""The only way to pay for UBI is to massively tax those enormously rich people who own the UBI machines," said Jesse Rothstein, a professor"

What about a sovereign wealth fund?

As for hyperinflation parties, if you index everything why should you care except out of nostalgia for obsolete times?

"I am surprised that a site suppsedly full of computer scientists is the least bit surprised that AI can be good at mathematical proofs."

"You're fighting a strawman."

Are you saying Gweihir is made of straw?

Thought I recognized one name, Cavill, but never saw anything they listed for him. Musta been somebody else. Hollywood continues its streak of not being part of my life.

"Act of God" is a legal term of art. You should be blaming lawyers and governments.

Got me curioser, so I googled it. One source said what I thought:

https://www.scientificamerican...

"Because gravity is necessary for density differences to arise, neither buoyancy nor convection occur in a zero-gravity environment such as space. Consequently, the combustion products accumulate around the flame, preventing sufficient oxygen from reaching it and sustaining the combustion reaction. Ultimately the flame goes out."

and

"Researchers learned that flames extinguish themselves."

and

"Oxygen could still reach a flame in a gravity-free environment if someone blew the gas into the flame or let it "diffuse" in. It is the diffusion process that spreads the scent of a perfume in a room without air circulation: the perfume slowly mixes with the air to try to achieve a uniform distribution. This process, however, is too slow to sustain a flame."

Other sites don't directly contradict this, but say fires in the ISS are dangerous because smoke doesn't rise and set off smoke detectors on ceilings like in homes, so they install smoke detectors in the ventilation ducts. Also that fires on the ISS can survive on lower levels of oxygen than humans, and thus are much more dangerous if they linger on. That's confusing; if the smoke doesn't rise, then wouldn't it smother the fire like the first site says? But if the ISS has moving air from ventilation ducts, maybe that is what feeds oxygen to the fires.

Thanks for tricking me into not being so lazy :-) But all I learned is that I don't know.

Doesn't weightlessness make fires much less dangerous, since heat no longer rises and can't suck in the oxygen they need?

Can you leave the forests alone now while protecting your precious cribs?

Huh?

Are you obe of those miswired sense freaks who can actually smell words on a page? What if AI hid my posts from you at your browser, thus preserving my right to self-express and your mental hygiene? Win-win?

Is your system so fragile it cannot tolerate even one harmless nonviolent text-only asshole, scapegoating me, then whining about a much bigger threat to their little mental cradle, which I had nothing to do with? So why did they ban me? Why can't I be an asshole and not be the much bigger threat you never even saw coming?