It’s already dusk as Strider and the weary hobbits reach the ridge. There’s not enough light for the climb down, so they make a fire in an old quarry pit and prepare to spend the night. Frodo is shivering. For the first time it seems to him that the visible world is fading.

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Open this photo up and look for the small, white dot just left of centre. It looks like Venus, shining brightly in the twilight sky. But it's us. It's Earth. From Mars.

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Universal basic income has been found to have nothing but salutary effects over and over again but this country refuses to enact it because they imagine $500 or whatever is too much money for poor people. Like, be serious.

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30K isn’t a life changing amount is bananas in a country with work requirements for access to healthcare and food assistance.

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It’s funny because the same people who’ll tell you “academic language” and “wokeness” is out of touch with regular people’s concerns while also being quite sure 30K isn’t a big deal for most people’s lives.

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