Notices by Paul Lalonde (flux@wandering.shop)

This is your regular reminder that LLMs don't answer your question "X" but rather the closely related question "What might an answer to X look like?".
Sometimes this might be useful, but there is no way it can tell if it's answer is at all correct.

@skinnylatte my (very french Canadian) grandfather's tea-based cooking involves using it to thin down ketchup at the table! I like yours better!

@Nonilex who would be responsible to enforce the seemingly inevitable contempt charges?

@skinnylatte didn't used to be. The wealth inequality over the last 30 years has killed it.

@feorag @cstross I'm pretty sure he'll let you have his.

@hrefna @Azuaron @lewiscowles1986 @aredridel If the poor had any idea how much the rich had...
When a rich person buys an asset without a loan they are just rearranging their balance sheet, not juggling their lifestyle. And yet that rearrangement winds up with them having the rents they can charge for the use of that asset.
For me that's the line: do you get to rearrange your balance sheet to extract rents at no cost or risk to your ability to have all your needs met.

Physics? Really?
Are you physicists ok? Like, blink twice if you're under duress.

@AnarchoNinaWrites a fascist's base doesn't *think* about issues, it *emotes* about issues. All the manipulation is to create the emotional rush of the in-group overcoming the out-group.

@graydon @scottsantens UBI is a natural partner to Modern Monetary Theory. Use tax policy to control inflation and flatten wealth, while using UBI as an effective negative tax.

@graydon @scottsantens we're unwilling to tax wealth. Until we get that right pretty much all money will flow back into fewer pockets.

https://prospect.org/power/2023-09-21-amazons-185-billion-pay-to-play-system/
That's pretty officially the enshitification of everything. @pluralistic

@aral google has entirely lost the plot.

UBI is essential as a means to value *people* as the climate catastrophe worsens and extreme actions - shutting down oil, de-growth - must be undertaken.
UBI gives our governments a tool to divert wealth from the hoarders and place it where all people can benefit, survive, and thrive.
#ubi

@AnthonyJK Also, this was some time ago, now. Move on. Today's problems aren't going to solve themselves by pointing fingers to events 23 years ago.

@mcc sleep on it. That's my answer for most of these.