Not_Alec_Baldwin @ Not_Alec_Baldwin @lemmy.world

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Yes.

This is the thing people don't understand about a ubi.

I had a coworker who's wife was a... Case manager? For welfare. Her whole job was determining whether or not people were lying/exaggerating about various elements of their claim.

First of all, government union paper pushers make decent money. There was an entire office full of people that covered cases in their region only.

Second, it's a soul sucking job. Her primary assumption was that everyone was cheating and lying and she needed to minimize everyone's payout.

UBI solves both of those things and by plugging it directly into the tax system people can be free to try to earn a better living, which studies have shown most people want when they are given a UBI.

Increased productivity, increased employment, increased entrepreneurship, increased mental health outcomes, there is literally no downside except for needing to tax the rich.

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An eye for an eye leaves Israel/Palestine a smoldering hole in the ground...

No, I think I got that wrong. How does it go?

From the dot in the middle I assume it used a camera mounted directly above the plate pointed down to monitor the movement?

Pretty cool.

How anyone develops hate for Palestinians as a result of Hamas is just beyond me.

It would be like hating all Americans because you think Trumpists is evil.

Sure, think we're stupid or that our country is corrupt or broken or something, but you can't blame everyone. It just makes no sense.

This is a tragedy and this guy needs to be locked up forever.

So wait, your position is that Israel is behind the Hamas attacks on Israel, in order to justify their military action against Gaza?

Do you have any evidence to support that?

More importantly people don't want to buy into closed game environments. They promise of ongoing development attracts players that want that type of scale, and also allows devs to continue to eat. It's a win/win.

This is the right choice by devs. I haven't played it and honestly I probably never will, but I respect the decision.

But what if I want my kids in private school, drink bottled water, live in a rural mansion and don't care about workers?

...I hope the /s isn't needed...

Companies only want to shift to self checkout because they think they'll make more money.

It's all about profit.

I was fooled, I thought it was going to be better for me. And it was for awhile, because I can check myself out faster than the average employee.

However, the average customer sucks at checking themselves out. So the line for self checkout sucks. Stores use scales to make sure you're scanning the right number of things, but that means that I have to put everything down on a tray, and then put it back in my cart after.

Worst of all, I check out so fast that I regularly get stopped because I guess I look like a thief. No, I didn't steal anything, I just don't want to waste any more of my precious time in this depressing fluorescent establishment.

Hmmm, someone could write a book about this!

Yeah I was gonna say...

No, no it doesn't work.

IIRC Jews have called the land west of the river Jordan Israel for a long time, too, 3000 years or so?

So what do we do, get into a competition to see who can find the oldest historical documents? Or just accept that we have two (or more, really) groups of people that have historical and cultural import around the same region?

And more importantly, can we do that without the constant terrorism? I think we can all agree that terrorism is bad.

I know you're making more of a cynical joke, but no contractors are gonna be willing to go into Gaza to rebuild under Hamas.

Some construction supplies wholesaler might make a killing, though.

Probably similar to all the other aid.

They'll send construction supplies that will be used for tunnels instead, and pipes for plumbing that will be used to make bombs instead.

So much aid has been directed to Palestinians only to be stolen by Hamas.

There's a difference between a historical description of the land, and a formal Nation.

Even Mandated Palestine wasn't Palestinian-run, it was British.

If I poke a bear and then it chases me home and eats my family while I'm hiding in the basement, it's my fault.

Only instead of poking the bear I'm murdering its cubs.

It doesn't matter how much stronger the bear is than me. If anything, I SHOULDN'T POKE THE BEAR.

I FUCKING HATE THIS

Hamas terrorists hide amongst innocent Palestinian families. If they weren't cowards they would wear uniforms like the IDF and most (if not all) of the civilian casualties would be avoided... But Hamas doesn't want that anyway, because they use the civilian casualties to justify their violence.

That said, I agree with what you're saying. At some point you have to say "if you two can't play nice, you're both grounded".

There was no Palestine in 1900, it was the Ottoman Empire.

They collapsed after a spanking in WW1.

BBC explains it pretty well:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54116567

The article is written by "MEE Staff" and while it mentions their journalist Maha Hussaini has left her home in the North, she wasn't the author of the article.

Other sources are not named.

This whole event is rife with mis/disinformation. It's best to be cautious.