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New comment by lilsunnybee in "The Unexotic Underclass"

lilsunnybee — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 00:51:04 +0000

SNAP in many cases isn't enough for the whole month already. Adding restaurant and delivery fees into the mix would really just cause more problems for people running short and going hungry at the tail end of the month.

New comment by lilsunnybee in "The Unexotic Underclass"

lilsunnybee — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 00:24:10 +0000

Has Kiva gotten better about choosing their lending partner organizations? It was big news a few years ago that Kiva was partnering with in-country lenders charging extortionate interest rates.

http://www.kivafriends.org/index.php?topic=3403.190

This pretty recent article though makes it sound like it's still a big problem.

http://www.nextbillion.net/m/bp.aspx?b=3726

Kiva is a great idea in concept. They just need to take a firm stance against corrupt lending practices, especially since they present themselves as a charity and so no middleman should really be profiting incommensurately in the process.

New comment by lilsunnybee in "The Unexotic Underclass"

lilsunnybee — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 23:18:56 +0000

Certain US states (the largest ones being Florida and Texas), never underwent this thing called "Medicaid expansion", as a kind of political protest against "Obamacare", and so if you're lucky enough to live in one of these states (very populated states too like Florida and Texas), you're not eligible for Medicaid for merely being in abject poverty. You don't even qualify for healthcare subsidies since the cutoff for those is perversely 133% of the poverty line, or something like that.

SNAP policies (supplemental nutrition assistance ie. food stamps) can vary greatly from state to state too. I've lived in states that provide unconditional benefits to anyone below a certain income level, but my current state (Florida), only provides a few months of benefits at a time, and then after that you have to continually re-qualify, providing proof that you're still looking for work if you're unemployed, things like that. It's incredibly easy to fall through the cracks with these proof requirements though.

Being poor certain places in the US is misery. People do go hungry plenty, and adults and especially children often suffer severe lasting health problems from malnutrition here.

I know this stuff from personal experience.

New comment by lilsunnybee in "Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone"

lilsunnybee — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 18:40:17 +0000

Capsule hotels don't usually have attached showers though do they? It's more of a communal thing, which maybe that would work just fine for what mmanfrin was thinking of. Though historically Americans aren't as accustomed to communal bathing (well except for gyms) as the Japanese.

New comment by lilsunnybee in "Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone"

lilsunnybee — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 01:05:39 +0000

So like a love hotel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_hotel), but sans coupling. Or like a capsule hotel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel), but with attached shower.

Even on non-prime real-estate (which does that exist in SF?), I don't think you could hit your $20 price point with the amount of housekeeping needed for a bed and shower. Even if you could, after a week your staff might hate you. :-)

New comment by lilsunnybee in "Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone"

lilsunnybee — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:44:21 +0000

Would be true yet there is this thing called insomnia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insomnia

New comment by lilsunnybee in "Chaos Computer Club Supports Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden"

lilsunnybee — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:30:27 +0000

Thank you for this explanation! I was not aware.

New comment by lilsunnybee in "Who's in the Office? The American Workday in One Graph"

lilsunnybee — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:28:09 +0000

Oops I'm sorry. I missed it.

New comment by lilsunnybee in "Who's in the Office? The American Workday in One Graph"

lilsunnybee — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:00:26 +0000

Legal doesn't even start climbing from 0 until after 6 am. Are you looking at "protective services" perhaps, which has a slightly-pre-3 am trough?

New comment by lilsunnybee in "Hal Finney being cryopreserved now"

lilsunnybee — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 22:39:29 +0000

More than just Switzerland. From the Wikipedia euthanasia page:

Jurisdictions where euthanasia or assisted suicide is legal include the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Estonia, Albania, the US states of Washington, Oregon and Montana, and, starting in 2015, the Canadian Province of Quebec.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia

New comment by lilsunnybee in "The Arachnids That Live on Your Face"

lilsunnybee — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:32:24 +0000

Mittens are animals too! :-) https://www.google.com/search?q=mittens+animal&tbm=isch

New comment by lilsunnybee in "Brazil dismantles 'biggest destroyer' of Amazon rainforest"

lilsunnybee — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:22:08 +0000

Maybe it sounds more intimidating in Portuguese? Though what about "Operation Forest Freedom"? ;-)

New comment by lilsunnybee in "How Norway has avoided the 'curse of oil'"

lilsunnybee — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:12:08 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalism

Different definitions. The current American political ones aren't universal by any means.

New comment by lilsunnybee in "How Norway has avoided the 'curse of oil'"

lilsunnybee — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:07:01 +0000

How can prospecting and extraction be both simultaneously unprofitable and also creating incredibly wealthy heiresses? If resource extraction and profit-sharing in Australia is most closely compared to that of African nations, it doesn't seem like the public is benefiting much from allowing their natural resources to be appropriated and sold by multinationals.

New comment by lilsunnybee in "Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK"

lilsunnybee — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:37:47 +0000

You've missed the point, which was that it's lamentable such clearly immoral business practices have to be made illegal to keep people from engaging in them. Disallowing such practices brings benefit only because employees and business owners were being so unscrupulous to begin with.

New comment by lilsunnybee in "Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK"

lilsunnybee — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:06:46 +0000

It depends on what shipping address you use though. An online vendor could probably be sued for false advertising if they showed one shipping price, but then changed it later because a customer decided to use a new shipping address.

New comment by lilsunnybee in "Chaos Computer Club Supports Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden"

lilsunnybee — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:58:26 +0000

IMO Wikipedia-esque redirects seem to be a perfectly valid, respectful, non-confusing way of handling cases such as this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_manning

New comment by lilsunnybee in "Chaos Computer Club Supports Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden"

lilsunnybee — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:54:56 +0000

Or the much more common singular they.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Usage

New comment by lilsunnybee in "Why Working at Google Is Not My Dream Job Anymore"

lilsunnybee — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:40:35 +0000

"Yeah sorry we just didn't think you'd be a good cultural fit here."

New comment by lilsunnybee in "Why Working at Google Is Not My Dream Job Anymore"

lilsunnybee — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:29:08 +0000

"If you're not getting hired, obviously you're just not qualified to work and earn a living." Sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy isn't it?