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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The actual act of exercise is pretty miserable for most of us. It's the hours in between exercises that for better, for me. I just generally feel better when I'm exercising more.

It sounds like you're getting plenty of exercise, so it's time to check into vitamins, meditation, mindfulness exercises and whatever else.

In your shoes, I would keep exercising, to keep that variable controlled while I tried the next change.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know enough about it to confidently say they're going to lose all their money

It happened to my relative. They didn't lose everything, but they lost enough that they're shopping for a mobile home for retirement, when they previously could have bought a small house.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Plausible explanation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There's a bag of parts I don't know what to do with.

Any leftover unused parts are worth extra points.

At least, that's what I tell my spouse.

Maybe I got it done with fewer parts because I found a novel improved solution...

Sometimes my spouse figures out what the extra parts are for... And doesn't seem to mind that using the parts correctly lowers the score I dreamed up...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Immutable distros can usually be set to mutable with the correct privileged command.

It's essentially security by obscurity. But I disagree with "no benefit". An infection miss through dumb luck is still a miss, after all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Or add more competition to the market by having government provide cheap alternatives to food/shelter.

That's the solution I think all civilized nations will land at, plus universal basic income.

So everyone has an option for effectively free (since their UBI covers it) water, food, shelter, and transportation. But standard free market sources can compete to outdo the public options in any ways the public desires.

There's plenty still to do, since anyone invotating can outdo the public option, and make some extra money for their effort. While, at the same time, no one has to be quite as dragged down by an aunt with failing health who cannot work, anymore.

And any mega corporations that try to force everyone into closed lousy situations have to at least compete with the public option.

Of course, any mega corporations allowed to thrive will immediately try to kill off public options, which we do already see happen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't project Gutenberg just for older classic books(not that there's anything wrong with that)?

Oh, yes. I'm most cases, really old books.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

What hateful POS is against worldwide unification?

Vibrant ecologies have diversity. Fully unified government isnt diverse, and would be bad for at least some people. I hope all of our governments suck less, but still have each-other to compete with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Things going to shit, in the US, correlates strongly with Reagen Era economic policies. The term "trickle down economics" says a lot about why it didn't benefit most people.

In my option, all presidents from both major political parties since Reagan have done more to make it worse, than better.

My conclusion is that what's really going on is class warfare by the ultra rich against the rest of us...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I used to always use Minecraft for this. Sure, they can't do everything immediately, but I put the game on peaceful and let them explore at their own pace.

I say "used to" because Luanti (formerly MineTest, an open source Minecraft Clone*) is finished and free.

(Okay, Luanti is a lot more than a Minecraft clone. But for this discussion that's all one needs to know.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nice. Minecraft used to be my go to answer for a first WASD game, too.

Lately, I recommend Mineclonia on Luanti, because it's free and has stronger optimizations supporting weak laptops and big multiplayer servers. (It's a popular Free Open Source Minecraft Clone).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

Well the baker, knowing that everyone has twice as much money, puts his prices up because he knows the market can bear it. That's the way I reason it.

The good news is this simply doesn't happen (in civilized modern countries).

People with more money don't buy twice as much bread, they buy other things.

The bread maker is still competing with milk producers and video game makers and artists.

You can read about price elasticity for more details (and to not just take my word for it.)

Highly inelastic goods (water, transportation, eggs) are the most likely to have runaway price increases.

But civilized countries already have public options to supply these items at cost :public water, public transport, food stamps.

This means we already have the necessary buffers against any impact by UBI. Any provider of an inelastic good who raises their price too far loses business to the public option.

Schwinn and Ferrari will all see slightly more sales with UBI as a few people use their additional income to purchase a bicycle or a supercar, but the bus lines must still run to keep them honest.

The risk is minimal because we already know what public consumption of these goods looks like, when they're free or heavily subsidized, in each civilized country.

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