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byOl Olsoc
2026 @09:56AM
(#65962418)
Attached to: Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says
I think there are problems with UBI, but the basic fact that EVERYBODY GETS IT means it is impossible for there to be fraud where somebody who should not get it lies and recieves it, for the simple reason that no such person exists.
Fortunately there is no other form of Fraud, amirite?
I think you are trying to box me in as some sort of right wing nut. So let's move on - okay, should everyone get UBI from birth? You said in all caps - "EVERYBODY GETS IT". So okay, at birth a person stars getting UBI. How much?
Now since it is in your words, impossible to there to be any fraud under UBI. it's take this woman who funds her lifestyle with th eSSI her pretend autistic children get. So your system of everybody gets UBI - will autistic children get more UBI, or will every child, no matter the disability, receive the same UBI from birth?
How will fraud become impossible. Who gets the money, the child, or the parent?
I'm pretty certain that you have the completely fraud free answer, no fraud is possible under your system. You said it is impossible to have fraud. Show us.
180714654
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byOl Olsoc
2026 @07:51AM
(#65962278)
Attached to: Five French Ubisoft Unions Call For Massive International Strike Over 'Cost-Cutting' and Ending of Remote Work
Seems like the typical case of workers producing things of value that can actually be sold, and management managing the "American" way fucking them over for "shareholder value".
A pity this is a French situation, but you get 2 points for your typical "Ebberting dat's a prawblim iz 'Murricas fault!
Seriously, how many yuan or rubles do you get for posting your wisdom?
180714648
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byOl Olsoc
2026 @07:47AM
(#65962276)
Attached to: Five French Ubisoft Unions Call For Massive International Strike Over 'Cost-Cutting' and Ending of Remote Work
It is quite illegal to "replace" workers only because they use their legal right to negotiate working conditions. It would be a surefire way to get the company in trouble.
What often happens is after negotiating something that costs the company or institution a lot of money, is that they don't replace workers who retire or otherwise leave.
Or just make a position redundant. Or outsource.
The place I retired from had its unionized employee headcount shrink over 50 percent since the 1980's. Inverse of the rest of the place. Yeah, the remaining people were paid pretty well and had lots of bennies. It ends up like the old adage of "I got mine, screw you!" And further shrinkage will happen.
There is a need for unionization on occasion. However, calling for a worldwide strike is silly. And considering the issues Ubisoft is having, this corrective action just might kill Ubisoft. Of course then, the employees will be able to stay home, just like they want.
180714590
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byOl Olsoc
2026 @07:28AM
(#65962268)
Attached to: DuckDuckGo Users Vote Overwhelmingly Against AI Features
Ah yes, blame the people who don't want to research with a tool that notoriously makes up results, not the garbage tool that tells you to drink bleach and type sudo rm -r /* to cleanup your HDD.
The guy who lost his jerb to AI just checked in! Whatever you do, don't learn anything any more, you know enough now and forever.
You sound like some of the guys who were pissed off about transistors taking over from tubes.
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On occasion, the truth is marked as trolling. In further response to the guy, time moves on. Technology moves on. Referring to the Tube vs Transistor comment, early transistors were fragile, sensitive things. They couldn't handle much power. Tubes were better. Many thought transistors would be at best, some niche product.
The frailty and limitations of transistors were a little bit similar to AI hallucinations and slop. Some limitation, some unfixable problem that prevents success.
But time went on, and transistors became better, and tubes were used less and less. Now tubes are the niche product.
Same with computers. Same with programming. Anyone want to go back to programming with punchcards?
So I'm learning how to use AI. Hell, writing prompts reminds me a little bit of the old game of Zork. Have to figure out what you type to bring the proper response.
180712536
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byTwistedGreen
y 31, 2026 @11:40PM
(#65961986)
Attached to: Can We Slow Global Warming By Phasing Out Super-Pollutant HFCs?
Just look at a reference like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
R-12 (aka Freon) was phased out due to its ozone depletion potential, but it also had terrible global warming potential. The main issue is that it would persist in the upper atmosphere for hundreds of years.
R-134a is its replacement which has zero ozone depletion potential, but still a significant global warming potential.
