Who is the supreme arbiter of what is fact and not?

Moderators, who value civility over truth. Who tolerate trolls and punish those who call them trolls because name calling is "uncivil." Who, as MLK said, are "more devoted to 'order' than to justice."

They try to claim they aren't the arbiters of what is fact and what is not but their moderation powers prove otherwise. They try to claim neutrality, but that's a delusion:

"Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject." --John Stuart Mill, 1867 inaugural address at the University of St. Andrews

If the exemption limit is 15k, you can increase your total income by up to 15k by getting a job, any job. You can further reduce or eliminate the perverse incentive by (I'm updating my suggestion here) not clawing benefits back dollar for dollar past the exemption limit, but perhaps at a rate of .50 per dollar,

Then you would be working for half pay. That brings us back to where "entering low-paid work causes there to be no significant increase in total income".

We should distinguish our definition of welfare trap then. I took it to mean the strictly economic aspect, whereby getting a job that pays as much a or slightly more than one receives on welfare would actually result in a net loss to the person as a result of added costs associated with working.

Using the Wiki's definition, it's not where getting a job results in a net loss but where "entering low-paid work causes there to be no significant increase in total income...and this can create a perverse incentive to not pursue a better paying job."

How exactly would UBI solve the welfare trap? By the standards you're holding me to, if anyone decides not to work in-spite of getting UBI they're still in the trap.

Except that a UBI doesn't "create a perverse incentive to not pursue a better paying job." No perverse incentive=no trap.

Only after you hit that limit (per year) does the assistance get clawed back...some folks will thread the needle so they can work as little as possible in order to keep their welfare at maximum

Thus keeping them in the welfare trap. So it really doesn't solve anything. Thanks anyway for trying!

Controlling what some people can and can't do isn't freedom.

Freedom is a paradox in that you must create and enforce laws--taking freedom from those who would use it to take it from others--in order to maximize freedom for all.

For example, it says it has VGA and "component" output. Is that RGB? At 15kHz for a SCART TV? If it does support that, there are no suitable cables on their website.

If the DIN10 has a Genesis/Mega Drive 2 style pinout (which I think is likely), then it can output 15 kHz RGBS over SCART using a commonly available cable.

But I wonder whether the HD15 connector outputs true 31 kHz VGA, or a 15kHz VGA-like signal.

According to this article, the 117-million-gallon Santa Ynez Reservoir was down for repairs, but that's only a tiny share of the city's 91 billion gallons of water storage. And even if it had been in operation, the water level of that reservoir would have been kept purposely low so it wouldn't go stagnant due to people using less water in the winter.

Which leads to a question: why not use reclaimed water instead of drinking water to put out fires? It doesn't matter so much if that water goes stagnant. Now is a really good time to repipe the neighborhoods that burned down.

But another issue is the way Los Angeles has such a huge urban wildland interface and how it sprawls, making it difficult and expensive to provide fire protection for the area. For example, they need more fire hydrants per capita than a place like New York City.

That money is gone, there's no point in bringing it up now.

When the network inevitably becomes saturated, you will have to spend money to upgrade it. The amortized cost of the upgrade is the incremental cost of each unit of data flowing through the network.

Biomass needs 50 times as much land as PV for the same amount of usable energy.

Then let's use food scraps for that biomass so it needs 0% as much land as PV.

It's really sad when a certain group of Americans argue that manipulating, lying and deception should be considered free speech.

No, what's really sad is when manipulating, lying and deception are treated more favorably by the legal process than publicly calling someone who engages in these acts a manipulator, liar, or deceiver.

The nice thing about the LVT is that it's only assessed on land area, not floor area. This means that with a LVT, each floor of a 4-story building pays 1/4 as much tax as a 1-story building on the same plot of land.

Paying less tax is a good thing, right?

For techies, this is obvious: You go to the actual website of the company, to get their phone number.

Ok but how do you find the company's web site and not an imposter's?