▲ 248 ▼ Chicago police Sgt. John Poulos, whose fatal shootings of 2 men led to about $2 million in City Hall payouts, now running for judge (chicago.suntimes.com) submitted 2 years ago by gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 23 comments fedilink hide all child comments Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20231212130339/https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/8/23992013/john-poulos-judge-rickey-rozelle-kajuan-raye-payouts-chicago-police-department
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago (3 children) The US system is a source a bewilderment to the rest of us. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] kescusay@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago (3 children) Sorry, we accidentally released a beta democracy into production. Planned changes include: bugfix: remove unneeded electoral college (slows progress down) bugfix: replace current hard-set limit on House with dynamic value that grows with population feat: add protection for voting rights to system firmware/constitution (current piecemeal legislative approach is difficult to optimize) bugfix: set polling location availability by population density, not population wealth feat: implement ranked-choice election system (deprecates first-past-the-post) feat: implement consequences for criminal actions taken by people who are white and conservative Unfortunately, these changes are not yet available, but these and more will become possible to implement if we fucking vote like our country depends on it at every level. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] bitwise@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (1 child) I appreciate the well formatted commit message. A shame that some of the maintainers aren't interested in accepting fixes. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children) The original spec must be interpreted literally by the letter. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] bitwise@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago "The founding maintainers were perfect in every way and their vision doesn't need adjustment!" "Their vision included the need for adjustment? Nah, that's just propaganda from trolls." permalink fedilink source parent [–] IHawkMike@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago And the interpreters can be bought if you're wealthy enough. permalink fedilink source parent [–] vortexsurfer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) There also seems to be open security vulnerabilities, which could potentially make it possible for a malicious actor to take control of the entire system. Consider implementing some safeguards against that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bitwise@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago "Working as intended" #wontfix /closed permalink fedilink source parent [–] SilverCode@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago Known issues: sometimes race conditions can cause instability in the system permalink fedilink source parent [–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago And to us in the US. permalink fedilink source parent [–] modifier@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago Eh, remove the gun violence and it's just garden-variety corruption. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago (3 children) Sorry, we accidentally released a beta democracy into production. Planned changes include: bugfix: remove unneeded electoral college (slows progress down) bugfix: replace current hard-set limit on House with dynamic value that grows with population feat: add protection for voting rights to system firmware/constitution (current piecemeal legislative approach is difficult to optimize) bugfix: set polling location availability by population density, not population wealth feat: implement ranked-choice election system (deprecates first-past-the-post) feat: implement consequences for criminal actions taken by people who are white and conservative Unfortunately, these changes are not yet available, but these and more will become possible to implement if we fucking vote like our country depends on it at every level. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] bitwise@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (1 child) I appreciate the well formatted commit message. A shame that some of the maintainers aren't interested in accepting fixes. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children) The original spec must be interpreted literally by the letter. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] bitwise@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago "The founding maintainers were perfect in every way and their vision doesn't need adjustment!" "Their vision included the need for adjustment? Nah, that's just propaganda from trolls." permalink fedilink source parent [–] IHawkMike@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago And the interpreters can be bought if you're wealthy enough. permalink fedilink source parent [–] vortexsurfer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) There also seems to be open security vulnerabilities, which could potentially make it possible for a malicious actor to take control of the entire system. Consider implementing some safeguards against that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bitwise@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago "Working as intended" #wontfix /closed permalink fedilink source parent [–] SilverCode@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago Known issues: sometimes race conditions can cause instability in the system permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bitwise@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (1 child) I appreciate the well formatted commit message. A shame that some of the maintainers aren't interested in accepting fixes. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children) The original spec must be interpreted literally by the letter. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] bitwise@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago "The founding maintainers were perfect in every way and their vision doesn't need adjustment!" "Their vision included the need for adjustment? Nah, that's just propaganda from trolls." permalink fedilink source parent [–] IHawkMike@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago And the interpreters can be bought if you're wealthy enough. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children) The original spec must be interpreted literally by the letter. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] bitwise@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago "The founding maintainers were perfect in every way and their vision doesn't need adjustment!" "Their vision included the need for adjustment? Nah, that's just propaganda from trolls." permalink fedilink source parent [–] IHawkMike@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago And the interpreters can be bought if you're wealthy enough. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bitwise@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago "The founding maintainers were perfect in every way and their vision doesn't need adjustment!" "Their vision included the need for adjustment? Nah, that's just propaganda from trolls." permalink fedilink source parent
[–] IHawkMike@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago And the interpreters can be bought if you're wealthy enough. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vortexsurfer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) There also seems to be open security vulnerabilities, which could potentially make it possible for a malicious actor to take control of the entire system. Consider implementing some safeguards against that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bitwise@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago "Working as intended" #wontfix /closed permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bitwise@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago "Working as intended" #wontfix /closed permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SilverCode@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago Known issues: sometimes race conditions can cause instability in the system permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago And to us in the US. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago Eh, remove the gun violence and it's just garden-variety corruption. permalink fedilink source parent