Welfare only kicks in once I've spent all my savings and sold my house. Money comes from taxes. Welfare takes lots of time to kick in and is sublet to a ton of conditions. UBI is there all the time. Way cheaper to administrate.
I'd be happy to receive money every months that I payback in full on my tax deductions. If I suddenly stop working, the check just keep coming in. It becomes a safety net available to all, that doesn't mean you are actually giving it to all, all the time. You can get rid of other program that become redundant. Welfare, employment insurance, hell student loans too could be splified this way.
My favorite nurse story is about a vibrating dildo owner waiting for the battery to die to get it removed. Apparently the vibrations could be heard in the hallway when the patient was sleeping against the metal bed rail.
Parenting is hard. She didn't just by him bullying resistant shoes, She also bought herself a break from dealing with the guilt or fear of her son getting teased. And that's perfectly fine in my opinion, choose your fight because life has lots of them. Offering your son other options in the future will be good too. These are not Nike they're better.
There is value in AI, blindly rejecting all use is just as stupid as blindly embracing all uses. Teacher are especially important in shaping how the next generation will be using it. They are at the front, discovering how students uses it what is good and what is bad. Finding way to improve their teaching is a good use. Saving time grading is a bad use.
Which ai service to use or not and why is another important facet. A trustworthy service can enshitify real fast, teaching what to look for is also something necessary. Nobody is fully competent in that matter, it still need to be discovered.
A few ideas to make it true to life: the cars are nearly indestructible, no matter how many ball rolls out how high they fall from, paint damage only and the occasional bent axle.
Cars are either parked in a pristine multi-level box like parking, or pulled up in a giant bucket, or plastic Halloween pumpkin.
Paint shops use either crayons or polish.
Cars will get hammered to create the illusion of a scrap yard. Scammer will advise a younger driver to bury/hide his cars in the sand box when going for a swim. (True story, very sad)
Driving over hills that somehow look like butt or boob, get stuck in a belly button or bush...(there is no she for toy cars)
I almost bought one as a Christmas present for my mom when I was ten. The last in the catalogue was holding it to her shoulder... I'm so glad I picked the brass penguin instead.
Just started No man sky, first play through. I'm still not sure what I think of it. It seems too be a time guzzler. On one hand it must be entertaining because 4 hours past in the blink of an eye. On the other I don't feel like I've done or seen much. Time seem to be the main currency behind most things you do .
Where I live it's a "pet-sauce"