Structural Biologist interested in Protein Design. I also write code.
Neither the United States, nor any constituent states, nor any of their constituent counties (to my knowledge) qualify as electoral democracies. I’m aware of no election system [that’s currently in use] meeting the condorcet criterion and providing a None/Lottery option. [This how the government was set up.]
You cannot claim consent of the governed if the governed cannot say no.
Folk Rock ran with the whole “three chords and the truth” that country music pretends at.
“Son there is no justice there is just what and that just is.” - It Don’t Come Easy, Jesse Wells
There’s no statute of limitations on murder.
They may make their law, but can they enforce it?
Don’t worry, only the poor will starve.
Wait, I’m poor…
Still don’t understand how antimatter is made. It’s the reverse of annihilation creating light, so somehow light comes together and makes antimatter? Sounds like amplification or canceling. I don’t get it.
Yeah, I’d like to add that there’s something to being dedicated to one language, especially if you’re self taught. I could certainly cobble something together in C, but having coded in python for nearly a decade I’ve built up an intuition for it. I know where things fail. I know what to do when things fail. I know what packages are common. I’ve built up a collection of utility functions. I know common patterns. Despite never having been taught algorithms or data structures, being committed to one language has led me to learn how to write efficient code in that language (rather than hoping switching to C will magically solve bad algorithms).
My code is still weird as hell and offends professional programmers, but it’d be hard to deny that I know what I’m doing.
The race towards what exactly? More advanced AI would take research funds, and the US cut research, so… What are we racing towards? A dystopian surveillance state?
they shouldn’t get to vote in local elections
For a long time I assumed this was a rule. Figured, I’m not from here why would I have a say.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to realize I’m not really from anywhere anymore. I think I visited my hometown maybe once in the last decade. Didn’t really feel that comfortable weighing in on local politics as a student in a college/university town/city. I still voted on national stuff (not that it did any good), but at this stage I struggle even to think of myself as American. It’s not a country where me or people like me have had any influence or agency. It’s not my country it’s their country, the oligarchs. Feels like there’s no place where I belong, and any push for my views is just interfering in other people’s business.
It creates a bit of a paradox since (broadly speaking) it’s good when people don’t push their views onto others, yet in this case that’s creating a terrible selection bias. I still don’t know if there’s a good solution to this. I don’t want to vote where I don’t understand the situations and won’t fully face the consequences. Yet, I don’t want society to crush me out of negligence either.
Nah, that can’t be right. What would protect the powerful if there was no government?
I heard one of the Green Brothers claim that billionaires tend to develop really strange out of touch opinions. To me, they often seem a mixture of stupid and self-serving. I suspect any actual laws will be undermined within a month, but it’s really annoying that these people keep sticking their nose in other people’s business.
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I’m just glad people will write off my terrible code as AI.
Voting exist to give the veneer of legitimacy to oligarchy. All of the systems around voting to make sure the results come out “right” are apart of the same system. If you want to participate in that system, you should have a solid understanding of how it works to undermine the populous and participate in ways that undermine the oligarchy.
For example, rather than registering with whatever party more closely aligns to your ideals, register with whatever party has gerrymandered your district then vote in their primaries for candidates that actually support systemic reform. Similarly, your vote means nothing in almost every district of general elections. Assuming you don’t know for certain your in a competitive district, you shouldn’t bother voting for a main party candidate. The more votes third party candidates get, the more funding they get and thus the greater opportunity for systemic reform.
The entire system is built to convince you to give up your agency by insisting that you have to choose the lesser of two evils then insisting that you consented to be governed by that evil. Consent cannot involve coercion. Consent requires the ability to say no.
Most nations are governed by an electoral oligarchy. As fa as I know, an Electoral Democracy has never existed.
We should have a lottery, like a true democracy.
Florida elects manatee claiming to be mermaid in AI generated ads.
To be fair, it was somewhat of a pain to get modded skyrim working on linux ten (fifteen? How old am I?) years ago, and everyone knows skyrim is the only game.