Which is actually why the US voted against it basically it was to lodge a complaint against wasting UN resources on unenforceable feel good actions that don't actually change anything.
Everyone being pissy and suggesting this is some moral reflection against America are basically the equivalent of people calling the one guy who voted against everyone getting free unicorns a party pooper because "even if we can't actually do it why do ya gotta go against the vibe man‽"
Keep in mind that the average being twice as high indicates a much higher number of severe age gap marriages than there are now.
This is another "average age of 30" stat where the average somewhat lies about the situation.
Let me start off by saying this is incredibly america centric, I genuinely don't know how applicable this model could be to other countries without similar circumstances to the US.
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On the executive:
On the legislature:
House now assigns one member to a state for every 50k residents tallied in the census, and the house assigns the Senate 27 seats for states, 21 for territories and recognized indigenous nations with 1,000 members or more, and 15 for labor unions with 5,000 members or more. Multiples of 3 so that the rotating terms don't result in elections where some people don't get any say in the senate.
House terms now 4 years and senate terms now 4 year rotating terms of 12 years.
House districts sized between 5 and 9 seats per optimized for compactness and the ability of the residents within to easily understand where their polling place is and who they're voting for.
Senate seats voted on together in a batch. Same for each district's reps.
Style of election is multiseat STAR to make sure each delegation is a rough estimate cross section of that region's political sentiments and what everyone feels is a fair representation of such.
House and Senate officer positions are likewise elected via multi-seat STAR save for 2nd-9th place seats being able to attend the meetings but not having the right to author orders from the office.
House and Senate get to veto eachother's specific actions but it has to be by a minimum of the same margin the action was passed by, and no filibustering of any kind, that's just spoilsport behavior.
House passes laws and other such schtuffs, Senate issues pardons and other such schtuffs.
On the judiciary:
Broadly, every "SCOTUS" case gets it's own randomly assigned panel of judges to block jurisdiction shopping bullshit. The chief justice is the seniormost of the selected judges and acts as foreman.
There's rounds of appeals, including a penultimate one where all the judges who've heard the case come back all at once for an "en banc" trial of the case, but ultimately a "Synod" can be convened for a big enough question where literally every federal judge is summoned to basically get a 2/3rds consensus on any sort of ruling on the issue at hand.
Judges serve 12 year terms renewed by the Senate if no ethical or constitutional misconduct is identified.
On Federalism:
Felony Law is the exclusive domain of the federal government.
Criminal Law is shared with Federal Primacy.
Civil Law is shared with Local primacy provided it doesn't violate constitutional rights or isn't a federal domain in which, federal primacy again.
If a law is overridden or ruled unconstitutional, it's not just put on the shelf, it's stricken, it's gone for good and can't come back unless it's re-passed post it being deemed constitutional again.
States also get overridden by Indigenous Sovereignties on civil law, and where criminal law and jurisdiction is in conflict, the dispute is settled by the feds.
Special carveouts for Hawaii, Alaska, the territories, and Indigenous Sovereignties.
On the continental 48:
Reorganized by Watershed:
On Public Services:
Hire Estonia's tech people to beef up America's public service provisions, see Kraut's vid on what their system is capable of but basically it would save America billions annually just in costs of providing services and bureaucracy costs.
Federal standard setter market participant orgs to keep critical industry participants sharp.
It's a good sentiment but honestly I think most of the utopian types haven't even gotten as far as a concrete version of that final vision.
When pressed a whole bunch of them will eventually spit out some variation of "lol just do a communism bruh" and be shocked and exasperated when asked to actually explain what in Sam Hill that's meant to look like.
At least my pie in the sky fantasy model of government is an actually fleshed out model of fucking government!
Honest work, but it's slow and repetitive work, definitely something where you should consider having a book handy for when you're waiting for the strips to be ready to record
We'll let them take Palin as a snack if they're still hungry after annexing Green Ukraine
Funny thing is that there'd be enough diamonds that even the market crash of hauling a shitload of them back to earth wouldn't stop you from making absolute bank off selling them.
Probably mostly to scientists and specialist mining companies but hey money's money.
Yeah calling programs that don't actually demonstrate intelligence AI is probably one of the most public confusing things the tech bros have done.
It's not Skynet or HAL or AM, it's a very very fancy copy paste protocol, and the owning class is using it to crush independent markets.
So...are they aiming to negotiate land swaps?
Having standards only works on democrats
At this point footage could come out of him raping a baby and they'd still defend him.
"That's different! They're white!" -his inner monologue
Felt like we could all use some throwback humor.
Or maybe it's because of all that food aid distribution that the US knows in particular why this is such a "free unicorn" move?
Where's China's matching contributions to food aid with all that just as good farm land that they're able to harvest twice a year?
That's the political bullshit getting in the way of this being anything but a free unicorn, the only country that gives as much to food aid as America is Ireland, and that's because of a national trauma they're still recovering from.
Right now major world powers are doing more to block food aid or even just regular food commerce, because that means Ukraine gets to have working ports and Russia no likey.
Get the fuck off your high horse about the one country that is already doing a lot because you don't like them being a dick about calling out how everyone else either isn't doing anything at all or actively making the problem worse for geopolitical goals.