Universal basic income trials being considered in Scotland

What do you think about universal basic income? Is it time to stop telling people to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” and instead guarantee that no one goes without?

Hell…boots don’t even have straps anymore. What does that expression even mean? I say the time has come to at least consider it. Kudos to UK/Scotland for the efforts.

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Ringing vs. Bringing in the New Year: What’s the difference, and which is right?

You can bring in the New Year by ringing in the New Year, so neither is right. But technically, you aren’t RINGING in the New Year unless bells are involved. So BRINGING is always right, and RINGING is only literally correct if bells are rung. Unless it counts when your ears are ringing. In which case I’ve been RINGING in the New Year for years now.
Happy 2017 Everybody!! Hope everyone’s 2017 is better than 2016…no matter how crazy shit gets up in here.

#HappyNewYear #Happy2017 #Goodbye2016

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Scientists Stumped By Thousands Of Dead Fish Off Nova Scotia

Stumped? Really? It’s happening all over. Florida. New York. Out on the west coast. Around the world. It’s either toxins or temperature. Or both. And either way, humans are at least partially responsible.
So let’s keep being stumped, scientists. If you can even call yourself that, in this post-truth age, where science is the pawn of politics rather than slave to truth and fact.

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Worst Man-Made Disasters Of 2016 You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

All in all, 2016 also sucked for Mother Earth. Between the oil spills, air pollution, nuclear waste and climate change, we turned up the pressure in an already stressed global ecosystem. Humans must come to understand, and approach, zero impact living if we expect to survive on this world.

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