This is a job for robots, and maybe even AI.
Like they are solving the lionfish problem with robots that scoop them up.
Except in this case, it's break off a piece of coral, take it someplace useful, drop it again.
if you were building out that much gas, why do you need all that wind and transmission?
You need the wind so you can use less gas. You need the transmission so you can use the wind. Burning fossil fuels is bad in many ways so doing as little of it as possible makes sense. I tried to use small words for you there.
There are loads of games which require a server to function even though they are mostly single player, like No Man's Sky.
Hi, I'm a real French woman
Is your name Claude-ia by any chance?
If you want us to believe you're a real person, post from a known account, not anonymously.
I don't know of anyone who thinks the UBI would replace universal healthcare or free education.
In the USA it almost certainly would. Remember, even our glorious alleged liberal Obama's health care plan literally wrote health insurance company profits into the law. (Meanwhile he got a Nobel peace prize for drone strikes on noncombatants without judicial process, including killing one American citizen, though that really shouldn't be the bar.)
In elementary school they taught me that Columbus discovered America, and that I should pledge allegiance under god, so our free education is equally indoctrination.
Is that enough shame for you?
I'll be relaxing on my automated fief
You'll be providing phosphorus whilst you rot. They won't need you. Your billionaire worship won't save you: They don't need you, so they will never appreciate you. They think you're the dumbest dogshit on the street, especially for supporting them, double especially because you have concocted this fantasy for yourself on their behalf. You epitomize internalized abuse.
I've worked around and with poor people, and they're awful far more often than working class/professional class types, and they're even awful far more often than the rich are.
Your bias is typical and boring. The rich are stealing from all of us all of the time with their tax avoidance, and they own the businesses that steal wages, and wage theft exceeds all other theft combined.
So yeah, awful people.
You'd suck an awful person's dick for free. We can see that because you're doing it right here in front of all of us.
You can't just give people money or things and expect improvements or happiness.
You literally can.
You need to help them back on their feet
You mean like giving them money so they can exist in our society which requires you to have money if you don't want to be treated like vermin?
and give them an incentive to do constructive things that will help their self esteem
You mean like not giving them enough money to go on holiday?
Another thing that helps is giving some people purpose though work. Some people can't work.
Alone, those sentences are worthless. Together, they are confusing. Make up your mind.
$1.2K a month isn't an income a person could survive on, that might be half or less of an UBI.
The average SSI/SSP recipient is living on $1233.94/mo.
So people were given a donation, and mostly boring things happened.
Yeah, mostly a bunch of people who know fuck-all wrote a bunch of ignorant comments about something they know less than dick about. Thanks for your worthless contribution.
Give people money so they don't have to work... They wont.
This is, of course, complete bullshit born of ignorance. I note it doesn't stop you sharing your shit sandwich with the class. Nobody wants it, thanks.
Sure some might find it helpful as a stepping stone out of poverty, but the vast majority will continue in their stuck existence.
The only reason they're "stuck" is because of a system designed to require a percentage of people to be stuck. Basic income programs try to remedy that.
What is stopping the cost of your rent going up the exact amount of your UBI?
Nothing as long as we have to deal with obstructionist dickwads who vote down every attempt to improve anything. Don't be one.
This place is such a shithole these days. Parent should not be marked troll.
Comments critical of the established economic order have been ruthlessly downmodded on Slashdot for literally the entire time I've been here, at least. I've been observing that those comments are aggressively targeted for my entire posting career. Anything that asserts or even implies that nerds might on average be part of a privileged class is shat upon with a quickness, presumably so that certain people can avoid ever engaging in any introspection whatsoever.
What you describe is the European model. UBI to stop you being exploited by the need to earn a minimum amount or face poverty. It will never fly in the US
There's little evidence it will ever fly in Europe, either.
This is a rebranding of welfare (taxpayer-sourced assistance) to corporate-sourced philanthropy (in this case google), which is a positive thing
In what way is it a positive thing to make more people more reliant on corporations?
Or if you don't want to fuck around with random refurbished shit and want a consistent, stable platform.
What does that have to do with raspi, where every other version they fuck up something basic like USB or power and then clearly don't do any testing before releasing it on the user base?
You won't get a refurbed PC for that, you'll get an ebay special you'll need to refurb yourself.
Refurb? What are you talking about? You can buy a used dual-core NUC with 4GB/16GB for $50 any day of the week, and when it shows up you plug it in and load software on it and you're done. You don't have to play any stupid games with bootloaders, you don't have to run special snowflake arm versions of anything, you just install and go.
It's also kind of daft to compare a refurbished NUC to a new Pi.
What's daft is your marriage to this straw man bullshit about refurbishing. I have no idea what hole you pulled that out of to try to make your argument valid, but it's literally insane and I'd like you to stop trying to gaslight me.
You can't expect good things to happen when a convicted felon with ties to sex traffickers and a history of sexual assault are put in power.
That depends on how you define good. If it's helping people and making a better world, you're right. If it's hurting brown people and being allowed to marry children, then the reich wingers are getting what they want.
A boss with no humor is like a job that's no fun.
