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Cake day: August 31st, 2025

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  • A lot of gatekeepers in the comments who seem to love the idea of a UBI, but hate any attempt to test the viability of one.

    I think this is a great step towards proving the benefits of a UBI for the greater population. I believe supporting the arts is always a positive endeavour, so using them as the pilot program kills two birds with one stone. I think that randomising who gets to enter the pilot program may allow some people to game the system, but the benefits outweigh the possibility of one schyster scamming a paycheque. The lottery system stops this becoming a bonus for established or famous artists, and supports creatives in all areas.

    All in all, this is a good thing, and the people who want “all or nothing” are short sighted.


  • “Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!” he shouted, and then turned to his wife and children, who were sitting in the gallery. “I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. We’ll be okay.”

    Fuck around with people’s health and find out.

    Dunbar testified that he was making $100,000 an episode, and was paid even for episodes in which his character did not appear.

    According to imdb, there are roughly 70 episodes that ran before his firing. Even if he made half that an episode, the guy is set! No pity for the out of touch millionaire and his “religion”.





  • The fun with contract work is that there are often laws in place to protect the employee, but there’s always some caveat that the employer can use to just not extend the contract anymore.

    In Australia the law is that you can only extend a contract worker once, with what I assume is the intention that you would then hire them permanently if you liked their work enough to extend them. What actually ends up happening is that contract workers are now looking for jobs more often because companies LOVE contract workers, but hate the idea of offering anyone a permanent position. It’s cheaper for them to roll through inexperienced contractors.




  • Quite liked the season overall though episode 7 felt like it should have been the finale, what with it mostly wrapping up the nazi-dimension story. This episode felt more like an epilogue and setup for Checkmate.

    I think there is something to be said for the resolution to the ARGUS conflict being about finding support in your local community when the government fails its people. Checkmate could have stormed ARGUS like they did last season with the butterflies, but I feel like the characters have grown in the time since the cow hunt. It does make for an ending with little catharsis though. Flag and Lex’s cronies all skip away scot free which feels bad, despite how accurate it would be to our own reality.


  • This is the same argument, just stretched out.

    Why do one person’s past decisions (to not go to university / to take on and pay off debt) mean that people in the future should not benefit from a better system?

    Education is great! Whether it is through college, or vocational training, or on the job learning. If removing student debt can allow people to earn one type of education with less stress, how is that not a benefit?