It's not the voter. It's the system.

The constitution is old and not democratic.

Russia, Turkey, Phillipines, Belarus, Nicaragua, etc, etc.

Presidential republics are a disaster waiting the right people to break them.

The only way Trump can save face is by doubling down, which is what Iran is waiting for.

America has never played by the rules.

US exceptionalism is a prominent feature of every republican and democratic president since decades.

It's sad, because if US did, and led by example, it could've pulled serious weight internationally on plenty of matters.

Instead it can only do so by economic or military leverage, which, at the end of the day is not enough of a leverage to avoid confrontation.

I would be more concerned if more countries did not help Iran, since in this conflict it's the victim.

> A particular concern, they said, was threats made by the US to Iran’s energy infrastructure. “International law protects from attack objects indispensable to the survival of civilians, and the attacks threatened by Trump, if implemented, could entail war crimes.”

I am not going to lie, I am beyond disgusted at the United States.

And the "it's Trump" card doesn't work, Americans defend this travesty of an old non functioning constitution.

It was a pretty solid setup when everyone wanted it to succeed. We will get a few more safeties put in place via statute after this experience, of course, but what really needs to happen is meaningful improvements to the Constitution. We know enough now to spot plenty of weak points which could be addressed. When I'm feeling particularly spicy I think a Constitutional Convention would be seriously awesome. But then I think of the possible outcomes and I'm not so sure. Were the majority of the population acting in good faith, I'd feel better about it.

The bulk of our politicians are fully corrupt, and you believe there could be a positive outcome for rewriting the constitution?

I thought I made it clear that I don't generally think that would be a good idea. I think it would be interesting, which I sometimes think might be worth the risk. Certainly discontent with the status quo is a broadly held sentiment not at all unique to the current right wing.

When politicians and pundits talk about deregulation the viewer is thinking about less hassle to set up a company or do inter state trade.

What really happens instead are ecological, ethical and financial stresses of all kind.

> At least in the US, we seem to be rapidly moving away from punishing groups for breaking the rules.

Famous recent example: prediction markets are unlawful under the Dodd-Frank's act but the Trump appointed CTFC's head has stated it will ignore it.

The fact that it's millions of LoC is borderline irrelevant in that context, you don't need to have it all in context to find bugs in a handful of files.

I use different models in production and model's "personality" as in tendency to not go off script, not consume gazillions of tokens recursively, follow instructions etc, are more relevant than "brute" power which is okayish as a metric for agentic coding on generous token plans.

Chinese models are very competitive in that regard, you'll often look at 70-90% price reduction at the same quality.

The cancer: growth at every cost or die.

God forbids you make a great product in a specific niche and are happy with the money flowing.

Nope, has to be more.