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> Selling you code, lol -- code is more of a liability really :) It's important to consider that lawmakers (who are not well informed or downright stupid) migh
by Supermancho 1y ago
> Selling you code, lol -- code is more of a liability really :)
It's important to consider that lawmakers (who are not well informed or downright stupid) might think code has intrinsic value because of media married with a lack of real-world experience.
- tomrod 1y agoContinuing your observation, this presumes they read and think deeply about the bills they vote on. They do not.
- Supermancho 1y agoI remember the day I mentioned this in my high school^ honors sociology class and the eventual valedictorian exclaimed that I was stupid to think that. The system has been broken for longer than I have been alive, but the indoctrination has been working to make up for it. This was a Blue Ribbon School 1992-1993 yup. https://www.ed.gov/sites/ed/files/programs/nclbbrs/list-2003.pdf https://www.ed.gov/sites/ed/files/programs/nclbbrs/list-2003...
- sigwinch 1y agoReading all bills that reach the Senate is like reading two Bibles per year. The swing vote legislator? Maybe. But the partisan extremes?
- bonoboTP 1y agoLawmaker is a misleading word. The people who actually make the law and lobby for it probably know quite a bit. The representatives are law voters not makers. They don't design the laws literally. They vote because they are told to.