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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both β200β and β160β are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When youβre a kid, you donβt realize youβre also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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This will be a problem in any form of democracy.
Any system which gives the people any power will run into problems if the majority of the population is very stupid.
I think the advantage of my system is that the people elected may be stupid, yes, but at least most of them won't be malicious. And, hopefully, improving the education system would be something they have interest in working on, which could help make the population less stupid over time.
What are the limits on the powers of this Senate?
Well, that would be up to the constitution and the bill of rights ... which I'm not quite done drafting yet.
I will only vote for this constitutional if it explicitly enshrines the write to the private ownership of alligators in any quantity, with exceptions for explicit standards of cruelty to alligators, which also must be written into the constitution explicitly. There should also be some language that states a dozen different ways that "alligator" isn't some metaphor for government power, and that we're talking about the literal animal here.
Yeah ... not likely, lol. It's already way too long, what with me trying to exclude every loophole and account for every edge case, so I'm trying to keep it more general and let the Senate pass their own laws when it comes to very specific things that aren't absolutely essential for human rights and/or the running of a fair and equitable government.
Best of luck, though. I'll be rooting for you to get selected for the Senate, where you can spend your entire 10-year term exclusively fighting for alligator ownership rights.
I mean, there's ways to introduce the proper amount of crazy in fewer words. For example, such as a constitutional ban on the color yellow.