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Rusts error handling is almost identical to checked exceptions in practice. The reason it works is because there is no real equivalent to easily handle-able unchecked exceptions, a…

Empirically, most people care more about making the trip efficiently then how exactly it's done. If all those people are motivated to not use cars, think of how much less traffic t…

That's one of the purposes of government regulatory agencies. Laws could be enforced entirely through courts, but regulators can fine on behalf of the ordinary people instead of th…

What would being held in contempt mean? It seems to be just another fine.

Somethinf that would require the attention of thr intelligence services, like, say, getting an unwanted pregnancy in America. The government can and does change its standards, and …

The biggest trick ever played by the ruling elite was convincing people that private property rights and capitalism were somehow related to and necessary for democracy. Democracy s…

Such rights mean nothing when people lose their respect for them. Democracies work when a sufficiently vast majority of those within them belive that the systems are fundamentally …

Water is a necessity. Making it unaffordable literally is a death sentence. Those who would mass murder poor people rather then have a yellow lawn are morally reprehensible.

They literally constitutionally cannot ask the farmers, and you need a very mobilized populace to change the constitution. That's only going to happen when people see the consequen…

Yeah, I just mentally translate it to "Just shut up already and let's move on to stuff that matters."

The threat of suffering and death are the threats used both to make you work for money, and to make you eat healthy and work out. However, the consequences of the former are much m…

You gloss over the economic issues, but those are fundamentally at the center of it. Some copy-able work can be done by semi-amateurs in their free time, and some can be paid for a…

It's not about pollution, it's about actively spending billions to prevent any solutions once we knew it was a problem.

The better solution would be something like separate elected offices for different interests, with representation based on how much an area is affected by that legislation, instead…

I think the jury thing is onto something... a small group rather then an individual can work wonders to cover for the failings and corruptability of the others.

Another alternative is voting without choosing leaders. Aka actually trying democracy.

Go one further, why do we need to have leaders at all? Assigning specific jobs to make decisions for specific domains makes sense, but trying to have one person be in charge of eve…

A 20% chance still happens quite often.

There are probably more people involved in providing food for people among the 10000 NYC people then the 100 Kansas farmers.

It's an embarrassingly bad take. "The sociopolitical system that I am benefiting from also happens to be the inevitable final and best one" is something that so many people have cl…

It turns out individualized software freedom, like all individualized freedom, results in deep systemic problems.

If they did, it would suddenly become that much more clear that the system is deeply antidemocratic, due to people not having any say in the institutions that govern them.

Maybe your time is wasted thinking about the lever, and would be better spent stopping the madmen who keep tying people to the tracks.

Then you would support an effort to get rid of the EC and increase democracy?

The reality in which we live is one crafted by people, and if you don't have a seat at the table crafting the rules, then you are the one being taken for a ride.