Voters judge candidates’ charisma a lot more than their ideas.
And many people simply don’t care so much and will vote for stupid reasons, yet have the same impact that people who put a lot of effort and thinking into their decision.
I think we should come with a way to vote for ideas more than persons. And that we should have some form of weighted voting.
An influx of new people will do the following:
- Reduce graft and nepotism and corruption as a whole.
- Constantly bring fresh eyes to old processes.
- Increase and improve knowledge sharing.
- Provide people with a safety net while bringing them working skills that can be applied outside of government.
- Give more people a chance to understand how and why the government works. It will make them more sympathetic for others when dealing with bureaucracy of government and make them feel like they are a stakeholder in the process.
The concept of professional politicians is a new one. It is a sign that we have all given up on our ability to understand and participate in the democratic process. We should all be engaged and feel like we can be part of the process, at any level in the process.
On tech:
- Social media companies should be legally responsible for stopping mob justice and harassment on their platforms, since it would create financial incentive to make better tools and policies.
- Social media companies shouldn't be responsible for censoring political speech (edit: by major politicians), that should be up to the government itself.
On government:
- Every citizen should be allowed to vote regardless of circumstance (i.e. even people in prison for heinous crimes), since I don't think the government should have much power over how it's elected.
- The national debt isn't as big a deal as the media or politicians make it out to be, since the USA is primarily in debt to itself in its own currency.
- Major government officials should be paid a lot more, and in return have major life long restrictions on what they are allowed to do financially both during and after their tenure.
On life:
- Veganism is the only moral choice for diet (non-vegetarian [so total hypocrite] here). I think we're going to learn an uncomfortable amount about animal cognition in the coming century, not to mention the climate impact.
* in JavaScript you don’t need classes, ever.
* you are executing slower using a framework and probably writing code an order of magnitude slower as well
* expert developers don’t do popular things
Telling a visitor that their browser or configuration is not good enough, when it was obviously good enough to view the page with that message, is ablist, anti-accessibility, lazy, incompetent, and just plain rude.
In many cases, HTTPS is overrated and creates more problems than it solves.