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  • LesserAbe@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlZen Z
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    1 month ago

    You’re right it’s good to prepare young people for challenges. Still, that should mean challenges that would come up anyways, not artificially making things more difficult.

    It’s good to know how to read an analog clock, just like it’s good to be able to read cursive. But both of them are outdated and aren’t inherently required in day to day life. Inserting them into a testing situation that’s meant to test something else is creating an unnecessary challenge.







  • Very detailed, thanks for sharing.

    I sense that you may get some satisfaction from the attention to detail and process itself. Discounting those, do you think that reselling items on eBay is ever a reasonable proposition as a primary source of income, or is it always a side hustle? Do you consider there to be better ways to resell? (Obviously that answer will depend on what’s being sold)


  • One thing to keep an eye on as far as services is to make sure they’re used by all classes of people. In the states there’s public housing but it’s seen as inferior (and usually is actually inferior). So only the poor use it, which means it has no powerful defenders. And for most people who already own a home, they would never consider getting rid of it to move into public housing.

    One advantage of UBI is that everyone gets it, so everyone will have an incentive to defend it. Think about social security - every so often politicians talk about how we might need to cut, but that would be political suicide because of how many people are invested in getting that payout.



  • My wife gets a ton of political texts intended for me. Best I can tell is because her cell phone number is under my name with T-Mobile. (Used to be a Sprint account before the merger) I’ve never used her number to sign up for anything under my name. So it would seem either Sprint sold it or an employee leaked it or something.

    I have a Google voice number and pretty much don’t get political texts. The Google voice number rings a T-Mobile prepaid phone, that number doesn’t get political texts either.