This just isn't true.
Alpha particles can't penetrate skin, for starters. If you knew that, you wouldn't have used it as an example.
And the linear no-threshold model of harm you are citing (even if you don't know its name) is about as well-supported as astrology.
Very well said re NSA.
UBI will only be implemented if a dominant political faction can use it to divest their rivals of funding and headcount. That means cutting bureaucrats in social welfare, even if they add more to other departments with the freed-up plunder.
Re magic internet money, I disagree with that scenario, we can and must bring people across incrementally.
I agree 100%. That post is sig-worthy :-p
But sometimes they miscalculate, and other times one faction is out to harm another faction.
"Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake"
None that I've found so far.
Audience, anything? I can't be the only one with experience here
That's silly - your DNA is constantly being damaged by chemical means, mostly oxygen free radicals produced in your own cells.
All DNA-based life has elaborate checking and repair mechanisms, that can be upregulated in response to an increase in the threat.
That's why Chernobyl is a beautiful wilderness with the highest level of biodiversity in Europe (but the first few weeks were very destructive).
And why residents in Guarapari have a longer life expectancy than other Brazilians, despite regularly exceeding the maximum radiation exposure the USA permits for nuclear plant workers. (Their rates of neoplasms inc solid cancers are 8% higher, but cardiovascular disease notably lower.)
Humans and other eukaryotes can and do adapt to levels of background radiation much greater than anywhere on Earth's surface in the present day. Radiation doses below this adapted threshold are negligible in their potential for net harm.
Sudden, acute exposure to ionising radiation IS harmful and DOES increase risk of cancer. It is unclear if this increase in risk is linear, but probably not.
True.
The flip side of that same argument is that the frequently-cited anti-nuclear research was done in the same period, and for just as politicised reasons.
The linear no-threshold dose model was proven not to fit the evidence as far back as the 70s, but it is still cited as gospel today.
We have decades of population epidemiology statistics now, and many natural experiments show high background radiation levels do not lead to lower life expectancy in local populations (after controlling for SES, income, availability of medical care etc etc. as always)
Changes in environmental radiation / acute exposures do, but even then there are some paradoxical results under particular conditions.
If its not universal, its not UBI. UBI is universal by definition.
CBDC tokens and banana republic economics are coming on hard and fast. Tens of thousands of wasteful bureaucrats won't save you from CBDCs, or anything else.
If we get the chance to throw them overboard, we should. There is nothing bad about UBI that we don't have already, and nothing bad planned that we won't be copping even without it.
Lots of people didn't get a share of fake money during COVID.
UBI fixes that, and it fixes some well-paid hidden parasites.
It doesn't fix anything else, and it won't stop CBDCs or social credit scores or whatever else they have planned.
But its still better than the status quo in so many ways.
People don't believe the waste and abuse involved in the present system until they see it close up.
As Counsel for the defense, I submit that "gimme money" has been the most important issue for generations already.
UBI doesn't fix that (but it does reduce some of the inefficiencies).
UBI doesn't fix inflation either (but bitcoin does).
UBI doesn't fix reckless government borrowing (but is more transparent and lower friction than extant programs).
Tens of thousands of power-tripping public bureaucrats get paid well for running the present (absurdly inefficient and biased) social welfare system. And then there's the private middlemen in the social welfare system.
Here in Australia, the NDIS has to pay $120/hr to a chain of "private" middlemen for a recovering injured worker to receive just the minimum wage for that hour. Because bureaucracy and butt-covering don't come cheap.
UBI fixes them. It fixes them good and proper.
There are other ways we could do that, but UBI cynically hijacks their own core support base to do our lobbying for us.
Those cowardly badge-lickers need to be sued into penury
...and what's the average wage for the foreign guest workers who keep this city in the desert habitable?
How about the foreign mercenaries who guard the absolutist Emir who rules it?
Could anything, just possibly, go wrong with those complex and fragile social systems? What would foreign-owned real estate be worth then?
Your first paragraph is quite correct, solar fusion radiation is on balance beneficial, depending on environment, latitude and your melanin level.
Terrestrial fission radiation has different tradeoffs, but the once widely studied phenomenon of radiation hormesis suggests it is not so different as your second paragraph asserts.
Sr90 titanate. Feeble beta emitter, but very active. Dope some of it with Eu and save on lighting bills too :-p
If only...
No!
Macromedia Shockwave needed to be killed with fire.
I was in highschool in 1996, and I detested web video already.
HTML 1.1 no plugins no bling, or give me something to download and open locally if its that important and can't be rendered as hypertext with images.
And yes, I am a Millennial :-p
Less risk of your identity being logged (needs all nodes in your chain to collude), but similar risk of MiTM attacks on the wallet (unless if connecting to .onion only).
Pay attention to certificate errors, and rebuild your circuit / choose a different set of exits in Orbot if you get one...
That'll certainly get the job done! But its rather... memorable. One of my clients has a 30" Brentwood shredder, previously used for mulching telephone poles. Fits in a 6' x 8' trailer under a tarp. That's what I'd use :-p
Israel's Information War Inside The United States
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The WhatsApp group where Carey’s case came up serves as a kind of switchboard where the various independent players in Silicon Valley’s pro-Israel community swap ideas, identify enemies, and collaborate on ways to defend Israel in the media, academia, and the business world.
We have obtained access to thousands of the group’s WhatsApp messages dating back to mid-October, and an intricate spreadsheet where group participants request and claim tasks ranging from social media responses to IDF support shipments. Separately, we have viewed a number of video meetings charting best practices for “hasbara” – an Israeli term of art for “public diplomacy” whose detractors see it as a euphemism for propaganda -- that offer a window into Israel’s public-relations war that is not limited to the tech sector.
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...and then there's all the Proof-of-Violence costs needed to keep the fiat system stable.
Its still a long way to go and all uphill, but bitcoin has so many advantages I think we're going to win :-)