You start with innocent stuff like why the sky is blue and relativity and next thing you know you’re in a truck stop bathroom begging for obscure mathematical paradoxes just to feel normal for a few hours

For more details on what is UBI and why some people think it is a good idea, see my video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-cj...

The problem with eligibility criteria is that 1. it costs a lot to enforce them, sometimes more than it would have cost to just give it to everyone without checking criteria, and 2. many eligible people get left out because they cant _prove_ they're eligible.

Similarities with UBI (these are pluses): 1. it is applicable very widely, 2. benefits are in cash, not kind, 3. there are no strings attached; you can use the cash for anything.

Differences (minuses) 1. there are eligibility criteria (age 18 to 60, annual family income <₹2.5L).

The surface of Venus is a lethal crushing inferno BUT about 50km up in the atmosphere you have:
* Earth-like temperatures
* 1 Bar pressure
* sunlight for power

Aerostats filled with breathable air would float! We could live in cloud cities and even go *outside* wearing little more than scuba gear!

I was even able to see the rotating cube in this gif!
(link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoste... )

This is the same technique used in "stereograms" to give you 3D images without the 3D glasses. (But I always found the stereograms much harder than the examples in the article above.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoste...

Do what's right for you, agitate for regulations, call out Zuck, help your friends and family discovwr new social tools. Focus your ire on the systems rather than the individuals. Asking people to blow up their entire social and professional lives to spite a rich bigot isn't going to work.

Out of context Mahabharata:
"It hath been said, O king, that it is not sinful to lie on the occasion of a joke, in respect of women sought to be enjoyed, on occasions of marriage, in peril of immediate death and of the loss of one's whole fortune. Lying is excusable on these five occasions"

Why avoid the Brahmana more than snakes or weapons? "The snake killeth only one. The sharpest weapon slayeth but a single person. The Brahmana, when angry destroyeth whole cities and kingdoms!"

I need to start double-posting... can't get myself to do so consistently yet.

@neerankarnik.bsky.social @makarands.bsky.social @meetalks.bsky.social please note...

And has two heads... You never know which head is going to pop up to make a decision...