🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@louisrcouture This is true but its a bit like saying "there is nothing other than good, evil, or something imbetween"... or hot and cold. They are just two extremes on a scale representing a property that all governments must have but may appear anywhere on that spectrum. So yea, everything is somewhere between capitalism and communism. That said no governments are pure versions of either (though they may be on the extreme end of the spectrum). Most somewhere on the capitalist side of the spectrum between the middle and the extreme IMO.

@trinsec

this happens when you combine latex and markdown usually

@worldsendless

@Co As of the moment I'm leaning a bit towards Dabah Egypt

I think i might have settled on Dehab egypt for 3 months for my SCUBA vacation

So I want to leave for a tropical 3 month **technical** SCUBA trip somewhere on nov 10th. Originally i was going to St. Croix in the caribbean but I decided i want somewhere new and more exotic.

Some people out there help me pick a good place to go that has technical scuba (access to trimix), clear waters, and an interesting enough under water atmosphere to be worth 3 months of diving every single day.

Bonus points if it has fairly open travel restrictions.

Some places I'm considering:

* Dahab, Eqypt
* Maldives
* Cancun or surrounding area in mexico
* Indonesia
* Greece
* Lazarote spain

#SCUBA #Tec #TecScuba #tek #TekScuba @tek

@icedquinn

These people were called freemen, and its where my last name comes from as one of my early ancestors was one of them. It is also why my family is an armiger (though not all freemans are, you need to prove descent).

@Angle @mastodon

@twann I use whatsapp for the same reason i use facebook... Everyone else uses it and I need to stay in touch.

That said if I were exclusively in the USA I'd have no need for whatsapp. Few people in the USA have whatsapp simply because it isnt used much.

@Rasp oh not its a Dogamon!

@hellomiakoda and as long as we are blaming parrty members for presidential failures lets not forget that democrats spent the whole time after the virus was released assembling in mass crowds to protest and burn shit down... You know whats worse for a pandemic than not wearing masks? Garthering in large crowds.

@hellomiakoda Also lets not forget those people not wearing masks were around when trump was around too... so despite that being nothing new Biden saw a larger increase in the prevalence of the virus than trump... its almost like its not about the masks but his ineptitude (not that trump was particularly competent or anything, he wasn't).

@hellomiakoda In fact if you really want to go there; the number of people who are middle class or below who illegally dont pay taxes or report income (people who work under the table) are far far more numerous than the number of millionaires who dont pay taxes.

Maybe its the middle class who should "pay taxes for once"

@hellomiakoda
The rich already pay taxes, and a lot of it. I care because the rich are vital to an economy and when they are over taxed we all suffer

@hellomiakoda thats on joes watch all the same.

@Pat Admin costs would be there, and it would be less, but ultimately the deal breaker for me is that free money is not the form of help they need most. Unconditional money never works, which is why the current welfare system doesnt work well either. You want simpler, here is simple:

No welfare of any kind in the usual sense. If you bring in a bill and grades showing you passed any educational program (inluding certifications and trade schools) then the government will give you 1.5x the cost in cash... Free education, the money they get is contigent on them building skills, and now they are about to generate wealth on their own. Not the system I'd employ but if you want simple with little to no bureaucracy then thats the way to do it. If they want free money they need to demonstrate they are using it correctly.

@Pat yea once he hit that word it was game over.