throaway955

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by throaway955 1y ago
Look guy, your initial post was about how people sat around watching Netflix during Covid and how that's terrible for you and unproductive. First off, a heck of a lot of those things that you are calling productive, are really just phy
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by throaway955 1y ago
You are of course right, and it is sad to see that the idea of "building consensus," now has to be explained in a long 4 paragraph post when it used to be just a normal way of doing things.
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by throaway955 1y ago
>Which requires someone else to work to pay for those things. I don't believe other people should pay my mortgage and bills. Those are my responsibility. Then you've made the choice to not pursue other things that will make you
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by throaway955 1y ago
The article said 3/4 of people kept working, a significant portion of the 1/4 went back to school, and a hell of a a lot of people are in this comment section saying they would never stop working even with UBI.
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by throaway955 1y ago
The main drawback to binging Netflix isn't anything silly like a lack of production...it's the lack of activity. That's what makes people sick.
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by throaway955 1y ago
>Sure there are. But unfortunately I have a mortgage and bills that need paying. Hence the UBI. >In theory yes, in reality no. One will exacerbates the other. Big big big assumption that doesn't match my reality very well. People
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by throaway955 1y ago
making the rich richer in the name of wealth creation? What will we consume without that?
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by throaway955 1y ago
Life is the gift, work is just a game.
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by throaway955 1y ago
Sounds like you have a substance abuse problem and you're afraid that others will make the same mistake you did. Saying that people's lives are better because they benefit society through their labour, while suffering from untrea
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by throaway955 1y ago
do you have some kind of evidence that enacting a ubi, which comes with absolutely no condition of "not working," will stop a majority of people from taking paid work and making more money? Do we need 100% of the population to wor
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by throaway955 1y ago
...pay them to do it? gp said "plumbing" not "the worst jobs we couldn't get people to do for free."
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by throaway955 1y ago
no, its better to complain that people don't want to work anymore. I wonder what all these "hackers" tradespersons relatives thought of them in 1999. Probably that they were useless computer geeks who would never amount to an
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by throaway955 1y ago
that's the attitude. "You need to work, even if it's at McDonalds!" "You can't ask other people to carry your weight!"
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by throaway955 1y ago
this doesn't sound like a ubi problem to me. For one, during Covid, most people were encouraged, if not required by law, to limit their interactions, and some were literally not allowed to leave the house. For years. Secondly, just bec
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by throaway955 1y ago
those labour markets are in shambles atm for most people who aren't upper middle class
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by throaway955 1y ago
is "kept working" the point of ubi? is that how were measuring its success?
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by throaway955 1y ago
presumably people who don't like volunteering and arting, and do like working with their hands on concrete problems that directly affect peoples lives
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by throaway955 1y ago
no duh
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by throaway955 1y ago
This is due to the high concentration of tannin in the tea. It causes stomach problems if you dont have protein in your belly already.
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by throaway955 1y ago
This is the way. Why give yourself the temptation when one slip-up can ruin the whole thing for yourself?
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by throaway955 1y ago
I'll echo that addiction feeling! It's amazing to me, how when I ignore the "it's time to eat" feeling (which isn't easy to do!) it suddenly starts to get weaker and even goes away...almost as if I wasn't
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by throaway955 1y ago
Some people DO keep it off. Ive never been obese but ive been overweight, extremely unhealthy, pre diabetic, couch-potato for years at a time. For me, it's always a matter of getting into the mindset that these things are not just &quo
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by throaway955 1y ago
that's one thing I miss about the old internet. Not every piece of info was a "meme." Some were literally just ideas. Not everything is a freaking meme!!!!
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by throaway955 1y ago
yes, us millennials should be called the "guinea pig generation"
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by throaway955 1y ago
Cable is a good downgrade but still insidious. I personally would recommend just a hard drive full of whatever media you want to store on it.
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by throaway955 1y ago
Historically speaking, it is the case for Manitoba. Manitoba was founded by French speakers and Winnipeg should be a majority Metis city today. The reason it isn't is because of repression from Ottawa and anglophones. See the Manitoba
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by throaway955 1y ago
It is true from the Quebec to Manitoba (about the French), but not west of that. The East Coast provinces are more complicated with their own histories.
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by throaway955 1y ago
Skoden
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by throaway955 1y ago
Keener is more benign than brown-noser, but Canadians will use it with a subtle hint of irony or sarcasm to indicate politely that the "keener' is indeed a brown-noser or amusing try hard.
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by throaway955 1y ago
? Americans refer to the continent as "North America."

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