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  • I once consulted my aunt (PHD English professor) for a small stakes bet ($5) because a friend and I were discussing whether or not letters have any fundamental rules on how they are written.

    Turns out, no, they don’t. I.E. if I write: Hello there, ¥¶®×°∆| Kenobi. As long as ¶®×°∆|" is understood as “General” than according to (american) English it is written “correctly”. There’s no edict that states a " T" must be written in that shape, therefore, any symbol that’s understood intent wise is correct.

    I lost that bet, cause WTF, how is that acceptable??












  • Although I like the concept, I just don’t see a world where UBI does anything helpful. Unless people are able to just not work and all goods are human free/automated. Otherwise companies’ products and housing will rise to meet what they now know you have in income. Give everyone $1k and prices will rise to consume that $1k so you just end up feeding tax dollars into companies mouths. Pay for it by taxing the companies and they will increase prices till they hit the sweet spot intersection of cost/value, but people will still be at a negative because some of that resource pool gets eaten by government management of the UBI system.

    May as well do what we used to and tax companies more and put that into social services, at least companies can’t squeeze that from us.



  • Buglefingers@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldterrifying
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    23 days ago

    And I don’t get towed after a surgery, or after a (potential) snowfall at 8am, or need written and signed consent to have friends over (parking), or have to sign a release of use of likeness, or pay $5 for a load of laundry, or be not allowed to film/record in my apartment (if ANY public area is in the video, including outside the window), or not be allowed to have the “wrong color” curtains, or not be allowed to have anything on the deck/pattio (of my unit) etc. Etc. Etc.

    Edit: Grammar