Maybe the devil is in the details here, but it seems rather obvious why intelligence organizations would want to recruit from diverse backgrounds.

Anyone using a Valve Index on Linux?

Perhaps more points of contact is better for the road?

Yeah, it should be, but it seems they're taxing more axles more for the same weight, so it seems like something else is going on there.

The question is not whether any particular person can benefit from university education - the answer is that there is a possibility of benefit for any person. That does not mean that every person should attend university.

The question we should be considering is, given that university education comes at substantial expense, and that the number of students our university system can accommodate is necessarily limited: what students are justified in going to university, by their ultimate social and personal benefit?

I would argue that sending unintelligent people through university is counter-productive: it undermines the quality of conversation and culture of the university by allowing mid-wits to shift the conversation. It undermines the standards that professors apply to their students by making it intractable to fail much of their class. It lowers the bar, even for the capable students. Thus it diminishes the education, most tragically, for the capable students who might otherwise take us to greater heights of understanding.

I agree. I got one with a hot water connection, but after trying it with only the cold, I've never bothered to connect the hot water.

Wouldn't it make more sense to legalize it and ban advertising it?

You try writing a law that corporate America can't corrupt.

Who are the slaves in this analogy?

I would say that the users are the slaves. Without GPL software, we could end up in situations where hardware vendors stop shipping software updates, so we are slaves to capitalism by having to buy things we shouldn't need to buy.

This goes hand in hand with right to repair in my opinion.

They said "intelligent", not "superintelligent".

Small paper magazines consisting mostly or entirely of user-generated, unedited content?

> user-generated

They had writers. Usually those were not employees. They had to lawyer-ize everything they printed. If you sent in a Letter to the Editor, they had to scrutinize that, too, and call you to be sure you really wrote it.

If you're saying it's so important that people with no skill whatsoever be able to say whatever they want with no liability to the company that prints it; furthermore, that that company be able to monetize their content: I guess we're disagreeing. I don't think the world would be any worse off if that were no longer the case. In fact, we'd probably be better off.

I think it's important to point out here that it's not like the DNC decides who runs for offices. Biden chose to run for reëlection; no good candidates opposed him. At no point did "the Democrats" make any decision.