Shouldn’t be allowed. Companies shouldn’t be allowed to buy each other. We already know what happens with consolidation.

Yeah, the Senate is a bad idea. If the US was a collection of little sovereign states mostly independent maybe it would make sense. But it’s not.

Get rid of the Senate. Add more seats to the house.

Get rid of lifetime appointments of supreme court justices. Pull them up from lower courts to hear cases, then send them back.

I used to care more about work. But this job pays garbage and is frothing over AI, so fuck them.

Per depressing non fiction novel “dying of whiteness”, many poor white people don’t want universal programs like health care because they don’t want those people to have access. They would rather suffer and die themselves.

Many people, I’d guess like a third, are just assholes.

A politician having a reputation for corruption and self-dealing is one of the few things that voters uniformly don’t like, and will actually act on at the polls.

I would have agreed with you before Trump. The power of conservative in-group solidarity is powerful, especially when multiplied by media support.

I did not intend to claim my college dinner conversation was a flawless political system, heh.

It may have come from the idea that in firing squads, some of the executioners have blanks.

But you’re probably right, its probably simpler and fine not to have fake voters. Though it would be funny to have some honey pots…

I remember in college sort of independently coming up with the idea (there’d be a large pool of representatives, to make bribery harder. And I think we had an idea of like some of them their votes secretly won’t count at the end, so your bribe might not even count)

Then one of my friends linked me to the wiki page and I was like “oh”

Seems like another example where the people making decisions are not qualified to make those decisions.

The goal is better-than-human. It really shouldn’t ever cross a solid line, though.

The goal should be far fewer cars of any sort on the street. Investing in self driving cars instead of better infrastructure is stupid. Especially when the cars are privately owned

Never even heard of this one, but reading the summary I’m left thinking “read the room”.

The rich are destroying the world. People want their blood, not regretful navel gazing.

I’m a broken record on this but the book “Dying of Whiteness” haunts me now.

Business Idiots. It’s a pervasive problem. The people making decisions are not the people doing labor. They’re often so far removed from normal life, that they can’t even relate to regular humans anymore. How is some asshole with a full time personal assistant and high six figure salary supposed to relate to someone making median income and renting with 2 housemates?

Fuck 'em. Labor should take back what it built.

My team assigns both hours and points to tasks. I’ve never seen the points used for anything but they still spend time on it.

Has management known that?

A lot of problems seem to be downstream from “management are idiots and assholes”

No shit.

One of the problems is all the people who were fucking wrong don’t suffer any lasting consequences. They will be listened to again.

Perhaps I should have written “simple” instead of “easy”.

But yes, the road to implementing solutions is blocked by rich people and class traitors.

I’ve used example.com in tests because my understanding is that domain is for examples and tests, and it’s pretty harmless if something accidentally really sends an email

Break them up. Fine them for anti competitive practices. Bar their leadership from working similar roles for life. The solutions are easy.

A large part of code review has been preventing people from doing stupid shit. AI is making stupid shit worse. It’s not defects, it’s “adding a whole micro service to get the user name from the ID, when the name is already in the metadata” or whatever that recent meme was.

Or that time a guy wrote a whole DSL instead of using the existing framework. Technically impressive, but adds a huge burden.

Many people simply do not seek a faster way of doing things.

Right. But if you’re a soulless manager, and you set faster timelines, you PIP and fire the people who don’t make it. They’ll use the tools or be replaced.

It’s the same as an AI mandate, except less stupid. (It can still be stupid if you set the timelines impossibly fast, but management is not known for being smart or informed)

I wouldn’t do this as me because I’m not a soulless manager.