it was way before the modern wave of cancel culture in late 2000s early 2010s - back when Facebook had separate quick chats and proper messages.

well, it’s a bit more complicated than that but yeah

shooting stone cold facts!

is it a rant if you’re just stating facts?

let him cook, eh

or you can’t travel because of martial law

reminded me of our data analysis teacher that kept banning all students that tried befriending him on Facebook.

sound about right… oh wait!

reminded me of Ad Astra and its soul crushing revelation that the scientists haven’t found alien life despite all the fancy tech.

big oil’s about to start yet another denialism campaigh

abandoning designated sufferer trope was one of the biggest crimes modern Trek committed

there’s massive difference in scale though that brings in a lot of variables that would require a full lock-in before implementation. Given how globalised and interdependent modern economies are - there are too many unpredictable factors outside of governmental control that can whiplash onto national economy and wreck the plans even more than usual. And that might render any UBI-type system a huge burden that would get targeted by folks from IMF making “valuable” “suggestions”.

exactly. If elections ain’t doing the trick, Somalia is doing all of the tricks

VeloSUV

I mean Somalia is right there, mate

it’s not like governments are trying to get there when it’s not an election season though

am i weird to read it as alien key?

except the national economies aren’t organized in a way to enable any form of UBI.

bicycle cars! best of both worlds… oh wait///

i’m yet to encounter them en masse and they’re not lurking anywhere around me so that’s already something. on reddit - smorgasbord bizarre was basically under siege at times