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> I think you’re saying the same thing, that if people are given money without any strings attached then they will not start working but use that money for nefarious purposes.

No I wouldnt go that far at all. I think most people who are poor have very poor financial hygene. It is not nefarious, or even intentional. They probably spend the money on things they feel really are the important and right things to spend money on, when in fact it isnt

It also depends ont he amount, at minimal levels and among the poor it may be spent on food, which is a good purchase, but doesnt help get the person out of poverty, so in those cases its less about spending hygiene and more about needing more resources (like education/training) and not about the money.

> There’s been quite a lot of research showing that unconditional cash donations are very effective at easing extreme poverty

Yes there has, and thats my point, simply easing poverty is treating the symptoms not the problem, and requires and infinite infusion of money to sustain never resolving the problem. We dont want to "ease poverty" we want to break people free of poverty all together, to not **need** the financial help at all in the end. Easing poverty with an endless firehose of cash doesnt accomplish that.

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USA to ban Tik Tok as fears of china copying dances intensifies.

#TikTok

Apparently there is a Gun Free Zone app that warns you when you are about to enter a gun free zone so you can avoid it.

This seems terribly useful for us open-carry people.

I am currently actively moving away from products, and the main reason is because of their predatory pricing.

Did you know Autodesk wants to monitor your usage and charge you for *each day* that you want to use their products? And they want you to buy their own special currency to do so, just like shitty F2P phone apps. How dystopian is that?

Especially when exists as a option. Fuck Autodesk.

Finding out walmart sells a replica nazi youth knife is disturbing to say the least.

@freemo These are good points I suppose…the anti free speech arguments I’ve heard from the left are that “hate speech isn’t free speech” and “hate speech is violence”, which frames “hate speech” as something that isn’t or should not be protected by the #1A from what I can tell.

As someone who almost always open-carries guns I must say, the one thing I dont like is how certain people assume your a republican or pro-trump when they see it. Today I had an experience with a tow truck driver who was overtly racist the whole ride home and I suspect its because he saw my gun and made some assumptions.

Pro-guns is probably the only topic where I align with the right at all really.

@freemo I have to say I didn't know exactly how it works! Looks like different states have different people on the ballot even for the presidential election.
Page 10-11 of this PDF shows all the people who were on at least one ballot in 2020, it's... surprising. fec.gov/resources/cms-content/

Perfect example of why I just cant bring myself to vote for Biden despite hating Trump... I just cant in my right mind be associated with people who act this way.

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@freemo @tessarakt @JuliusGoat Off my feed, cultist. Go subjugate women and trans people elsewhere

Day three of dosing ozempic daily instead of weekly... Feeling much better about this so far.

Lastest data: 🥺

+ Carbon dioxide (*new monthly record*)
+ Methane (*new monthly record*)
+ Nitrous oxide (*new monthly record*)

Observations provided by gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

In the 60s this would have been a starving lion. Scientists are slacking these days!

I just realized in "The Color of Magic" second episode in the scene where rincewind talks to the spells you can see magical writing floating around him. It is all using Enochian Script, a "real" magickal loagaeth. Really cool detail! Also my favorite magickal script!

@freemo > why have medicine, it will just enable weak and sick people who make poor decisions to live

:neocat_woozy:

@freemo My favourite was when the European Space Agency rolled their own security questions on a new satellite data portal a while back. The questions were a mix of changeable answers ("When did you last water your plants?") and yes/no answers. The minimum field length was three characters.

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This website has finally been launched.
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#Administration #CleverLibre #ML #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #EthicsInAI

I just had to solve a captcha that was a bunch of pictures of objects and it says "Select all the objects that can not spin"... I'm just thinking "My dude, anything can spin with if you put enough energy into it"

@freemo @nixCraft CVS was released in 1990 about 5 years before I got online, so literally "never" lol

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