Boy, I'm real concerned about CISA getting their funding for CVE... whatever the hell that means.

*I Don't Know What These Acronyms Mean

I have no idea why you decide to post a lecture on how you believe the economy works, but... thanks?

Only your last sentence has any relevance to my post, so we'll go with that. Taxes. Fine, taxes is the answer to where the money will come from. Except in the US, we are already deep in dept, so we still need to raise taxes/cut cost BEFORE we even get back to even. THEN we would need to raise taxes even more to implement UBI. Quick math: $500/mo for 262 million adults would be $1.5 TRILLION dollars. Last year corporate/income taxes totaled around $3 trillion.

So, are you still sure 'taxes' is the answer you want to go with?

It scares me that you would think that is a solution to anything.

The one, and only, question that needs to be answer for universal income is: Who's paying for it? All other questions/answers are irrelevant, and are just used to make it seem like this is a great idea.

Now do the same with your right hand. Which hand are the galaxies using?

I wonder if AI is being used to mass-create ChatGPT accounts.

Why, I remember the good ol' days when you could get a REAL Indian on the phone for tech support! Not your new-fangled AI!

If your device could easily be made run a function without internet, but the company designed it not to, run away quickly.

I'm amazed at how often I'll go to a coffee or fast food place and see a line of ten or more cars waiting in the drive thru line. I walk in and place my order and am eating or out the door in five minutes because nobody is inside. It's so weird.

Wow, there is zero chance I'm reading all of what you posted. Because if you have to write THAT MUCH to prove how much 'simpler' your way is, I think you've kind of lost your argument.

Oh, you can read it well enough, but there is no way to search through 100+ pages to find what you want. Again, done intentionally, since clicking the 'print to PDF' button is 100x easier than scanning all those pages. And don't get me started on the dozens of obscure acronyms/codes that are sprinkled throughout the budget to make it even more opaque for the public...

PDF scans are done INTENTIONALLY by some organizations (*cough* my kids' school district *cough*) to make it harder to find the info you need. They are required by law to make the info available, but they don't have to make it convenient. I don't believe for one second that someone has the know-how to create a 100 page budget report... but just can't figure out how 'print to PDF' works, and would rather scan page by page.

If you asked 100 random people what an amp is, there would at least be a dozen (probably more) that would have a general idea of what it is (or that it at least relates to electricity). I'd bet $1k that one or less would know what a Coulomb is or even relates to.

Why would you even care what the voltage is? The battery is going to operate at whatever voltage it operates at, and put out X milliamps for Y hours.

So you can estimate run time base on an assumed/average draw. The Coulomb is one amp-second. So you would need to convert the seconds to hours (unless you want to tell someone that their phone will last for 43,200 seconds Which is one more step.

You haven't made much of a compelling case for why you would use the Coulomb vs. mAh when discussing cell phone batteries.

Yet another poster in over their head in science. 300 MW would provide three million homes with 100 watts indefinitely, not ten minutes. Without some measure of power capacity (MWh), you can't tell how long before it would run out of energy.

I think they missed a zero, as 1kw would be closer to an average load of a home.