I see nothing wrong with that.

It doesn’t have to cover all living expenses anywhere in the country, or anywhere really, as long as it’s a Universal Basic Income it’s a UBI even if it’s just a dollar. A dollar would obviously be dumb, and cost way more in overhead than it would hand out, but every bit helps. And some people might have to move, the…

There is actually an ancient traditional way of fighting inflation. Kids these days act like they forgot about Volker but once upon a time there were things called interest rates that could be raised to fight inflation, and if people were overleveraged they went bankrupt because they sucked at capitalism. We can’t do…

I would imagine that they would make more Apple Jacks. And the benefit is that if the hungry people have Apple Jacks they can eat them, whereas Bezos can’t usefully eat 30 billion dollars of cereal. And they will probably get their cereal from Amazon anyway so Bezos will be fine. And the tax rate shouldn’t be 100%…

A carbon tax is the proper call in my opinion. Fix climate change and poverty in one elegant swoop. Pretty much eliminate other nonpygmalion taxes if you are feeling ambitious. Your doubt about our likely hood of enacting it is well founded I fear. Maybe Empress Ivanka or Chelsea or whoever puts the USA out of its…

I’m sorry, that’s not in good taste.

Well, it might have had a gun, er rabies. There is only one way to be sure. Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six. That said, I bet it wouldn’t have happened to a white raccoon.

What? No, waterboarding definitely has water going into your throat so you can’t breathe. It can kill you, and it’s a bad way to die. They usually stop before you die though so they can do it again. And again. This does sound similar though.

Has it ever been ok for a country to be as indebted as ours is? In human history?

I’m not sure breeding them for horns would perpetuate the problem, if people want to snort sustainably bred rhino horn that seems dumb, but if they want to pay enough to make it worth a farmers time it would support a captive population and possibly take some money out of poachers pockets.

I doubt it, I bet that they spend enough money while they are there to help the economy overall. There isn’t actually a shortage of things to do in Africa, it’s that the people who need the things don’t have the money to pay for them. Of course if the government then decides to govern in such a way as to maximize…

Maybe let people farm them? Rhinos are protected by all kinds of international treaties and stuff stopping people from raising them profitably.  Cows get no protection at all. (I’m not sure it’s possible to profitably farm rhinos, especially if the species is down to 3 members...)

Ever will may be a bit pessimistic, we may get our act together enough to get off this rock someday. Musk himself seems to be making pretty good progress. It gets more likely the more some days there are though, so it’s all the more reason to not do anything dumb while we are still small and isolated enough to fizzle.

I once lived in an apartment complex where the security guard was pretty clear that he would stand guard and stuff, but if anything went down no way was he fighting people or braving gunfire for $10 an hour. It will take this poor bastard a good while to live this one down though. I say that and then go look it up and…

I would imagine that people with mental health issues would be ones who have talked to a mental health professional. Firearm use may then be restricted to those who are 100% sure that they are very stable, very stable geniuses ideally.

Maybe to spike their velocity? Rockets work better the faster they are moving iirc.

Or a Ubi.

Oh, I want to steal that, that’s fantastic.

4 gold?

A Will Smith album of dwarven Forge songs would crack me up. “Will Smith for Gold” maybe. Dumb, but there can’t be much competitionin that field...