MystikIncarnate

What an idiot.

Has he put himself on the poor house yet by spending all of his money to appease the young women he wanted a booty call from?

Because that kind of behavior seems to be rather expensive.

I want my mortgage to be paid off.

I don't dislike the idea of state/government subsidies for essentials. Most of that is already in place for many first world countries, in some way, shape, or form.

The problem I have with it is that you need to qualify for the assistance. So you need this whole complicated application and approval system, oversight to ensure that it's not being taken advantage of, either by the would-be clients, nor the administrative staff managing it, and then that needs to go into paying for housing and whatnot for eligible people, and yatta yatta.

All of that overhead goes away with UBI. Everyone gets it. There's no disability, no employment insurance, no disability benefits, nothing. If you have citizenship, you get UBI. The amount of UBI deducts from your regular work earnings, so businesses, and the rich are paying the majority of the ubi payouts, and the system is both simplified and streamlined. If you lose your job, or you need to be out of work for a while due to sickness, injury or other issue, no problem, you still get UBI, and nothing changes. You don't need to apply for disability or short term medical benefits because you now can't work, because that amount is your UBI.

Additionally, UBI should be tied to the cost of living and/or inflation, as costs rise, so does UBI.

In this way, you dramatically lower the administrative costs and overhead from running such a program, and citizens have peace of mind that they will always be able to afford the basics. Mainly rent, and food.

The market provides all of that to them, rather than needing a complex and approval based benefit system to provide it instead.

It's so hard to describe how many government services would end up getting folded into UBI. The obvious ones are unemployment services and/or welfare, disability benefits, both for long term and short term disabilities any bursaries or grants given to people for short duration assistance. A huge segment of government work would no longer be needed. And yeah, some of those people will end up unemployed, some will shift over to UBI work.... To their benefit, all those freshly unemployed workers have UBI now, so they don't need to worry about applying for unemployment benefits, they just need to focus on finding new employment if they choose to.

I could rant about it all day. I'll stop here.

No no no. We know. We also know that there's SFA we can do about it because our government has long since been bought and paid for by the very same people who "generously" "give" us the opportunity to slave away generation profit for them and their shareholder friends, so they can be rich and get richer, while we barely scrape by with the scraps they convince us is from their generosity.

Government long since abandoned us, ever since the boomers stopped caring about unions, which is around the same time they were all making shitloads of money as senior management, and unions actually started to harm their ability to make more money.

Goodbye unions, goodbye decent working conditions and reasonable, transparent wage schedules. Goodbye to the middle class....

Shits fucked, we're all to busy fighting amongst ourselves, trying not to starve, and screaming over the Epstein files to figure out that we need to band together to fix this shit.

I know why you all want to see the Epstein shit, but here's a spoiler, pretty much everyone with any money, power, or influence, is on the fucking list, and if they're not, they should be, because they've been raping the rest of us for a good long time now.

IMO, that's the problem. You have to earn a living. As in, you don't deserve one, you have to earn one.

It's not that you'll do without any nice-to-haves if you don't work, you'll do without everything if you don't work. You will literally starve and die.

That's what's fucked up to me. If you're just like, I don't want to work for a while.... Then GFL feeding yourself.

So anyways, I support UBI.

My SO put it perfectly when I apologized for talking too much, she said "it's ok, I know you like to listen to yourself"

And honestly, I do talk to myself when nobody's around and there isn't a huge difference in what I'm saying in either context.

I'm not having a conversation with myself, I'm just kind of thinking out loud.

According to xitter, if the woman is very muscular, then yes.

I don't quite understand why though.

Chaos.

They were mostly threatening. For me the peace of mind of knowing that they can't really track what's being downloaded to my ISP/my account/me, is enough.

I don't know if the MPAA is going to lose its mind like the RIAA did with the whole Napster thing. I don't want to get caught up in it if they do.

For that peace of mind, I pay for my VPN.

If that's not valuable to you, then you'll make different choices. I'm not here to tell anyone what to do, I'm just giving my experience and opinion.

Good luck out there.

And no, I wasn't charged either for the notice, nor legally charged as the result of a notice.

Looks like I got modded. I'm having such a fun time on Lemmy.

The speech here is so free.

In this example image, those be some "earth" colors. Used to be a big thing. Lots of dark green, dark yellows, oranges and browns.

And they liked that.

It's a whole vibe. I don't know who vibes with that, but it definitely has a vibe.

I'm half on one side, half on the other.

The line I draw is between safety and convenience. On the safety side, I want things to be very manual. I don't want some app or external system managing whether or not the lights stay on, or whatever, on the convenience side, I 1000% want a way to manage things like the lighting from an app.

So anywhere that safety is a concern, like the kitchen, bathroom, a handful of other places.... There's zero "smart" anything. Everywhere else, yeah, I can turn off my lights from an app.

When I'm in my office/living room, where safety isn't really a concern, I don't have to get up to turn on the lights, I can yell at my Google home to do it for me, or use an app. If I want the lights to be some shade of turquoise, I use the app....

In the kitchen, as an example, no such control exists. You have to push the light switch, and you get basic bitch white light. You don't get an option. You want the light off? Take your fingers and do the thing that makes the light switch go click and turn off the lights.

The decision to make anything smart relies on whether or not I'm going to be in danger if the lights go out and there's no way to turn them on again because the Internet is down.