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mozz OP , 2 months ago to Work Reform in New Study: A $500 monthly basic income led to significant employment growth, enhanced savings, improved debt management, and better quality of life

He means reduce wages by $500/month to account for the existence of the program

It's a valid question I think; I kind of suspect that it doesn't work that way (that the outcome would be more similar to "wah nobody wants to work for $12/hr anymore" and no workers), but I don't know enough to say for sure.

mozz OP , 3 months ago to U.S. News in Bird flu detected in person who had contact with infected dairy cattle in Texas

Yeah it is 100% because of massive chicken and beef farms. I saw some scientists who study these diseases say basically, this is an important enough issue (and is going to keep happening for as long as we're doing factory chicken farming) that we should be transitioning away from factory chickens and back to small independent farms that don't create such perfect petri dishes for human-harmful diseases. Sadly their advice has a 0% change of being implemented before something really, really bad happens because of it.

mozz OP , 3 months ago to U.S. News in Crystal Mason: Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error acquitted

Jesus Christ

I expected it to be corrupt, but I didn't expect it to be that corrupt.

mozz OP , 3 months ago to U.S. News in Crystal Mason: Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error acquitted

I bet he won't be facing 5 years

mozz OP , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Work Reform in The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis

Where are you getting this? To me it looks like household size dropped precipitously between 1947 and 1990, and then stabilized around 2.6 in 1990, and now it's around 2.5. I think rent has gone up a little more than 4% since 1990 though.

I actually would guess that you're probably right about an increase in single people or couples or empty nesters as compared with big families, but that it's been offset by a rise in young or semi-young adults living with roommates. That's just me guessing though.

mozz OP , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Work Reform in The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis

It doesn't say, which is a little weird. This article explains it better.

Basically as I understand it, before the 1980s, the government owned a lot of the housing and rented it to people at fixed prices. This meant that renting your property out purely for profit was tough, and a lot of landlords actually sold their property to the government as council housing. That changed under Thatcher, who enabled private sales of the council housing, which originally sounded like a good idea (you can own the home you're already living in instead of renting it from the government), but increased privatization led to rent for profit led to inflation of monthly rent led to oh no.

The simple fix I suspect, is for the government to start buying up properties again for rent-at-reasonable-prices to tenants, competing with private landlords and poking a hole in the bubble of ever-increasing rents (with popping the bubble giving a lot of extra leverage of societal benefit as compared with the amount of money they're actually putting into the system.)

mozz , 3 months ago to xkcd in xkcd #2909: Moon Landing Mission Profiles

"Potentially taking longer"

mozz , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Home Improvement in Smelly plumbing mystery - what is this? (extra pics in comments)

Sewer lines need to be vented in order not to create a pressure differential that causes problems. There are a couple different approaches, but that shit isn't one of them; it kind of looks like something a plumber just threw in there to solve their immediate problem and then scooted away from free of consequence.

I wouldn't recommend plugging it, as you might be taking away a needed vent from the whole system... the two options I could see would be:

• Hire a plumber to fix the bullshit in more proper fashion
• Replace that rubber hose at the end with a longer hose, and put the open end at the bottom of a bucket that you keep filled with water (either in the sink or on the ground). You're effectively creating a weird custom type of P-trap. It's ghetto but it'll solve the smell problem while still allowing pressure to equalize, I think. You might want to ask your plumber if that would be a sensible solution just to double-check.

mozz , 3 months ago to Work Reform in Knights among toner cartridges

There's a music video about this

mozz , 4 months ago to U.S. News in US journalist Tim Burke indicted for accessing unaired footage of Tucker Carlson and others at Fox News

No. Trespassing is generally considered trespassing even if the door is unlocked. Your the one arguing that it makes a difference if the door is unlocked or if the door is locked by the key posted in plain sight.

So... I am not a lawyer and I didn't use any specific terminology like "trespassing." I'm just saying how I see it and maybe I am wrong. Any sort of argument that's based on talking about physical access with a key and crimes committed by physical access is likely to be 100% disconnected from whatever happens legally to him because of what he did electronically. I'm just sorta making a non-legal analogy about how I see it.

We are talking about one journalist being invited into an another news agencies archive. This isn’t that uncommon of an occurrence, otherwise no agency would otherwise know what footage was available to license from their competitors.

Hm... maybe.

I don't think it's reasonable to compare being invited to have access to an archive, to being "invited" by some sort of whistleblower to come in and see what you can find when both of you know the actual server operator wouldn't be happy with the nature of your access.

But that's me making some assumptions about the nature of the archive and how public the demo credentials were. A lot depends on details that weren't really available in this one news story, and it sorta sounds like I'm assuming the details were one way and you're assuming they were the other way, when in reality it could have been either (again just based on this one story).

mozz , 4 months ago to U.S. News in Pastor’s Sermon Implying Women in Shorts Deserve to Be Raped Prompts Response

Fair point

mozz , 4 months ago to U.S. News in US journalist Tim Burke indicted for accessing unaired footage of Tucker Carlson and others at Fox News

In that scenario how do you propose that the key under the mat is any different than if the door wasn’t locked in the first place?

Surely you are joking

What if one of the workers at the business invites you in to quietly look around?

This is actually an excellent analogy. Yes, if one of the workers says hey I happen to know there's a key at such-and-such location; don't tell anyone I told you, and then you take it from there you an go in and look around, that to me is clearly criminal. You know you're not supposed to be there.

The analogy of keys <-> login credentials is a pretty good one. You can make a case "hey I was just walking around, I'm allowed to walk around" and that's reasonable, just like accessing random URLs or opening dev tools. That's all legit. Until you encounter a locked door and overcome the locking mechanism in some fashion when you know you haven't been given access by the owner to be there, at which point it's clearly unauthorized access. It doesn't matter if the lock is pretty easy to pick or the key is poorly hidden.

I mean, you can make a case hey I'm a journalist and me accessing this stuff is in the public interest. And that sounds pretty accurate in this case. I'm just saying the "he had to break in to get access to it" side of the argument sounds pretty accurate as well.

mozz , 4 months ago to U.S. News in US journalist Tim Burke indicted for accessing unaired footage of Tucker Carlson and others at Fox News

A key under a doormat is freely available to anyone who knows to pick up the mat. Does that mean it's automatically legal to pick up the mat, find the key, use it to open up the house, and go inside?

mozz , 4 months ago to U.S. News in Pastor’s Sermon Implying Women in Shorts Deserve to Be Raped Prompts Response

Here's what I don't get: In a lot of churches, isn't the guy standing up at front supposed to be telling you literally the word of God? Like God's anointed representative on earth? I know that's how it's supposed to work for the pope; like it's officially supposed to be absolutely impossible for the pope to ever be wrong in any statements about anything. Shouldn't this seem to the church goers like finding out that your doctor actually doesn't have a medical degree? Or like he thinks your heart is in your leg or something? It seems like "oops I made a mistake, I definitely know it's in the chest now, we all live and learn sometimes" should not by any means be the end of that conversation.

mozz , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to U.S. News in US journalist Tim Burke indicted for accessing unaired footage of Tucker Carlson and others at Fox News

Burke’s lawyers said in that filing that he had merely used publicly available login credentials to access LiveU’s feed, after a “confidential source” showed him where to find the details

Doesn’t sound like they were all that publicly available

Burke’s attorneys called his work “intrepid and perfectly legal,” comparing his use of the login credentials to the sharing of a Netflix password.

I only know literally what I just read in this story, and I’m happy about bro spreading the word about anything nuts that Kanye or Tucker are doing, but this to me doesn’t sound like a real airtight way of justifying that what he did was legal.