I am convinced it's very bad, and ought not happen!

... maybe there are drawbacks to using etymonline.com as my first-choice dictionary... 😁

The buck can't stop at the President anymore - it has to go back to the people. We need recall and removal processes across all federal offices.

To prevent frivolity with public resources, I suggest predicating petition-gathering on demonstrating malfeasance in court - e.g., lying to constituents.

The strength of competitive markets is wide distribution of resource-management decisions, such that good decisions compound over time and bad decisions wash out.

UBI brings everyone into that decision-making, all serving the common good by deciding with whom to do business.

Post as much as you want, send money with it if you want - this becomes part of the post's metadata that can be used to filter a feed.

I think we should just adapt Chess's ELO system to generate rankings: 'Like' is concession, its value to the recipient determined by Likes the clicker has received.

Most people do not partake of the Enlightenment - they learned to present the form of reasoned consideration through the post-Enlightenment narratives they've consumed, and they think that's what everyone else is doing too. They think it's just sophisticated posturing, nuance a sign of manipulation.

Our culture must stretch us for it to sustain a steady state.
Cheap dialogue and simple narratives are poison throughout our society, constraining expectations both personal and professional through lack of examples of real competence - easy writing depends on incompetence for a conflict to exist.

The general problem with mass-monetization of culture: we learn culture through the culture we're exposed to, and then we create culture derived from the culture we learned - when all culture is targeted to the largest possible audience, the quality will inevitably lose sophistication over time.

The area of the gap is the measure of the opportunity hoarded by oligarchs for economic control through artificial scarcity of permission to prosper, the seed fund of our potential squandered due to mismanagement of resources by concentration of decisions to too few hands through market domination.

I no longer even know what we should expect from a President - it seems to have two purposes: to be in charge of processes so important they should allow no discretion anyway, and to be a skin a party can shed every few years as needed for popularity.

I wouldn't wish it on any politician I liked.

I like how vague that is.
"Why are you wanting into this facility?"
"It's a wellness check. For everyone and everything happening in here right now. Also, I might have comments to offer on how things get done."
"What things?"
"All that you do might be done better and everyone's gonna hear about it."

The fox spirit is teaching him dance magic, which is the coolest thing he's ever done, but it also compels him to dance when he would never have - and he learns that the response to impromptu small-audience dancing fulfills in a way large venues never could.

Foxy wants him to run for office...

Displace the Establishment

Each locality should establish multiple voter-owned political parties that federate across state and nation to secure ballot access and elevate candidates to higher offices.

This is also the organizational structure needed to sustain a General Strike/Boycott.

If that fourth candidate also denounces the others as corrupt, it's exactly what Trump did in his first debate (except the fire and sword were promised for the Mexicans).

I'd suggest though, instead of 'corrupt', go with 'complicit' - "your complacency was complicity in a treasonous insurrection!"

I guess that's probably the best clue that a character is Zakalwe.

We're looking more like A Canticle for Leibowitz all the time.

It's pressure - at a high amplitude it's like changing elevation fast enough to pop your ears, then back down and do it again once per second - the louder the sound, the more the pressure swings.

Sound loud enough to be like wind leaves vacuum in its wake - an explosion.

While I'm discussing futurist fantasies: I also want to see high-speed rail carrying parking lots full of cars and trucks, with access to the stations integrated into the interstate system via standard ramps 😀

I like the idea of, when they are good enough, cars requiring you to slot your license to take manual control, and that license being hard to get and easy to lose. I'd give the cars an emergency manual control that alerts emergency responders when it is used.

Their wealth is a score, ours is what we can do. Zero out their scores and nothing changes for us - all they ever gave us was our own permission back to us. The pretext that we need to get it back to give it again was always an abusive manipulation.

But they do deserve to have their scores zeroed.

The country club?

They're recreating a spoiled rich child's birthday party.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

It occurred to me to check how it responded to other terms, so I searched for "doghouse fires" and "warehouse shores" and instantly got pages of search results.

A screenshot of my effort to confirm or deny the OP's question (one data point to the affirmative).

I just had to try:

You inspired me to write this (though it follows a couple of old antecedent posts that might be necessary context):

It is natural that once we achieve perspective of sufficient horizon and a capacity for abstraction we turn this habit upon our own existence, to identify the meaning of our life in an effort to predict what happens after its end.

The hole that religion fills is a mirage from the root of sapience.

Right - we should take him at his word that this is representative of his ability to consume information, and every briefing he receives is understood no better.

Much harm emerges from mistaking the salacious for the salient.

I like your profile description - I've often related perspective and wisdom in a similar way, so I feel compelled to share with you my latest iteration 😀

The only assets I care about that they have are the means of production - they'll try to have them destroyed if they leave them behind, and they'll have some success at that, but I think most of those efforts will be stopped by their employees. We'll soon find that all they ever made was permission.