As a conservative I support this idea, because it has no means testing.

Means testing is fucked up in two ways:

• It makes government larger and gets the government asking questions, poking its nose into everything
• It creates a perverse incentive structure, one which doesn’t match nature and hence doesn’t match the way our brains evolved to respond to challenge.

The perverse incentive structure is the worse of the two, in my opinion. Just like crack cocaine hacks the brain, presents something the brain can’t handle because it didn’t evolve for, rewarding a person with resources only when they don’t succeed basically programs a person to fail.

I’m all for the government generously giving with an open hand to people, and letting the people decide when to start receiving benefits and when to stop. People are either worth it or they aren’t, and a person doesn’t stop being worth it just because they got their shit together, or start being worth it just because they failed.

Government should treat everyone the same. If a government wants to present a service like “free housing if you want it”, I’m totally fine with that.

I believe the opposite.

I think there’s so much evidence of intelligent alien life visiting us that it takes a massive act of denial and self-delusion to ignore it.

In fact, I think the idea that alien evidence is all faked is a massively unbelievable conspiracy theory. The alien hoax would require a level of secret conspiracy that puts chemtrails or CIA mind control conspiracy theories to shame.

The organization necessary to produce the constant stream of alien evidence would dwarf the Manhattan Project.

How about god complexes? Should those be on our radar?

When people are left to enter deals and economic arrangements as they see fit, it produces the most overall wealth, both for those at the top and those at the bottom of the economic hierarchy.

No. Because with a minimum wage in place, a higher number for this indicator would be associated with higher unemployment.

I’m saying: how did you get convinced, if not with evidence?

I like your style, Socrates

I like to put things that didn’t happen in the “Previously On” portions, to fuck with people’s heads.

I don’t think about cheesecake. I’ve done my zen training. Cheesecake is for eating.

That works too.

I guess the reason I use fonts and OS edges as my contextual cues is that I dual boot my macbook, so I’ve got the same equipment for windows and mac os.

Really the main thing for me is the look and feel of the apps. Firefox just looks subtly different in windows, as do most apps that are cross platform.