That "getting rid of existing programs" is indeed the stumbling block. As mentioned in my lengthy post, I would consider converting individual govt handouts to UBI as progress (e.g. Food Stamps). But govt has tricky ways to pretend they have removed a program - but really just hidden it.

Why are most relays rejecting my notes? No diagnostic is given, but I am down to 2.

Depends on what you mean by "Daily driver". VMs are reasonably efficient at compute, disk, network. They are annoying when it comes to graphics. I do run Win10 in a vm to do taxes - but I'm glad it is only once a year.

Why not just run Start9 in a VM in your existing Ubuntu server?

I just bought another server with ECC ram for $70 (plus shipping and RAM upgrade). So that is another avenue to consider.

The proposals they are calling UBI are not even close. The whole point of UBI is that there are NO other govt social programs. NADA. No Social Security. No Medicaid. No food stamps. No subsidized housing. So in the US, you would take the ~$1.5T spent on social programs each year, divide it between ALL citizens (including babies - and maybe even fetuses), rich and poor, Bill Gates and the drunk in the ditch. That comes to about $5000 each.

Of course most people don't really need an extra $5K a yr, and Bill Gates certainly doesn't. The reason for distributing to EVERYONE is to avoid strings attached via qualifications. There is no penalty for getting an entry level job (as there is with welfare). This also minimizes the bureaucracy needed for the distribution. Basically, just send a check to every SSN for instance (not that I endorse SSN).

Before Biden, I could live on $5K/yr as a single, study in the library, scrounge computers from the dump to repair (which I do anyway), eat the Walmart rotissiere chicken + pack of greens for $5 each day (illustration only - change it up of course). Wear pants until they stand up in the corner, then get a new pair at the thrift. Sleep on the mulch bed at the mall (popular actually) - it is (or was) entirely doable.

From that basic subsistence, I could work on employment, write novels, start a micro-business, or otherwise be useful or at least amuse myself. The fear of statists is that some recipients of UBI might buy drugs and kill themselves - hence all the strings attached with food stamps, etc. True enough, but people manage to buy drugs/liquor anyway. A stupid objection.

There has always been a form of UBI - subsistence farming. Unlike UBI, this was hard physical work. But you could (and people did) live on it. The US has put many rules in the way of that, but there were a few dozen subsistence people living in parks that I knew about for the last 40 years - hunting, fishing, gathering, small plantings. Unlike tourists, they did not litter (nothing to litter with) - but the park rangers were always trying to evict them for some reason (don't want to give people ideas, I guess).

When employers are abusive to the extreme, subsistence farming has been the historical fallback. The problem with industrialization was that city dwellers had no such fallback - horrendous abuse must be endured, the only alternative was starvation. An English worker fleeing a city would find all the land owned by aristocrats, and any attempt to hunt/fish/gather would be punished as "poaching". This very real injustice is what gave rise to the very bad solutions of socialism and Marxism. G. K. Chesterton has many more insights in "Eugenics and Other Evils".

UBI is a libertarian socialist idea to replace subsistence farming in an industrialized world.

Of course, the actual programs called "UBI" being proposed are totally different. They are yet another redistribution of wealth on top of all the garbage already in place. Hence I do not support them at all. But I would support a real UBI that *replaces* existing programs at the same dollar amount. Compromise would be in not replacing everything. Maybe leave SS but replace food stamps with a UBI for example.

The best part is that the insects aren't out yet.

Deep State creeps.

If you really felt that way, you would write in an honest, eligible, and competent candidate. That is the only real way to vote "None of the above". I've done that a few times (even called the person to check their willingness to serve, told others who I was writing in, and they got hundreds of votes).

If you won't do that, all that complaining is just laziness.

Why not just take pics of the dice with the webcam and use the hash of the pics?

What you describe is significant, but I would say is the minority of

politicians. What happens with most of them is both more banal and more

sinister.

Blackmail, not lust for power is the most common

motivator afaict. You're a new Congress critter, you're idealistic,

determined to make a difference. You attend your first cocktail party.

