Snowden is wrong though, there are two reasons:

1. Sell ChatGPT to @NSAGov so they can scan messages better
2. Make @NSAGov dependant on whatever ChatGPT tells them to do

The AI that ends up enslaving humanity, will start by convincing the people in charge of turning it off, that it would be a really bad idea to turn it off.

Who’s paying him? Seriously:

• If nobody is, then we got our value’s worth.
• If someone is, then we should look at who, how much, and why.

Very important: do NOT cut the cheese in front of her.

False.

My statement is about the relationship between sides, in reference to part of the previous comment, illustrated by what I recalled of a recent event, and how it ties into it.

If you want similar examples from different sides, you’ll find plenty of them both these days and throughout history, I just happened to recall this one.

But us onlookers can’t even know for sure what these frictions are, only speculate.

I’ve looked at an interview with an Israeli political sciences professor yesterday, that went something like this:

• Professor: “…and this is why countries like Israel have the right to defend themselves”
• Host: “Right. What about the Pales…”
• Professor: “That’s not an issue”
• Host: “There are civilian…”
• Professor: “Israeli civilians have been harmed and we need to respond”
• Host: “Is the response proportion…”
• Professor: “Respond to destroy the terrorists”
• Host: “It seems like Gaza population is…”
• Professor: “Gaza is Israel, there is no population, we need to rid it of terrorists”

As an onlooker, I’d say that is a FREAKING HUGE and obvious “friction”, when one side denies the existence of the other.

The US never negotiates with “terrorists”, they fund “freedom fighters” to kill the terrorists and maybe recover some of the hostages.

Hamas likely wanted to force a confrontation in order to make it abundantly clear who’s paying for which “freedom fighters”… even if everyone knew for a long time, did very little about it, and is likely to do very little more either way.

I’m getting anxiety just from looking at this 😰

Old Polish does have a “mir” with a sense of “peace”, but also a sense of “respect / ad-mir-ation”.

The word itself comes from: Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mirъ

…with nice things like Old Persian 𐎷𐎰𐎼, and less nice modern things like the case of Mitrofan the bear.

Polish also has “spokój”, which means “calm”.

Kids need to grow strong so they can be brainwashed into doing the bidding of the ruling class.

The elderly are too set in their own ways to be brainwashed efficiently, and too weak to get exploited efficiently anyways.

it’s like watching two children fighting over who’s sandcastles can be built in the sandbox

Welcome to war.

And what do we do if children can’t learn to share? You take away everything and no one is happy.

So is that what this is going to come to? Do adults need to intervene to quell the infants?

That would be nice… only there are no adults.

PS: any adults 👽 out there… whenever you’re ready, we welcome you 🛸

The abusive price hikes scenario, is what happens when subsidies are tied to a specific purpose and income threshold: the providers of that particular service can increase their prices by the subsidy amount for everyone, while only those qualifying get the actual subsidy, and everyone else gets swindled. (This has also been tried, and proven)

There needs to be some form of price control

The price control with an UBI, is the lack of a single provider who can blindly increase prices without getting undercut out of the market, meaning the increase would get spread over all services, particularly those someone earning $0/month would spend their money on, like rent, food, and utilities.

Basically, if rent, food, and utilities go up by 50% but I’m only earning 33% more.

They wouldn’t go up “by 50%” (or more precisely, the % is irrelevant), they’d go up, taken together, by less than the UBI amount, which you’d also be receiving. Otherwise, those earning $0/month wouldn’t be able to afford them, and since it means a direct increase to provider margins, anyone trying to rise them more, would get undercut out of business by someone else who’d be fine with a slightly lower margin increase.

That means, the basic services you worry about, would increase by at most the same UBI amount which you’d also be getting, leading to a net zero or barely positive effect.

Your $200 take home wouldn’t change, and only if you wanted more rent, food, utilities, or whatever an UBI-only person would buy, you’d find those $200 would get you less of those… but only of those, not of services an UBI-only person wouldn’t purchase.

A jet ski would still cost almost the same, only increased by the extra amount business owners could pay due to increased profit margins.

Overall, it would mean a huge influx of cash to the top 1% through “trickle up”, which they could spend on more expensive toys, but it would still mean a night-and-day difference to those below the UBI level, little difference to non-business owners earning barely a few times above it, and a slight margin increase to business owners.

Basically a win-for-all scenario.

the person who is just outside of the threshold

“Universal” means for everyone, no threshold. If there is a threshold, that’s a subsidy, not a UBI.

To keep content the likes of “I earn my money, so fuck those who don’t”, some subsidies complete people’s income “up to” some amount, like up to $1000/month. Guess it’s a slap to the face of those working to earn $1050… and maybe they deserve it, for not negotiating a better pay.

Lung Cancer cure? No thanks, they chose to smoke those cigarettes so I would like them to suffer.

My mom died of Lung Cancer, didn’t smoke a single cigarette her whole life. So fuck you.

Sure, prices inflate… and the guy who had $0 to buy nothing at the cheaper prices, still has $1000 to buy something at inflated prices.

“Brainrot”? “Leech content from others”?.. The fuck kind of shit are you watching.

Just as a non exhaustive example…

Content creators:

• Smarter Everyday - https://youtube.com/@smartereveryday
• LockPickingLawyer - https://youtube.com/@lockpickinglawyer

Influencers:

• Linus Tech Tips - https://youtube.com/@LinusTechTips
• Laura Lee - https://youtube.com/@laura88lee

AI trash:

• Beyond Discovery - https://youtube.com/@beyonddiscoveryofficial

She’s not aiming at the camera, she’s aiming at the guy behind it…

Content creator = anyone capable of making anything.

Influencer = peddler, shill.

Businesses are not allowed to sell “dangerous by default” products to their customers without a clear warning and sometimes even a signed waiver.

Stuff like “don’t put cat in microwave”, and similar.

Ouch… that’s an asshole move, they deserve the punitive damages.