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i'm currently reading this article about lemurs: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuren

(it's in german, english equivalent would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemur )

and so i learned that smaller individuals tend to be active in the night, while larger individuals tend to be active in the daytime? can that be generalized to humans too? how many of you are small and night-active?

ist denke ich selbsterklärend.

there's more, ofc, on other parts of the map:

ok so over the years i've been a big fan of UBI (Universal Basic Income), obviously. It would benefit people.

So how to pay for it? Some say we need to tax wealth (and i agree). But interestingly, even if you can't agree on taxes for some reason (corruption), we would still be able to pay for it.

According to this site: US Debt Clock Live: U.S. National Debt Clock, the US added around $0.75 T (trillion!! equals 1000 billions equals a million million just for a note) and $2T of new debt each years on average for the last 20 years.

How much would it cost to hand each person (let's stay in the US for this calculation) $300 each month? The US has roughly 330 million inhabitants, so $300 /(person month) * 12 months/year * 330 million people = roughly $1T dollars each year. That's already the amount that the US is printing anew each year anyways. So it wouldn't cause extra inflation (besides what we already have) if we gave that money to the people directly. It's not a "full income", but it would tremendously help a whole lot of people, especially those for whom $300/month is a whole fucking lot. Thank you for your attention!

The Lindy effect (also known as Lindy's law[1]) is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable thing, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to its current age. Thus, the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, the longer its remaining life expectancy. Longevity implies a resistance to change, obsolescence, or competition, and greater odds of continued existence into the future.[2] Where the Lindy effect applies, mortality rate decreases with time. Mathematically, the Lindy effect corresponds to lifetimes following a Pareto probability distribution.

When you post on reddit, instagram etc. you're giving the company your valuable data. (And it often is valuable, you put your thoughts into it and all that). Consider if you take 15 minutes to create value content, you'd get paid $5 or sth if you were doing it commercially. Now all that value is donated to big tech companies. (that's the only reason why they have value at all.)

So what's the problem with that? The problem is that reddit and others can instantaneously put your years-long effort behind a paywall. I'm not joking. Look at these:

when i want to see content on reddit (for research) or instagram (for local community) they don't allow me to see the data that users have contributed. Reddit claims that it blocks VPNs for "security reasons", meanwhile i'm using VPNs in browser's incognito mode to not be tracked. Instagram wants you to sign in sothat they amass more users and can take leverage of the network effect even more.

I can understand restricting who can post to limit bot activity, but reading must always be possible. After all, it's our data. That's exactly what happens when you give your data to big companies to "communicate with other people": your data becomes a source of income for them, at our expense.

i.e. did nick name people or did people call nick nick?

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