RRB @rrb@qoto.org

@paezha

Reminds me of Sarkozy passing an immigration law in France that would not have allowed himself to become a citizen of France. Expect this to be the next step.

@blepharon

He will probably request the same deal as Rwanda. See if you can send migrants to the Yemeni border.

@obviousdwest @dangillmor

Maybe.

1.One question is what percentage of the people will be corruptible?

2. Another point is that the people getting money will only have power for a limited period of time. Will the bribe be worth it?

3. Also, since they will not be campaigning, there is no legitimate reason for the payment. It should be ipso facto quid pro quo (to anyone except a supreme court prostitute.)

4. After leaving office, the person who was bribed would be able to blackmail the person paying the bribe. I think reasonable legislation could fix this.

But, I do not dismiss your point. I do not think everyone will be susceptible to this. If we are, we deserve the results.

I think it will be less susceptible to capture by our oligarchs. (But that is opinion, guesswork, I have no data.)

@dangillmor

I can see many advantages to the lottery method he proposes.

Since "Citizens United" we do not have a functioning democracy. Rather we have an auction approach to kleptocracy.

I have been saying for years "You should not vote for anyone who would run for office." And due to the fundraising requirements now, that really is systemic.

I think you are dismissing his arguments too glibly.

@anathema_device sincere, intelligent, devoted to making people's lives better.

@pope suggest that they use:

https://www.random.org/strings/

@nCrazed @bcrypt did you check if it would accept the regex verbatim as password?

@bcrypt old boy was the 5th highest grossing film of 2003

@atheistbot add politics to the list

@athomeinmyhead and, somehow, Donald Trump is not one of them

@jerry season 2has better reviews. Will give it a go.

@olives I think the whole IoT business model is extracting data from customers. That is why the security is so bad. It costs the manufacturers money with no return. If the business model depended on making quality products, they would invest in security.

I was always confused by Internet enabled refrigerators. "Why would I want to buy one?" It made no sense.

When I switched to "Why would someone want to sell me one?" It suddenly made sense to me.

Same thing for IoT toys.

@olives hard to think of good reasons why strangers should be spying on a kid

@olives it is always creepy

@jerry wasn't that wild about season 1. Is season 2 better?

@RickiTarr
What helped me was actively realizing that about 90% of our work/social life is people working to maintain a primate social dominance hierarchy and trying to opt out.

That is also the real use of money. Having numerical scores to compare, makes your place in the hierarchy easier to establish.