When this job is frustrating, it can be the most frustrating of any type of job.

Sorry and thank god you got out.

Hell yeah living my dream. What would you fire them for? Any patterns?

I am also a bit of an accelerationist.

I can’t help but think that if the Democrats could improve conditions for the common people without resorting to tactics that undermine the principle of one man = one vote, we’d see them getting a lot more votes.

They could keep up the pressure to eliminate the electoral college, for example.

Unfortunately there have been just enough shitty centrist dems elected, and a plurality of even shittier Republicans being elected, to block the best proposals. The best hope we had for universal healthcare, for example, was blocked by one man - Joseph Lieberman.

To say nothing of the corporate interests and billionaire donors that influence policy making in the party, and the feckless leadership, that is.

These are a couple of great points:

1. Minimum wage should be tied to inflation

Economist Robert Schiller has proposed a similar idea where we set up a reactive economic policy to execute automatically when some measures of inequality (e.g. the Gini coefficient) rise above a predefined level.

2. An inter-state pact to manage the effect of gerrymandering

Great idea. Reminds me of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact)

Agreed.

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I feel alone in my opposition to this proposition. Especially on this platform where most believe the ends justify the means.

You can’t answer voter disenfranchisement with more voter disenfranchisement. District lines should always be determined in a nonpartisan way, full stop.

That having been said we should implement more federal control of voting, at least for federal contests.

I also have much more radically left views in some ways. For example that we should use jury nullification against the emerging American gestapo, have zero tolerance for sieging the fucking capitol building (including shooting those who try), remove corrupt Democratic leadership by prosecution if necessary, etc.

But democracy is democracy. I still have loyalty to enlightenment ideals ffs.

Need 60 votes in the senate and it’s 53 republicans in there atm

U.S. Holocaust Museum: “Never again”

U.S. Holocaust Museum: “Takie backsies”

Only recently did the United States start treading into monopsony territory when it comes to healthcare funding. Specifically the cost of a certain small list of medicines.

Of course, those gains have been reversed by the shift in political winds, but there is a potential for this policy to expand in the future.

For a nation with half of all citizens owning guns, it’s amazing that there isn’t more pressure on politicians to implement a universal healthcare scheme.

Lone wolves tend to target schools and workplaces.

It will always remain baffling to me that no rogue widows or widowers, by consequence of the system, don’t bring their grievances to those in charge of healthcare policy.

That’s a brilliant description, thank you

Being obtuse for a moment, let me just say: build it right!

That means minimalism! No architecture astronauts! No unnecessary abstraction! No premature optimisation!

Lean on opinionated frameworks so as to focus on coding the business rules!

And for the love of all that is holy, have your developers sit next to the people that will be using the software!

All of this will inherently reduce runaway algorithmic complexity, prevent the sort of artisanal work that causes leakiness and speed up your code.

I thought this was mainly because they intercepted the same message which was sent twice

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I get Popper’s paradox. However, explicitly changing the law to make things less democratic is in itself a fascist move.

Why am I suddenly seeing this guy’s name every single day? Is it a Lemmy thing?

TLC: Taylor, L’Hospital, and a constant

It’s antidemocratic. Yes there are consequences to Texas’ and other states’ moves, but gerrymandering California is not the answer. Gerrymandering is never the answer.