Let’s say 50k is average income

Basic income is 10k

The average person would get 10k in UBI but pay 10k more in taxes

They will have 50k dollars

Someone that makes 100k would get the 10k in UBI but would have to pay 20k more in taxes.

They will have 90k dollars

Someone making 15k (federal min wage) would get 10k in UBI and pay nothing in taxes

They will have 25k dollars

This is simplified, but the idea is that all three people still made 165k combined. Just the person at the bottom got some help.

UBI does not increase the total amount of money in the economy. Just moves it from the rich to the poor.

The average person is still going to have the same spending power

UBI only exists to solve a problem of capitalism. Other systems could have a UI like communism. But it’s the flaws of capitalism that needs it to correct itself.

Social programs exist in capitalism and have existed for years. They are just a complex way of solving a basic problem. “How do we get poor people money?”

Personally, I’d be for UBMI (Universal Bare Minimum Income). Everyone should be provided bare minimum from the society. Food, water, shelter, etc. If you can afford to pay it back, great, if you can’t, that’s fine too. But when people talk about UBI it’s always “how much??”. And it should be the bare minimum to survive and not be forced to run the capitalism rat race. If you’re content to sit in a small shelter and eat 3 meals a day, the government should give it to you. The government gives it to people who break the law and are no where near as deserving

I was probably 7 or 8.

I lost a tooth and put it under my pillow without telling my parents. Toothfairy never came.

Didn’t believe in any of the mythical things after that.

Edit: Oh and we play along. He’s 14 and definitely knows but the wife enjoys it more than he does. So he’s milking it and I applaud him for it.

We can’t tell you who squealed, but it was one of the dozen employees at this McDonald’s. Probably the one that’s going to change jobs soon…

I’d be pissed and scared if I was an employee at that McDonald’s

Why wait so long and not get found earlier or not long enough for the reward to increase by a lot? It’s in a weird time frame.

Why risk traveling to PA where someone else might spot you first? Maybe crossing state lines increased reward?

People will do a lot for money. My guess is someone is paying this guy’s family to take the fall because they do not want one of the highest profile murders in recent history to go “unsolved”

Willy Loman would take the fall for money for his family

Imagine letting the world know you could shoot a CEO in the middle of NY and get away with it. They would much rather everyone believe life is like CSI and they always get the shooter. Worth a lot to them to keep up the security theater.

Couple days pass. The shooter got away and probably not going to turn themselves in to get the soap box.

The guy could be the next Guy Fawkes if they let it get out of hand

I play mostly on my Xbox. I got all my games and stuff downloaded on that.

If I am playing a PC game, it would be SC2, and I don’t use steam. Haven’t since CS source.

I carry around the keyboard always with my tablet because it’s the screen protector when closed. There’s no way I’d carry a separate keyboard and play SC2 on a 7.4 inch screen, that sounds miserable.

It’s probably similar. You could just use your phone and controller. My phone screen 6.8 inches, not the best ratio, but the steamdeck is only 7.4 inches.

Like I’ve been saying, they are basically the same.

Yeah, a laptop can get left out of the equation. Tablet or phone are better.

I don’t need a docking station to hook my tablet to TV. I can even stream my tablet screen wirelessly to TV.

Carrying around the docking station goes against it being portable.

Theoretically, all I need is my tablet or phone. 1 item. The controller helps with some games.

You keep saying 3 items…and because my xbox weighs 10+ pounds.

My tablet weighs 1.6 pounds. Steamdeck is 1.48 pounds. Xbox controller weighs .63 pounds.

You’re talking about half a pound difference in weight. Tablet takes little to no space and the controller probably half of the steamdeck.

Steamdeck would be great for rides on the subway, walking, and maybe some other things where you need to be fully mobile. I get that aspect of it. Though I can easily pull out just my tablet and play a ton of games that aren’t “mobile games”

I’ve been gaming like this for longer than the steamdeck has been out. I saw the steamdeck and said “why would I want that?” And never got one.

The Xbox processes the game.

Tablet just streams screen and sends inputs from/to Xbox.

