If you pay attention to who's pushing basic income it's a handful of extremely wealthy people with connections to billionaires. The goal of basic income is to replace all other forms of civilization and society with a blank check so that you can blame people when they are completely crushed by the systems in place. Monopolies alone make basic income pointless since they will just suck up the money.

American farmers are extremely well off. They are no small farms left. If you see something that looks like a small farm odds are it's just somebody's tax Dodge. We had decades of running small farmers out of business that process is basically over. The people who are left love Trump as long as he cuts them those checks you're talking about. Those big farmers want cheap labor or better yet slave labor and they want zero environmental regulations and Trump will give them both of those things.

As for direct health insurance payments the health insurance industry sucks up half a trillion dollars a year and private equity is buying up all the hospitals and doctors offices. You can't just cut people checks in it that environment just like you can't just cut basic income checks when you have monopolies.

Everything you're suggesting is bullshit put forward either to benefit Rich assholes or by Rich assholes who want to make you think there's an easy patch or fix to keep the system going so you don't have to think about any actual changes.

It's not your fault that's just how our media works but it's not a solution it's a scam

It's real annoyed when idiots pull in front of him because it takes him 3 football fields to come to a stop.

The economy is like that. Capitalism is like that. It's a big fucking thing that takes a long time to come to a stop. And you just pulled out in front of it. And your little Geo Metro...

Now my buddy is smart and he knows how to drive around idiots. But we didn't put smart people that the wheel in this economy we put the dumbest motherfuckers we could find for the dumbest motherfucker reasons we could come up with.

So when the economy needs to stop and can't because you're dumb ass pulled out in front of it it's going to go right through you.

Unfortunately this is where the analogy breaks down because it's not just your little car being splattered you're taking all of us with it

Maybe the unanimous consent passage in the Senate will change your position?

Or perhaps every single Democrat in the House voting for the release of the files?

Or perhaps the great lengths gone to by the GOP leadership to prevent that vote to begin with? They held the House out of session for SIX WEEKS to delay the vote as long as possible while putting Republican members that signed the discharge petition in a headlock to get them to take their names off it - why?

Open your god damn eyes and stop with the "bothsides" bullshit. There is clearly one "side" that is acting in good faith, and one that is not. And you are arguing in bad faith for the side that is acting in bad faith, so just stop it.

Trump isn't bailing out the farmers because he believes in social democratic politics. He does like the idea of checks with his name on them going out but if he could do that and make sure only people that voted for him gets the checks he would. You can manipulate his narcissm, but recognize that's what it is.

In general, no, you very much do not leave things dangling or laying around. You always bring your kit with you.

Ah well that's somewhat different. It would be impractical for a workshop since that's where all the kit is. And some of it is quite heavy.

Anyway, if I may ask, wtf is a "generic dongle" in this instance that one is talking about, or not a special-purpose one?

Ones for more generic tasks :)

USB A-C and USB ethernet. Not for example USB to CAN.

Economically our problems are primarily political, capitalism needs rules, corrections, adjustments, constraints.

We all have jobs to do. Republicans have to keep touching the stove (like today's ACA subsidy vote down) so the populace is mad at them for a blue wave and finally explode their party back into sanity. Luckily the admin seems incapable of changing course so things will get worse. But If those 10-20 point swings in special elections hold up...

Democrats have to push their party to put up candidates and messages on board in every race that aren't milquetoast geriatrics that sounds like bad tv writer versions of politicians, give up on gun control as an issue and be ready for the moment to make some big moves.

Perhaps you should look up "sarcasm" and figure out why I ended my comment in /s.

And FWIW, the current Opera has barely any relationship to the browser from 2004. It's a different code base, different people are behind it (it's a Chinese company now, no longer related in anything but corporate history to the Norwegian company, with development taking place in a variety of different countries.) Opera today is essentially another Chromium-based browser, as it's been since 2013 or so.

It's a shame, it was an innovative browser in its day. Now it's another AI slopfest.

Your dad's hurt feelings can't be the driving force of how we handle immigration policy. You do know the argument for amnesty also carries with it fixing the issues for legal immigration as well. Your parents are exactly what process should be easier, it's part of the economic and social engine that let them find opportunity in the first place.

Also amnesty has to happen because the idea of deporting the 10-40 million depending who you ask is so farcical to be in serious and we're not advocating for more status quo are we?

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It isn't OK for the Swiss to do it. Who is telling you that other than white supremacists?

Asylum treaties exist for a reason. And the Swiss will shoot themselves in the foot if they ban skills-based immigration as the world doesn't evenly distribute skills across it.

And, in classic fascist style, it's a dumb law that proffers a simplistic, wrong, answer to a complex question, designed to distract you from the inherent corruption of fascist leadership.

Smokin on that no-malarkey jack.

So you have so many people going into gig wars to try and keep a roof over their heads that all the incentives are rapidly going away not just electric car incentives.

The best part is that squeezing the bottom like this will inevitably increase crime and then the increase in crime will get used for more of the kind of economic policies that cause the squeeze and so on so on so forth.

Capitalism is falling apart and socialism isn't an option. I don't know what we do.

"the proper solution is obviously to have a formal, controlled, actually viable work visa system for economic migrants"

Yes, we should definitely formalize and legalize our tampering with other countries to produce cheap labor we can abuse.

Wait, what?

Stick with that thought, you're so close. Let us help you across the line:
The chances of someone being born with excellent skills is equal everywhere, so when you have a pool of 10 million people to choose from you have less of them than if you have a pool of 8 billion people to choose from. This isn't a case of making sure you have your own skills, the best results come from attracting the best skills from all over the planet.

Would America have gotten the bomb so quickly without the help of an Italian immigrant (Fermi), a Hungarian immigrant (Teller)? True excellence comes from getting the brightest minds from everywhere together, not shutting yourself out and pretending the rest of the world doesn't exist.

It's a sports franchise that runs an education side hustle. I did a job at UF, we installed a $2M digital video production system just for the Gators marketing department. I even asked "does the rest of the school get access to this which was no, they don't. Football only! This isn;t even the actual bradcast shit, this is just for asset creation. They have an indoor and outdoor practice field as well as the NFL sized stadium. It was ridiculous.

Now to be fair most of the money for this did come from a private donation but that is also an eyebrow raising concern along with the gambling.

I can't even figure out the mentality needed to post this comment, let alone mod it up. Even the attempt to reframe the proposal leaves the proposal as ugly and racist. And since when was invading a country by military force and imposing your own government the same thing as joining it organically, either because it has a culture you love and believe would thrive in, or because you're escaping persecution?

What a horrific mentality you guys have. What truly horrible people you are. You're not even making an attempt to understand the issues you pontificate on, you just believe the world is divided into "races" that should, for reasons you can't explain, never mix, and must always be in competition with one another.

Jesus.