Fusion bombs are not a correct analogy, loserboy nerd: the purpose of the fusion stage in a fission-fusion-fission device is not to produce energy (the yield of the fusion stage is a minuscule percentage of the total yield) but to produce neutrons to fission the U-238 tamper. You fail nucleat physics forever. Die in a nuclear fire.

UBI is a fantasy. Resources are not free. Energy is not free. You will never get free money. And especially not computah weirdos. Maybe you're not aware of that, but workers universally despise nerds, because they believe (with some degree of accuracy) they are responsible for the loss of jobs and the outsourcing and automation that has eroded most people's ability to make ends meet. Expect no sympathy from the common men. In fact, advertising you're a coder may shorten your life.

I had to use ChatGPT to explain it.

I guess you live in Bumfuck, Flyover Country, because if you had any clue you would know that "Europe" is a lot of countries with different systems and different cultures. Healthcare quality and access varies a lot. You have countries with free healthcare, which is paid with taxes that end up quite high as a consequence. If you're just interested in being a salaryman, this is all right, but if you are looking to be an entrepreneur this is going to hurt you badly. Mind you, the only thing Europe is unfailingly coherent at is being extremely adverse to individual enteprise, especially if you want to be innovative. "Don't make waves" is the rule and mind you, I have lived in different european countries: there is a good reason the home/personal computer and internet revolution did not take place here. As for the healthcare where it's "free" (tax-paid), it's ok if you want to be on a waiting list for pretty much everything. In other countries you have mandatory insurance which again is all right if you have a good income. If you do not, you're in trouble and with the population growing older and older, health costs are rising every year and with it the insurance costs to the point that in many places this has significantly eroded the buying power of the citizens, and this is causing an economic downturn. You should also remember that "free movement" within the bloc is not absolutely free: you can't move from Spain to Luxembourg and then go on Luxembourg welfare if you can't sustain yourself. It's for work only or if you have enough money.

Maybe not if you still make a nice income, but you'll never work more to pay more taxes. I know because I refused a lot of contracts while in Italy and France since I knew most of the money would end up in taxes. I work to earn money for myself, not for the state. When I moved to Switzerland I found the canton with the lowest taxes vs quality of living and settled there. The moment they change this to something that disadvantages me, I move somewhere else.

Seriously, whack the bastard. Typical piece of shit incel nerd with zero respect for other people's lives. And then they ask why everybody despises them so much. Shove him into a woodchipper and flush the remains down the sewers so he can be one with all the city's shit.

Because there are no resources. UBI is a nice idea on paper, but only there. It's expensive, VERY expensive and governments don't have the money for that. You would need to raise taxes, which puts you back to square one because you're only impoverishing the people. Billionnaires can easily move and take their money and any jobs they created or could create with them. Even if you had a worldwide tax policy it would not help because those people would not be motivated to create wealth. Study your history, when the Berlin Wall fell it was the East Germans who came to the West, not the other way round.

You don't become rich without putting profit first. Now the question is: would you rather be a rich asshole or a poor schmuck? Because if you believe this will endear you the sympathy of your fellow men, I have news for you: they'll simply disparage you for being an idiot. Learn to think for yourself and the people you care about and kick the rest into a volcano. They don't care about you, so you should not care about them.

It's not bad. Lights'em up alright like unleaded gasoline.

Normalizing the IT sector should have been a priority since day zero. There is no other category in the whole professional world that is so entitled and unpleasant: bunch of immature, indisciplined, unreliable incel neckbeards with an ego the size of a planet and no real talent. Even when the industry was new, their behavior as hired workforce has been consistently appalling. Nobody minds what an independent contracted worker looks like or does, as long as they produce but the IT department in pretty much any business has always been a sore spot and something to be ashamed of. The media cultivated this cherished and unfounded myth of the "whizz-kid" that could work miracles if left alone and had to be some sort of misfit anarchist type. Guess what, like all myths this was just wrong. There is nothing special about computer weirdos. Folks like me were at some point tasked with "restructure and improve efficiency" and we started by wiping out the IT clowns first and outsourcing their jobs to places (like Eastern Europe) where specialists worked hard and well and did not ask for any special treatment. In just one year in Italy I singlehandedly closed down the internal IT of scores of firms and moved the jobs to the Czech Republic and guess what? No more missed deadlines, no more downtimes, no more snafus. Moreover, finally the undesirables were gone and female workers breathed a sigh of relief at having them out of the way. You work with computers? You're not special, you're not a wizard, you're not a genius. If you were smart you would either be an independent contractor/developer or you would be in management. Case closed. The toilet has been flushed and down the tube you go.

Similar experience here, a friend of mine who is a native French speaker has studied English for years and while in the US she can easily imitate a NY accent. However she found out that she managed to have better deals (she works in the fashion business) if she used received pronunciation with a strong French accent, which makes her sound like Inspector Clouseau on heels. I can't blame her American peers because she sounds positively endearing this way. She also took to dress like something out of "Emily in Paris" way before the show aired. Perceptions matter.

Yoda is a fictional character. It speaks like this because its creatore decided to. It's effective, because it goes in the tradition of the foreign (often Oriental) wise master instructing the unlearned and uncultured Westerner. In-universe you can infer that his original language simply constructs sentences that way. He speaks a lot like a Sardinian native, though.

I would gladly take on any beating if it's to properly celebrate my admiration for the science jocks who came up with that marvelous machine and their efforts to make it work. Truly the science jock is the linebacker of knowledge, and the astronaut, that supermanly space-faring jock, is the quarterback of the cosmos. We can only look up to them and be inspired even as we beat you loserboy nerds into a snot-coloured pulp and flush you into toilets.