So glad to be home and sleeping in my own bed last night. I had a dream that I ran a game store/arcade and it was absurdly successful.
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"A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles"
Such a good read. Everyone needs to read this.
Donald Trump is a dangerous maniac who can barely complete a sentence, and it is lunacy to believe he can even recognize the existentially threatening collective action problems facing our nation, let alone actually solve them.
Collective action problem is the term political scientists use to describe any situation where a large group of people would do better for themselves if they worked together, but it's easier for everyone to pursue their own interests. The essential work of every government is making laws that balance the tradeoffs between shared benefits and acceptable restrictions on individual or corporate freedoms to solve this dilemma, and the reason people hate the government is that not being able to do whatever you want all the time is a huge bummer. Speed limits help make our neighborhoods safer, but they also mean you aren't supposed to put the hammer down and peel out at every stoplight, which isn't any fun at all.
It is extremely frustrating that the Harris campaign keeps going on about Trump being a danger to democracy without explaining why his whole deal is so deeply incompatible with America, so here's the short version: the radical founding principle of the United States of America is the idea that the government's authority to make laws and solve collective action problems comes from the consent of the governed. A clean rewrite, replacing centuries of architectural debt with what was, at the time, a cutting-edge foundation mostly unproven at scale. We vote for our leaders, they are given the power to tell us all what to do so that we might help each other reach better outcomes and be happier, and if they are bad at their jobs, we can simply throw the bums out. We open-sourced the authority, in other words. It was a big bet, and so far, it's paid off.
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Chess For the Day
Record: 7-0-6
Net Elo Change: +18
Games Played
- Elephanti - LOSS
- Spartan723 - WIN
- gmarescotti - LOSS
- PineWarbler - LOSS
- parrotfish42 - WIN
- Alanhemo532 - WIN
- amen2526 - WIN
- Why_So_Serious_2171 - WIN
- Dr123 - WIN
- lalang - LOSS
- Jobbus_erectus - LOSS
- Alfio05 - WIN
- fourthFlute - LOSS
Blog Posts On This Day
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