even then, sometimes Bolsheviks would still have trouble with opposition coming from rural councils. In places where that became a problem, they undermined those councils by instituting kombeds.

This isn't to say that the system isn't workable - it's just that USSR is not a good example of it.

That must be why all those companies that adopted stack ranking back when it was hyped did so well, right?

If you want a calculator that can run both native code and (Micro)Python, the Casio Prizm series does that. Although, like with older TI calculators, it's not an officially supported feature, and all the documentation is reverse-engineered by the community.

The bigger problem with 640x350 and 640x480 modes was that they had more pixels than could fit into a single x86 memory segment (64 Kb). So you had to use bitplanes and other such hacks, which was both hard and slow. OTOH in 320x200x256 you just worked with a linear framebuffer, one byte per pixel - very neat and easy.

However, there were still quite a few games that used higher-res modes, including popular ones like SimCity, Syndicate, Monkey Island (2), MSFS etc. Generally speaking, 2D games where rendering perf wasn't a big problem, but having smaller details was much appreciated.

Ah, so all the "job creators" agitprop is bullshit, then?

It's not just US. Anti-vaxxers are a global phenomenon, but generally more prominent in developed countries (likely because their residents don't have much personal experience with diseases that vaccines have eradicated). OTOH the highest approval for vaccines is in places like South America, India, and Africa - because they know why they're a good thing from very recent experience.

If you run TypeScript on JavaScript files with JSDoc comments that specify types, it will use that information to typecheck.

The vast, vast majority of text editors nowadays are configured to indent with spaces by default, so I would argue that this is exactly what they're "actually supposed to do", based on the prevailing expectations.

Although there's no problem indenting with tabs in Python, either. The only thing it doesn't allow is mixing spaces and tabs in the same file. Which you're never "actually supposed to do" anyway, because tab size can vary, and thus you never know how many spaces you'd need to properly line things up in somebody's editor.

This game can be played both ways: personal income tax is also a business expense, since it is ultimately paid as salary by the companies.

I'm not OP, but yeah, that isn't the problem with their idea.

The problem is that the states will then have an incentive to conjure votes out of thin air, instead of letting more people vote (knowing that some of them won't vote the way they want). Since the states count the votes even in federal elections and submit the certified results to the feds, the latter would have a hard time verifying the validity of those votes. And in the current political climate, I don't think the red and the blue states would trust each other to not try such shenanigans.

That's not quite how it works. As you've noted, fascism is an ideology. Therefore, people who are fascist are those who share the ideology. History is full of examples of people who weren't ideologically fascist, but who supported fascists because they thought they had something to gain from it; indeed, most of German right in the Nazi era (before they fully took over the government) was like that.

One particularly stark example is the 1931 Prussian Landtag referendum, in which NSDAP was backed by the KPD.