Taylor Lane Games

Interested in TTRPGs with a focus on the OSR, history, LLMs, and the abstract concept of art

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@KasimirUrbanski @Graham_Mark_E i mean, if forced to choose between complete lottery and committee, I would choose complete lottery. But I didn't even know that committee was part of the discussion when we started.

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@KasimirUrbanski @Graham_Mark_E Also, I never said "specialist committee". I guess something like

this? Maybe? If I had to pull something out of a hat? You'd want it to be a very difficult to capture or campaign for process

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@KasimirUrbanski @Graham_Mark_E ...I actually voted at random on it, more often than just leaving it blank, tbh... I regret that. I guess I thought it was in some sense... better to vote??? I hope I didn't vote for anyone bad...

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@KasimirUrbanski @Graham_Mark_E my perspective is that Americans actually *do* get to elect judges in many cases (varies state to state) and it always seemed pretty ridiculous to me that I got to vote on this, because I had no idea who these people were -- they didn't even have a party affiliation

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@KasimirUrbanski @Graham_Mark_E fixed prime-number-length single terms for such judges with automatic corruption and/or general misuse of office jury trials at the end?

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@KasimirUrbanski @Graham_Mark_E imo a good solution might be judges of upper courts selected via sortion from judges of lower courts with... election? doesn't seem quite right... of the judges at the lowest courts

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@KasimirUrbanski @Graham_Mark_E what would you actually want to change? Imo a lot of the details of American governance seem to lead to various issues, but we now lack the asabiyyah to pass an amendment + Chesterton's fence.

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@KasimirUrbanski @Graham_Mark_E I didn't know you were originally from there.

Would you think it good to change anything at all about Alberta's system?

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@KasimirUrbanski @Graham_Mark_E anyways, as far as Alberta specifically, I would assume that in practice they would be stuck with exactly the same provincial political structure they've always had, but now sovereign. Politicians won't vote to abolish themselves.

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@KasimirUrbanski @Graham_Mark_E their systems vary greatly, but they generally also have a wide variety of other methods to complicate the system away from the british simplicity

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@KasimirUrbanski @Graham_Mark_E So, it probably isn't even as simple as I have stated it to be, and we should consider American success under its political system to probably be a complicated mix of political, legal, institutional, economic, geographic, and cultural factors.

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@KasimirUrbanski @Graham_Mark_E Meanwhile, the British-derived lineage is robust under cultural, legal, political, and institutional variation.

It is worth noting that of the American lineage, the most direct copy is the Liberian constitution, which I would consider the greatest failure of the family.

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@KasimirUrbanski I had AI do the rap translation. It works really really well, far better than more elevated language. But also I just... do not like the illiad. It is a story about men fighting over sex slaves.

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@KasimirUrbanski Interestingly, the oddessy could not, and is ultimately a completely American story that can be and has been adapted into road stories