As much as Germany takes a veryhardline stance on anything that could be even remotely viewed as hate speech, I think most country's police would be pulling out warrants to search your house when you're advocating for violent terrorism.
The conclusion is basically of course a UBI works - you give most people extra money, they'll spend it on things they need and things that are worthwhile rather than blowing it all on vices.
It's something we see time and time again, and anyone who genuinely believes otherwise is either rich or blind.
Oh great they get to collect and make money off of "anonymous technical data" for years, and their punishment for doing all that is to delete the data, and swear they won't collect anymore of it for the next few years??
They already made their money off of people's data! This isn't a meaningful punishment, hell it's barely a slap on the wrist.
I'd love to chance to play a bunch of nostalgic titles - just off the top of my head I'd play DOOM, Uplink, Darwinia, Morrowind, and my trashy favourite from that era Themepark world. There are definitely more if I had time to think about it.
That's fair - sometimes you just want to pick up a controller and beat up baddies without the baggage of a whole story.
What grinds my gears is the reliance on loading screens, in-game books, displays, item descriptions, etc. to deliver story elements. It's one thing to use them to deliver extra flair, I.e. Skyrim's Lusty Argonian Maids, but if I'm having to read pages of text just to know what's going on in the game, then that's plain bad story-telling.
The universe is 13 billion years old. However for the first few billion years, the universe was a wildly dangerous place to live. A sea of Hydrogen generating Supermassive stars, exploding within just 100,000s/millions of years, and generating many of the heavy elements that exist today. Even if a planet could form in these conditions, chances are it would've been annihilated before life could develop.
I don't know exactly when the universe started to "stabilise", but let's say there is 10 billion years of time that a planet like Earth could've formed.
The Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
Single-celled life arose 3-4 billion years ago.
Complex multi-cellular life arose only 500 million years ago during the Cambrian Explosion - so much needs to happen for complex life to arise that it could take a long time even in the best case scenario.
Humans arose only 100,000 years ago... albeit had the dinosaurs not been around for so long, we could have come about maybe 10s of millions of years earlier.
From there basically everything comes down to how long it takes for a race to figure out farming, adopt a sedentary lifestyle that allows development of non-survival related disciplines, and to industrialise.
In the case of humans, the oldest cultures are around 10,000 years old, and we industrialised only a couple hundred years ago.
If we make the assumption that we're not exceptional amongst any intelligent lifeforms, then it would make sense to assume that it takes roughly 3-5 billion years for a race to reach where we are now.
That means we could be late to the party, and everyone else has already wiped themselves out, but it's just as likely we're right in the thick of it but just too far away from anyone else in our cohort to see anything, and vice versa.
It's basically just the Fermi Paradox - and the only way we get an answer is when the void answers back.
As I said before, I was focusing on all the replies that were around when I first commented that were commenting on/advocating for Trump - that is why I said "I'm surprised how many people think Trump of all people is going to somehow handle to both Ukraine and Israel better than Biden", because that is the sentiment I saw.
I can see how that would look like an attempt to shield him from criticism, but at the same time I don't think I'm wrong in saying it doesn't really matter - unless you want Trump in the Whitehouse again, Biden is the only choice...
I'm not saying I like the fact that the only two candidates we have are basically "allow the genocide to continue for the foreseeable future" or "escalate the genocide, and let Russias do what they want to Ukraine", but that is what we're stuck with.
That's odd, because if you bothered to look any further down you actually would see comments talking about Trump, and there were more before.
But that aside, you'll find that's because I'm not advocating for Biden - any more progressive candidate would've been better, but that's not what we got. What I AM advocating is against Trump - I hardly think I need to explain why.
Since it's basically impossible for an independent to win, if you don't want Trump, your only option is Biden. That's it, whether we like it or not.
Damn, you must've dug deep for that scathing nickname - but do you seriously think I'm wrong?
It doesn't matter what could have happened, who could have done what, the situation is that your choices are Biden or Trump, and one of those is a whole lot worse than the other, despite what some other people commenting on this post think.
Ah, apologies I didn't realise I was meant to starve and completely socially isolate myself in order to have enough money to put away savings.
Has anyone stopped to think the reason why the newer generations aren't putting money away is because many of them don't have that money because costs are going up and up while their pay is either stagnant or rising below the rate of inflation.
What’s the point of not replying to one comment, scrolling down, and trying to start a new chain with the same person?
Mostly because other people already have echoed the exact same sentiment I would have, and I figured it wasn't worth chiming in. However, as nobody has bothered to reply to you here, I thought I would.
Having said that, if you really want my view, I'll give it to you...
Like, I’ve explained everything you’re asking about multiple times already… If you can’t understand it, maybe it’s because you’re jumping around this thread and replying randomly to different comments?
What you explained is that you're in a state Biden is likely to lose, and that to have any chance of him winning you think the DNC would need a much more progressive candidate. That's a valid viewpoint....
However, refusing to vote in protest because of that is just plain stupid. For all intents and purposes, it's a two party system, so refusing to vote for one party helps the other party - which in this case is Trump.
And as far as your question goes, they're not mutually exclusive. I can blame the DNC shifting slowly closer and closer right in order to appeal to moderates whilst also blaming all of the protesters who think they're just one person, who think their refusal won't affect anything because everyone else will vote anyway - you act morally righteous when in reality all your protesting is doing is helping those who'd do far worse.
And that brings me to what you haven't explained, at least not to me - how can you refuse to vote Biden because of him continuing funding towards Israel whilst knowing that the person your protest would enable doesn't just want to continue the very same funding, but also openly supports Netanyahu in his genocide!
You're either acting as a useful idiot cutting your nose off to spite your face, or knowingly trying to disenframchise the people who would vote for Biden. Neither is a good look really.
I know understanding complicated political issues is hard, and I 100% understand if you just give up. But don’t go to the same thread and reply to the same person to have the same conversation you gave up on.
You make it out like you've got a galactic brain, 1000 IQ, incomprehensible opinion when in reality it comes down to either you vote for the future of democracy, or you do nothing and doom it whilst moaning that we should've all done better.
I hope you do understand that Trump isn't any better in this regard - he isn't just going to continue funding Israel like Biden currently is, he's already expressed his full support of Netanyahu's genocidal actions and will seek to help him further.
You can choose not to vote, but understand that if enough people come in with that same attitude, Trump will win, because his supporters don't care what his policies on Israel are, they just want him to win.
It may have been a little slow at times, but it just worked. It wasn't constantly trying to advertise to you, trying to get you to download apps, trying to force AI onto you, trying to harvest your data, forcing you to use online services, it was just an operating system and a good one at that
As much as Germany takes a very hardline stance on anything that could be even remotely viewed as hate speech, I think most country's police would be pulling out warrants to search your house when you're advocating for violent terrorism.