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More like history has proven that the majority of the poor spend their money wisely just fine, but those wise decisions, by necessity, must exclude things like savings, investments, buying in bulk, replacing worn-out or damaged things when repairs are possible, buying new instead of used, etc. The money one might normally spend on those things just. is. not. there. when you're poor.

Sure, there are outliers who trade their benefits for cash, but they're not absolutely representative. The USDA claims about 1 percent [*] of all SNAP benefits are sold for cash, and that includes people who just use that cash to top off their rent, utilities, and so on, instead of "frivolous" stuff.

Incidentally, there are few limits on what you can spend it on these days, so long as it would ordinarily be considered "food". There's also no sales tax applied to purchases paid for by EBT.

[*] That "1 percent" figure is 10 years old now, but USDA says on their website that it's the most recent, and that it's down from 4 percent in 1993. I think it's reasonable to assume it's about the same today, if not gone down further.

around $6k/year

That's not even starvation income. No one can live on that, since you're also proposing cutting off all non-medical assistance. Hell, that won't even cover the rent alone in most places.

[...] equivalent of minimum wage

Learn to math. 35 hours/week, $7.25/hour, and losing two weeks a year to unpaid vacation, sick time, etc., would be a gross of about $12688/year, or $1057/month. That's survivable in most areas only if you get HUD.

Get some roommates, a bus pass, not a car, etc

Sure... that might work for a year or two, if you're in your 20's and living in a city large enough to have mass transit. Not so useful an idea for the demographics that need it the most.

You know, that middle-age couple with two kids, living just up the street, who worked their asses off in gainful employment to build a good life, only to fall on hard times, or the veteran at the other end of the street, who lost his legs to an IED in Bumfuckistan, or the guy next door who just reached retirement age, but has no pension, because his employer cheated him out of it.

spending money

How about at least covering rent, phone, utilities, and food and a little extra for other basic necessities like fuel, insurance, and inspection/tags/taxes to keep that old $500 clunker legal and running, clothing. One could make a good argument for filing Internet access under "necessities", as well.

A UBI program, done right, would pay each recipient whatever amount is needed to meet these necessities in their area. The whole damn point is to prevent homelessness and keep people well enough to be productive, if they can at all. No one's asking for UBI to pay for some lavish, caviar-every-day lifestyle, for fuck sake.

I am certain that the vast majority of such recipients who can work, still would. Why? Because after a while, retirement becomes utterly MIND-NUMBING and depressing when you don't have enough money to keep yourself occupied doing stuff, going places, etc. after paying the bills, and I speak from experience.

Or, there's this little magic box about the volume of a deck of cards that can put you into contact with the store by [*gasp*] voice.

Heaven forbid, someone should have to use one of those weird little things.....

Who has the ability? How about the person or people in charge of the private website on which said review is posted/shared?

Don't want your noise (and yes, a lot of so-called "free speech", whether it's a review, or something else, is nothing but valueless noise) taken down or censored? Post it on your own website.

You do not have the right to demand someone else aid you in circulating your commentary.

oh, and it's http://forum.minetest.net./ Slashdot ate my link

s/I now/I guess now/

Minor edit: l now they're called just "games" instead of "sub games". Meh, guess I forgot :-P

I've noticed, but the joke's still relevant regardless of who owns the site.

*clears throat*

There is a good selection of content - in the form of mods (at least a few hundred, but I can't give you an exact count), mod packs, texture packs, and what we call "sub-games", which can be anything from minor changes to a complete overhaul of the game play.

All mods/modpacks are open source, written in Lua. The engine supports acceleration via LuaJIT, and the modding API can be enhanced/expanded with libraries such as luasocket (for example, IRC for command and control, or to link several servers' chats together via a common #channel). Most mods are true FOSS, but the exact licenses naturally vary by author.

Mods run on the server (or server-process); a basic client modding API is present as well, which individual players may take advantage of if they want. Such mods are installed by the player, and only alter their client's behavior - what one player has installed has no appreciable effect on anyone else or on the server (or that's the intent of client-supplied mods anyway). Server-supplied client mods are on the engine road map. Unlike MC, players do not have to mod their clients to match a server's mods, and they are free to install any mods they want for their own, single-player use, regardless of what their favorite servers have.

If you can think of it, there's a good chance a mod exists to supply it, except that our mods can't change the engine or shaders (there's generally no need to do so in the former case, and the latter is currently a controversial topic).

There's a good selection of public game servers as well. Couple hundred at the moment on the public list (the number varies), plus however many private/unlisted ones there are.

Servers (or single-player mode) can operate in creative or survival mode, and the latter can be anywhere from easy to hardcore. Hybrid operation is possible too (i.e. some level of survival, with creative rights given to selected individuals, as the admin sees fit).

The standard Minetest package comes with a command-line server application, plus the client can be used to host a server from one of the user's local worlds (using whatever mods that world is configured to use).

The client features an in-game mini-map, and external utilities exist to generate large overviews, even interactive pan/zoom maps, such as this one on my website.

Both the engine core and the default game content (which is itself a sub-game) are under active development, though the developers would surely appreciate more contributions.

Get it from the official website or get the engine source from the official Github repository. The default sub-game comes with the package on the Minetest website, or get it from its official Github repository. Note: on both repos, the "master" branch is "unstable" development leading up to 5.0.0. Visitors will probably want the "stable-0.4" branch. Oh, and no, that's not a typo - the version scheme changed after the 0.4 series, to drop that leading zero.

Android and iOS clients exist, too, but I make no recommendations one way or another on those.

We also have an active discussion forum, which also serves as a prominent place to release new content. There's also the official Minetest content database, another place new content can be released.

Full disclosure: I'm a prominent member of the Minetest community: modder, texture pack author, and server operator (two easy survival, two creative, one nostalgic, plus a couple that I host for friends). So I'm a little biased. :-)

Note: if someone tells you to use some links other than what I gave above, disregard that person's links and claims.

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In fact, there is. FB has this "memories" feature that comes up once in a while, in-line in your feed, where you get the option to immediately re-share an old post of yours. Usually it suggests a particular photo, or at least something that got a bit of attention the first time around. Sometimes one post, sometimes it offers a selection (or maybe always, I forget).

What's offered can be anywhere from several months to several years old; I see such re-shares from others frequently in my feed, and I've used it myself once or twice.

As for this vote-up/vote-down feature, I've seen it on a few threads, and it's about fucking time FB got it. Welcome to two decades ago, guys. :-P

Fire one million.

Or those ones about "your" credit account or car warranty (neither of which I have, natch).

Or...the latest one, which kinda creeped me out: "Please stop whatever you're doing and listen to this imp--" *click*

Kinda makes me long for the days when I could slam the receiver down on the switch-hook to terminate the call, as if to say "take THAT!", which you just don't get by tapping "end call".

No love for Hotbot and World Wide Web Worm?