Ralph
Member since August 2026
Would you support building a new nuclear power plant near your community to help power AI data centers?
When choosing a movie or show, do you trust critic reviews or audience ratings more?
A critic's review generally comes with a little essay explaining things about the movie. The fact that they know they must write this little essay means they're usually trying to notice more things the movie is doing
Should Lake Ontario be renamed 'Lake America'?
Let's lay aside entirely the silly political motivation. If you're going to call ONE of the major lakes "Lake America", do you really want it to be that one? Ontario is the most boring of the Great Lakes. If you must rename one after the country, make it Superior
Do you trust U.S. news outlets to cover politics fairly?
"Reporting Fairly" can mean several different distinct things. Selecting stories based on some non-partisan notion of importance? Presenting information without implying any specific judgement? Pointing you to the primary sources which you can read yourself? Generating good new primary sources? Different outlets are good at different things. I think the fundamental social function of "The News" is different now that the internet exists, because there's so much primary-source information you can get yourself. Many "News" organizations are self-consciously "opinionated information filters" more than "information delivery streams". Does that make them less fair, or are they just a different kind of organization caused by a different information environment?
I would support building new nuclear power plants with any intended use case, really. They probably wouldn't be helpful for the current data center race though. In the current regulatory climate, it would probably take more than 15 years to build one