notes, 2026-04-28

🔥 perhaps this should have a themed^°hard word title^°hard word. but, so far this year, there are no themes^°hard word. "Iowa^°hard word" was 2024, and "North Dakota^°hard word" was 2025.

i feel like i have been driftless^°hard word for the past 10 days.

unproductive^°hard word. unsatisfied^°hard word. unemployed^°hard word in a bad way. 💡 as^°hard word opposed^°hard word to the good way of rich, working on side projects, and doing^°hard word the stay-at-home^°hard word labor^°hard word of the relationship^°hard word

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so the solution is the THC^°hard word.

and solving^°hard word all the problems of the world^°hard word.

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one of the things In The News is re-districting^°hard word. the Democrats^°hard word want to do it in Virginia^°hard word. the Republicans^°hard word want to do it in Florida^°hard word. and a Calvinball^°hard word of rules and partisan^°hard word judges will decide what ends up happening. ⚙️ it's^°hard word only partly the fault^°hard word of partisan^°hard word judges. the morass^°hard word of laws is the fault^°hard word of legislators^°hard word. constitutional^°hard word amendments^°hard word in Virginia^°hard word and Florida^°hard word. the Voting^°hard word Rights Act. but also, decades of interpretation. and a critical^°hard word mass of the federal^°hard word bench that will ignore^°hard word the law on behalf^°hard word of a political agenda^°hard word.

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the solution, in theory, is multi-member^°hard word districts^°hard word with members^°hard word chosen^°hard word by single transferable^°hard word vote^°hard word - party list system. the details are a bit complicated^°hard word. but: if 30% of the people want Democrats^°hard word, 30% want Republicans^°hard word, 20% want Labor^°hard word, and 20% want Conservative^°hard word, the elected^°hard word members^°hard word roughly match that. no map-making^°hard word.

some of the details are solvable^°hard word:

• in the US, you probably can't^°hard word have districts^°hard word that cross state lines. so does Wyoming^°hard word have 5 reps^°hard word, or just 1 (and thus a single-member^°hard word district^°hard word)
• the party system inevitably^°hard word mutates^°hard word as^°hard word a result of the electoral^°hard word system
• drawing the multi-member^°hard word districts^°hard word still has some power

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the biggest^°hard word problem is that the fundamental^°hard word flaw^°hard word of democracy^°hard word remains.

• elect^°hard word some people
• a major problem arises
• the elected^°hard word people study the issue^°hard word and come to a solution
• stochastically^°hard word, a lot of uninformed^°hard word people feel the other way
• they elect^°hard word new people, on the platform^°hard word of being unreasonable^°hard word and uninformed^°hard word

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what is the purpose of government?

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government provides^°hard word:

• social^°hard word services / safety net
• public works / infrastructure^°hard word
• military
• education
• currency^°hard word
• court system

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