So you don’t really need an extreme tablet/phone/laptop

Im bringing my tablet/phone anywhere I’m going, so having a steamdeck would just be an extra thing to carry and worry about charging.

You can do on-screen controls that aren’t bad for some games. Otherwise, Xbox controller.

The controller in the steamdeck has to kill its battery life some. 2 extra AA batteries, and I could use my Xbox controller for weeks.

I’d rather have 4x the screen size and not have to hold it the entire time while being semi-mobile. I’m not going to walk around and play on a steamdeck, maybe some do and then that’s a plus on the steamdeck.

Steam deck is nice and I can see why people enjoy it. My thing is why more people don’t like tablet/phone/laptop gaming and talk about the steamdeck like it’s a game changer.

My tablet is basically my PC at home. I can access and do everything remotely, including gaming.

I don’t need to bring my Xbox around. Simply open the xbox app and my Xbox screen is now on my tablet anywhere I’m at.

My tablet can stream onto bigger displays or even stream my PC.

You don’t need to carry around the console

I can use my phone or tablet as a portable screen for my Xbox

Can even use it as a portable screen for my PC

Why would I want a steam deck vs having a bigger tablet screen and a controller I don’t have to stare at?

Portability, but the steamdeck is as portable as my tablet if it can’t fit it into a pocket.

A smoker would definitely want to switch to their tobacco flavor

However,

A smoker that tries tobacco flavor does not want to switch to tobacco flavor

Smokers enjoy their cigarette’s flavor. If they could just get it in a vape many would.

Expecting a smoker to be like “I wish my cigarette tasted like Mint Mojito”. Is crazy.

So I do believe that the majority of the responses are tobacco flavor

Just doesn’t mean what they think it means

Many would just try tobacco flavor, hate it, and move back to cigarettes.

The whole Noah story arc proves that God would totally cause storms to cleanse the evil.

Doing it Thalnos’ style and only killing/moving? the bad people isn’t God’s style. He could do it, but “God snapped his fingers and all bad people were sent to Hell, the world instantly became a better place.” Doesn’t get you a New York bestseller.

You can take 1% of anything, then multiply as well.

Like 7% of 15.50

1% is .155 (10% is moving decimal to left once, 1% is twice)

.155 × 7 = 1.083

That’s a hard one to do in your head, but .155 × 7 is easier to do on paper than 15.50 × .07.

Say something is 49.99 and 7% off. 1% is .5. .5 ×7 = 3.5. You could probably do that in your head. Otherwise, good luck trying to do 7% of 50 in your head.

Edit: Hmm. So you could also do 3.5% of 100 instead of 7% of 50. That would have been the easiest way to do that one.

Bonus: I thought I’d mention 11s. They are my favorite thing in math because they are so easy and you seem like a math wizard to anyone.

Say you have 42 × 11. That’s 462.

You just split apart the 4 and 2, add 4 and 2, then stick it in the middle.

Something like 67 × 11. Where the digits add >10.

6…7, 6+7=13, 6+1…3…7. So 737.

You can remove the decimal then add it back at the end

15.50

Is

1500

Half would be 775

Or 7.75

Not saying I don’t like the song. Great song

Just the song hits slightly different after you realize what “Relax, turn around and take my hand” can mean.

Stinkfist - Tool

You think from the title it would be obvious. Never thought why it was named like that until after I realized what the song was about.

I just realized that El Paso is actually in MST. They must have hated it so bad not to stick with the rest of Texas. But whoever lives in the farthest point west but still in CST is being screwed. Same with EST.

Funny the section of Texas that is in MST is three tiny blocks, basically the same width as all of Michigan. Texas is big lol.

Michigan should probably move to CST

When I think of Colorado I think of it being way north. You could live in Colorado and be as north as someone living in Raleigh NC almost. That’s wild.

Yeah Colorado seems to appear to be all up to preference on the choices. It’s at the start of a time zone. People on the east lean towards permanent MDT, People on the west lean towards permanent MST.

Im guessing that you live towards the west side. Yet if most people around you seem to want it, then maybe you live on east side lol

Detroit is an interesting one.

If Detroit kept DST permanent, the sun would basically set after 6pm every day.

