[-] WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure I want this to happen. I'll read the bill, but I'm not convinced they'll do it right. For example, UBI is supposed to replace other need-based social programs such as disability, welfare programs, government housing, etc. The entire point is that the money from those programs, which collectively have quite a lot of waste, goes into UBI so everyone can participate in society on a more fair level.

For example, I have a neighbour who is on some kind of government assistance. He gets very little money, and his rent for an entire house is $105/mo. With UBI, he'd get a full basic income, but his housing would no longer be subsidized, removing the need for a public housing corporation known for being awful and wasting money.

[-] WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

He took records to Chinatown? Like, he went for noodles at lunch or something?

[-] WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

I hate ads as much as anyone and have been blocking them for almost as long as ad blockers have existed. I still acknowledge the fact that ads are the primary revenue source for a lot of things on the Internet, and I selectively enable them for content I want to pay for.

How do you think Youtube is supposed to survive without ads or subscriptions? When they puts ads on their site, the unsaid agreement is that you exchange your ad views for their service.

[-] WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I can envision a world where the search bar is an AI prompt. What a time to be alive that will be!

I wonder if we can also browse other peoples' prompts. That would be cool.

[-] WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Thanksgiving, where we celebrate what we did to the natives.

Despite all the awful things that settlers have done to Aboriginals in Canada (and Native Americans in the USA), neither country's Thanksgiving is about that. Canada's Thanksgiving was originally a celebration of arrival in the New World. Over time, it became a harvest celebration.

[-] WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago

I'm currently working with a client that doesn't have a health endpoint or any kind of monitoring on their new API . They say monitoring isn't needed because it will never go down.

Naturally it went down on day two. They still haven't added any "unnecessary" monitoring, insisting that it will never go down.

[-] WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

It's a hospital. They don't tow because they charge you on the way out. This guy's estate is going to be broke!

[-] WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

You called him a pedo, but he doesn't appear to be one. Correcting your mistake doesn't mean anyone is defending him.

[-] WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Over 1000 calories in a plastic cup

That's awful, but no worse than half the stuff at Starbucks. Nobody should drink any of it more than once every couple of weeks, if that.

For the record, 17 glazed doughnuts have more than 4000 calories, so they're still way worse even if the sugar is equal.

[-] WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Change the apartment to a condo and the answer shifts quite a bit. Condos offer lots of amenities and more luxury. Many people choose condos over houses because they like the lifestyle of not maintaining property and living in a dense area with lots of things to do. Even people living in suburban houses like dense cities, they just spend an hour driving to the city for evening or weekend recreation activities that a condo resident can walk to.

One problem with the picture is that if you want to spend much time doing certain things in nature, such as camping or kayaking, you need storage space for equipment. Condos and apartments tend to lack storage space.

[-] WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

That's the first thing I thought when I heard about his death. He should have known that Putin would likely want him dead, so pretending to board a plane that gets shot down is a pretty good way to fake your death. Does he use his fake death to plot revenge or to escape, never to be heard from again?

[-] WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

Ah, old Red Hat. What memories. When I tell people my first distro was RedHat 5.2 I need to explain that I don't mean RHEL.

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