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Interesting, but it's a lot easier to just toss out the inkjet and buy an inexpensive laser printer. You can even buy a small-office color laser printer for $200-300 these days. And 3rd-party toner cartridges for these printers are ubiquitous and cheap and work fine. Why does anyone use inkjets any more? The entire industry is just a big scam.
Interesting, but it's a lot easier to just toss out the inkjet and buy an inexpensive laser printer. You can even buy a small-office color laser printer for $200-300 these days. And 3rd-party toner cartridges for these printers are ubiquitous and cheap and work fine. Why does anyone use inkjets any more? The entire industry is just a big scam.
As for home/office use, yes inkjets are a huge scam
Interesting, but it's a lot easier to just toss out the inkjet and buy an inexpensive laser printer. You can even buy a small-office color laser printer for $200-300 these days. And 3rd-party toner cartridges for these printers are ubiquitous and cheap and work fine. Why does anyone use inkjets any more? The entire industry is just a big scam.
I don't know if you can get highlighter toner for a laser printer.
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If we gave people UBI we could have this "creative creation" happening all the time
Or even a less radical step: guaranteeing healthcare for all citizens so it's not tied to employment at a large company.
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It's probably very faintly visible in ordinary light, but what makes fluorescent ink interesting is that it fluoresces, i.e. it reflects UV light in the visible spectrum, which makes it seem brighter than normal pigments. So the blacklight makes it much more visible.
Ah! So in the words, the printer is placing a thinner (ie, too thin) layer of ink on the paper than a human with a highlighter would, right?
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Or even a less radical step: guaranteeing healthcare for all citizens so it's not tied to employment at a large company.
Do this such that I who have the resources can also pay for electives if I want to and we can talk. Put my healthcare decisions in the hands of a government body and its a non-starter.
Maybe this quarantine actually leads to enough random exploration in people’s free time, that we see an explosion of creative new startups afterwards. “Creative creation” as the libertarian economists might say.
If we gave people UBI we could have this "creative creation" happening all the time
Even in places with generous social-welfare systems there tends to be social pressure against relying on it, but making the payments universal seems likely to remove that stigma.
The first order effects are obviously very positive (lookup the term "wage slavery" for some of the moral arguments against such jobs), but it's hard to predict what the higher order effects of a transition away from a system that has basically been in place since the industrial revolution.
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Or even a less radical step: guaranteeing healthcare for all citizens so it's not tied to employment at a large company.
Do this such that I who have the resources can also pay for electives if I want to and we can talk. Put my healthcare decisions in the hands of a government body and its a non-starter.