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The Daily Mail. Really. On this week's episode of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast, they spoke at length about framing one's message. Take a look at how that Daily Mail article is framed and tell me it's not trying to push an agenda. I mean... Mexican boxer Brianda Tamara Cruz said she was...

Quick search found this: https://www.givedirectly.org/2023-ubi-results/ Thanks - that's certainly relevant, but I'm pretty sure the one I was thinking of was in Iceland, and it found almost exactly the same thing - giving people money did not disincentivise work. It might have been Finland. Or it m...

Meadmaker wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2024 3:51 amGrand Fenwick would have aircraft carriers, too, if they could afford them.

Grand Fenwick doesn't need them. They have the Q-bomb.

Source please.

It might surprise you to know that Algeria is a major exporter of petroleum and petroleum products, in 2023 its estimated GDP was US$224.10 billion, and this year the World Bank reclassified it as an upper-middle-income country.

"One step up from a cave" is insultingly inaccurate.

But what if, instead of earning double, you would earn 20% more by working? I think an awful lot of people would choose not to work. (Especially when you factor in that there is often a cost of working, in the form of transporation, food, or clothing that is only required for the job. If there's ch...

On the other hand, if you just give people money for nothing, then many people are perfectly willing to contribute nothing and live off the labor of other people. First, the evidence has shown that the number of people who will do that is far fewer than you might expect. Second, even if a thousand ...

I agree. In much of the rest of the developed world, religion is an afterthought at best. America is just taking a while to catch up.

It's hard not to like a place that has a patron saint of dogs.

Meadmaker wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 1:47 amETA: When I was young, I thought large scale education subsidies and subsidized student loans were a good idea. Then I grew up.

I take it you'd be against the idea of a Universal Basic Income then.