By having a laser calibrated vaporize a specific amount of distillate, you could better control how much you're about to inhale than trying to suck on a pen with a heating coil. Then I won't get entirely too high because the physical process of smoking is new enough to me that I can do it wrong, like what happened on Monday.
A $600 piece of hardware that plays a handful of games is something you put in an arcade. People would start going back to arcades if they offered something they couldn't afford at home. I'd do this myself if I had the money for it, it's so obvious.
I'm not sure what you think is "hard right" about somebody who advocates for UBI. Is it the fact I don't fuck with identity politics? My apologies for being a socialist with a personality.
No idea whether my current client still needs help, but if you put together a profile on upwork.com and wade through crappy and scammy postings for a week or two, you're pretty likely to find something legit. I don't have any of the networking necessary to be a truly independent entrepreneur, so that website has been really transformative to my job search process.
Getting alot of this, so before you reply to the above post, please ask yourself: "am I about to behave as though this person has never heard of taxes? Alternately, am I about to behave as though taxes are somehow avoidable if the government provides no services?" If you answered "yes," do us both a favor and find something else to do.
That sounds a great deal like what we currently call "employment," as opposed to any form of work where workers have more control over their time. For as long as the labor market has existed in its current form, we've been telling people who don't like their job, with bloody-minded stubbornness, to get a different one, as though everyone can afford to take half a year off to find something better. They choose to work long hours for decreasing benefits! That makes it not slavery!
That sector of the market has now been trashed to the point that many non-senior workers are forced into stitching together a shitty and unstable life out of a never-ending series of gigs. As there is more automation, this will happen more. For a time, there will be more work, but companies will be less willing and able to give full benefits for that work, because it doesn't flow the way it used to.
Those benefits aren't luxuries. They have to come from somewhere, or people can't support themselves. If the bosses can't pay workers directly, they've got to start pooling their resources via taxes, or there won't be any fucking labor to exploit.
That would be the case if we were talking about pretty much anything other than money. You can't give somebody money without increasing their net liberty. You can put strings on it which curtail them in particular ways, but they'll gain more options elsewhere. The money I get basically says "don't get work that could actually sustain you." So, I don't do that, but because I can contribute *something* to a household I'm part of, I am more welcome to be part of one. I don't think I need to explain to you how sleeping in a bed makes a person more free than sleeping in a park, or how having a fridge is liberating compared to only buying food you can carry each day. Because I can only work part-time, I also have most of every day, forever, to do whatever I want with it. Is that not liberty? I'm not a model self-actualized civic participator, but I was never going to be anyway, and neither are any of you able people. That kind of freedom is really expensive.
If my "master" doesn't tell me to do anything, how are they not simply my benefactor?
Currently, that isn't the case. The structure of the disability program is such that working part-time is a significant risk that I'm still waiting to see the precise form of. My master does give me an order: "live in poverty." I disobey it at my peril.
If the only string that income came with were that it requires a source, it'd be a different matter. A matter of tax reform, which we also need.
I am one of these contract workers. I like it fine. I'm getting a better rate per hour than I ever did in any other job, I work from home, and I have complete control over when and how much I work. I suspect my client is willing to put up with this precisely because I don't cost them anything when I'm not working.
However, I like it fine because I'm disabled. I get government money to help me along when my paycheck isn't enough, and I get (currently) zero copay healthcare from the state I live in.
People worry quite alot that small businesses are dying, because many kinds of them are. The "mom and pop" store can't do shit against Amazon. The thing is, Silicon Valley startups are also small businesses, and the fact they sometimes manage to sucker in venture capitalists sometimes doesn't make them not small businesses. They're 3-5 dudes who know how to code who have an idea about how use code to make something easier or more marketable. Because they're paying Silicon Valley rent, they can't afford real employees until such time as they do happen to land that VC money. Even then, that money isn't theirs to fuck around with, and I'm sure the field is littered with startups that were too good to too many people.
The upshot of this is that the kind and amount of work that is best available today isn't enough to sustain a person by itself, and it's not solely because of exploitative employers. This is why universal healthcare and universal basic income will be important ideas going forward. The commodification of labor isn't going to be around forever, and while it persists, it's going to change alot. More automation means more people who do work at all do it the way I do. I can tolerate this arrangement because I basically already have the benefits of universal healthcare and basic income. I'd like them to be universal. People need to be free of the fear of homelessness and starvation for work to legitimately be anything but slavery. I want other people to be free the way I am, and I'd like them to not need to be some kind of cripple to get it.
A "Code of Conduct" is something they make you sign in middle school to teach you (and your parents) that governmental authorities can and will abuse the superficial trappings of contract law to scare you into submission. Adults have standards instead. They don't need to be written down unless you're a crook.
The point has never been total reduction of emissions. You can't do that by putting dirty power in a battery. What you can do is centralize the emissions so that capture and cleaning are effective solutions.
You know they'll win, right? And not because of corruption. That's what got net neutrality repealed in the first place, but they're completely correct in their assertion that California doesn't have the authority to do this.
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By having a laser calibrated vaporize a specific amount of distillate, you could better control how much you're about to inhale than trying to suck on a pen with a heating coil. Then I won't get entirely too high because the physical process of smoking is new enough to me that I can do it wrong, like what happened on Monday.
More to the point, why wasn't Emuparadise one?
I've never even heard of it before today, but I still know exactly what happened to it.
