Oh don't get on your high horse, we are all susceptible to deception. We're just susceptible to different *kinds* of deception.

Indeed.

We all lie to ourselves to make ourselves feel better, do we not?

Based on my own older family members who voted for Trump, I don't believe they did so because they didn't care, but because they were deceived.

And why did they suppose that it was AI that influenced people to began doing work during lunch breaks and late evenings?

I use AI every day for many things, and I've never been tempted to let it encroach on my lunch breaks and evenings. I don't get the connection.

This phrase does a lot of work. A "case" refers to a *reported* case. There were many millions of people who got COVID and never went to the doctor, and their case was never reported.

So another way of phrasing this would be, 1% of patients who were sick enough to go to a doctor, died.

The whole country's heads fell off, and they've never been re-attached since.

Your memory of floppy disks is much different from mine. They typically lost their data in only a few years due to degradation of the magnetic storage surface.

You can buy MP3 downloads from Amazon, completely unencumbered with DRM. Typical price is $1.20 per song or $10 for a whole album, most music is available in this format.

What are you talking about, my car still has a CD player!

My monthly music spending on music is way less than $12.99. Having access to 100 million songs, is like a scaled up version of Cable TV, which has hundreds of channels that nobody wants, but you pay for them all anyway.

And, whenever you stop paying Spotify's monthly fee, you've got nothing, I've got hundreds of albums of MP3 tracks that will never go away.

Total cost of ownership may be lower, but for most people, the sticker price, and especially the monthly payment, is all they look at. If that's not lower, most will still keep buying the gas cars, because the lower operating costs aren't as easy to see.

Revisions are normal and not a sign of political interference (despite Trump's many attempts TO interfere). The preliminary numbers are based on relatively small survey samples, while the revisions are based on a much larger data set drawn from concrete data. https://journalistsresource.or...

While this may seem logical on the surface, real-life older people do actually care about the future of their own children and grandchildren.

Not necessarily. Mormons tend to marry within their own circles, leading to genetic similarities more than you would see in the larger population. That genetic similarity could also lead to either higher or lower rates of Alzheimer's, compared to the larger population. They also tend to share a common lifestyle, which could be a contributing factor one way or the other.

Not necessarily a good control group, because Mormons, as a group, also share many other traits with each other, such as a tendency to have large families, and a tendency to marry within the group, leading to genetic similarities compared to the larger population.