|| Saturday Clancy //

Rich people already have an equivalent of a universal basic income. They don’t work for their money. They can sit around and collect on their passive investments. Any work they do is optional and for personal enjoyment. They seem to do okay.

People been drinking pasteurized milk for quite a while with no deaths. People who drink unpasteurized milk do sometimes fall ill and some die, especially if they are children. I feel like the choice is kind of obvious.

This is how Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos avoids paying a personal income tax - For the last 20 years he’s had the same salary, $82,000 - He does this because a higher salary that would support his lifestyle would be subject to payroll and income tax, he doesn’t want to pay that - Instead all his money is in his stocks, those are never subject to any taxes as long as they aren’t sold - He takes out a loan and borrows against his stocks - The only money he’ll ever had to pay is the loan and interest on the loan This is common practice for billionaires so they avoid the majority or all of a personal income tax

I'll delete my account if anyone can point me to evidence showing a correlation between increased funding in modern US education and better academic outcomes.

A big win for Make America Healthy Again Both the bags of Lucky Charms and Trix cereal each say they are now colored from natural sources instead of artificial Here’s how General Mills is replacing the colors - Turmeric for yellow/orange tones - Radish juice or red radish concentrate for reds and pinks - Purple carrot juice or black carrot concentrate — for purples and blues. - Annatto (from achiote seeds) for yellows and oranges - Fruit and vegetable juices (from beet, spirulina, or others) for various hues

Holy cow look at the ratio on this 😂 People are so committed to doom and gloom when it comes to AI. It’s going to be ok—as long as we don’t panic during the transition period and give more power to government. Don’t panic.

Working an 8–5 full-day office job is such a trap. You have no time for anything other than work, you come home tired and moody, and then you have to go to bed early just to do the same thing the next day for the next 30 years.

It's funny how AI has made white collar work 10x faster already but there's been basically no economic impact from it. The reason is quite simple: 1. Most white collar work is bullshit, so speeding it up by 10x still equals a pile of bullshit at the end 2. Most white collar employees are using AI to do all their work for the week in 4 hours instead of 40, whilst telling their manager the deadline is still 40 hours away We have been living in a fake economy for the better part of two decades. It is all a fugazi. People who do real jobs in the real world get paid comparatively crap, and people who do fake jobs in the fiat Ponzi world get paid just enough fiat currency to pretend they are important. None of it amounts to anything productive nor valuable for the world though. An entire generation doing fake email jobs, slide decks and excel sheets for corporations who ultimately produce nothing.

An overwhelming majority of Americans support universal healthcare. The insurance and for-profit healthcare industry is against it, and they pay off enough politicians with campaign donations to block it. It’s not a lack of support, it’s an overwhelming amount of corruption.

They just worked harder, you know.

The most radicalizing content on the internet is old footage of Americans shopping in stores 25 years ago. It's calm, quiet, civil, no fighting, no screaming, no phones, it's not overly crowded. You can't quite describe it, but you miss it so deeply.

This book cannot be adapted, and not for any weird legal reason someone might spout out. It is so unbelievably racist, in third grade my teacher was reading this aloud and just had to abruptly stop with no explanation.