Yah I know.
It’s just funny to me, how the perfect example against this idea is also happening right now.

Reminds me of the new Info Wars rebrand.
Tweak the O. Make it a rainbow. I’m in.

Knowing the players in question who would be writing the new constitution

We don’t know who. Members of the current government certainly wouldn’t. They have too much invested in the current system. They’d do everything they could to fight it. No revolution ever included officials or influencers from the old government.

As for what changes would be needed? That would be a massive list. Heavily dependent on details.
Generally speaking:

• More explicit guardrails around corruption.
• Less centralized power in the executive branch. Maybe multiple “Presidents”
• A mechanism for the public to unilaterally recall an elected offical.
• Intrabranch enforcement of powers over each other. So the courts can’t just be ignored.

That’s just the high flyers off the top of my head.

A self contained diving rebreather will work.
That’s a mask with extra steps.

I wasn’t that worried…
Now I am.

If you’re not willing to understand even the basics of what you’re talking about enough to explain your view, there isn’t anything to talk about. You’re just obviously wrong, and you don’t even care to know why. I’ve got nothing more for you.

Killing them is the wrong word. As you said, they already dead.
But setting aside where the energy comes from, the movement signals would still come from the brain. So destroy the brain, and the body stops.

What’s really strange is when a hand gets severed but still moves. If that happens then we’re genuinely looking at some kind of magic, and all logical rules are up for grabs.

How much miscounting? Enough to matter? How. If you want to convince the shortest splitline can be manipulated more than a bunch of people, you need to explain exactly how.

How do you change peoples addresses; Not just a few, but several percentage points? And people don’t interpret anything. That’s the point. The data is collected in the census by thousands of people. You can’t get thousands of people to lie about tens of thousands of addresses when they don’t even know which way to fudge the numbers. Then the computer tells you where the lines are. Nothing for people do to change them. Any attempt to change it will be obvious.

Did you even look at the site I linked? Because all you have is vague promises that people lie. You offer no alternative. If people can just lie about everything (which even Rump has failed to do) what can laws do? Laws are even easier to lie about.

No they won’t. But someone will. Because someone would need to. Probably a lot of people. And the states would need to ratify it. If you can get all the states on board with something, it might be better than what we currently have. It might not.

But that doesn’t matter. What we have today is broken. Unquestionably, it needs a major overhaul. Nothing lasts forever. Not even the United States of America. The Framers weren’t special people. They were ordinary men. No smarter than us today. And we understand the world today much much better than they ever could. So I’d bet on any random one of us, over them.

I think you’re thinking of laws.
Code is better.

You can’t game how many people live where.

Don’t know what you mean by sharper target.

You can pick a specific algorithm based on nothing but population, without any demographics. Thus impossible to gerrymander. The Shortest Splitline is one. Another I don’t remember the name of draws circles around the densest population centers as big as they need to be to include the required number of people.

It’s not the only way. Larger multi-member districts also work.

And while we’re re-writing the whole constitution, we could do lots of things. Like requiring algorithmically generated districts, to remove the possibility of any arbitrary bias.

What does “be at-large” mean?
We’re talking about a kind of stagered multi-member districts.

That sounds great.
Just use that in the House.

That would make time 25% slower… 33%?..
But no. People just probably talk 25% faster now

The reason they’re gerrymander immune is that they only have two reps that aren’t up for election at the same time. If you award seats proportionally Californa will have roughly a dozen seats in the Senate. What would be the schedule and process for electing them all? Why not just use that process for a single legislature?

The Constitution isn’t a holy text with “teachings”.

Even the guys who wrote it, thought it had a lot of problems and didn’t think it would last 50 years.

It realy should be completely be re-written. With an expiration date built in, to ensure it gets re-written in the future.

Number 3 structures the Senate (more or less) the same as the House. The whole point of the Senate is to give each state equal representation, while the House gives each person equal representation.

If you’re going to restructure the Senate that way, may just as well get rid of it.

To be clear, the billionaires are not the 1%.
There are only ~900 billionaires in the US. That’s the top 0.000003%

Your well paid doctors, lawers, engineers, etc. are in the 1% and still firmly part of the consumer class.