My dream change to the system: If you haven't read the bill - all of it - you can't vote for it.
You want to have 1000-page monstrosities? Knock yourself out. But you're going to have to actually read all 1000 pages. And you're going to have to persuade everyone else to also read all of it.
While I'm dreaming, I have a second dream change: Congress cannot exempt members of Congress from the effect of laws. Hey, Representative So-and-so, you want to change Social Security? You're changing your retirement, too. You want to change healthcare? You're changing your own healthcare, too.
Saying this in a programmers forum is pretty rich.
If you've ever written code that wasn't clear and obvious and necessary to the dumbest script kiddie, it's bad code, right? I'm sure you love those PR bots that sass you for "function getting long" right? They are never wrong, right?
Why do we continue to insist, as the world gets ever more complicated, that non-experts not understanding expert things is a problem with the experts?
Most adults don't understand relativity, so it can't possibly be correct.
You want to have 1000-page monstrosities? Knock yourself out. But you're going to have to actually read all 1000 pages. And you're going to have to persuade everyone else to also read all of it.
While I'm dreaming, I have a second dream change: Congress cannot exempt members of Congress from the effect of laws. Hey, Representative So-and-so, you want to change Social Security? You're changing your retirement, too. You want to change healthcare? You're changing your own healthcare, too.