Give me Universal Basic Income and watch me obsessively plant fruit and nut trees in the entire city.

@geistesgift the terms Universal and Basic are REALLY problematic in terms of massively derailing discussions immediately out of the gate. I feel very strongly that Guaranteed Minimum Income avoids a lot of confusion. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-guarantee-inside-the-fight-for-america-s-next-economy-natalie-foster/f7d48a3b05497514

@geistesgift Confound you Samwise Gamgee!

@geistesgift I am writing code slowly instead of mashing five academic disciplines together and doing weird research based on it. And I'm kind of annoyed about it.

@geistesgift It's been a very long-standing situation here. We have people who need work done. We have people who want to do the work. We don't have liquidity and currency in the places where those should be meeting to get things done.

@geistesgift wait, you’d plant female trees? Are you sure that’s allowed?

Currently cities plant only male trees triggering pollen allergies because dealing with wildly sprouting trees is unthinkable.

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Three cheers for UBI.

@geistesgift The flip side of this is the guy my mom hired to fix up her utility room, and some recent notable others, possibly in Minneapolis. This guy sat for four days trying to figure out how to put the plumbing back together, while just going to the unit next door, or taking a pic ahead of time would have given him the layout. He was desperate for work, and in way over his head.

But that's where they want us. Desperate.

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While I'll be at home quietly adding another city of quarter of a million people in the global South to #OpenStreetMap.
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@geistesgift The shit I could be doing with my life if I didn't need to toil for health care and shelter.

@geistesgift this the utopia I'm here for

@codinghorror Sorry, not a native speaker and just ran with the first translation that came to mind

@xgebi Our parks have Edible Chestnut trees that to bear fruit so there have to be both sexes of trees I don't think they were planted though, they just kind of popped up.

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I would neatly organize everyone's garage.

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I’d be right behind you, grafting up a storm as you planted

@cthululemon @geistesgift we can be the riders of the fruitocalypse, I'll do the pruning ️🩹

@GardenOfEden @geistesgift

Sounds perfect!

@cthululemon @geistesgift who'll join us as the fourth, making delicious jams and sirups and preserves and snacks from all the glorious harvest?

@GardenOfEden @geistesgift

Good point, good point. Let’s put the call out!