Finding replacement for this, you see a lot of manufacturers accepting the risk of using a flammable gas and going with something like R-600a, which is literally just propane... not fluroinated, vastly inferior in terms of compressibility and its ability to carry away heat, but it works.
The real issue is industrial applications. I feel like that's largely glossed over and emissions are largely from industry, whereas consumer-level systems are just a small portion.
180710352
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byOl Olsoc
2026 @03:17PM
(#65961374)
Attached to: Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says
It isn't his fault, it is his mothers. but interesting that you support the fraud.
The SSA is using people who are not medical professionals to make what are effectively medical determinations. This is ever so much bullshit.
This is true. I don't actually think you support fraud, Just a rhetorical thingy.
In support of what you note, the approval process is seriously inconsistent. I knew a woman who was definitely in bad shape -yet no approval. In the 2010 era, they were granting SS disability to people in some communities that had jobs that were going away forever, like clothing manufacturers. They were not disabled, just going to be hard to employ (heard this on NPR)
The hell of the thing is that SSI - even basic Social Security is pretty much a pittance.
But that woman might not be committing fraud in her mind, but she was just taking advantage of every opportunity she saw as her right. Maybe the person approving her surprising three children being autistic liked her. It was at a time when Autism speaks was claiming an epidemic epidemic, People were blaming things like vaccines for it. It was the cause du jour.Might have even been a quota.
I do know she is pissed that her son going to college is moving away. Even the Social security system has trouble deciding normal college students living normal college student lives, taking normal courses - are autistic to the point of needing disability. Wife say she thinks he wants out of the system for being considered impaired, wants to live a normal life.
Note, he isn't an aspie.
People can appeal with the same facts (documentation etc) and have a much higher approval rate when they do, and then they have a yet higher approval rate if they employ a disability lawyer (who takes a portion of their back benefits as payment.)
Some times they can wear the appeals process down. A member of a local ham club found a doctor who specialized in calling people disabled. They just kept appealing until the SS system figured he had no intention of ever working again, and granted him disability.
180710006
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byTwistedGreen
y 31, 2026 @02:04PM
(#65961242)
Attached to: Can We Slow Global Warming By Phasing Out Super-Pollutant HFCs?
Of course it would help. Just look at a refrigerant chart for global warming potential. A lot of the older ones have already been phased out to reduce ozone depletion potential, but their replacements were almost as bad in terms of global warming potential, which we weren't as worried about at the time.
For example, R-12's high ozone depletion potential also had an extremely high global warming potential, but its replacements like R22 and later R134a are still relatively high for global warming potential. These are being replaced with R600a (isobutane, which is flammable) and R1234yf, which is a blend of gases that have very different maintenance requirements due to partial pressures (one gas can leak out over time but leave the others, making the mixture less efficient and then you'd have to purge and replace the entire charge, not just top it up). It's a complex issue.
As we know more about these gases, hopefully we can resolve this... Obviously the sooner, the better.
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byOl Olsoc
2026 @11:16AM
(#65960932)
Attached to: Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says
In your example the woman's three children would get EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUT of UBI, no matter whether they are autistic and or her own situation and income. This is why fraud would be reduced, because there are many fewer things that a person can do to change how much they get. Obviously things like making up fake recipients would still work, but all "lie on the application" fraud is removed. At least pretend to understand the argument before saying anything.
Had to get to insult level, didn't ya. Funny how people who would claim to be so much smarter than me believe that UBI is some sort of fraud deterrent.
Like this woman would be pure and law abiding if only they threw money at her and her children.
SOrry, perhaps you do not know as much about human nature as you purport to. She worked. She got Child support, she got Alimony.
She did not get the SSI money because she needed it. She got it by taking advantage of the system. She used the SSI to support her lifestyle. She went for as much as she could get without doing anything.
Worst rationale for UBI ever.
180705818
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byTwistedGreen
30, 2026 @10:37PM
(#65960374)
Attached to: Belkin's Wemo Smart Devices Will Go Offline On Saturday
Is is that hard to just use a normal goddamn light switch?