A $600 piece of hardware that plays a handful of games is something you put in an arcade. People would start going back to arcades if they offered something they couldn't afford at home. I'd do this myself if I had the money for it, it's so obvious.
I'm not sure what you think is "hard right" about somebody who advocates for UBI. Is it the fact I don't fuck with identity politics? My apologies for being a socialist with a personality.
No idea whether my current client still needs help, but if you put together a profile on upwork.com and wade through crappy and scammy postings for a week or two, you're pretty likely to find something legit. I don't have any of the networking necessary to be a truly independent entrepreneur, so that website has been really transformative to my job search process.
Getting alot of this, so before you reply to the above post, please ask yourself: "am I about to behave as though this person has never heard of taxes? Alternately, am I about to behave as though taxes are somehow avoidable if the government provides no services?" If you answered "yes," do us both a favor and find something else to do.
That sounds a great deal like what we currently call "employment," as opposed to any form of work where workers have more control over their time. For as long as the labor market has existed in its current form, we've been telling people who don't like their job, with bloody-minded stubbornness, to get a different one, as though everyone can afford to take half a year off to find something better. They choose to work long hours for decreasing benefits! That makes it not slavery!
That sector of the market has now been trashed to the point that many non-senior workers are forced into stitching together a shitty and unstable life out of a never-ending series of gigs. As there is more automation, this will happen more. For a time, there will be more work, but companies will be less willing and able to give full benefits for that work, because it doesn't flow the way it used to.
Those benefits aren't luxuries. They have to come from somewhere, or people can't support themselves. If the bosses can't pay workers directly, they've got to start pooling their resources via taxes, or there won't be any fucking labor to exploit.
I am well aware of the tendency of startups to behave without fiduciary responsibility. Hence the aforementioned "littering."
That would be the case if we were talking about pretty much anything other than money. You can't give somebody money without increasing their net liberty. You can put strings on it which curtail them in particular ways, but they'll gain more options elsewhere. The money I get basically says "don't get work that could actually sustain you." So, I don't do that, but because I can contribute *something* to a household I'm part of, I am more welcome to be part of one. I don't think I need to explain to you how sleeping in a bed makes a person more free than sleeping in a park, or how having a fridge is liberating compared to only buying food you can carry each day. Because I can only work part-time, I also have most of every day, forever, to do whatever I want with it. Is that not liberty? I'm not a model self-actualized civic participator, but I was never going to be anyway, and neither are any of you able people. That kind of freedom is really expensive.
Dude, taxes will be collected no matter what. That's how shit works. I would like for a greater portion of that money to directly benefit the people.
If my "master" doesn't tell me to do anything, how are they not simply my benefactor?
Currently, that isn't the case. The structure of the disability program is such that working part-time is a significant risk that I'm still waiting to see the precise form of. My master does give me an order: "live in poverty." I disobey it at my peril.
If the only string that income came with were that it requires a source, it'd be a different matter. A matter of tax reform, which we also need.
I am one of these contract workers. I like it fine. I'm getting a better rate per hour than I ever did in any other job, I work from home, and I have complete control over when and how much I work. I suspect my client is willing to put up with this precisely because I don't cost them anything when I'm not working.
However, I like it fine because I'm disabled. I get government money to help me along when my paycheck isn't enough, and I get (currently) zero copay healthcare from the state I live in.
People worry quite alot that small businesses are dying, because many kinds of them are. The "mom and pop" store can't do shit against Amazon. The thing is, Silicon Valley startups are also small businesses, and the fact they sometimes manage to sucker in venture capitalists sometimes doesn't make them not small businesses. They're 3-5 dudes who know how to code who have an idea about how use code to make something easier or more marketable. Because they're paying Silicon Valley rent, they can't afford real employees until such time as they do happen to land that VC money. Even then, that money isn't theirs to fuck around with, and I'm sure the field is littered with startups that were too good to too many people.
The upshot of this is that the kind and amount of work that is best available today isn't enough to sustain a person by itself, and it's not solely because of exploitative employers. This is why universal healthcare and universal basic income will be important ideas going forward. The commodification of labor isn't going to be around forever, and while it persists, it's going to change alot. More automation means more people who do work at all do it the way I do. I can tolerate this arrangement because I basically already have the benefits of universal healthcare and basic income. I'd like them to be universal. People need to be free of the fear of homelessness and starvation for work to legitimately be anything but slavery. I want other people to be free the way I am, and I'd like them to not need to be some kind of cripple to get it.
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I'll just keep using Google News & Weather, which is better anyway.
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A "Code of Conduct" is something they make you sign in middle school to teach you (and your parents) that governmental authorities can and will abuse the superficial trappings of contract law to scare you into submission. Adults have standards instead. They don't need to be written down unless you're a crook.
The point has never been total reduction of emissions. You can't do that by putting dirty power in a battery. What you can do is centralize the emissions so that capture and cleaning are effective solutions.
We need the government to protect our privacy.
If you only eat what food eats, you should be food.
y'all ain't got no water
Dying in a flash flood to own the GOP means we don't have to deal with your dumb ass anymore.
You know they'll win, right? And not because of corruption. That's what got net neutrality repealed in the first place, but they're completely correct in their assertion that California doesn't have the authority to do this.
Since the work you're assigned is being completed significantly faster and with less errors than before, it is wrong to not ask for a raise.
Thanks, Google keyboard, for fucking up my close italics tag as soon as I was ready to press the button. You're doing God's work.