100 Namibian dollars is $12.66.
It's so interesting that it's working so well. I don't know how you could try the same thing here since the cost of living is so much higher. I wonder what the comparable basic income would be here.
You guys had a riot? On account of me? A real riot?
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Polter-Cow - Sep 01, 2009 2:50:53 pm PDT #6551 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
-t - Sep 01, 2009 2:57:12 pm PDT #6552 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, I don't know how you'd figure that out, but the idea that everyone is entitled to enough of an income to subsist, just for being a live person, is very attractive to me. I hope it keeps working.
Gudanov - Sep 01, 2009 2:58:33 pm PDT #6553 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
That's a cool program.
sarameg - Sep 01, 2009 3:01:13 pm PDT #6554 of 30001
I have Y membership now. Whee? It's a nice facility, only a few years old. Pool!
One of the neighborhood cats was sitting outside the french doors (I have them open, screens shut) and wow! the sounds coming out of Loki! He was all inflated and WAILING! He's got such a high pitched voice, it's funny. Other cat just sat there, watching, nose to nose, unperturbed. This is one of the cats I've found on my porch roof (and scared the shit out of me sunday at 5:45, clawing at the bedroom window), my entry roof and specifically who has tried to follow me in. Ballsy little bugger.
-t - Sep 01, 2009 3:15:44 pm PDT #6555 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yay, pool! I just got myself a swim cap that allegedly will handle long hair, so I'm going to attempt to swim tomorrow. Also got goggles on the theory that maybe I can wear my contacts under them and see while I'm swimming, which is a totally foreign idea to me but I might try it.
Pushy cats crack me up.
sarameg - Sep 01, 2009 3:18:28 pm PDT #6556 of 30001
Oh, I can't (couldn't? It's been a decade since I swam) go without goggles. Just because my eyes can't take it and I can't swim straight otherwise. I could go without a swim cap, most likely, with pins, since my hair is shorter than it was when I swam before. But not gonna.
-t - Sep 01, 2009 3:24:28 pm PDT #6557 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
When I had access to a pool with painted lane lines on the floor I could follow those okay without goggles, but I don't have that anymore. I have swum with my (decades out of date) prescription scuba mask, but it's packed away somewhere and even that level of being able to see was very strange. Good, but strange.
sarameg - Sep 01, 2009 3:27:33 pm PDT #6558 of 30001
God, I hope swimming is as good as I remember it. I loved it; it just wasn't at all convenient once I moved up here. Too many logistics. But now? 5 minute walk away, if that. Full locker-room. Unlimited access. I no longer have almost an hour of commute. Almost more convenient than when I was in college.
And I'm liking to have my body working for itself again. Hadn't realized it was missing.
Jesse - Sep 01, 2009 3:36:28 pm PDT #6559 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Someone in my neighborhood has a kitchen timer that sounds just like mine. It's very confusing.
Zenkitty - Sep 01, 2009 3:46:18 pm PDT #6560 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
the idea that everyone is entitled to enough of an income to subsist, just for being a live person, is very attractive to me
Me too.