ParadeGrotesque

ParadeGrotesque, 3 days ago

@RickiTarr

Monty Python The holy grail.

Never fails, so many lines that are legendary...

"Préparez la vache!"
"A witch! A witch!"
"It is but a scratch!"
"The monster of Aaaaaargh"
"On second thought, let's skip Camelot"

ParadeGrotesque, 5 days ago

@dlakelan @economics@a.gup.pe

UBI is a pipe dream. You only have 3 solutions with it:

• UBI covers only the very basic essentials. It helps people, but it's only slightly better than existing solutions (food stamps, etc ...) = just perpetuating the status quo.

• UBI is a lot more generous than existing solutions but it's used to apply political pressure on people ("behave, or we'll cut your ubi!") = this is the preferred solution by the billionaires.

(1/2)

ParadeGrotesque, 5 days ago

@dlakelan @economics@a.gup.pe

• Finally, UBI allows one to live comfortably, without working. Here we hit inflation: if everyone can do that, the amounts of money we are putting into the economy inevitably results in huge inflation. Too much money chasing too few products.

The only solution to this is "fully automated luxury communism" and the end of currency as we know it. A bit too far fetched for my taste.

Again, so many billionaires want UBI it has become highly suspect.

(2/3)

ParadeGrotesque, 5 days ago

@dlakelan @economics@a.gup.pe

Instead of UBI think in terms of public services: free quality public education, university included, free quality healthcare, free quality public transportation.

Highly subsidized healthy food. Cheap, quality public housing. Subsidized renewable energy.

Building these would mean enormous benefits for everyone, would boost the economy & reduce the power of billionaires. Think Pyramid of Maslow: make sure basic needs are met and society will improve, logically.

ParadeGrotesque, 5 days ago

@dlakelan @economics

And finally: ask yourself why so many billionaires are against taxation of their wealth, while being for UBI?

Because taxation means building the public services I described, thus reducing their power and influence, while UBI can be used as a tool to put even more pressure on the 99% of us who are not millionaires or billionaires.

And taxation of the 1% is also an efficient tool to reduce their political influence. Taxation is the way to go. UBI, not so much.

ParadeGrotesque, 5 days ago

@dlakelan @economics@a.gup.pe

I have an issue with your statement: "seizing 50% of all companies results in death and destruction".

That's exactly what nationalization is. And plenty of countries had huge nationalization programs in the 50s that did not result in death and destruction. Especially if said companies collaborated with Nazi Germany or helped the Nazi death camps.

You also underestimate the power of billionaires. At this stage, you can have democracy or billionaires, not both.

ParadeGrotesque, 5 days ago

@dlakelan @economics@a.gup.pe

"Functional, non-oligopoly markets", sure, let's discuss that, because that's almost non existent today.

So let's break up oligopolies, by seizing companies & breaking them up into smaller pieces.

Wait, you mean the state is now doing a good thing? And something that is very close to nationalization? Who would have thought?!?

By the way, incorrect allocation of resources is how we get economic crises. Private companies overestimate growth & over-invest.

ParadeGrotesque, 5 days ago

@dlakelan @economics@a.gup.pe

Let me be very clear: private companies will always fail because none of them has a clear & complete picture of the market. (Which is an impossibility, but I digress...)

Misallocation of resources by the private & public sector is therefore the norm & not the exception.

The difference is that a governmental organization does not have to maximize profits, unlike the private sector, and can therefore better manage sparse resources in the public interest.

ParadeGrotesque, 3 days ago

@stux

I am FREE!!!

ParadeGrotesque, 5 days ago

@h3artbl33d

OpenSUSE or Slackware.

This is fairly new hardware. I want it supported.

ParadeGrotesque, 5 days ago

@h3artbl33d

NO.

ParadeGrotesque, 3 days ago

Oh f* b* I get it now: seems the on board battery has expired: the BIOS time and date were set to something weird, like Jan 1st 1981 at 00:04 ...

So every time I boot the laptop, Secure Boot is on because... that's the default value, that's why!

Yo, @tuxedocomputers - any docs online on how to replace this battery? I don't like opening my laptop, but this issue is driving me crazy. Any info on the battery model?

And, yes, Ubuntu will eventually get replaced. Once I have changed the battery.

ParadeGrotesque, 3 days ago

@joel

Thank you!

ParadeGrotesque, 3 days ago

@lkn0

I know that, I just hope the battery is accessible with a minimum of screw removal...

ParadeGrotesque, 5 days ago

@kingu

Well, shoot, now I want one too!

ParadeGrotesque, 3 days ago

@holsta

Well, it IS Tom Morello, so that's reason enough for me.

ParadeGrotesque, 3 days ago

@ErikUden

You naughty boy... 😉

ParadeGrotesque, 3 days ago

@petaramesh

Sévère, mais juste.

ParadeGrotesque, 3 days ago

@dmm @TheWookieman

Internal armor air conditioning.

Where do you think that heavy breathing was coming from?

ParadeGrotesque, 5 days ago

@mms

Have you ever used an operating system that used a normal init and stored its configuration files in /etc/init.d/?

Then you have used System V.

@vermaden

ParadeGrotesque, 5 days ago

@mms

And by normal init, I mean anything that is not systemd, to be more precise.

@vermaden