There is a reason the only branches of Christianity to survive were those not trying to break away from Rome.

Often, but not as a rule, progressive organizations age badly

I personally like the fact a lot of people are using AI to learn fundamentals, but only because this improves employment of real coders.

It’s also going to harm many predatory startups too, run by idiots with deep pockets. It’s better to handicap them this way than they actually have scalable stuff which works in the real world.

Most of the programming job cuts this year are untreated to AI, it’s another bubble that is bursting. But the above is creating another bubble that will burst in a year or so, and those who can code will see improved salaries, in my opinion

This is Darwinism in action

The public is never good at stats, or complex ideas that cannot be converted into a good old fashioned sound bite.

Maths hardly ever change major policy by themselves. Often it’s only an accident of political necessity when policy is backed by statistics or science

In combination with all the other reasons they are docile, this all happens at a very bad time, A second Industrial Revolution occurred the last two generations disrupting community politics when most people moved around the country at least once and changed their jobs.

Society is paralyzed more than the first Industrial Revolution in the 1700s. Old political networks were dissolved, and there is a leadership vacuum on many levels

I stand up for elections that are accurate and fair. If you look at my bio it’s my central belief in what needs to be done in American politics.

I cannot progress any leftest beliefs without accurate elections. So I’m ok if fair elections promote things I dislike very much. But they must be accurately counted.

I think I would respect many democrats more if they shared the same belief; but over the last few years I have become convinced that to be a card carrying Democratic Party member, one must be willing to turn a blind eye to how this country is not very democratic.

So yes, while democrats are better in many ways than republicans, both are harmful

Love it

It’s really weird reading about such an evil place before it is functional, almost like there is an opportunity to stop it but everyone is scared to try

Many departments in bad governments are named the opposite of what they do: department of defense, the department of public safety, the department of health…

• Trump — I wanna buy it
• China — no
• Trump — I’ll do something bad
• China — here is x million, go away and come back later
• Trump — yay

Yea, they might be incompetent while still fully implementing bad ideas

My theory is that Reddit is being run incompetently, without good strategy. The problem is it’s too big to fail so whatever it does seems mysterious only

I also think our primate brains simply cannot handle being in a group larger than some small number; and most of us have lost the ability to shrink back down to that level of interactions for sustaining ourselves .

So we have exceeded our design parameters.

I attempted to download a car once, but front wheel got stuck in my router. Was huge mess

Can verify : am frog

I think if one follows the same practices as what is implemented in the UK and France and other democracies, then the issues we speak of with American ballot counting will simply go away.

I would not trust any improvements over the ballot counting methods perfected over 200 years ago. Scantrons, as mentioned, obfuscate witnesses trying to spot issues, and anything else is simply worse.

The modern crop of voting machines are not that much better than the Diebold machines, its hard to tell due to everyone being locked out of investigating them. Most people do not understand that these systems can have the owners throwing the elections without the employees being any wiser. We do not know this is happening, but with the exit polls and other hints going on, I would rate is as probable.

I think my issues with voting machines are influenced by me making similar systems myself. But still, I have no idea why people think they are a good idea. I do not think its a matter of education, or lack of awareness, because I tried for a few years to educate people, and have talked to others who tried too. I think it boils down to some taboo against calling out cheating in the American culture, to be honest. But that is just my idea

Texas is ok. Yes, it has a corrupt bad government steeped in endless corruption. But the big cities are just regular North American cities in both outlook and being cosmopolitan in nature (there are dozens of ethnic groups that have a huge impact on Houston, for example). And most of the rural population is allergic to politics. There is a warming trend that is going to cause mass migrations out of Texas in the next two generations, though.

First, I’m rather far far left. Both mainstream parties have traditionally been against things I hold dear. So things promoted by democrats can be poison to me.

But that is not the point.

When you have a party supporting the fascists, and a party that is less so; and that other party is against enabling, asking, paying token lip service: to democratic principles that every real democracy in the world holds dear, practices that would make the fascists loose.

That makes them a passive enabler.

There is nothing wrong with being a professional looser, and a corrupt mess, if that is what your voters want. But when it’s something that important and there is still no mass awareness of the situation, or even a glimmer of interest to do better.

That does make them equally bad. Much like a child abuse scenario where one parent beats up the children and another parent lets them.

And I think future historians will agree with me

Democrats are out of their minds because they, as a party and a majority of participants: embrace electronic voting; do not demand recounts in very close elections; ignore exit polls that show more people voted for them than recorded in the elections they loose; have no interest in paper ballots etc etc.

If a party is against demanding better democratic practices in states they routinely lose. Sometimes loosing only narrowly.

And everyone needs them to win.

Then what would you call it besides a sort of insanity?

Reminds me of that series of novels that had a knight and dragon team up to fleece villages. Dragon would come in, terrify folks; then folks pay knight to kill dragon. Repeat a few dozen times

What is the most ethical thing to do here?