I second the doctor.

It might just be an utter lack of fitness. But even then a doctor might give you tips.

Or it could be something more serious.

Don’t take medical advice that doesn’t come from a doctor.

(Did you take spironolactone for Hyperaldosteronism, or just for the breasts. Because those side effects look horrible)

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It’s at 6:30. Not during the day.

After talking with him

To me that sounds even worse.

Yes. But how is that relevant?

Either the Democrats win the general election, then it’s irrelevant who the Republican candidate is, or they lose. Then the moderate Republican would be much better than the maga extremist.

I guess there could be some concerns about a moderate Republican swaying more independent voters?

Did they stop paying his bribes or something?

They do improve the issues some, but don’t solve them fully.

They also delay your human’s internal clock, which can make it more difficult to charge them during the next cycle.

The problem for me is that humans all come with a pre-set charging start time. Charging them before that time is damn near impossible. They just won’t start charging, unless they are already dangerously drained.

But I still need my human operational at 8 am.

I’m trying to change their internal clock forward every day. They synchronize to how much light they receive.

But that’s a lot of work. And I don’t really experience CPU and RAM issues unless I try to go over that 3/1 ratio

No. To my knowledge, putting the means of production into the hands of the people was never a majority opinion. And democracy is important.

However, there are many social democratic policies that I believe have very broad support, and that still aren’t being implemented:

• Universal healthcare (e.g. through mandatory insurance with central price negotiations)
• Ban on pharmaceutical rebates
• Universal free preschool
• Free school lunch
• Incentivising local governments to zone more medium density housing.

Then there are other policies that I think would be really good for the US, but I am not sure the support is bipartisan:

• Tighter control on monopolies
• Unlimited sick days with a doctor’s note
• Minimum vacation days
• Raising minimum wage and implementing an automatic inflation adjustment
• Maximum weekly work hours
• Banning false self-employment
• Union protections
• Parental leave
• Free college admission

The latter category is also where I would place steps towards market socialism. For example federal laws that allow worker cooperatives (currently only some states allow them). And potentially even lowering the tax on worker co-ops compared to conventional companies.

What’s your opinion on those questions?

My yearly average is 3/1. I’m just trying not to get above that

You can easily get 3 hours for every hour of charging, even over extended periods of time. Although you might experience some issues with your CPU and RAM. And it can negatively impact the device lifespan.

Over short periods you can get away with even less charging. Although the CPU and RAM issues will get even worse.

It’s pretty much the same in a parliamentary election system with an electoral threshold.

If the party you vote for can’t clear that threshold, you might as well not vote at all.

I guess your vote still has a slight impact, as it makes it harder for other parties that hover around the electoral threshold to get in. But I doubt that’s the impact you are going for.

Yes. I’m talking about an extremely directly democratic legislative system.

Democracy is supposed to put decisions in the hands of the people. But in our current system, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Germany is the 13th most democratic country. And still lobbyists have such a heavy influence that they might as well be considered our legislative.

Some people might be annoyed to be called for citizens’s assembly duty. But democratic participation is vital if we want a fair system.

The executive system would be slightly more technocratic than our current system. Expertise would definitely give candidates an edge.

For many posts the votes would mostly be cast according to morals. Like how I chose the green candidate, regardless of qualifications, for the ministry of transportation. I want trams and bike lanes. Not a transportation engineer that knows how to build even bigger parking lots.

But during a pandemic, I don’t want Spahn or Kennedy as health minister. I want someone like Lauterbach or Fauci. So maybe some technocracy is a good thing.

The government would be voted through instant runoff voting.

The legislative would combine several forms of direct democracy. Namely:

• Agenda setting initiative
• citizens’ assembly
• referendum

This wouldn’t be about saving the GOP. They aren’t going to collapse any time soon, and I don’t think they are morally saveable either.

It’s just about getting two chances at avoiding the greatest possible evil.

Conservatives are bad. But MAGA-progressives are downright evil.

So what is your plan to actually achieve goals? Protest? A coup d’etat? Civil war?

Do you think archiving those goals in a MAGA-autocracy will be easier than in a less evil system?

How many lives is that sort of change worth?

You could register Republican, then vote in the Republican primary for the less evil candidate.

Then in the general election vote for the Democratic nominee.

Although I don’t think many people are doing that, so maybe there’s a flaw in that strategy