However. Like you said, no one wants to wait until the 9am for the sun to rise.

Abolishing DST could be beneficial for Detroit. Not as many days where the sun sets after 6. But more days where it rises before 7.

The current system is bad for Detroit. It should either abolish it or keep it permanent.

Detroit night owls would want to keep it, early birds would want to abolish it.

Detroit is like El Paso TX. Where the current system is clearly bad.

Maine is the opposite. The current system is “best” and the birds and owls fight.

I live in Charlotte NC. I’ve always been for DST. Permanent DST means basically 365 days where the sun sets after 6pm. While getting basically the same number of days where the sun rises before 7am. I’m not an early riser, so as long as it’s up by 8/9am most of the time it’s fine with me.

Arizona has it right. What I want in Charlotte shouldn’t matter to what you want in Detroit.

You hate DST, I like it. You should be able to get rid of it, I should be able to keep it.

Different places are affected by it much more or less. People are owls or birds. You can’t make everybody happy with one option.

Maine is so far away from everything else it could be in it’s own time zone. That’s why it is a strange case.

Never really thought about Detroit being almost directly north of Charlotte.

Red lines are current time zones. Red circle is El Paso. Blue lines are if you equally cut US into 4 time zones.

Detroit is to the right of the red line. It has 3 boxes to reach the beginning of the time zone which is just to the right of Maine. (Sorry didn’t draw it)

El Paso being in the circle makes it 3 boxes to reach the beginning of time zone just like Detroit and why it is in the similar situation with DST.

The right two time zones are large time zones. The left two are only 2 boxes wide.

Maine should be in a separate time zone than Detroit

Detroit should probably move to CST. Then, argue about daylight savings time in the summer to be EST (Not EDT)

Sounds like something you’d like, maybe?

Permanent daylight time gives us all of the downsides and exactly one benefit. I’m sorry you live that far North/South, but that’s just how the seasons and tilt of the earth work. We shouldn’t be doing split time at all, and we shouldn’t endeavor to be an hour off the rest of the world just so commuters can drive home with the sun in their eyes.

I said “Its not just north and south,” implying that time zones pay a large part in how one experiences the sun.

Daylight savings time’s intention is not to “get more or save sunlight”. The intention is to shift the time to better use the sunlight.

Depending on where you live, you’re going to be either for or against DST more or less.

Example, if you live in El Paso TX, then staying on DST is amazing. They get 365 days where the sunsets after 6 pm while having basically the same number of days where the sun rises before 7 am . However, if you live in Auburn AL, then you probably hate permanent DST because the sun would hardly ever rise before 7 am. Auburn benefits from the current system or they get less affected by getting rid of DST.

The length of your day is not defined by your time zone. It is defined by your latitude, how far north of the equator you are. X degrees north gets Y hours of sunlight at N time of year.

Yes that is correct.

Look at Sioux Falls and Rapid City. Their daylight length is less

Sioux Falls

7:08am sunrise to 5:12pm sunset CST

Rapid City

6:36am sunrise to 4:37pm sunset MST (7:36am CST to 5:37pm CST)

Sioux Falls

10 hr 4 mins of sunlight

Rapid City

10 hr 1 mins of sunlight

Because of the latitude difference, they have a ~3 minute difference in the amount of sun tomorrow. Because latitude affects how fast the sun sets and rises, the total sunlight will be slightly different.

Let’s say you wake up at 6am.

Rapid City

Light

Sioux Falls

Dark

Now if you got off work at 5pm

Rapid City

Dark

Sioux Falls

Light

Now, would you prefer to live in Rapid City or Sioux Falls? It depends on your sleep and work schedule, probably.

What if we moved Rapid City to CST? (Basically DST, +1 hour)

Wake up 6

Dark

Get off work at 5

Light

Some people in Rapid City might enjoy that.

So instead of creating a fucking nightmare for commerce and programming, we should be working the hours that make sense.

Being on the western edge of a time zone means your work hours should be different than on the Eastern edge

These two sentences conflict so hard

Let’s look at Alabama and Georgia since the time zone splits them.

So what you’re saying is someone that lives in Alabama near the Georgia line should have a different time to go to work than some living in Alabama on the other side of the state?

