I've had this tablet since 2016. Just took it up from Cyanogen 12 to Lineage 20 last week. It fell off the bed yesterday and now everything is magenta. It's not the accessibility settings. I pulled off the back and none of the ribbon cables are loose. I wonder if there's a crack I can't see, or if it's the LCD itself. 😔
UBI would only ever work in Star Trek world: a world where there is infinite cheap power, instant atom level recycling and zero resource scarcity.
Real UBI would be much more like The Expanse and less like Star Trek.
Just because COVID was the largest psyop and authoritarian litmus test the world has even seen, doesn't discredit what it showed us specifically about modern monetary theory, a.k.a just printing money.
Money has to represent some value. When you hand out that much of it without exchanging value, the rest in circulation looses value.
I'm surprised they even catch any of the ones that happen that far north. You think people up there could just make people disappear ... "they probably got eaten by a bear" type shit ... you guys got bears right?
Interesting. What are the big industries up there? Fishing? Tourism? Did everyone know everyone in your town? How big was your school? Are there trains going up there or is it all driving/flying to get out?
Only 2.5? Oh wow, it's closer than I thought. I guess the scale just looks big on flat maps cause of Earth's curvature and all that. It does look like it'd be very beautiful.
The statement came from an old divorce case, meaning some inter at a government marking tank were forced to read through every boring piece of shit they could find on RFK to get this stupid "brain worm" hit piece this stupid Twitter Bitch is retarded enough to spread the obvious psyop.
I heard they had on an Irish band which did this whole weird punk satanism/witchcraft thing last week, which was totally different than all their other music.
...the capitalists, we gotta start policing this stuff...
I'm curious to hear what should be done to prevent situations like this, and would like to see those involved jailed for what is highly likely illegal in some form already.
As a Canadian, who does live under single-payer, I will add that the same problems that allow this to happen also make the public option worse. No matter what your system is, accountability is crucial.
Da fuck?! I think the root of evil is people doing fucking evil things. You would not be communicating on the Internet, using the software you are using, without a "State power." The type of scale required to make the types of technology we have (for better and for worse) requires States.
States do have a monopoly on violence. This isn't a bad thing in itself so long as the State is dependent on the approval of a large number of people (selectorate theory; see The Dictator's Handbook by Mesquita and Smith) and the State preserves real freedom of speech and disagreement (difficult to achieve).
I do believe smaller states are better. I'm fine with technology progressing more slowly if the EU was gone, and the South had won and kept America split, if the USSR had meaningfully dissolved and if China wasn't an empire. It's very difficult to prevent the creation of larger States or governing confederations; it follows the natural order of nature to create larger systems within a hierarchy.
You want to live in a place with little protection; the wild west. You're fucking insane dude and I don't think you have any idea what that's like. Go live in Somalia or India for an idea. You wouldn't survive a fucking month with your brain dead takes.
Nations that provide on all of that are dependent on research from the US. Honestly, your socialized systems drive up prices in non-socialized systems where the pharma companies will recoup those losses. Your nation outsources the costs.
There are downsides to "free" healthcare, because demand can skyrocket. Austrians a decade ago opposed even having a doctor co-pay of $10~$20, even though AU's cost was ballooning out of control.
Canada has a massive increase of medical assisted suicide (MAID) for people who don't need it.
A socialized system also increases control by the State. You want health care? Take this government mandated drug. Oh you're not taking the drug? Well no health care, maybe even no food.
The American system is not great. It has a lot of problems. But it does tie healthcare to adding value to society (employment). The trouble with "free" healthcare is the doctors and treatments cost money ... so you are paying for it; everyone is. You just don't see the costs because it's in your taxes.
I had a buddy who worked in compound research. He did get paid pennies for his work, but he also told me about all of the costs. Each monkey for a trial is like $10k, and you often need dozens of them.
They pharma companies are take a lot more than they should for sure, the staff are way underpaid, and now they're basically getting away with skipping all real research and safety trials .. but even if the system wasn't corrupt as it is now .. the costs are not trivial.
Countries without the same medical patent laws just manufacture the same drugs without paying into the research either.
I follow GamersNexus and they covered it in two big pieces (seems like TomsHardware is referencing the GN investigation). Yea it gets super nuts. JayzTwoCents is another YouBoober who chimed it to let people know EK never paid them for big advert slots on his channel. Jay did another video where he ripped out EK blocks from a build and replaced them all with American machined blocks.
