JoMiran

I'll have you know that Utah Fried Chicken is pretty good, especially when fries come out with extra fry sauce.

UBI in The Expanse was often referred to as "basic". Every citizen of Earth was entitled to "basic", full stop. Basic was enough to survive and not much more (food, shelter, ans no frills living). It is a floor below which you cannot sink. The "negativity" comes not from basic but from the fact that there just isn't enough work for everyone so there isn't a way to rise above basic for most. This is a reality we are going to face whether we implement a floor like UBI or not.

In other words, UBI is something we HAVE TO implement, but it isn't realistic to believe that it will make everyone's existence idyllic.

...open-source advocates from places like Bluesky, Threads...

WHAT?!?

Not that I have found. We need one.

Bruv, I just got it. I need a minute to learn. ;-)

I have Renoise (tracker Daw), an Polyend Tracker (full size) and the M8. I found the Polyend hardware tracker to be the worst of both worlds. Not powerful enough to compete with the relatively inexpensive Renoise DAW and not portable like the M8. The workflow of the M8 and Renoise/Polyend are vastly different.

If you want flexibility and power. Renoise.
If you want portability and inspiration. M8.
If you want Renoise but hate DAWs and want buttons and knobs. Polyend.

Medium dog with a small mouth. His Min-Pin brother is a third the size and will happily grab the oversized tennis balls because he's got the mouth of a tazmanian devil.

I am a proponent of UBI, but I'm also realistic about what it will likely look like in the future. The truth is that we do not really have a choice. We have to start working towards UBI.

If you want a realistic and likely scenario of what a global UBI implementation could look like, Iook no further than The Expanse book series (not well covered in the TV series).

My dog makes this call at least a dozen times a day. I tried getting him slightly larger balls that won't roll under the furniture, but he hates them.

I'm a bisexual gen-x man. For my entire single life I was told that I was just gay and "hadn't come to terms" with it. Even after marrying a woman, my wife still got shit about how one day I'd realize I am gay and leave.

I never understood the need to label or pigeonhole everything. Maybe we, all of us, are just people who love. Who we love should be nobody's business.