Is your solution just having more time zones? Because that is more complicated and has nothing to do with daylight savings time.

The problem isn’t the time zone. It’s capitalism demanding you work the entire day away even though productivity has increased massively and we work far more than our ancestors from supposedly dreary times.

This is random.

You just want people to pick whenever they feel like working? In Sioux Falls the sun sets at 5:12pm CST tomorrow. I want 4 hours of full sunlight after work. So I should be able to work from 5:12 am to 1:12pm?

I think your point was “8 hour work day is bullshit”. And I’m not against that but that’s a whole other discussion.

Even if we all didn’t work, we would still fight over keeping our current system, staying on DST, or staying on standard time. Some will want more light in morning. Some would want it in the evening.

That’s why shifting the time zone is, at most, going to get you the sun in your eyes as you drive home.

This only happens if you have to drive west during that exact time.

What’s funny is the idea of DST tries to correct stuff like this

Say everyone from Westburg has to commute to Eastville to work (or to play because they don’t have to work and be enslaved to capitalism). Everyone is going to hate driving home afterwards if they all have to do it at the exact time the sun will shine directly into their eyes.

One solution is work begins and ends earlier or later. (Or you park your jetski early or later.)

Or you could shift the time + or - 1 hour like DST does.

Also, once again, it’s not about magically getting more sunlight. It’s about shifting the sunlight you get to better suit your desires.

And it wastes energy as people try to heat the coldest part of the day instead of staying under their blankets

Wow.

Anyways, I’m sorry you are unfortunate enough to get out of work at the time the sunset would be a problem and have to drive straight towards it.

Some people would prefer to double down on DST. Instead of falling back in the fall, you spring forward again. Then in the spring you fall back. Make DST standard. Maybe this is something you’d be interested in if you hated sun in the morning and wanted at least an hour of it after work.

There is nothing “standard” for the sun to set in Sioux Falls at 5:12pm CST. It could easily set at 6:12pm if the whole system wasn’t based off of Greenwich England. You could have had SFMT (Sioux Falls Mean Time) and then base all other time zones off of it. Sun would set at 6:12pm SFST. You could do daylight savings and turn it into the sun setting at 7:12pm SFDST. You could do daylight wasting time and make the sun set at 5:12pm SFDWT.

It’s all arbitrary

They have to start and stop somewhere is the problem and you don’t want half a city or town using two different times. Imagine if the hardware store on one side of town closed at 8 EST and the mall on the other closed at 8 CST. Theoretically, they could be right next to each other even. For example, if you lived by the hardware store but worked at the mall, things would be a mess.

So really not awful cut offs but more weird cut offs. Because making standard cut offs doesn’t make it any better. Kind of like, best they can be with current system.

I find time zones and everything so interesting and that people don’t understand it at all. Some people will say “I hate daylight savings time” when they like the extra hour of light in the evening but hate changing their clocks. They like DST but hate changing the clocks and probably want to stay on DST always.

There’s no best way to do it. It’s all preference.

I compared Sioux Falls SD to Rapid City SD in another comment on this thread. If Rapid City was CST like Sioux Falls the sun would set 25 minutes later in Rapid City, but since it is MST the sun sets 35 minutes before.

You also got to think some start work at 8 some start at 9. If you start at 9, you’re more likely in favor of DST.

Yeah a lot of misinformation around DST. People don’t like being wrong and I guess the image didn’t fit what they wanted to be right. Oh well lol

Like I said, “It’s not just north or south.”

Time zones change the sunset time east and west as well.

Abolishing time zones has nothing to do with “fixing” daylight savings.

Even if we all switched to UTC and got rid of time zones . Everyone would have to decide when to go to bed, when to wake up, and when to work to fit it around the sun.

5:13pm CST is 11:13pm UTC

If Sioux Falls wanted to stay “standard time” for the sun. They would have to start work at 3pm UTC and get off work at 11pm UTC. (9am to 5pm)

Yet they could decide that they wanted to get “daylight savings time” for the sun, they would start work at 2pm UTC and get off at 10pm UTC. They would get one extra hour of sun after work instead of before.