Curious how such requirements were/are never demanded from any other policy proposal. They were just devised and implemented. If we took 100 years time for testing for every new law, society would come to a total standstill.

It's different with UBI though because it goes against the class interests of the ruling bourgeoisie. Demanding ever more tests is a pretext to waste time and never implement UBI. The best test is just implementing it.

Better ditch this crap and use AWK for manipulating tables. It has all the intelligence you'll need.

Maybe or maybe not. Does it hurt to better be safe than sorry? If companies do as you predict then a minimum wage won't hurt them as it does not apply to them. If they don't then it is good to still have it.

I read about this method of changing key mappings of your keyboard layout in the /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ directory. I think this is basically what you do. In these files there are only symbols and "partial alphanumeric_keys" defined. I don't see how keys like backspace can be redefined there. But I will look further into it.

I wish collapse aware thinkers like her were not so uneducated in economic theory (Marxism) and steeped in neoliberal dogma so that I could take them more seriously. Their theorizing lacks economic insights and is pretty misguided. It is somewhat disturbing that they, as system thinkers, are so ignorant of the system encroaching on everything, i.e. capitalism.

That remains to be seen. Companies won't suddenly turn charitable. There is no harm in raising the minimum wage to a more realistic $25-$30 and keeping it. Nobody should work under inhumane slave wages.

I agree with the picture, but not the title. Nonviolent action is an option and was successful many times. Contingent on the situation, it can be more effective.

The judge stated that “the stance taken by you [by pleading not guilty] distinguishes you all from others who have chosen to follow the long and honourable tradition of civil disobedience on conscientious grounds, that is accepting that you have broken the law and accepting the punishment that follows”.

This requirement alone–to have to plead (not) guilty–is characteristic of a perverted justice system. Why force the defendant to anticipate the verdict of their own trial? This is ridiculous. This is to be found out by the trial, not prejudged by one party. Pleading serves only to intimidate defendants and frustrate their defense strategy, and so it is an expression of a bias of the state, which is overrepresented in court by four parties (judge, jury, prosecutor, and author of the laws), towards ordinary (non-corporation) people. It has no place in a society with rule of law.