Given how one of the benefits of a properly implemented UBI is supposed to be much less overhead than the current crapshow, is your issue truly with UBI itself or are you just expecting the government to make a half-assed mess of it too?

People are already dependent on their government for a living; the government already decides how much tax each person pays and what (who) that tax is spent on.

The (theoretical) difference with UBI is that everyone gets to know exactly how much everyone else is getting out of the deal, instead of the current setup where conveniently complex rules let the unscrupulous exploit the system.

Asking as an ignorant foreigner, how does the US government reconcile the use of coercing testimony from a witness with the First Amendment?

"The world's largest multi-reactor nuclear plant is above 8GW. And it provides that in just over 1000 acres."

Mostly out of curiosity, does that include the mines supplying the fuel?

"That is, the government can force Apple or Google to create a backdoor for the government to decrypt your messages."

What happens if Apple and Google's response is to take all their balls and go home, and 25 million Australians wake up to the following message on their iPhones, iPads, iMacs, Chromebooks, Android devices, etc:

"Error 451. The requested resource is not available due to an attempt by the Australian government to enable the installation of secret surveillance on our customers. We have withdrawn all services from Australia until this issue is resolved."

No apple/google maps, no apple/google email, no apple/google search, no apple/google app stores, no youtube, nada. Nothing that needs to talk to an Apple or Google server works anymore. What a wonderful Christmas present for Aussie voters...

Could you explain how?

What if you want to use an app that lets you display/manipulate your contacts database in ways that aren't already supported by the default app included with the OS?

Tangentially, I'm disappointed that the Google Play Store doesn't let us filter our app searches by their permissions, e.g. "apps that don't demand access to our contacts" and/or "apps that don't demand access to our call history".

If I was a statistician, presumably the same way I'd do it for any other study examining how a state's policies affected its economy versus that of other states that didn't enact those policies? Since I'm not, I guess (if I cared enough) I'd ask a bunch of other universities to peer review it and/or do their own studies and see what they found (whether "yeah the work looks sound" or "they can't even carry a two").

Besides, actually reading the study itself, this is the conclusion's TLDR: "The employment to population ratio in Alaska after the introduction of the dividend is similar to that of synthetic control states. On the other hand, the share of people employed part-time in the overall population increases by 1.8 percentage points after the introduction of the dividend and relative to the synthetic controls. The unconditional cash transfer thus has no significant effect on employment, yet increases part-time work."

That's it. But somehow the phrase "Universal Basic Income" seems to have become a sorcerous incantation with which to conjure a multitude of armchair economists.

The other 49 states?

"They are claiming we should be worried despite admitting we had no idea the ocean could absorb heat a lot faster than we thought which seems like it helps mitigate the danger greatly, all models now being wrong in terms of some excess heat taken up by the oceans."

The study isn't saying that the ocean is able to absorb more heat, it's that more of the heat is going into the oceans _instead of into space_.

Think of it like fueling a car: it turns out we're pumping gasoline into the tank at a faster rate than we thought, but that doesn't make the tank any bigger.

The scientists are worried because when the tank (oceans) is full, the gasoline (heat) is going to start spilling out onto the road (atmosphere) instead. At that point our only choices will be to stand in a rapidly growing pool of gasoline or hit the Emergency Stop on civilization.

Has LO yet fixed the PDF export bug that occasionally and secretly* mangles your text just because you used a different font? I went back to OO because of this.

* In LO, at least the 5.x and 6.x versions I've used, the text in the exported PDF _looks_ fine but if you actually highlight and copy-paste it, the results are occasionally not what you'd expect.

So if you are ever falsely convicted of a crime due to your elected government creating an environment that encourages the police and prosecutors to be more interested in looking good than in being good, you're fine with having your ultimate First Amendment right - to change that government - muzzled?

Innocent people haven't magically stopped going to prison. Responsible government depends on checks and balances, while prisons are increasingly being operated as commercial, for-profit companies, complete with lobbyists and political financing. I hope you can do the math.

Thankyou. I can see where I've been messing up now. I regret I can't edit my original reply to go "strike that, I totally dun goofed, mod parent up (more)."

Sorry, my bad. Per my reply to your other post, I'd still like to see your step-through of the car-car scenario from the reference frame of one of the cars (pre-collision, since as you point out it's an inertial frame) so that I can understand the process.

Could you please now show me through the same steps but with the car-car scenario, with the frame of reference of one of the cars prior to the collision?