I think that focusing everything on UBI and dismantling all other forms of welfare are going to create massive inequalities in society that few people anticipate.

For instance, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are effectively UBI free zones in some major metros with decent economies.

I don’t think it is. Unless you are the host of a major instance, most of your interactions are going to be on other instances; these instances can do whatever mod actions they want against you.

If there are people interact on your instance, then you have the ability to restrict their speech.

There is nothing inherently built into Lemmy that protects freedom of speech over Reddit other that being able to host your own instance.

Oh yeah, wrong channel.

Patrick H Wiiems does amazing film commentary, but don’t call it content.

Even his no effort November videos are high quality.

It depends on the engineering company.

For the kinds that I work for, it would likely be a few rounds of interviews for senior level positions with both the bosses and key subordinates to determine if the fit is natural. It would be easy to tell if they could do a similar enough job based on industry reputation.

I should fix it, but now it’s funnier that I don’t.

Everyone is a boy except for you.

The Case for Christ.

And I’m not even sorry.

I call people on Teams rather than ask if they are available.

Parents, no. Stepparents, yes.

You’re not wrong…

I have a humidifier and air purifiers that are powered via USB-C. Sadly, my dehumidifier has a different connection.

And now he’s sober.

To get my mom to quit college and stay home.

Define “legitimate”.

If you want to go for comedic reenactment, Saturday Night Live does it for events within a week.

Socialization is work that people forgot to practice. So, a lot of people became introverts and don’t have the stamina to socialize like they used to.

One group of friends went to signal. One group of friends stays in SMS.

I don’t really have the ability to dictate the messaging service app to others.