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zxqwas, to asklemmy in Do you feel a UBI is more left- or right-wing (or other) and why?

Mid 30 Scandinavian right/libertarian leaning.

You can argue for it from both sides.

The right want a small government and to encourage entrepreneurs to take risks. The left want a strong social support system for the unfortunate.

From what I’ve read about it it seems like a good idea. The big question is how you implement it at scale without crashing the current system that works reasonably well.

zxqwas, to asklemmy in What prevents you from going to bed early?

My body seems to default to a day slightly longer than 24 hours.

This gets worse during summer/winter when daylight does not help in keeping my sleeping habits in check.

zxqwas, to asklemmy in What Kind of Natural Disasters Occur Where You Live? And How Have You Prepared for Them?

Got non perishable food for about a week at home.

-40 temperatures every few years. I live in an apartment so I’m not allowed to install a fireplace and can’t really make changes to the heating system. Got a heap of candles that could keep a small room above freezing for a day or two.

Excessive amounts of snow. 4WD and can work remotely.

zxqwas, to asklemmy in Do you have a heat pump? Is it noisy?

Visited family for new years and slept next to one. It made about as much noise as their fridge. It’s most likely a newer model.

zxqwas, to asklemmy in Does wind power cause visual pollution in your opinion?

Yes. I would not want a row of them in my way looking out over the wilderness that I live next to.

Looking out over the town or farmland I don’t really care.

zxqwas, to asklemmy in Mayo, mustard or ketchup?

Grilled sausage in the forest: mustard.

On my pasta earlier this week: ketchup.

On my sandwich this morning: Mayo.

There is a time and place for everything.

zxqwas, (edited ) to asklemmy in What companies have made your blacklist?

Apple. Vendor lock-in and anti-competitive practice. I’d boycott Google too but at the time of writing I can’t dump the mail for example.

Tesla, until they sign an agreement with the Unions in Sweden. I’m voting right, I’m not a member of an union, but if you want to do business here you follow our culture and norms.

Probably half a dozen more I can’t think of now.

zxqwas, to linux in What are people daily driving these days?

In my case it was because Ubuntu broke on me for whatever reason (and the threat of snap packages looming).

I did not feel like putting anymore effort into getting the computer back to working so I just switched to something not Ubuntuoid at semi random to anything that promised an easy installation.

A year later and it’s still working. I’ll notify you when it breaks so you can tell me “I told you so”.

zxqwas, to asklemmy in Why do most people refuse to accept that they are wrong

When I feel like I am getting dragged into an argument on the internet I try to remember that when two people argue at least 50% of them are wrong.

zxqwas, to asklemmy in Lemmy, recommend me a good budget Android phone please

I use a a Motorola g30. Was the cheapest one in the shop a few years back. Not too inundated by bloatware.

zxqwas, to memes in Lookin at you Blahaja Zone

Troll grade: C-.

zxqwas, to asklemmy in Is there such a thing as too much privacy?

I want to be secure from bad actors myself. Currently there is no technology that would safely let government break encryption without letting bad actors use the same backdoor to empty your bank account. Sure they would not be given the key but there is a huge incentive for them to try to find it.

Also how would you make sure a bad actor don’t make their own app with unbroken encryption and running a system without client side scanning? Again there is huge incentive to do this and the information how is publicly available.

So in the end bad actors get their private conversation while law abiding citizens don’t.

zxqwas, to asklemmy in What do you like about the vehicle you drive and would you have changed anythin about it?

2015 Toyota RAV4. Reliable and does everything I need a car for. Cheap-ish too.

I live in the very north Scandinavia. I go hunting and need a 4wd for that. 25% of my mileage is long drives in Arctic winter conditions. Electric cars that manage this drive were 2-3 times as expensive and I’d have to drive 2-3 times as far every year even when electricity is free to motivate the expense.

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