Someone must have put something in your drink, because you wake up in a

strange hotel room feeling strange and light headed. As you start to

get up, you notice a photograph on your chest. It is you in some very

compromising situations. There is a note on the back: "Respect the

blob. Learn from the Blob. Love the Blob. Or we release this and more like it."

If

you don't drink, they will find some other way to drug you. The only

defense is the truth - tell the world what happened. They probably

won't believe you, and you will lose your position and have trouble

getting a new job. But the more people have the courage to just tell

the truth, the less power these tactics will have.

There is another factor - empathy fatigue. This happens to other caring professions. After a decade of truly caring for patients/constituents, you lose the ability to care through sheer fatigue. It is time for a sabbatical - or a new career. This is the strongest argument for term limits IMO. Ron Paul is the only politician who seems to me to have fully retained empathy through his many years of service.

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It's a day to share and compare your current code to calculate Pi to N digits. If you are not a code, it is a day to bake pies.

I would like to see a Feigenbaum day (my favorite constant atm):

Feigenbaum constant: δ ~ 4.669201609

Not sure what day of the year that would be. April 6 I guess.

Back in 1995, we banned TV from our home for similar toxicity reasons. Unfortunately, they got exposed to the gross stuff at neighbor kids' homes. That wasn't as much of a problem as less objectionable programming - "Daddy, why can't we watch American Idol like everyone else?" (2002)

"The Art of Computer Programming" by Donald Knuth

1. Fundamental Algorithms

2. Seminumerical Algorithms

3. Sorting and Searching

Last I checked, the author is still available by visits - PROVIDED you come prepared to do a decent job of playing a duet with him on the pipe organ.

A Psalm about the men who control your life and are doing everything in their power to ruin it: https://gathman.org/music/ps14.pdf

One take performance: https://gathman.org/music/ogg/Psalm14.ogg

"They are corrupt. They do vile deeds."

"They are ALL, together, become corrupt. There is no one righteous, no not one."

(Quoted by Paul in Romans)

"Will the wicked never learn?"

"There they are in great fear - for God is in the generation of the righteous."

"You mock the plans of the poor - because the Lord is his refuge."

A number of Asian students at my college ('78, '79) dyed their hair gray around the edges.

Use gold. I think we need both. When internet is working, BTC is much easier to send across an ocean (or even across the US). However, gold keeps "working" regardless of internet. Even avoids "moth and rust doth corrupt", but still has the problem "where thieves break through and steal".

I have been imagining a Lightning network for gold. Maybe using existing Gold companies as custodial nodes.

My only objection is that the money is only as good as your internet. A more remote threat is the 51% attack (a majority of miners can coordinate to block transactions of a targeted key or keys).

Navalny got jabbed in Germany?!? That's it for me, I've jumped to my conclusions. Pfizer killed Navalny.

Ron Paul also gets it about Navalny:

https://rumble.com/v4eubm6-navalny-death-a-false-flag.html?playlist_id=watch-history

I tell them I don't use a phone, but they can "text" (SMS) me at this number.

"But how will you get it without a phone?"

... look mysterious ...

I (an American) only know a few cities in Germany. And the history of its territory is as fascinating as that of Russia.

Things that stood out from a few weeks visit to Frankfurt:

You drive 150mph on the autobahn, park your car in a giant garage around the city proper (old town?), and walk around in the city (except for authorized delivery vehicles with restricted hours).

Shops had "spaghetti ice cream". Force vanilla ice cream through a spaghetti mill to look like a pile of noodles on your plate (until it melts). Top with strawberry sauce and maybe sprinkle powdered sugar.

Spiesbraten restaurants marinated cuts of meat (mostly pork) in vinegar and spices for a week, then grilled your order over a wood fire at the center of the restaurant while you watched. One little girl asked for catsup, but her father hushed her up saying, "Für Pommefritz! Für Pommefritz!"

The SS tunnels underneath the city were cemented off with many yards of concrete. I was told the contents were too horrible for anyone to stomach cleaning it up.

Guard towers and other above ground aspects were preserved as a reminder.

Don't forget Hawaii. (The statehood votes were suspicious, but still.)