Explaining is not defending
Mansfield Mule
@mansfieldmule.bsky.social
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Stubbornness is my superpower
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You’re right. Sorry about that. I saw the post on the follow feed and it truncated it so only the second post showed up. I didn’t see the part about waxing until after your comment.
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If it comes from an undifferentiated general fund people will see it as an expense. But if people see the source as something we collectively own, then they will see it as something everyone has a right to. That will protect it politically.
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Mineral rights are one source. Returns on government funded research are another thing that everyone can recognize as something we all collectively contributed to. There are certainly other creative ways it could be financed and explained
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I agree that it could be returns from a lot of things. I think it is easier to convince people if the money comes from a specific, named thing that we all have shared interest or ownership in.
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If they were proposal was “everything is free” your criticism would be right, but it’s not so you’re not. What they’re proposing is something like
Alaska Department of Revenue - Permanent Fund Dividend
State of Alaska: Department of Revenue - Permanent Fund Division Web Site
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It should be like the Alaska fund, where everyone gets a share of the oil revenues. For the US as a whole, I propose it be based on returns from publicly financed research. And everybody should get it, even those who don’t need it.
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Time for a remake
A cynical New Orleans cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her immigrant husband escape ICE in the French Quarter.
Casablanca (1942) ⭐ 8.5 | Drama, Romance, War
1h 42m | PG
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The grass is so dry that Cal fire advises mowing before 10 AM and never on a hot windy day. Just a spark from a lawnmower can touch off a wildfire.
www.fire.ca.gov/dspace?mod=a...
Defensible Space | CAL FIRE
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There is also dry lightning. The air in California is so dry that rain from thunderstorms evaporates before it hits the ground. The lightning still strikes though and can ignite fires
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_thu...
Dry thunderstorm - Wikipedia
