elouboub @ elouboub @kbin.social

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It's what you sound like

You sound like somebody who doesn't talk to people with green bubbles on iMessage.

If Apple supports any "right to repair" bill, it's probably not entirely what you want.

It's now a fashion statement to have cordless white blobs in your ears. So cool.

No audio jack -- nope.

Until religion is all but stamped out in that area, their war will continue.

I mean... if Apple makes it a shit platform to support, this isn't a surprise. Valve can control the entire environment on Linux. If something goes wrong, they can look at the code of the kernel. On Mac, they have to ask Apple for support. For lt;1% of the player-base, that's way too much of a hassle.

Even longer then. Why does it seem like people are surprised about yet another attack? It's not really new.

If a country with a population of around a million (or even as small as 100k) enacted UBI I would take those results to be representative of a societal change.

I honestly doubt you would. The typical arguments of:

• it's not comparable to a country of 350M, they're barely as big as $cityWithOver1Million
• their society is very different from ours
• their implementation is different from what we could ever manage
• the circumstances were different

would come around.

You're making exemplary conservative arguments to stalemate progress by creating a chicken and egg problem.

• Won't accept results of change in a small environment because they aren't representative of change in large environment
• Demand results of change in a large environment before applying them to large environment
• Won't apply changes to large environment because results of change in large environment don't exist

You obviously haven't even looked at the wikipedia article about the studies. Your assumption has been proven wrong many times.

Capital was coined by Marx? Say what?

First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English; (adjective) from Anglo-French or directly from Latin capitālis “of the head” (capit-, stem of caput “head” + -ālis adjective suffix; see -al1); (noun) from Medieval Latin capitāle “wealth,” noun use of neuter of the adjective capitālis

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/capital

Hopefully people in India are spreading the world of Linux. Blessed they be.

Total coincidence /s

Wow, people will complain about literally anything. "I hate Google's Recaptcha" -- hCaptcha. "I hate hCaptcha" -- turnstile. Inevitably it'll be "I hate turnstile".

So because somebody has a lot, you have nothing? Because somebody has a house worth 5M and don't have a house, means you have no dwelling? Because somebody earns 10x what you have, you have no income?

"They have more capital than I do, therefore I have none".

"A person with more capital than I chose to vote and lobby, that means my vote is null and void and so are my efforts".

"There's no point in doing anything ever if somebody else is better at it".

So what if there were 100 or more small scale experiments in 50 different countries, in similar conditions. I won't be playing with the money of the entire nation|state|county|city to possibly lose it and not get elected again!

I want vaccines to be tested on 30% of the population to see if it works.

We should be putting this prototype hardware in the hands of 40% of the population to see if there are any side effects before deciding whether to legalise it.

We will do a double blind test on 50% of the population with these new safety regulations to see if there's an impact on incidences. The study would be invalid otherwise.

Models and small scale experiments are for wimps. I, the ruler of the democratic country, declare an experiment shall be run at national scale! The economy of region X with will not be comparable to that of the rest of 90% of country!

Indeed, work is defined by most people as "employment", but there's a lot of different work out there that is beneficial to the person and society as a whole, that isn't remunerated.

Capital != means of production

You can argue that national poverty lines are made to be kept under a certain percentage, sure, then we can ignore that. Globally, yes, the majority doesn't have capital (as in financial capital), but per country, there are stark differences. More things to consider

• internet access
• smartphone penetration
• poverty percentage
• Gross National Income Per capita at Purchasing Parity
• Global total of low, middle, high income

Especially GNI PPP: if you live in Europe, North America, Australia, China, Japan, and a few other countries, there's a good chance you belong to the global 20% of high income earners. The minimum wage in your country will probably be higher than what a low income family earns in a year

For the current 2024 fiscal year, low-income economies are defined as those with a GNI per capita, calculated using the World Bank Atlas method, of $1,135 or less in 2022; lower middle-income economies are those with a GNI per capita between $1,136 and $4,465; upper middle-income economies are those with a GNI per capita between $4,466 and $13,845; high-income economies are those with a GNI per capita of $13,846 or more.

https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups

Can you fathom?

But those with capital in society choose not to.

That's a good 80% of the population