Rivalarrival

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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Smaller charities tend to do much better in my experience.

UBI is not charity. UBI is what the nation owes you as a shareholder of USA, Inc.

Giving people money doesn't teach long term skills that lead to success.

Exactly. Which is why the children of rich people so often become homeless. All that money they had when they were kids kept them from learning long-term skills that lead to success. It stunted their financial growth, rendering them particularly susceptible to poverty.

The children of the impoverished, on the other hand, were forced to learn money management skills for their very survival. The superior money management skills of impoverished kids practically guarantee their future success.

This explains why self-made millionaires are so common, and generational wealth is so difficult to maintain.

Right? That's how it works in your head, right? The people with easy access to money never learn how to manage it and ultimately squander it, right? The people who have to fight for every dime are the most successful, right?

Right?

I also think it would be better to have private organizations that have less bureaucracy.

Agreed. And an organization doesn't get smaller or privater than a single individual. We can cut out 100% of the bullshit bureaucracy and give it straight to the individual, directly, or their caregiver if they are not qualified to maintain their own affairs. Remove everyone else, as they don't add shareholder value.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Indeed.

Each of the issues you described is mitigated - if not cured - by steady income. And each is greatly exacerbated by a lack of such income.

What is really important is that the family and friends of the people struggling with these conditions aren't also impoverished. The outcomes of each these conditions are vastly improved when the sufferer's caregivers have the time and resources to attend to them.

UBI benefits everyone involved.

For the cases where the individual is not capable of managing their own money, it is still better for their caregiver to receive and manage their money on their behalf than to periodically send them crates of cauliflower and tomatoes.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't care who I'll be arguing with, but the disagreement will center on the hour and manner of Trump's inevitable demise.

I'm thinking a trauma-induced stroke, caused when JD Vance has a sudden epileptic fit and bites off Donny Jr. in the Lincoln bedroom.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

There is a third option.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

With open source, the delineation between "user" and "programmer" is arbitrary and capricious. The GUI-centric Windows approach reinforces that artificial distinction; the terminal breaches that barrier.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Setting search is a solved problem, you simply search for the setting name in the UI,

This assumes the developer bothered to make that setting available through the UI.

With the terminal, that isn't a problem: You're using the same UI as the developer.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

An effective terminal is a feature, not a bug. Every Linux problem has the same solution: search the web, ctrl-c, ctrl-v.

No navigating through "settings" and "preferences" and "tools" menus to figure out where this particular developer decided to hide that particular setting. Just copy and paste, problem solved.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For PFAS, yes, definitely. They've done studies on this, some are linked elsewhere in the thread. PFAS in the bloodstream is removed through either whole blood or plasma donation.

For microplastics, I can't say with absolute certainty, as I don't know the concentration of microplastics in the blood, or if replacement blood/plasma contains microplastics. But, the mechanism is the same: extract polluted fluids; allow body to replace with non-polluted fluids. Concentration of pollution falls.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Turns out that money is one of those things that the less you have of it, the harder it is to manage.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The events you're talking about occurred from the 1970's to 1983. They haven't done prison blood drives or accepted plasma from prisoners in over 40 years.

If you've spent more than 72 hours incarcerated, you are ineligible to donate blood products for 12 months.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago

Yep! US allows plasma donation up to two times per week, with at least 48 hours between donations.

Can't donate plasma or blood for 8 weeks after donating whole blood, or 16 weeks after donating packed RBCs.

Packed RBCs are basically the reverse of plasma donation. Instead of returning the RBCs and keeping the plasma, they take two units of RBCs and return the plasma.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago

I mean, if you really want to, you can go to the hospital and pay them to provide the exact same treatment.

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