yadoomerta

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by yadoomerta 3y ago
not the worst summary just fyi - this is an extremely popular take among the young and non-rich
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
exactly what the parent comment said - an incentive to not take steps to reduce your risk, leading to more situations like this
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
yupppp at least they have to pay lipservice now and not just printing billions and handing them straight to the rich
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
Completely agreed - setting up Sandstorm itself is a bit of a hassle. Once it's installed, additional apps on the platform are extremely easy though. Thanks for pointing out nextcloud! Hadn't seen that one before. What's your
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
Thank you so much for sandstorm btw! It's a really incredible piece of software
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
You've probably already seen it, but if not, checkout https://sandstorm.io/ It didn't do too well commercially, but might have been ahead of it's time
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
sandstorm https://sandstorm.io/ 's dream is to make this as easy as installing a phone app. It's still rough around the edges but I think the model is completely right and the security it offers is excellent.
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
It's also partly the site's culture. Not saying it's wrong, because it adds some noise and not much new info, but I've been downvoted before for posting comments like "Thanks for saying this!"
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
imo that's the problem - everything gets corporate poseurs so quickly now could just be i'm out of touch and the countercultures have successfully hidden from me tho
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
perfect comment <3
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
idk why every comment i like gets downvoted here :p this feels accurate to me, it's definitely part of the appeal of music so deliberately unlistenable that it will never become corporate trash https://paradiserecordshtml.ba
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
arguably, we're facing overpopulation right now
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
Maybe we just have a very different threat model? Snapchat style messages completely solves: - someone you trust now later becomes untrustworthy and would use old messages against you - messages are stored on your phone and can be found by
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
In snapchat, you're sending messages to friends, or at the very least individuals, who you trust have not rooted their phone to log messages. Anything put to the public internet is there forever because antisocial corporations and the
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
idk why you're being downvoted, it did read like an insidious content marketing piece. At least there was a disclosure. With that said, I've been trying to lock down my smartphone to offline-only apps + text + calls, totally agree
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
How do they currently?
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
thank you, this is exactly what I was trying to say but worded so much nicer
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
I really think the anti-student-loan argument is a red herring. Medical costs have gone up almost the same amount in the same time period without student loans.
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
That's a lot of the advantage of UBI in my opinion - is that it's much easier to access than the complicated welfare systems we have now, which require meeting up and consulting with lots of volunteer specialists to be sure you&#x
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
The poorest will be much richer because you've given them money, almost by definition. Student loans are problematic because they put the student in lifelong debt, before that state schools were just, state subsidized and students were
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
^ Might be the only good skeptical of UBI take in the whole thread. I share your worries, it does seem like it will have to be in some way tied to cost-of-living. Done right, where you can actually have the honest threat of being able to qu
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
Why would UBI be like a loan, when there is no expectation that it will be paid back? I support it instead of food stamps because it's simpler to understand and more general, but otherwise does the same thing without onerous reporting
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
What do you expect someone living in America to do with $2 a day ?? UBI doen't have to be global, though ideally it would be, it can have a huge good for people working in exploitive jobs or doing make-work, freeing them to contribute
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
Which 1% of the population are you counting as doing useful work? From how I see it - those doing useful work right now are compensated far far less than those doing well paid but useless work
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
yeah, its the unrelated to survival that gets me i'd be fine working equally hard on something meaningful to not die. im not happy with shuffling paperwork for the same thing. maybe this is a personal problem For me personally at least
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
I think you're right yea - A lot of the stuff UBI would pay for is (imo) not that scarce or shouldn't be. Food, water, most medicine, etc. we can absolutely just provide to everyone. We have the resources to give everyone a decent
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
oh, I agree with almost everything in this ^, sorry if I came off as confrontational earlier. Your first post read to me like the typical "there is no injustice because I, a well paid software engineer, is willing to work unlike thos
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
Almost every job right now is so far abstracted from survival that it barely makes any sense. My job (that pays very well) involves taking an existing product and shuffling the UI around so people think it's a different product. Even p
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
I think it's more that most current employment is awful - you're either doing something useful and paid peanuts or a cog in the machine making the (you're the product) type products. There's terribly few jobs available t
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by yadoomerta 4y ago
fwiw I agree with you I don't see the heatdeath of the universe as a reason not to make things tidy while we can keep on fighting the good fight, and good luck

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