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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Quora was always that site where you’d search for something on Google, see it show up near the top of the results and you’d just instantly skip over it because you already knew whatever it said was a waste of time unless you were looking for a laugh. Half the time the answers would literally be people messing with the person asking the question, and the other half of the time the person asking the question would be the one joking around.





  • Ultimately it’s because the US is a bad compromise. The original intent was for the US to be a loose confederation of somewhat independent countries similar to how the EU is currently structured, however the civil war showed that some of those States couldn’t be trusted enough to not treat their citizens like shit so the federal government had to be strengthened. This reduced it from a loose confederation into a mostly centralized government but with a bunch of territories that function more as testing grounds for stuff that isn’t quite ready to be promoted to the federal level.

    The Senate is an awkward leftover of that transition. Under the original design it somewhat made sense, you could even argue that the House was the bit that didn’t quite fit under that model because every State was supposed to be equal to every other one. The thought was if you didn’t like the State you were in you could just move to another one. Slavery of course disproved that theory.

    Under the post civil war design of the US the Senate is now the piece that doesn’t quite fit because the people are supposed to be the ones in charge now with the States being an awkward hold over from the earlier confederation concept.

    So yes, ultimately it probably makes sense to eliminate the Senate and strengthen the House. It’s either that or you fundamentally restructure the powers of the US government again. The States have demonstrated that they can not be trusted with civil rights so at a minimum you would have to make civil rights the exclusive domain of the House leaving things like economic policies and trade to the Senate. What we have now is just awkward and doesn’t really work for anyone, the civil war was never really handled properly and it’s about time we cleaned up from that properly instead of taking a bunch of half measures and kicking the can down the road.


  • It’s the exact same problem you run into on any open or semi-open market but the outcome for anything with a good user review system will be the same. Look at Steam where asset flips and low quality clones flooded the store but 99% of them barely get a handful of sales if any. Instead all the money goes towards the games with actual fun content. People recognize low quality and low effort slop and AI reeks of it.

    The only thing flooding markets with slop does is it makes it harder for the small gems to get discovered. Some of them still will, they happen to catch the eye of just the right person and spread through word of mouth, and the big companies will just shovel heaps of money into advertising, but it makes life miserable for the little guy trying to make a name for themselves.