Makes sense, and I agree on that thought on art.

I strongly suspect that I (personally) would not have opted in to that experience, and I'm chewing on why - I've played villainous and monstrous roles in LARPs, but this one feels different to me.

Genuine question/sober curiosity: why did you choose to play?

You're speaking my language. :)

But I suspect rewards would need to also include prestige/status/something else. Folks for whom "good feelings from helping others" is sufficient are probably already doing it, means allowing.

(Also helpful: culture changes around helping others / talking about it.)

Then I think a big obstacle is that most donors aren't apt to want to put money into a system where they have little idea if any claimed need is real. Current GoFundMe fundraisers work around this via chaining reptuational trust, but that seems entwined with "best at social networking".

Neat idea to ponder! On a recipient level, I suspect whether "all at once but longer" or "dribbling in" is better varies a LOT. On a systems-level, I'd have real concerns about, eg, organized crime - no bots/dupes required to abuse the system with fictional requests.

I think whether those things would follow depends immensely on how UBI comes to be, and the social context of the time?

I have trouble seeing it as an actual corporate *plan*. The more reason a given corp has to dislike/fear UBI, the less it'll want UBI in place for any amount of time.

In my (thankfully limited, knock on wood) experience, surgery itself tends to [dampen the appetite during recovery? shove calories towards repair rather than energy/storage? make the body go "WTF"?] and result in a weight dip even absent dietary strictures.

But not nearly *that* dramatically!

Yeah, my understanding is that the most impactful behavior for individuals is in fact nothing individual, but "get your elected officials to address systemic emissions problems", whether by persuading/pushing on them or by voting in new officials who'll do so.

"If you land on an un-space, your piece disintegrates and is removed from play."? ;)

(Or not, since that's not 100% equivalent to "pass but not land"; it lets you self-sacrifice pieces, which I'm sure might be useful in weird edge cases.)

Yup! That's also how R/B/Q behave with friendly pieces.

I think with standard chess pieces, the two are equivalent? Only Knights can go over squares with friendly pieces, and anytime it could take a path over the barrier, it could reach the same square without doing so.

With alternate pieces (historic or otherwise), they could play differently, though.

From my chorus days (decades ago) I always enjoyed range-extending warmups - eg, sing down along a major scale (from 5th to root) (we said lua ("loo-wah") for each note). Then do it again a halftone lower. Start comfortably in-range, repeat until the low notes become "uh, no".

Oi. So sorry! <hugs>

(Er, "it" = "the podcast", not just that segment. Badly phrased, sorry.)

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Because you posted I found your podcast, so you did me a solid! Listening to the segment with with Dr. Dashiell now and appreciating it a lot.

I noticed this, as well as an assumption of "mom" for stay-at-home parents' groups.

It was frustrating... but also a life lesson in what lack of representation can feel like. And I only needed to deal with it in this one area, rather than all the areas historically barred to women + minorities.

I tried Kagi a while back - 3-4 years? - and concluded at that time that they weren't yet enough-better to bother switching/paying, but that I should check back.

Now they're sufficiently better-than-before that I'd consider switching/paying even if Google etc. hadn't gotten worse. Which, um. <sigh>