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  • A Pokémon creature is the latest subject of the internet’s embrace of the suspect in health executive’s killing

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  • Maybe this, but the Proverbs explanation is more convincing. Also, I agree he might just be a Breloom fan.

  • What is your favorite inspirational quote?

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  • Oh that reminds me of something funny my old psychiatrist told me: when people complain that everybody hates them, he responds: how can that be true? You haven't even met everyone yet!

  • What is your favorite inspirational quote?

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  • "If it is too hard to cope with failure, how can you ever be able to handle success?" -Unknown.

  • Recommendations Needed! Looking for some lesser known comics to read.

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  • Not lesser known but my favorite: Gary Larson's The far side always gave me a chuckle.

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  • But look at the bright side. All of my promises will be kept. No one has to perish. After all, if I can't refuse of course I am going to make it so they can't either.

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  • I would promise some pretty decent things. Then, secretly, hire a "shady" group of people (in exchange for loads of money) to design and implement a device that would eradicate the world via nuclear chain reaction, lock the device and give me control so that only I can activate it, give me the ability to set a trigger function so if i did die instantly, it would automatically activate.

    Basically blackmail them into this approval rating BUT follow through with every promise. Which goes:

    Divide the world into certain "geo-categories" where they will be transported and accommodated based on their values and governmental/economic ideals. Of course, this isn't perfect. There are possibly infinite combinations of "rights" people want today. Most would be modeled after existing countries. You can pick a country and move there. Any countries that have very similar governing styles would be linked in sub-governing bodies but not physically linked.

    Most places would be complete with freedoms, but instead of democracies, they would apply to move to another jurisdiction that supports their views. Not forced but given financial accommodations and means to do so. I would appoint the leaders and from them on they will be voted on for the most part.

    Vote for me: you get pretty much any freedoms, liberties, and rights. Equality and equity. Those who really want to live in a dictatorship sub-government would just move there, but I doubt anyone truly wants that. Other than that, I wouldn't control much just oversee every country's actions and maybe intervene in cases of natural disaster and to block proposals of war.

    • because of the elimination of economy types, all current money would be converted into a worldwide currency. No income tax. Everyone who worked would accumulate "points" and spend them. Trade would be free and worldwide, no tax whatsoever needed. No need for gold to back anything up if all countries will now be awarded these points based on the debt they are owed. Prices of common necessities and commodities needed for life would have price caps. No limit on how low a price can be. Monopolies can exist with a requirement to donate substantial amounts to charities and a fund to be given to a jurisdiction's government to find a business to become new competition which would then eliminate the monopoly. So, the incentive to not monopolize would be that they would have to fund any future competition for a while until things get closer to a balance.

    Healthcare is provided as a percentage of income rather than any fixed rate. This allows medical professionals to still be paid efficiently, but everything is affordable. Everything can be turned into a percent based payment plan and based on household income. All factors of monthly expenses: bills, food, etc will be considered. So, if you are injured, you can't afford that vacation anymore because that isn't a necessary expense and some of that will be factored into payment plans.

    Everyone's credit is converted into a percent of 100. 100 percent being that they always pay on time-- including utility bills. Anyone with bad or negative credit or any hits to their credit will be reset to zero. To build back to 100 would take an average of a year. All debt will be awarded to collectors and debtors as points with no loss to those who owe. They would then be reset to zero credit. New debt would work the same as today but must be paid back as a percentage from now on and cannot be a financial burden or it will be paused. Wages will be garnished based on a percent in this manner. In other words polel will always be able to afford any basic living expenses. Debt does not include mortgages, or loans to be forgiven but converted into a percentage payment plan. If someone accrued many types of percentage based payment plans for debt, such as medical, home, car etc, it will be calculated only after basic expenses are paid. (Housing, utilities, food, transportation to work, school for children)

    Money will be made by working, selling things or awarded in cases of disability or retirement. All retirement ages would be the same--60 yrs old.

    All businesses' worth will be converted into these global points. (Name of currency to be determined)

    Basically everyone and every entity's wealth will be the same just in a universal currency. Probably the currency unit that is worth the most every thing would be measured against and converted and then all converted to this universal one.

    Laws will be changed based on common sense of leaders which can be freely elected for one year at a time for all positions and most countries. If you create a dictatorship, the laws have to be fair and cannot restrict travel.

