Anjala Huff, a senior director at PSY, said many of the government funding streams that go towards ending youth homelessness have tight rules regarding how the money can be spent. The process can be further complicated by sending money through community based organizations. That’s not so with direct cash transfers.
So a UBI would also streamline a TON of government programs like disability, worker’s comp, welfare, etc
I’m sorry, all the republican governor near you heard that you’re wasting money that could have gone to paying lawyers who will sue womens for getting abortions.
A year ago, China lifted draconian COVID restrictions that were an anvil around the neck of the economy and placed unprecedented controls on a society that, for the previous four decades, had grown accustomed to expanding personal freedoms, not shrinking them
Definitely not true for folks who use digital privacy tools
Cars were so uncommon to people outside of Beijing that they would pay to have their picture taken with a car as a memento or proof to others that they saw a car and they do exist. Motor vehicle production didn’t really pick up until the early 90’s. Before that, manufacturers were only making a couple hundred thousand cars per year in the entire country.
At least that’s how I interpreted it after reading about the Chinese auto market history on Wikipedia and combining it with my own personal history with computers while growing up in a rural town in the US.
I mean, their vaccine is just saltwater and spit just like the Russian one. And they didn’t let anyone catch it at all (or at least they tried) wich means there isn’t a natural resistance either.
So in the end they completely fucked their economy (and the economy of other countries with it… But thats a different story) and just postponed the unavoidable outbreak of covid making it essentially worse than any other country. Oh and thanks to the new outbreaks covid has definitely mutated a lot…
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