What does it mean that it’s an Indonesian hospital? Is that just it’s name?

I don’t know how it would be paid for. It’s probably prohibitively expensive. But I think it would be cheaper than the product of UBI*population. Poverty is very expensive for a country, and would be reduced by like 80% (made up number).

I’d draw money from my other pie in the sky policies, like ~100% marginal tax on wealth above $500M, and on incomes above $5M/yr. Realistically, I think this would cause wealth flight, so it would have to be global to work.

I don’t expect any of this to happen in my lifetime. A more realistic hope is a UBI that you can’t survive on, but that keeps you from poverty. Maybe a UBI that equals the poverty line. But then I’d want to keep the minimum wage.

My pie in the sky hope for UBI is that it would be large enough so that you don’t need to work to live, maybe with some frugality.

At that point I’d be fine with scrapping minimum wage altogether. Companies would have to offer a job/salary that attracts people who aren’t desperate.

It would be much easier to quit a job. And I think it would broadly increase the value of labor. Automation would increase, but that wouldn’t be a problem, because its no longer a problem to be unemployed.

I think local time would work pretty much the same with a single time zone.

Single time zone: You get to a new place and look up what time is good for breakfast here

Many time zones: You get to a new place and look up what time zone you’re in.

Either way you need to look up what the local time is. But with a single time zone, i think the breakfast time and work hours would be a bit better attuned to sunrise/sunset at your location.

To me, the main difference is more philosophical. I think it’d encourage a more global perspective.

Edit to add: it’s more of a pie in the sky wish. I dont think it would be worthwhile to actually remove time zones. It would be very expensive for not a lot of gain. In the same vein, I’d like to:

sort out our calendar (evenly sized months, dates corresponding to weekdays, and not have prime number of weekdays),

sort out our time units. Lets keep it all in the same base (not 24h days and 60min per hour)

transition to a base-12 numeric system. It’s just much more satisfying.

Lets just do a single time zone

I don’t know anything. Why not the spirit?

I’ve been told he’s really concerned about additives in food, pointing to the regulations in the EU favorably. Im also concerned about the poor quality of food regulations and enforcement in the US. So I’ve been cautiously optimistic on that front.

Should I not be optimistic? Am I misinformed? Has he said/done things to undermine this position? I haven’t followed RFK particularly close.

They do. But one thing that bugs me about the nutrition labels in the US is that they show “amount per serving”, rather than per 100ml or per 100g, which they have in the EU (at least in Sweden). it makes it a step harder to compare nutrition labels in the US.

I also feel judged when they tell me a bag of chips contains many servings.

Nice try FBI

What do you do for a living? How does NPD impact your work? Is it beneficial or detrimental? I imagine there are careers that would be particularly suited for someone with NPD.

I’m a big fan of the higher density housing being built everywhere

Only 0.001% randomly selected books get a fanbase.

TIL fake books are sold. It has never crossed my mind to check a book like that.

I recommend the podcast Jack by MuellerSheWrote for those who want to follow the case

His family should put him in a home

National rent control

Good thing it’s stern. I don’t think they’ll stop otherwise.

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Don’t know much mythology. Do Thunderbird and Firefox count?

Edit. Just realized those aren’t version codenames.