"The report of my death was an exaggeration."
(it's next year)

Let's run un-auditable algorithms on hardware subjected to periods of intense radiation.

America has long used distractions of creating new external problems instead of solving our internal problems.

Politicians in general are experts at patting themselves on the back for "solving" problems they created in the first place.

Believers are made when God answers prayers.

Never underestimate the value of shifting responsibility onto someone else. If an individual manager at a bank had to make the call in order to approve a loan, it would be too much pressure and most of them would fail at doing it. But if they can pay some self-described expert to distill the decision into a simple metric, then if it doesn't work out the banking management can just shrug and point at it being bad luck. Because they used the industry-accepted expert, so now nobody is to blame.

Regulating markets is a never ending process. At no point can a government just set it and forget it when dealing with capitalism and profit motive.

I mean in the general case, where police officers do a bad job or violate a person's rights.

I bought a toaster oven with wifi. I never set up the wifi but a year later I found out it was listed as having some horrible backdoors and customers found the model being used to probe home networks.

I really don't need this Internet-of-Things. At least not until it is essential mandatory for products to be open and audited properly, ideally certified on some trustworthy way. (Like a UL listed style of certification for network safety)

Sure sue them, that's about the only recourse you have. But also write or call your representatives in the state legislature. Maybe see if anyone at the local news media will pick it up as a story, especially if the details are juicy. Embarrassing the officer publicly, especially after they lose a civil lawsuit can at least make it harder for them to escape their past

Jainism describes forms of energy and effects that cannot be measures and cannot offer a useful predictive model.

And Christians pretend that they want to do everything that Jesus did, but won't beat the hell out of moneylenders, instead they put them on a pedestal and allow them to rule the top tiers of our society. That's a revisionism I can't get behind.

Or at least requires a lot more work to keep it together.

Organizing people in general is easier in small groups. Easier to take 5 people out for lunch without a hitch than 50. The later, I would recommend planning it at least a few days in advance if not a few weeks.

Getting a small group to agree to action, like in a club, small team, small charity, etc is relatievely straight forward and there is usually not too much fiction of politics involved. You start trying to get a community group, church group, or anything larger than about 20 people. The human factor leads to frequent disruptive power struggles and disagreements that must be resolved. It's why nearly any well-established political or volunteer organization has a formal parliamentary procedure for decision-making, such as Robert's Rules of Order.

Actually getting things done collectively is HARD work!

Our bureaucracy is good at moving ahead with ideas that are unpopular and inefficient, unable to change course or reform really any institution.

People often suggest term limits. But I think a small lifeclock in a politician's hand should start blinking when it's time for them to join Carousel.

I like transparent and accountable government. The size is not critical to me, and it can depend on the functions that the government serves and its overall mission. (for example, a nation with world's most expensive military and the largest economy probably has a big government)

Even if you do sue, the officers are rarely held personally accountable. The taxpayers end up footing the bill and the officer either returns to working the same job or relocates to a new job in a different district, potentially at a higher pay level.

I mean in 10 years none of these programs will compile. But still, seems like a fun project to work on.