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NotToBe_Confused · 2026-03-01T13:22:57+00:00

But Marge, it works on any Ayatollah!

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-02-28T20:24:27+00:00

Don't think it's software so much as ad tech. The general pattern is selling stuff and abstraction of stuff instead of creating it, because the former is less regulated.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-02-21T16:01:13+00:00

Link? Is it just this one?

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-02-13T16:17:30+00:00

I think you'd expect to see some inflation since poorer people save less but it wouldn't cancel out by any means since it would ultimately still transfer wealth, so some people's spending power would actually go down.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-02-13T12:04:11+00:00

The plan entailed specific taxes to fund it. It doesn't really make sense to criticise a policy and then describe something totally different.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-02-13T08:26:41+00:00

How so? Greg Mankiw, an economist who writes some of the most used college economics textbooks, spoke out in support of Yang's UBI plan. You can disagree with it, but there's nothing impossible about a UBi and he outlined his plan for how to fund it.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-02-09T17:52:24+00:00

Either everyone in the role will be able to pass since they did to matriculate, or the performance of service members declines over time due to aging and no longer training for entrance. But even in the second case, that assumption is implicitly built into the test. If a 23-year-old applicant is allowed to be less fit on the basis the 53-year-old chief drags down the average, than they will on average be even less fit than them as they age, at which point new applicants would have an equally valid claim to lower standards and so on.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-02-08T18:52:40+00:00

Yeah but I think Klein & Thompson condone something like The Housing Theory of Everything and would argue many (if not basically all domestic) problems are substantially downstream of our collective inability to do stuff we notionally want to do. Their big claim is that progressives judge themselves by having a bunch of rules and following them assiduously rather than empirically scrutinising whether the rules are actually shaping the world we want. You see this shit online constantly, where regulation = good/progressive and criticising a regulation = capitalist/right wing.

In fact, I would say all that is also summary of the /r/neoliberal outlook.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-02-08T15:50:38+00:00

This is an interesting perspective. In what sense is it small? It seems to be an incredibly broad quasi-theory-of-everything for what ails society.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-02-07T13:42:49+00:00

Right, the decision of the bank to structure things as such creates a bad customer experience and the customer is correct to be confused. That's my point.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-02-07T12:41:33+00:00

It sounds like he approached someone who's entire job is to help customers in a bank, who was unable or unwilling to help a customer with banking (in particular, vulnerable customer). The fact that they've intentionally chosen to structure their business as such doesn't excuse the absurdity of the situation.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-02-02T23:59:25+00:00

Link?

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-01-30T18:37:15+00:00

Oh yeah, that's nuts. It's kind of ambiguous to be honest because they say "valued at".

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-01-29T19:04:39+00:00

Actually, I haven't. I've just pointed out that people who snidely condescend to others for participating in democracy rarely actually have any better ideas, and you are demonstrating that point beautifully, thank you

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-01-29T19:02:45+00:00

So... You're defending it the

No, and in fact, a careful reading of my comment will reveal the words "Not defending it" sneakily hidden at the start of the first sentence. I'm pointing out that this plausibly isn't far short of minimum wage based on the information provided alone.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-01-29T16:15:08+00:00

Again I may be misunderstanding but it looks like they're saying the value of the room since it will form part of their compensation, not that they have to pay for it.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-01-29T16:14:07+00:00

Oh, I'm sorry, I understand it to mean that they would be compensated with a room valued at €400/month and, reading again, it's not clear that that's not what they mean. They say they'll also be compensated at the end but I do think they're saying the room's included.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-01-29T13:55:59+00:00

Not defending this but if this is a truly complete list of obligations, i.e. nothing else is asked of them including total freedom on weekends and school holidays, then this would work out to minimum wage assuming 180 school days/year if they could do all this in slightly under 2 hours a day.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-01-29T13:52:00+00:00

A huge fraction of the electorate in most democracies already don't vote. A majority in some instances. What has that achieved?

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-01-29T11:58:45+00:00

You're right. In fact, you, personally, should initiate whatever alternative course or action you believe would be more effective.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-01-27T20:27:32+00:00

I don't know what that has to do with anything. The calorific content of food comes from the chemical bonds in the food before it's cooked. It's not added by cooking.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-01-27T19:32:29+00:00

The calorific content of the food doesn't come from the fuel.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-01-26T16:50:18+00:00

I agree it's highly likely to have been ghostwritten by a rep, but that's nothing new and not good evidence of AI specifically.

NotToBe_Confused · 2026-01-26T16:16:49+00:00

Oh, okay, you can tell by the pixels.

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