In that time, gay did not mean homosexual, but happy. Twain was saying he was happy and impudent and satirical and delightful, characteristics you wouldn't necessarily expect a slave to have.
Sorry a little too drunk to scan your post, but have considered this before.
I think Archive dot org as they said on Science Friday podcast are not legal archive or otherwise final word, just trying to help out with archiving humanity. If I want to delete some old posts for whatever unsupported reason (or if takeover of domain new robots.txt) then that's how it should go.
Another reason, I think, is a general belief that human nature is mostly good and if given a chance most people will do what's right with the money.
There would be problems sure, but I would say use that money (that would've been spent at the front of the pipeline) and find the problems in an audit process at the backend of the pipeline. Don't withhold money because people are irresponsible. Use part of the funds to audit, and then also to "recuperate / rehabilitate" those who have problems. I can't say for certain, but I've read many stories that lead me to believe that it's more expensive for a state to withhold basic things like food and shelter than it is to simply give it to them.
When all is said and done, those who turn out to be problems and never figure out how to turn their lives around, even after given every chance to fix their lives and become productive members of society, simply end up dying knowing they lived an unproductive life. I think in the modern world that will turn out to be enough of a penalty / incentive.
EDIT: I think we can all agree those who turn out to be problems, even with Basic or Minimum Guaranteed Income, will show up on the radar. Won't be hard. They'll be in prison, regularly in hospital overdosed on drugs, etc. So I doubt the backend audit would be more than a fraction of putting that cost at the front.
Yeah, I would guess that the huge overhead is still more efficient given how poorly some would use the money, but that's just a hunch. I have nothing to back that up (and would love any argument on either side of that)
"In 2005, Utah figured out that the annual cost of E.R. visits and jail stays for homeless people was about $16,670 per person, compared to $11,000 to provide each homeless person with an apartment and a social worker."
I read this with an eye out for what electronic surveillance they did but it doesn't seem like there is anything documented here that is too outrageous.
I would have thought that past 1,000,000 downloads you could trust the plugin but that is shown to be wrong. With Windows software I do a skim of the Wikipedia article for controversy as a sanity check but there aren't any for these extensions.
Previously I would search the apps name + some obvious terms like malware but those results are too spammy to be helpful now. Extensions are very useful, so I'd hope there'd be some reaction from Google on this.
May be relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/no_sob_story/
This is a subreddit of images with the possibly made of story removed. No story about the girlfriend etc.
From the article:"Mother Night marks the first appearance in Vonnegut’s novels of a word that would become increasingly important for him: schizophrenia." I was surprised to find this passage without a mention that Kurt's son developed schizophrenia.
If you want to be outside of the herd in thought, it would aid you to be something alien to the majority.
edit: you're right.