I can think of some people that, if they got stabbed, I’d be like “yeah that seems fair”

The people who do work don’t keep the profits of work. People who “own” stuff do.

You have a guy who “owns” a factory. He pays some dudes to make widgets, market widgets, sell widgets. They all get $10 a day. They sell $200 of widgets a day. The guy who owns the operation, who’s probably just sitting at home, keeps all those profits. Capitalism.

The workers decide they want more rights. Get paid in real money. Sick time. 8 hour days. Owner says nah. Workers go on strike. Owner gets the police or the army to break the strike with violence. Arrest any leaders they survive. Historical context of capitalism.

Also the guy who owns the factory, maybe he just got it because his grand dad was friends with the king or something. Maybe they killed some natives and the state said the land is yours now.

My job is making everyone use AI for everything (while also not keeping staff levels up)

I hate it. Even when it works I kind of hate it.

I’ve been using it as a search supplement for like “how do I make a uuid in a GitHub action and use it in future steps” stuff. Sometimes it works. I’d kind of rather have well written docs.

If they’re dead you can say whatever you want, barring recordings or other unfriendly witnesses. Cops do it all the time.

The only thing that makes it harder is the elections are staggered. They’re all popular vote. You can do that without a senate. Removing lifetime appointments for 9 people and replacing them with a rotating pool has its own advantages, including not locking in control of the court for decades due to luck.

Well, the executive was historically civil servants that persisted beyond administrations, but the project 2025 people don’t believe in that.

This is important to remember. Grand juries are simple majority. No defense is present. If they don’t get an indictment it’s because they didn’t want it.

Remember that every time a right wing darling (like a cop or maga drunk) gets away without an indictment.

That’s how it works now with extra steps. The system doesn’t provide any defense when people are working as a party regardless of their branch.

I remember trying to explain fitts law at an old job I worked at when trying to push back against their horrible interface.

Also mouse tunnels are an embarrassment, but they made so many of them. (That’s where you mouse over something to reveal a new menu, but if you mouse out of the menus they close. If the second menu is on side and longed than the first, going from the top of the first menu to the bottom of the second will probably mouse out, and close it. Rookie mistake. Management wouldn’t listen.)

Drivers are short sighted morons that should not be listened to. They’d pave everything and then whine about traffic.

YouTube and other platforms are guilty for platforming this stuff, too.

The Democrats are generally pro capitalism. They’re just, currently, less aggressively racist and sexist and stupid. They should be the right wing party. The Republicans should be in jail.

Sisko was never glorifying being dark. In the pale moonlight is a fantastic episode, but I don’t remember it glorifying the darkness.

The judicial is still separate in what I proposed, so there’s still at least two.

I don’t really think the separation of powers really holds up when they’re all elected in the same way, anyway. Not in a two-party system. We have a sort of incidental defense via staggered elections and terms, but as you can see the republicans are happy to collaborate across branches.

It’s shocking (sorry) how rarely these goons stop and go “are we the baddies?”. I guess they’re just thoroughly stupid and or evil

Now, now. It’s illegal to call for violence against the state in the US, or enough people believe it is that it might as well be.

We’re a conservative country. That means hierarchy. The people above can do what they want.

I like Star Trek because it’s optimistic. I want to see competent, emotionally mature, people solving problems by working together.

If I want to see bad apples I can look outside.

No? It’d be similar to today, except without the senate giving undue weight to low population areas, and the president doing whatever he wants. You’d probably also want to change the voting system to support ranked choice or similar, while you were waving your magic around.

In what way do you think it would be easier?

The answer starts with an uncomfortable feature of the First Amendment: Speech does not lose constitutional protection simply because almost everybody hearing it considers the message vile.

Unless you’re telling people to oppose the war or avoid the draft. And it’s cool if you’re the klan. The first amendment has always kind of been a joke

Vice president doesn’t have much power. Wouldn’t accomplish much.

Should probably get rid of the presidency and Senate, and just have a large house. Also reform the supreme court so it’s like a rotating pool of federal judges instead of lifetime corruption magnets.

Rich people have class solidarity. They’re not going to go for the throat on one of their own.