God Emperor of Mastodon (new account) (@michal@sapka.pl)

God Emperor of Mastodon (new account)

@michal@sapka.pl

This is my new, future account. While most interaction still happen on the bsd.cafe one, I aim to migrate fully here.

I am posting mostly culture, emacs, bsd and anti-ai based ramblings. I don't curse and I try not bait people into pointless anger rages.

I am a nerd (or dork? I don't know), a software engineer and I started to hate what technology has bacame.

This is a self-hosted, single-user instance running on snac2.

Messages auto deleted every few weeks

Homepage: ✔ https://michal.sapka.pl

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God Emperor of Mastodon (new account) » 🌐 2026-07-05
@michal@sapka.pl

The more I learn about the US political system, the less I want to know about it. How can something so complex exist after only 250 years?!

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slash » 🌐 2026-07-06
@agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social

@michal Mostly because we never *remove* any laws, we just patch over them. Geometric complexity.

When first written, the Constitution was quite simple. Only rich, white, males could vote. Non-whites were 3/5ths of a person, but _only_ for deciding how many Reps. a state got. They were non-persons other than that.

Oh, and whoever got the second-most votes was Vice President.

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God Emperor of Mastodon (new account) » 🌐 2026-07-06
@michal@sapka.pl

I'm starting to think that your entire law is to maintain the power of people in power.

Not that Polad is much better, but with no power comes no responsibility. ;p

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slash » 🌐 2026-07-06
@agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social

@michal That's an apt summary. Changing laws requires Congress to pass the change. Congress is composed of the rich and powerful, so they'll rarely vote for something which reduces either of those.

And when a Congress-critter commits a crime, most often Congress will "explain" to the FBI that they have no jurisdiction. Then they have secret hearings to decide what action to take, if any. Usually none. Or "censure", which is a strongly-worded letter.