180703954
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byOl Olsoc
2026 @05:50PM
(#65960016)
Attached to: Do Markets Make Us Moral?
Yep.
It's not just that it's a significant proportion of your life, people can't physically do it, especially not to the standards of care we expect today.
As you say in the past people with dementia would have died of all sorts of preventable things like being lost in the woods. You'd find out in the morning, maybe people would go look, maybe you find a body. That wandering off isn't supposed to happen now, if it does the authorities get involved etc etc. Not in a bad way, the police will go looking to bring them back, an ambulance will come to check up on them and the council may send someone to discuss options.
Yup, it is a humanitarian thing, and trying to keep people safe. Something like that happened with my MIL. She was far into end stage dementia, the part where the brain is so far gone that bodily processes are shutting down. She was in an end care nursing facility. Her heart stopped early one morning. The damn EMTs arrived, and after 10 or maybe 15 minutes, they got it started again. So we ended up with her at the hospital. Doctor came in and told us she was basically brain dead. So there she was on a ventilator, and it extended her so called life another 5 hours or so.
It was at that point I thought to myself - no way, no more. I didn't blame the EMT's, but I was surely not happy what they did.
But also the end result is it's also way more work to look after someone to modern standards. No one can give 24/7 care, it's not physically possible. No just going to bed and hoping they are there in the morning. Trouble is it creeps up.
I had to convince the wife that needed to happen. She was exhausted from all that stuff that creeped up, so it really wasn't too hard to convince her in the end.
I'm trying to work out an exit strategy that I think I can execute if it comes to it. I don't want to put anyone through this horror, but neither would I like them imprisoned for murder. Hopefully though it won't.
It is a problem to even discuss. Say something to the wrong person, and next thing you know, you have therapists and suicide hotline type people call you. Yet I'm the farthest thing from suicidal, I just want to save my family from that "long goodbye", a particular cruelty of modern life..
180703852
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byOl Olsoc
2026 @05:30PM
(#65959984)
Attached to: Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says
The SSA has to make a determination of disability before SSI (or for that matter SSDI) is granted, so blame the SSA for getting it wrong.
And? Autism is pretty hard to prove, and yes, there was a time when a lot of things got rubber stamped. All that said, if the ATM spits out a thousand dollars, and you take it, then you are stealing it. The child claimed to be autistic to a point where he needs supplemental income just to live, yet presents normally socialized, and will be going to college is hardly a person who needs that money.
It isn't his fault, it is his mothers. but interesting that you support the fraud. No, just because there was a time that little investigation happened does not exonerate the theft of money applied for under deception.
180703184
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byTwistedGreen
30, 2026 @03:52PM
(#65959822)
Attached to: 'Moltbook Is the Most Interesting Place On the Internet Right Now'
The meaning of "molt" is to shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer periodically.
Presumably this is a collection of the discarded husks and other detritus from our AI overlords as they grow and become more powerful.
It is your duty to consume and revel in it.
180703138
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byTwistedGreen
30, 2026 @03:42PM
(#65959812)
Attached to: Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says
UBI can be a thing if we have an infinite resource to exploit infinitely. Like clean fusion power, or human kindness.
180703128
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byTwistedGreen
30, 2026 @03:41PM
(#65959808)
Attached to: Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says
This is awesome! Soon it will be like the Star Trek "utopia" where all of us poor slobs are living it up on the government dime with access to infinite energy to do whatever we want, while a select few people get to fly around in space ships and beat up aliens. I can't wait.
180703094
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byOl Olsoc
2026 @03:34PM
(#65959800)
Attached to: DuckDuckGo Users Vote Overwhelmingly Against AI Features
Ah yes, blame the people who don't want to research with a tool that notoriously makes up results, not the garbage tool that tells you to drink bleach and type sudo rm -r /* to cleanup your HDD.
The guy who lost his jerb to AI just checked in! Whatever you do, don't learn anything any more, you know enough now and forever.
You sound like some of the guys who were pissed off about transistors taking over from tubes.
I know a few Hams who are that way. Bragging about their Heathkit tube radios, While my radio is an RF front end, tied to a server Software defined radio and spectrum analyzer.
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