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TerryHancock

@TerryHancock@realsocial.life

Fan of space, film, free/open-source software and free culture. Former pro astronomer. Writer, blogger, editor, visual artist. Occasional free-software developer. (Personal Account)

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ben, to random
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What's the group noun for British people?

TerryHancock,
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@ben
You mean "Britons"?

scottsantens, to random
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Stop insisting on work requirements. Just provide cash unconditionally. People will still work.

Stop insisting on targeting the poor. Just provide cash universally. Tax the rich more than the amount. That way we won't exclude anyone in need.

On these core tenets, Unconditional Universal Basic Income exists.

TerryHancock,
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@scottsantens

NOT making it means-tested also has a great political advantage: it takes the wind out of accusations of bias.

A popular (right-wing) way of attacking welfare programs in the USA is to depict the recipients as an undeserving class, often playing on racist or classist beliefs. E.g. Reagan's "welfare queen" narrative.

Either way, this gets used to build populist resentment against the programs. UBI could be more proof against this kind of attack.

reckless1280, to random

I told you Decoder this week was bananas and here it is: Zoom CEO Eric Yuan’s vision is thousands of AI digital clones attending video meetings https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24168733/zoom-ceo-ai-clones-digital-twins-videoconferencing-decoder-interview

TerryHancock,
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@reckless1280

Something familiar about this... 🤔

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB1X4o-MV6o

TerryHancock, to random
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#Inkscape is really not too happy when I try to embed 90 MB of images. Possibly I should use linking, instead. 🤔

TerryHancock,
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@doctormo
What might be useful in my current case is some option to resample images to a lower resolution when embedding (or after). I suspect this would be frequently useful. Probably could be implemented as an extension.

In this case, I just used full resolution images when I really should've scaled them down prior to importing them. I knew this was probably a bad idea at the time. 😅

Painted myself into a corner, really. I can fix it, but it'll be a chore.

TerryHancock,
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@doctormo
FWIW...

Just extracting and replacing with the smaller image does NOT work -- it must remember transforms as a factor, not absolute extents .

Looks like "Paste Size" and the alignment menu can be used to replace the images one-by-one without too much hassle (have to transfer the clipping, of course).

Slow, but constrained -- no sloppy repositioning.

This is probably what I'll do on this drawing.

ajroach42, to random
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Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here, I don't know a lot about the great depression.

But I've been thinking about the great depression lately, for reasons that I assume are fairly self evident, and I'm thinking about the mechanisms that enabled it, and I'm drawing conclusions and modern parallels.

I don't know if these conclusions are right, or if these modern parallels are sensible. I don't know the inner secrets of the universe. These are just some things I'm thinking about.

TerryHancock,
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@ajroach42
Not a correction, but an alternative view I found interesting was that the Depression was an economic "market correction" due to the US economy flipping from an agrarian to an industrial basis.

Industry existed in the 19th century, but it wasn't the dominant form of wealth production until the early 20th century.

Many social values, laws, and market practices were still based on agrarian models.

I'm not sure where I first saw this idea, but it made a lot of sense to me.

And...

TerryHancock,
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@ddlyh @ajroach42

It is definitely Complicated. 😅

But it seemed like a useful lens.

I think I probably picked up this idea from "Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future" by Paul Mason. (2017).

But of course, the undermining of the economy of material production (inherently scarce) by the flourishing of the economy of information production (inherently non-scarce) is something I've been thinking (and writing) about for quite some time.

So I think that's why the idea resonated for me.

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