RainfallSonata @ RainfallSonata @lemmy.world

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Look, there was a generation between Boomers and Gen X and the fact that they're now just lumped in together is ridiculous. They're called Boomers because they were born during the baby boom immediately following WWII. That boom did not last 20 years. Actual Boomers have been retired for a decade.

Who said anything about centralized control?

No doubt.

I didn't want any of this shit. IDGAF if we don't have AI. I'm still not sure the internet actually improved anything, let alone what the benefits of AI are supposed to be.

Melting down is the new "slammed."

That too!

That's a matter of access, not whether a sufficient amount of resources exist.

We've already reached post scarcity. Any current scarcity is manufactured.

Pern. Just the quirk of it's physical environment that I don't want to give away, and the way people lived because of it felt very unique to me. It was so integral to the stories, too. You often see unusual environments in fantasy and sci-fi, but often only while setting the stage.

Does that mean that if we use technology more we’d have enough value in the economy to pay everyone a UBI?

There's already enough value in the economy to pay everyone a UBI.

But we don’t have a UBI, so why? If the value exists than where is it? I don’t believe its being funnelled into the pockets of some shadowy deep-state private 4th branch of government.

It's being funneled into monopolies and doled out as stock dividends into the pockets of investors and billionaires such as Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg.

Some were already paid through the end of January. Some section 8 is still paying on their behalf.

I believe you're under the mistaken impression that u/originalucifer is actually running one or both of these parties.

They also tend to believe compound words don't exist.

Sure sounds like it. All that's missing is the photo-op under a "mission accomplished" banner.

Windmills (yeah, turbines, whatever) are beautiful. I think they enhance the view.

“We all know who Donald Trump is. The question is: Who are we?”

I posted the following elsewhere, just before I read that he said this, as I was thinking about a quote I heard earlier from DL Hughley regarding Trump's election:

“America saw exactly who it was last night… Exactly who we are,” Hughley said. “I think Obama was what we aspire to be, Trump and his supporters are who we are.”

The Democrats' problem is that they don't address who we are. They offer only aspirations. Who are we (beyond the racists and fascists Trump and his supporters represent)? Broke. Sick. Overworked. Exploited. Isolated. Scared. He wants us to vote based on hope that we can push back fascism. Hope that we can win our rights back. He wants us to vote based on some dream of democracy I can't say I've ever witnessed in my lifetime. Give me someone to vote for who's going to meet us where we are.

This is not from the linked article, but speaks to it.

“America saw exactly who it was last night… Exactly who we are,” (D.L.) Hughley said. “I think Obama was what we aspire to be, Trump and his supporters are who we are.”

The problem that Dems have is that they continue only to offer aspirations. Hope. Dreams. Instead of addressing what we are. No, they're not going to fix racism in time for the election. But "we" are more than just racists or fascists. If Dems want to win they need to address the rest of what we are: broke. Sick. Overworked. Exploited. Isolated. Hope and dreams, maybes and mights aren't going to win them the election.

Oh. I thought jokes were supposed to be funny.

James also called for lifetime bans for Trump, Weisselberg and McConney from participation in the real estate industry as well as from serving as officers or directors in New York corporations or entities.

It's lifetime. I mean, it's right there in the title. You didn't even have to read the article.

Except it's unpaid.