This probably isn’t the progressive answer you’d expect, but perhaps under a centuries old definition of progressive: weighted technocracy. People vote only in the field of their own expertise, and leave all other issues to those who have expertise. It is a sort of direct democracy with votes weighted by credentials.

Unfortunately you need an insane amount of checks and balances to make it work without power becoming overly concentrated in a Soviet style steering committee.

Cyteen, by CJ Cherryh, explores this well in a fictional context.

The only way the US ever regresses from its current position is through internal disarray. They cannot be challenged by external forces, not in the foreseeable future anyway. Unfortunately, internal disarray of the magnitude required to effect the changes espoused herein are basically impossible without full scale civil war erupting. And that would be bad or worse. When the medicine is worse than the disease, you accept the disease.

Voter turnout in these sorts of student elections is usually on the order of 10%. It’s quite easy to hijack, and I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often.

I don’t understand how authoritarian leaning conservatives and free speech absolutists align most of the time.

This is such an interesting development. I bet a lot of dirty laundry is about to be aired.

That article is light on implemention details. It talks a lot about the legislation itself, and ways in which it might be implemented.

Weird spin. It looked like a productive and friendly conversation – and they even bothered to watch the video! Do you block everyone that challenges anything you say? That’s not blocking fascism, that’s backing yourself into a carefully curated echo chamber.

The gish gallop and the firehose of falsehood. It makes truth and facts meaningless if allowed.

Pot – kettle

Yes, but how. The details matter

Okay, but: why is the screenshot a KDE code snippet? ;)

Wake me up when pyside is on that list. I’ve been waiting for this day for a decade…

Bug doesn’t know where grass is. Is this grass?

Is this unmodded? I’ve never played it, and this screenshot alone intrigues me enough…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(engineering)#History

This guy is actually perched on the fibreglass frame of some pretty expensive scientific equipment. Hopefully he remains a passive feature ;)

I can hear this photo

Salt mines are so awesome. They’re usually room and pillar, so they’re the closest we get to the Mines of Moria. Plus they are almost always bright white inside, unlike most metal mines.

Definitely a different kind of creative thinking involved haha

Okay, TIL: it passes faster due to a shallower gravity well, rather than my expectation that it would pass slower due to its orbital velocity around the earth.

For astronauts in LEO, time passes slower because of the latter.

Dragon Age Origins, first run ever. Had to apply the 4GB patch, and it still crashes occasionally on modern hardware. Off and on.

BG3. Just started Act III, still in the outskirts. The third act is so imposing that I’ve taken a break just to clear headspace, hence DAO above

EU4 (Anbennar fantasy conversion mod) – geez, this game is like crack for me. I’m now well over 4000 hours. I keep circling back. Most recent run was Dwarven Adventurer into Verkal Dromak – the sleeper dwarves with the dream magic system. Long considered a hard start, you’re now aided by an early game rebellion which can sometimes cripple your main enemies, the Hobgoblin country “The Command”. Much fun.