That guy had a real pair of stones.

Given one next year that says two years.

That is a common belief, although it doesn’t stand up to academic rigor. There are many studies that show UBI does not negatively impact productivity or innovation, and may even stimulate more.

It seems counterintuitive, but when people have basic needs met, they tend to spend more time improving their skills, experimenting, starting new businesses, and finding better employment matches.

Governments already spend o lot of money on providing services to individuals, such as social security, pensions, healthcare, childcare, education, policing and corrections, food security, housing subsidies, etc. As it turns out, often the most efficient way to provide services to people is to give them money to provide for themselves.

On the other hand, I’m not aware of any studies that show wealth aggregation increases productivity after businesses leaders are paid more than ~50 times their average employee. The typical CEO today earns 351x more than the average employee, which is more than a 1000% increase from the late 1970s.

The point is not the taxes, it’s the UBI. The wealth taxes are just how you pay for it.

You also need to ensure certain consumer protections, especially in real estate markets, in order to make UBI work well, but let’s start there.

You can run either one from a server or locally. LibreOffice allows realtime collaboration in spreadsheets only. OnlyOffice I think allows it in all programs. Both have web editors. Both work with Nextcloud /OwnCloud. It depends on what you want to do with your server.

Retirement is for privileged boomers.

We will work until we die unless we figure out how to get taxes from billionaires and generational wealth holders to establish a universal basic income.

My calendar is now on Thunderbird, which has an excellent desktop and mobile app as well.

I’m having good luck replacing document editors with onlyoffice, Although many people will recommend Colabora (with LibreOffice on desktop)

Edit: and Organic Maps, depending on how complete OpenStreetMap is in your area.

Also maybe microdots would be more effective. Not exactly pen and paper, but still analog. Hard to crack a code you can’t find.

Maybe something akin to a book code, although machine learning may be able to crack those by that time.

I am not a cryptographer so I have no idea really.

The Navajo did pretty well in WWII

Every hundred years in this stupid civilization.

How did they make these so fast?

Some people will have this on their phone and be irate when a FOSS app includes a crash report tracker.

Ave Maria. Twice.

“Wah! This hate isn’t supposed to be at meeEEE!”

Half a decade.

Well put. This is excellent news nonetheless. Let’s all hope it is a lasting peace.

What mention of religion should be removed? What is the region?

The article you posted noted that there was freedom of movement before the first Intifada. That was ended by the Oslo Accords, in which both Israel and Palestine agreed to a two-state solution.

Palestinian leadership rejected all agreements for statehood, which led to the talks falling apart. This included a deal that included 91% of the land of the pre-1967 West Bank, and a land trade agreement to compensate for that remaining 9%, and a capital in East Jerusalem. Instead, they initiated the second intifada.

Great, what would that look like? Other than buzz words, what specific policies would you like to see changed?

Presently Israel is about 20% Palestinians, who have passports, study and teach in the same universities, vote, serve in the government, serve in the highest levels of the Judiciary, have guaranteed rights to practice their religion freely, educate children in their family’s language, etc. Please let me know if you would like sources for any of this. I’m happy to provide them.

Just not engaging with foolish arguments.

Who are “the colonists?” Should we boycott Christian Palestinians who were part of the colonization of the crusades? Should we allow companies to do business with Jews in historically Jewish areas like the Old City of Jerusalem or Hebron, even though they are are on the Palestinian side of the Green Line? Do colonists include Palestinians who came to the West Bank from Jordan between 1948 and 1967? Are all Israelis colonists, regardless of whether they are Jewish, Palestinian, Druze, etc?

It seems like the comment was either a cowardly way of avoiding saying “yes, boycott the Jews,” or else it came from a place of astounding historical ignorance. Either way, it’s not worth my time to continue.

Will the reply to this be a thoughtful, informed response, or a zingy one-liner designed to dunk on an unpopular opinion?