Recent content by mitsho

You chose intrinsic as a term here, but what you really want is to have some bonuses be more generic, and not everything having to be unique. I agree with that. It gets hard to make meaningful unique bonuses, and those make it harder and harder for the average follower to understand them. By...

Bullfeathers. The most important trait that make humans adept at what we achieved is copying, meaning we look at what other humans or animals are doing and learn it that way. That means only one human needs to learn how to break open a coconut, and everyone else can learn from her or him...

The more people experience climate change directly in their life, be it through wildfire, water scarcity, floodings or invasive species, the more they are likely to turn away from these politicians. The best way for the Republicans to get their vote is to not mention the Climate Crisis at all...

You missed the most obvious point: He/she DESERVES to retire at 80 years old. It's a demanding job and work-life balance is important. No one is indispensable, and at 65 usually (depending on your job it can go up to 70-75 I'd say, but also down for more physically demanding jobs) you should not...

And I think that‘s a good thing. If you‘re goal isn‘t to integrate in a specific reason, it‘s best to learn some kind of mishmash that is the global variant. Just as with English where a very basic simple English is the variant most often spoken (from India to Brazil, from Egypt to China)...

Technology will get better. It's good to start with the urban and suburban centers, and it's okay to have exemptions. But with the climate crisis getting worse and worse, we have to start now. And by the way, the economy (car manufacturers) here is further along than the politics. Btw regarding...

Cities are building the infrastructure already. There are ways to solve this and they are all being tested. One or another system will be the most popular, but in truth its dependent on the local circumstances. EV are an inevitability, but there are also other parts in the transformation of the...

There are better ways to check. F.e. we have the ballot and a voter id card. You get both per mail and then put both in the mail or go with them to mailing station. The voter id card is put in a box, the ballot in an urn. Then both the box and the urn are counted by a machine. The voter cards...

It‘s about Data Privacy, I know. And fear of the government abusing the data it gets from it. Which is funny since there‘s also Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and co who get way better data and are less controlled. But I do agree we disgress and this isn‘t directly related to the topic anymore...

I can tell you how it works in Switzerland: there is a voter registry that is based upon the normal citizen registry (you have to tell your city when you move). Then, everyone able to vote gets sent a letter with a ballot and a voting card. You put both of those together and send it in. The two...

In the US maybe. Not really sure about the exact numbers for an OECD-wide analysis (which is the standard in comparative political science for democracies), but it's clear that signature verification is not a standard true and tested element of free and fair elections. Now you can debate on the...

Signatures are a notoriously bad way of identity verification. Signatures seldom match, just try to sign ten times on a paper. Now recognise that you wanted to make those 10 signatures similar to each other whereas voters don't really remember how they signed on the voting application form ten...

Thank god for unisex bathrooms. I see them more and more. Just labeled "Toilet with a Pissoir" and "Toilet without". Feel for you, all the strength to you!

Unlike Russia, where there's a colonial present, right? What do the people of Siberia, Central Asia and the Caucasus think of Russia?

So "states as the laboratory of democracy" seem to change into the "laboratory of autocracy". I read about that on european polisci twitter, just for your information on how big a breach of democratic rule it is to expel members of parliament you don't like. As for the gun issue: I propose to...