I generally agree, but rather than making it a specific number, I think we should tie it to some multiple of the poverty line or the average income of the lowest 10% or something like that. That way, if the rich want to earn more, they have to make things materially better for the poorest people in society; and if they don’t do enough, the government takes that money to do it for them.
Nah. ChatGPT sounds like us.
Wait…I know Depp was in that, but Burton and Carter didn’t have anything to do with it, did they?
Ok… you’ve stumped me on “Lone.” I think I get the rest, but…
Joke’s on you, the name of this category is “Music by Danny Elfman.”
Tim Burton (1) really only directs dark movies (tonally, not luminously), and (2) went through a phase where everything he did either involved the actress Helena Bonham Carter (including his marriage, for a while) or the actor Johnny Depp (to whom he was not married), or both.
The question for this Jeopardy answer could equally be any of five things:
What is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? (the 2005 film, not to be confused with the 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
What is Corpse Bride?
What is Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street?
What is Alice in Wonderland? (the 2010 live action one)
What is Dark Shadows?
And if you add in his executive producer credits, you can toss in the Alice in Wonderland sequel, too.
Some humans write like this too. That’s kind of how it learned it.
No, that’s the problem! That and the volts.
Fantastic work. Really charges me up.
I have a bag of batteries that need to go to the tox drop, thanks for the reminder.
I labeled them “BAD-tteries,” though. My daughter did not think this was very funny.
Definitely wild. It is a slight glimmer of hope that the benefit of the doubt is no longer being afforded the administration by the courts. Why they ever did this time around is beyond me, but at least they’re starting to recognize these as extraordinary times.
“They should come here legally!”
“They’re trying.”
“Wait what they are? Well we’d better stop that then!”
Tenet isn’t terribly difficult to explain, though it’s been too long since I’ve seen it for me to do it now. I remember watching it and being able to say, ok, it’s not airtight, but I know what Nolan was trying to do with the movie at least. It’s a very interesting idea, but while the execution has a normal amount of plot holes, they’re exacerbated by a story that uses what seem like plot holes as a story device.
It hurts our brains because effect is preceding cause, and because most sci-fi stories with time travel use it in the same way as they might use a space ship: to travel to a different place that has only tangential effects on the main location (even though they may make a big noise about the Butterfly Effect, in reality it’s rarely that severe) or to make nonsense shenanigans happen (things that have no basis in logic from any direction). Tenet actually did come up with a really interesting concept, and tried to give it interesting stakes, but got distracted by the shiny of “backwards bullets” and so let the logic suffer.
There’s a lot of competition for that title. A shocking amount.
First one: I better watch out, she’ll call a foul on me
Second one: I better watch out, she’s probably a felon on the run
Third one: I can’t watch out because I don’t know where she is
I’ve been ad-free for long enough at this point that I feel physically assaulted when I see one (at a friend’s house or whatever). It’s insane that we ever thought that was ok, and it’s become worse.
At this point, adblock is a survival measure. Piracy is self-defense. The first presidential candidate who campaigns on legalizing graffiti on billboards and mandating their eventual removal gets my vote. Burn it all.
Electron (and Tauri, and Neutralino) also offers some deeper OS integration stuff that browsers don’t do or actively block; direct file management, USB peripheral control, that sort of thing.
But for something like Discord, you’re totally right. You just need the browser.
Oh, I wasn’t blaming you—I don’t really mind the downvotes, if I made a bad joke I’m happy to take my lumps. Just surprised me, is all.
But I think you’re right. I was going for a sort of absurdist thing (lol, a train participating in a drag race. Lol, Tesla bro thinking he could outrun a high-speed train. Lol, some internet commenter who doesn’t get social cues and tries to inject his special interest/hyper focus into everything even when it doesn’t make sense) but I wasn’t absurd enough to not sound like I was legitimately saying those things.
Definitely a fair point. But for the most part, being in the country that collapses is going to be worse than being in a different country.
Someone did a study on various means of welfare support, and figured out that doing away with all other forms of poverty easement and replacing it with an equivalent amount of UBI would actually save taxpayers a significant amount of money. And further, it actually costs way more to try to identify and prosecute fraud than the system actually loses to said fraud.
I think the easiest way to accomplish UBI, without dealing with a lot of rigamarole and nonsense, would be to figure out what amount “basic” should mean—you suggested $2000/mo, but for some cities that would barely cover rent, so maybe let’s say $3000/mo—and then have anyone who wants any form of government financial assistance register with the UBI office, indicating the compensation they receive at their highest-earning job. The UBI office would then simply pay them the difference between $3000 and their monthly paycheck. UBI office automatically cross-references with the IRS every year, so you can’t hide income without getting audited.