This is also the biggest weakness of Clojure (IMO). When everything is "just data", you spend a lot of time digging deep in libraries trying to figure out exactly what shape the data should take. Additionally, the shape of input data is almost never validated, so you spend lots of time debugging nasty type errors far from the place where bad data entered the program.

There have been some abortive attempts at solving this with things like spec, Prismatic Schema, etc, but nothing that has taken hold like TypeScript did with JS.

I'm still waiting for my dream language with the flexibility and immutability of Clojure, but without the pain points of an anything-goes attitude towards typing and data shape.

Hypertension, sleep apnea, high cholesterol, etc are all common in the general population and exacerbated or even caused by the physical and lifestyle conditions that beget obesity.

It seems self-evident that simply turning off street lights in the vast majority of cities will not cause them to become world-leading bastions of calm and safety.

Street View shows these are residential roads mired in mud and muck -- surprising for being in a built-up populated area of the city.

However, Mud Lake definitely lived up to its name.

What exactly constitutes "hard to change"? In many countries, fundamental freedoms are regular legislation which can be overturned in the usual manner. Even a threshold of 2/3 or 3/4 to change is much easier to overcome than the federated constitutional amendment process in the US.

The point of universal education is to provide for all students, _especially_ those whose parents are unwilling or unable to provide a quality education independently.

Exactly. And a large dose of gaming the system (or trying to), which reduces trust even further. Why play fair with an unaccountable algorithm?

Of course, heating an entire house with (non-heat-pump) electric heat in a cold climate is kind of crazy. Natural gas is way way cheaper. But I've seen it in old houses here in the Upper Midwest, so it's not _too_ out of the ordinary.

Washing wood utensils immediately after use, with some soap if needed, and drying quickly and completely, should eliminate 99%+ of the risk.

I'm a big fan of two-wheeled transport in all its forms, but wow is there a prevailing toxic attitude among a large group of "true motorcycle" riders. Instead of welcoming people into the fold, it's just tribalism -- you drive a scooter, you're not a true biker; you ride a cruiser, true bikers only drive super sports; you drive an e-bike, but only loud pipes make a true rider!

> A scooter (motor scooter) is a motorcycle with an underbone or step-through frame, ....

Scooters are often legally motorcycles as well. For example, I had to get a motorcycle endorsement on my license for a scooter I owned, because the engine displacement was too large for the extremely restrictive "moped" category in my state.

It almost makes it more newsworthy: "look, it finally happened!"