Murdoc @ Murdoc @sh.itjust.works

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I see, thanks!

As for Voyager, I'm not finding that anywhere.

At one time I remember people commonly referring to the case as the hard drive.

One important thing to point out, your upvotes and downvotes are mostly public here

They are? Can I ask how? I can't even find my own votes like I could on reddit. I used to use that to show a friend of mine good posts and comments.

Saw that in a sci-fi rpg called Living Steel. An alien bioweapon unleashed on a human space colony called VISR, or Viral Induced Sociopathic Response. It was interesting. Edit: spelling

Also the Genuine People Personality™ from the Hitchhiker's Guide.

While the system is designed to be entirely local, it is also possible to easily connect it to some external APIs or services if you want to enhance the conversation

Actually in North America we could have had a working post-scarcity since the 1930s. It is why we had the Great Depression and what Technocracy was designed to be able to handle. It's only been our continued use of a scarcity-based economic system that has been holding back our productive capacity with extreme inefficiencies.

Not sure where you are getting the philosopher king thing from?

I was going to make a funny fake headline about this, but I'm worried that someone out there would take it seriously and there's already enough of that crap out there.

Ooh, can we start the SCSI thing again?

Actually Canada is the closest it has ever come to getting UBI, as there are two bills (C-223 and S-233) being reviewed for it right now. It still is going to need a lot of support though, so head over to https://www.ubiworks.ca/guaranteed-livable-basic-income to sign the petition, learn more about these bills, and otherwise tell everyone you can, and we might have a chance!

True, if a person has been shot, you have to go after the person with the gun to prevent them from doing it again. But I'd also like the person who got shot to get immediate medical aid.

Lowering prices is only one possible outcome of competition though. So is lower product quality, and laying off workers. In general, cutting costs.

Have you ever heard of Technocracy? It was designed specifically to do this, to provide every citizen with the highest possible standard of living without the gross inefficiencies of money based economies, to take advantage of technological automation to increase production and reduce work needed without reducing the standard of living by breaking the tie between income and labor. And it's a pretty detailed idea too.

Well that helps, good job.

The problem is how widely is this one article going to be seen compared to the "dozens of op-eds"? Will it be picked up anywhere else?

Not from strangers anyway.

One of my favorites.

What a delicious mixing of commerce and politics. 🤮

This feels a bit like the debate over whether a virus is "alive" or not. "But the virus/HTML has DNA/code." "But it requires another cell/web browser in order to replicate/execute." etc. 😄

You wouldn't download a car.