Xoiiku

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I don't know and I could be wrong. 🖖 ⚡️ 🌎 🌍 🌏 ☀️ Ⓥ Nom de plume OOO Author of the Otherwise Series https://www.patreon.com/OberonOOdd

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This was a fun one for me to write. It's the Angine de Poitrine argument for universal basic income. We could have more weird, awesome, truly human stuff like this if we all had UBI. We could have more Einsteins too. And because those things are true, the cost of NOT doing UBI isn't worth it.

The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI

Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle

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07 - Peak "Perhaps it was just the way that the sunlight brought out the contrast in the ephemeral clouds and the eternal mountain, or the long anticipation of seeing it for herself, but either way it felt far more significant than was reasonable."

black and white illustration of a woman standing on a cliff overlooking a deep valley that is filled with rolling fog. in the distance there is a tall, 3-peaked mountain.

"We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads - but to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact." — Carl Sagan

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I've been asked whether Algernon Goldfish might have done it. While he was just the kind of fishy character who might have attempted a crime on this scale, he was struck off the register after I wrote the article, which left him floundering. At the time he was almost the only operator who had been.