giuseppe_petri

> legalized fraud and looting

That's just government in a nutshell, regardless of country, party, political leanings, etc.

How does it go? "What's the difference between government and organised crime? One of them is organised."

€1200 per month is around £1000, there are 43.1m working age people in the UK, that's £517.2 BILLION per year.

The NHS costs £181.7b per year and climbing & we struggle to afford that.

HMRC collected £828.9 billion in taxes in 2023 to 2024

UBI would cost 2.8 NHSs per year and 62% of all the tax revenue.

"Tax the rich!" You're probably thinking... "The combined wealth of the 350 wealthiest individuals and families in the [Sunday Times Rich] list totals £965 billion," even if you took every penny real and imagined from the rich, you'd only manage it once and get not even two years of UBI from it.

UBI isn't going to happen.

I've been calling this concept "enragement". I'm sure I'm not the only one.

>these halfwits

You're doing them a favour calling them halfwits, if most of the current crop of British politicians were light bulbs they wouldn't be bright enough the light the cupboard under my stairs.

Pre Microsoft hotmail is one of the things I miss about the 'old' internet, logging in with Navigator 3.something in the library at uni.

>Sounds like tiktok

And 24 hour news TV, and newspapers... magazines... Steve in accounts... Any person that is easily lead, will be influenced regardless of the source.

Or... you know... /words/...

Not... double secret quotas!

I'm 8 years post nervous breakdown, it took me 5 years before I could even consider going back in to work, any kind of work.

You'll get there.

If it was put together with tin solder it's not lasting 200 years.

What if they're finding happiness in the chase, rather than what's at the end of it?

I couple of days ago I clicked a video on youtube, it was 48 minutes long, the "ad" preceding the video was 58 minutes long... at least I could skip it.

> You can't just undo that brush stroke onto the cel and try something else.

That's why you animate with pencil on paper first.

I've not seen Pantheon, but from the trailer it seems very close to Neal Stephenson's "Fall, or Dodge in Hell".

> So there’s no kind of existential danger to Quest here, but it remains to be seen if the hardware licensees can bring anything relevant to the table either.

How does Meta make its money? Advertising. Licensees bring actual eyeballs to the table and eat the hardware costs fighting amongst themselves selling commodity hardware and Meta re-position Quest as a 'premium' product that they might actually make a little money on.

Or provide a better alternative. Less stick, more carrot.

"An old poacher makes the best gamekeeper."

> buy petrol in litres

And use miles per gallon for fuel economy...

A wise man does not build his house on another man's land.

>And in contrast, he invokes the worst thing he can think of: hurting someone's livelihood.

>Livelehood: a means of supporting one's existence, especially financially or vocationally

Just a small thing.