Notices by Kilroy_Was_Here (kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town), page 2

@freemo @KarunaX @TheEuropeanNetwork

Gotta love these smug, smarmy comments from the guy who just got the boot. Jaysus.

@freemo

I'd imagine it's one of those things where it's useful in math and simulations even if it's an edge case in reality.

@freemo

See, I think a UBI would help more people. Look at what happened during Covid where there was kind of a semi-UBI. Many people broke off and started their own businesses, started doing their own thing.

I want to see an explosion of local business rather than having all our eggs in one big corporate basket. We'd see some actual capitalism happening! Making it so people can try new ideas without going destitute would support this goal and we'd all be on a more solid economic footing.

@freemo

I have a flipped view of welfare and UBI, I think there should be a UBI and that welfare programs should be eliminated and their funding directed towards a UBI. Primarily because the administrative bloat of many disparate programs could be greatly reduced with a single program.

I'm not hard-set on any particular conception of a UBI, however I do like the concept of a negative income tax.

@freemo

I disagree with you on some of these points but I'll say that the way you presented them is interesting.

@freemo

Dude, you missed a golden opportunity to say they're the packing peanuts of potatoes.

@freemo @VoxDei

Not to mention there have been huge advances in industrial safety over the past 50 years. Hell, even in the past 5 years.

Teaching is basically the same as it was in 1975 - get up and yell at those damn rugrats about their grades.

@freemo @VoxDei

You underestimate how much I love butter. lol

@VoxDei @freemo

The average price for a pound of butter in 1975 was $1.025.

The average gross hourly wage for a factory worker in 1975 was $4.81.

4.81/1.025=4.692 lb/hr

60/4.692=12.78 minutes to buy one pound of butter.

Sources:

Avg Wage (see chart 606): https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015021301612&seq=406

Avg Prices:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008856711&seq=527

@freemo

Is this the one with the magnets that'll move the pieces automatically?

@freemo @bonifartius

It is, when I was originally looking into them I found this video. He writes on the document around the 3 min mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5HE01amvdc

@freemo @bonifartius

I was looking at them for the ability to draw on the ebook too. Just a basic highlight function isn't enough in many cases, especially when it comes to reference material. Or sometimes I want to call something out temporarily with a circle or an arrow, that kind of thing.

@freemo @bonifartius

I've been looking at Onyx Boox for when this Kindle finally gives out, thanks for the endorsement.

And no, I didn't buy the Kindle, somebody I know dropped theirs and messed up the finish and got a free replacement from Amazon. Amazon had them keep the old one and they gave me the old one. Still works fine many years later. I just use it with USB and Calibre, no wifi.

I've really gotta organise my ebooks in Calibre. With 429 of em might be a while though, lol.

@freemo

Probably is, I've been looking at 1 TB microsd cards for my phone and they go for at least 5 times that.

@freemo @danilo

That's what I was thinking. You could probably replace radio with cheap books as well if you wanted to go back further.

And when it comes to marketing to kids, the 50's and 60's are without compare. Those two decades made everything before and after look tame.

If you ever thought TV was real or something to aim for, it's you who has the problem, not a faceless, definitionless "they" you've invented to justify your angsty, pathetic adolescent outrage.