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Smaller charities tend to do much better in my experience.

UBI is not charity. UBI is what the nation owes you as a shareholder of USA, Inc.

Giving people money doesn’t teach long term skills that lead to success.

Exactly. Which is why the children of rich people so often become homeless. All that money they had when they were kids kept them from learning long-term skills that lead to success. It stunted their financial growth, rendering them particularly susceptible to poverty.

The children of the impoverished, on the other hand, were forced to learn money management skills for their very survival. The superior money management skills of impoverished kids practically guarantee their future success.

This explains why self-made millionaires are so common, and generational wealth is so difficult to maintain.

Right? That’s how it works in your head, right? The people with easy access to money never learn how to manage it and ultimately squander it, right? The people who have to fight for every dime are the most successful, right?

Right?

I also think it would be better to have private organizations that have less bureaucracy.

Agreed. And an organization doesn’t get smaller or privater than a single individual. We can cut out 100% of the bullshit bureaucracy and give it straight to the individual, directly, or their caregiver if they are not qualified to maintain their own affairs. Remove everyone else, as they don’t add shareholder value.

Indeed.

Each of the issues you described is mitigated - if not cured - by steady income. And each is greatly exacerbated by a lack of such income.

What is really important is that the family and friends of the people struggling with these conditions aren’t also impoverished. The outcomes of each these conditions are vastly improved when the sufferer’s caregivers have the time and resources to attend to them.

UBI benefits everyone involved.

For the cases where the individual is not capable of managing their own money, it is still better for their caregiver to receive and manage their money on their behalf than to periodically send them crates of cauliflower and tomatoes.

Turns out that money is one of those things that the less you have of it, the harder it is to manage.

She’s 22.

“Work ethic” does not mean “appreciation of hard work for the sake of working hard”. “Work ethic” means, primarily, an appreciation for the maximization of your own productivity. That lesson is not being taught by compelling the student to spend excess time in a subject after achieving mastery.

The issue isn’t that homework is assigned. The issue is when it is a heavily weighted component of the final grade. The instructor can go ahead and assign homework to allow the student to learn the topic through “disciplined study”, but the effectiveness of that study (their developed “talent” for the subject matter) determined from testing and other in-class work.

The effort they put into their homework is irrelevant: they either master the subject matter, or they do not.

Bringing this back to “work ethic”, their failure to achieve demonstrable mastery of the subject matter indicates the ineffectiveness of their “disciplined study”. They should learn from this that “hard work” is a means to an end. “Hard Work” is not an achievement in and of itself.

Meanwhile, the students for whom such “study” is wasted effort are no longer unduly burdened. They are free to focus their time-intensive “disciplined studies” on subjects for which they need to make that effort, or they can take on additional non-burdened coursework. They can learn “work ethic” by mastering a greater variety of subjects, maximizing their productivity.

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A presentation component is the kind of class work I mentioned.

When you hire someone to do a job for you, do you want someone who will bust their ass all day and turns in mediocre work? O

Or do you want someone who does the job quickly, efficiently, competently?

When you’re working, do you want to bust your ass all day on something you are barely but technically qualified to perform? Or would you prefer to follow your passion?

Heavily weighting effort for effort’s sake favors the talentless over the talented, and does neither any favors.

Seems pretty simple to me: No graded homework. Grade based on test scores, quizzes, and in-class work.

If a student needs heavily weighted homework/essay grades to offset mediocre test scores, they are a mediocre student and deserve their mediocre score.

Hard work is not a replacement for talent.

was just a standard residential setup,

The distinction is important because we are discussing IPv6. A “standard residential setup” with IPv6 would provide the user with an entire subnet rather than a single IP address. We still need a router to pass traffic from the ISP’s network to our own network, but we no longer need NAT.

It’ll take you public IP and translate those packets to use your internal one.

That is NAT, yes. But that is only one small function that a router can perform, and not all routers have NAT enabled. You only need NAT if your ISP only allows you to use a single IP address.

If your computer has an address that starts with 169, 168, or 10 there is a NAT somewhere in your network.

That’s not actually true. I can create such a network without connecting it to the internet, no NAT. I can create a second network, again, no NAT. I can then use a gateway router that allows any node on the first network to reach any node on the second. That router is still not doing any NAT. It’s just passing traffic between two networks.

Glad I’m not alone on that. I love reading about him, but I can’t watch his videos.

Every single one of those temporary IP addresses has the same prefix, which traces back to you.

Its about as anonymous as adding an apartment number to your own street address.

Never used plex. Finally got around to installing Jellyfin. Very happy with it.

All use is fair use. Copyright should not exist.

“We’re gonna need some more buttons in here.”

I found that I can’t convince google assistant (via bluetooth headset) to find my phone unless my phone is unlocked. The only workaround I’ve found is to set a 1-second timer.

So, they left a bucket of water to stagnate next to a bus stop?

One of the first things I turn off on every new device

I would love to turn it off on everything, but on-screen keyboards are almost entirely useless without it.

I miss my SGH-T699 “Relay”, and its 5-row slider. It’s the only phone I’ve bought more than once; I wore out three of them.