    Rights to bear arms would be upheld on a condition of no criminal history. All would have trackers that are designed to emit a signal and if broken (and no longer emitting) would flag a system and would be confiscated. Any public areas would alert a system if any armed individual enters that area. This is to stop sub-governments from initiating any corrupt control acts. Police would be government funded, require yearly license renewals and an annual mental health and competency test. Free of charge.

    All education would include funding based on a fee that is also a percentage, so you won't be broke. Language classes for immigrants would be free.

    Since all money would be digital and points based, it could be given infinitely by the government. Trade would be free. A country would export and automatically get points from the other government without the other government losing money. There would be no way to just give money for no reason. It would either be from trade, work, or selling a product or service based on an unhackable machine locked with the security of the global government, me. (A bio key, perhaps)

    This would require a little extra trust between sub-governments to not exploit the system and freely give points( for example based on a trade scam where a country could set a price and the government can just give points for it without losing money) it will be audited monthly by use of an advanced AI algorithm. All trade will be based on demand (and supply obviously).

    If something is rare, there would be a price cap increase for trade.

    So, you are making an observation that money here is less valuable, right? Well, the government can't give any money without a justification for it being earned. Also there will be import caps based on supply and population, so no one buys out an entire country's monthly export supply.

    I may have overlooked some flaws but it will evolve.

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    Don't vote for me: RIP earth.

  • How many here just use the Lemmy web client on mobile?

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  • I had to switch from Jerboa to Boost for Lemmy due to the bug in comment threads: when you click on a reply in your inbox, it goes to the post and gives you two options to either view post or view context so you can see up until the parent thread of the conversation you are replying to, and the buttons don't seem to work consistently. Also sometimes they are not even there and you have to scroll through the post for the comment you want to reply to. Boost has ads though but IDC about those.

  • How many here just use the Lemmy web client on mobile?

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  • I've tried Thunder, used Jerboa for a bit and now I am on Boost for Lemmy.

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    When is violence justified?

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  • Boxing, UFC, hockey and other contact sports where it doesn't cause a penalty.

  • TIL Medieval people were more hygienic than popular belief, they bathed regularly with soap!

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  • Cloudhiker.net . It works almost the same way. For a free account you can save favorites but you don't get history saved. So, if you want that histor, you just click on the website at the bottom to open the website outside the UI of cloudhiker which works right in any browser. And the web pages are just like Stumble Upon submissions. Fun, interesting quirky useful any topic. You check off categories just like Stumble Upon. BC quite frankly, the Mix app they replaced stumble Upon with succccckkks!

  • TIL Medieval people were more hygienic than popular belief, they bathed regularly with soap!

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  • And largely due to the US public education system lol. A lot of things they said in school were untrue or misconstrued. If they taught us true and interesting stuff like this, there would probably be less of a dropout rate.

  • TIL Medieval people were more hygienic than popular belief, they bathed regularly with soap!

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  • Honestly, it came up on a StumbleUpon alternative I was using.

  • TIL Medieval people were more hygienic than popular belief, they bathed regularly with soap!

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  • Commodity

  • Have you ever messed up or done something accidentally but the outcome turned out better than your original intention?

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  • Looks fire!

  • Still mad about this mockery years later

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  • It was funny. I only watched the first season, I don't have Max anymore.

  • Have you ever messed up or done something accidentally but the outcome turned out better than your original intention?

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  • It's never satisfying to eat only two or three unless I am putting on a bagel or toast. That's why I always eat six. Three or four slices of white cheddar or pepper jack, jalapenos, black pepper, a bit of milk, chopped onions, fresh baby spinach. Roll it up.

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    [Series] What is the spirit animal for AuDHDH?

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  • Or a Jerboa

  • Have you ever messed up or done something accidentally but the outcome turned out better than your original intention?

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  • Damn put spoiler text on this lol. Led me on like a gullible mf.

  • Have you ever messed up or done something accidentally but the outcome turned out better than your original intention?

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  • Well, good thing you didn't follow up with it was a typo. Lol. It still happens today with my wife, no T9 nowadays but fkn autocorrect, mannn...I figured out that there is a setting to change how aggressive the autocorrect is without completely turning it off.