I suggest you go and read the link. It discusses why Occam's razor is a reasonable rule and also why it does not in fact put personal deities as a simple hypothesis when done correctly although it uses "witch" as the same type of category. In essence, some things like "witch" or "god" are types of items that feel very simple to human minds, but really aren't when you try to describe them precisely.

What you say is true... but basically all of the other president have actually been pretty smart people. There are some who clearly aren't as smart as others, but I can't think of any who were as dumb as Trump.

Selection, not coincidence. He's the right kind of grifter, with the right kind of personality. He's really not very smart, though. If he were actually smart he wouldn't shoot himself in the foot with such regularity.

Probably LRO vs. Danuri

Yes, Donald Trump is stupid, and yes he knows exactly how to play to his base. These things are only incompatible if you think it requires intelligence and strategy to play to his base. It doesn't. He just does what he does and it happens to resonate with them, most of the time at least.

Meh. "Gambling" is such an amorphous term when it comes to betting on events that aren't carefully constructed to be the result of pure chance.

Right, this is an indictment of policing in America, not Flock.

But since you clearly cannot trust the police, you double cannot trust them with access to Flock.

You cannot keep the police from getting access to Flock, therefore the only reasonable thing to do to Flock is destroy it.

Yes, this is only* because the police are corrupt, but since they are...

* Yeah, and some other people too, this hyperbole is for the purpose of the discussion in scope

I think we both know that ship has sailed

Given she was guilty of Driving While Black, it's somewhat surprising they didn't shoot her during one stop or the other.

Hopefully that's also how you feel as well about the $100 billion in refunds of Trump's tariffs, which were ordered by the Supreme Court - not a problem, just resets the clock. But it certainly didn't seem to be how Trump felt about that.

"other laws" = Trump executive orders

Americans deserve an energy system built on common sense and not one dependent on "costly subsidies."

Costly subsidies... like $1.2 billion?

My bad for not being specific. I was talking about the debt, no taxes. And obviously the moderators didn't read any of my other posts or they'd know I was not defending trump.

I almost added a comment to that previous post about my own tendency towards pedantry... so I totally get it.

Or perhaps a Futurama quote would've been better, e.g. "You are technically correct. The BEST kind of correct."

This is not accurate. Occam's razor has multiple forms that are carefully and don't run into the issue you have. See for example here https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/f4txACqDWithRi7hs/occam-s-razor for an introduction to some of the relevant ideas.