Mansfield Mule

Explaining is not defending

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.

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.

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

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.

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

pfd.alaska.gov

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.

Casablanca (1942) ⭐ 8.5 | Drama, Romance, War 1h 42m | PG

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.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0034...

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...

Dry thunderstorm - Wikipedia

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...

This whole thread nails it

Many Native American nations had leaders, who lacked the power to compel, not rulers, who have that power. They did not give that up willingly.
I don't think most people would want rulers if they could avoid it. Democracy is just the least onerous system people do not want

Are global narratives about Africa really based on map projections? Is there evidence for that?

I questioned this number but it seems more or less correct.
"In January 2025, 53.3 million immigrants lived in the United States"
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

FBI descends on ex-Trump official John Bolton's home in early morning raid: report Former Donald Trump advisor John Bolton is the subject of an early morning raid being conducted by the FBI, The Bulwark is reporting.Bolstered by live video being streamed by Lawfare’s Ben Wittes whic...

John Bolton is one of the least sympathetic people this could happen to but still
This is full on naked fascism
www.rawstory.com/trump-bolton...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_f...

Trump deploying troops to blue cities would be more concerning if the US army had won a war in my lifetime

I grew up in a town that doesn’t exist. For real.
It lasted for over 100 years. It existed while I was growing up. Then in the 90s they gave up and it doesn’t exist anymore.

‘Moscow must hear: stop,’ says Zelenskyy as he warns against rewarding Russia for war ahead of Trump meeting – Ukraine war live Ukrainian president says ‘the war must be ended’ as he prepares to meet Donald Trump in Washington DC alongside European leaders

Maybe Zelenskyy should offer to trade territory for the Epstein files

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Nobody who wrecked the world economy was punished and the torturers still walk free

Normalize asking ICE agents, “what went wrong with your life that you wound up here?“

Didn't someone say once something like, "if you keep calling every proposal that would improve people's lives 'socialism' eventually they'll start thinking socialism is a good idea"

Roberts was there too
gigafact.org/fact-briefs/...

The thing I dislike most about Gavin Newsom is that he keeps doing things that make me think I shouldn't dislike him as much as I do

To Prime Minister Netanyahu, an open letter from 23 economists at universities in the US and Europe. We urge you to read it.

drive.google.com/file/d/1D_Sv...

"No mother should have to go thru the grief of having her child shot." Says woman in support of Trump sending troops out to shoot people's children

Gotta love signs saying “keep the government hands off the water!“ on farmland that only exists because of government water projects

Physical keys were a near-perfect solution...compact, durable and cheap.
Fobs are stupid...bulky, hackable, need batteries and hella expensive if you damage or lose one.

Debt-to-income ratios for mortgages are 28% for conventional loans and 31% for FHA loans.
Spending 30% of your income on housing is normal

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-to...

Netanyahu should get a Nobel prize for successfully completing the decades-long struggle for Palestinian statehood