Thoughts at Random

The main idea: having sons to be subject to a transferable permit system.   0. Posts on this blog are ranked in decreasing order of likeability to myself. This entry was originally posted on 05.07.2023, and the current version may have been updated several times from its original form.  1 The Audience 1.1 There are those who lay the blame for much of what is wrong in this world at the feet of men. 1.2 There are those who find much fault with the excess of power women may wield over men nowadays. 1.3 There are those who worry seriously about overpopulation. 1.4 There are those who agonise over the dysgenic tendencies of the modern world. 1.5 There are those who think a population is only as large as the number of fertile-age women it has. 1.6 There are those who think every achievement worth mentioning can only be expected from men.  1.7 There are those who’d applaud every scheme by which those better off are made to pay those less fortunate. 1.8 There are those who ...

 0. Posts on this blog are ranked in decreasing order of likeability to myself. This post is a catch-all repository of miscellaneous lesser ideas that would otherwise clog the bottom of my preferences, with additions coming up all the time and each new leading number indicating a separate entry. 29.1 ( 20260616 ) I speculate that a functional Federation allows each and every federal until one and only one of two freedoms: veto any federal decision or secede.  29.2 The US is a sham Federation since it's awards it's States neither, whilst the EU is disfunctional since it allows both. 29.3 Due to obvious gridlock concerns, you cannot have too many actors vith veto power, so it follows that the core few units of the Federation will have Veto powers but not the right to secede, whereas the potentially more numerous and/or smaller peripheral units will have the right to secede. 29.4 It also follows that the core units will tend to be big, again to limit the number of actors with vet...