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Brad LeVeck
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political scientist at UC Merced
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Trust the experts until an expert mildly disagrees with you.
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Nothing is more frustrating than the automated waiting message telling you that they have a website.

My man, if the website was working for me, I certainly wouldn’t be waiting on the phone listening to automated messages and elevator music.
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I think we are (unfortunately) about to get some new evidence on how much previous diversionary war/"rally around the flag" effects were driven by selection bias.
November 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Any measures of risk-aversion in your surveys? I'd just be curious to know if that has any correlation with Trump support after controlling for the obvious variables.
November 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Reposted by Brad LeVeck
2. This combination of unpopularity + economic trouble creates incentives for escalation: adventurism abroad (Venezuela) and repression at home (prosecuting political opponents).

AKA "gambling for resurrection."
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Definitely worth it for the history of games perspective alone. It’s the first 3d shooter with a real narrative that I remember.

Also, even if you’ve played HL2 already, the recently added developer commentary is very cool.
www.ign.com/articles/hal...
Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update Includes Developer Commentary, Improved Graphics, and a 2-Hour Documentary - IGN
Valve is honoring the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2 with a celebration that includes a brand-new two-hour documentary, a developer commentary update, and more.
www.ign.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Yeah, but we gotta still call it “putting on your whiny pants”.
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
So, next step… faculty meetings?
November 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I built a sff pc running SteamOS, basically a homemade Steam console, a month ago because I didn’t think this was happening anytime soon. Oh well.
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Figuring out YIMBY messaging is forever cursed by the fact that NIMBYs are a hard to estimate mixture of “severe misunderstanding causes my NIMBYism” and the reverse.
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Just to be clear, I personally think this was a bad trade.
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM