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> Look guy, your initial post was about how people sat around watching Netflix during Covid and how that's terrible for you and unproductive No it wasn't. I suggest you re-read it.…

> Tax is a means to an end (paying for civil services). Whether or not something is taxed twice is not inherently wrong, it's just a choice on how we choose to pursue our needs in …

Please re-read my comment and come back when you can discuss things like an adult.

> Then you've made the choice to not pursue other things that will make you happier than "working". It not about being happier. You didn't read what I said. I said they were my res…

> Hence the UBI. Which requires someone else to work to pay for those things. I don't believe other people should pay my mortgage and bills. Those are my responsibility . I chose t…

I suggest you re-read my comment. Who said I was talking just paid work? I am talking about doing anything productive even if it is unpaid.

> Sounds like you have a substance abuse problem and you're afraid that others will make the same mistake you did. I had a substance abuse problem. I have been sober now 7 years. A…

Any normal adult understands the difference. > Everyone who ever invented or discovered anything was engaged in "unproductive" activity. Actually no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

> this doesn't sound like a ubi problem to me. I didn't say it was a UBI problem. I was specifically replying about the effect that it had on people at the time . > For one, during…

> Yes, because that's a transfer to different people. That's not a problem Sorry I don't agree. The tax has already been paid when the person was alive. There shouldn't be a an add…

It isn't just about having something to talk about at a dinner party. It is about doing something productive and worth-while. There is a massive feeling of accomplishment from doin…

The problem with inheritance tax is that the person pays taxes all through their lifetime and then when their significant others inherit that wealth (which already has been taxed o…

> Go pushes the complexity into the programmer, that is how one ends with source code like Kubernetes, when the language doesn't provide all the tooling. I am not sure what you mea…

> How nihilistic and dismissive. I believe it to be a statement of reality. I am simply spelling out how it is. It is not an endorsement. Moralising about my assessment does not ma…

> Sure, that can happen. It has happened! Quite a number of times in fact. That why I used that particular example. > What if tomorrow's headline is "porn habits of everyone in Bri…

This reply you have given me is why I don't like having these conversations. You fundamentally still believe that the democratic process can work. I don't even believe it really ex…

On this particular issue, that something can't be political. Assuming anything can be done at all. There is no support from the public and I don't be believe there ever will be , a…

> I disagree that writing to MPs is always ineffective. Some campaigns have been successful. Whether it will be effective in this case is another matter. It won't be effective in t…

I see people doing this at the charging stations at local store all the time. They are literally waiting out side before I came to the store and are there afterwards. A typical sho…

They have no legal grounds to fight it. So there would be no point in trying to.

> True, but MPs receiving a few mails that say “this law has affected me in this way” is IMO far more likely to be effective than a petition with 100k signatures that says “I don’t…

> If it hits 100k then it needs to be debated in parliament. I don't think so. It says on the site "At 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament…

I don't think many of the so called alternatives are going to be any better. Wait til they figure that one out!

I have one of these. However it is connected to a VPN 24/7 in my own home. It can't access the net without the VPN being connected and I've checked for IP leaks. https://github.com…

> Tor is great but the bandwidth/latency kinda sucks for casual browsing activity It is reasonably decent these days. Generally there are periods where Tor network is slow. > A VPN…