What Is Ube? And how do you use it?

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Al Overview ADR +7 Starbucks Ube is a vibrant purple, sweet, and nutty flavor derived from the Filipino purple yam, featured in Spring 2026 beverages as a powder or syrup. It is commonly used in Ube Vanilla and Ube Coconut combinations, such as the Iced Ube Coconut Macchiato, Ube Vanilla Velvet Latte, and associated cold foams. Starbucks Coffee +4

Al Overview W 29 +8 Ube (pronounced oo-beh), often spelled ubi, is a vibrant purple yam (Dioscorea alata) native to Southeast Asia and a staple ingredient in Filipino cuisine. Renowned for its vivid violet color and mildly sweet, earthy, and nutty flavor (reminiscent of vanilla or white chocolate), it is widely used in Filipino desserts. Wikipedia +2

Image of purple ube or ubi sweet potatoes.

Ok, time for a dumb, weird but fun thing...

I knew about this from searching on YT and Instagram daily and finding this other meaning...

Like UBI? Well now you can get it, in the coffee, to go. 🙃

(I'll see myself out)

False choice.
People keep following the Elon narrative.

Look further back.

It never was about replacing everything as an allowance in either guaranteed or universal versions. It's an unconditional floor above zero. People can add whatever work they more freely choose.
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Yet another reason for universal basic income.

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Pope repeats call for Universal Basic Income | ICN Pope Francis met today with representatives of Popular Movements marking the 10th anniversary of their first encounter at the Vatican,...

The Pope denounced the unchecked competition for wealth as "a destructive force, leading to perdition," calling it "irresponsible, immoral, and irrational." This greed, he said, divides humanity and destroys creation.
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"Accumulation is not virtuous. Distribution is. Jesus did not accumulate; He multiplied," the Pope recalled, referencing Christ's teachings on not storing up treasures on earth but in heaven.
(10/11)

Additionally from Pope Francis in 2024:
He emphasized that wealth must be shared "not as alms," but "fraternally." He urged the Popular Movements to demand this change, noting that a "perverse view of reality" exalts the accumulation of wealth as a virtue, when in fact, it is a vice.
(9/11)

But it is much closer to a genuine basic income than it is to either a minimum wage or to a means-tested minimum income.

Muchas gracias, Papa Francisco"
(8/11)

Conclusion: Pope Francis’s “salario universal” is not quite an unconditional basic income — nor even a universal “participation income” (that would also accrue to those doing only domestic or voluntary work).
(7/11)

What is then a “universal” remuneration for work? On the most plausible interpretation, a basic amount paid to all workers, including informal workers, the self-employed and those who suddenly find themselves with very little work or no work at all because of circumstances like the lockdown.
(6/11)

Because of the preceding sentence (“Ustedes, trabajadores informales, independientes o de la economía popular, no tienen un salario estable”), it is is fair to interpret “salario” as remuneration for work, but certainly not just waged work.
(5/11)

“Forse è giunto il momento di pensare a una forma di retribuzione universale di base”
And one of them adds “basic” and turns the “salary” into an “income”:
“Vielleicht ist jetzt die richtige Zeit, über ein universales Grundeinkommen nachzudenken”
(4/11)

“Talvez seja a hora de pensar em um salário universal”
“Sans doute est-il temps de penser à un salaire universel”
Two of them add “basic”:
“This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage”
(3/11)

The key sentence, picked as the title on the website and echoed in many reports, says:
“Tal vez sea tiempo de pensar en un salario universal”.
Two of the (presumably unauthorized) translations are literal:
(2/11)

Image of the former Pope, Pope Francis. Caption: On six years since Easter Sunday when Pope Francis suggested a Universal Basic Wage

Comment by @basicincomeearth.bsky.social co-founder
Philippe Van Parijs on April 13, 2020:

"The letter was originally written in Spanish and addressed on Easter day to the Encuentro mundial de movimientos populares. It is available in six languages on its website movimientospopulares.org
(1/11) 🧵

💯 This stuff is like jet fuel.
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It’s Time to Revisit Universal Basic Income | The Tyee Especially for artists. It offers the hope and stability we need.

"With even a little more economic wiggle room, people did things they’d always wanted to," writes @dorothywoodend.bsky.social in @thetyee.ca.

"Economic freedom turned into all kinds of other freedoms: time, pleasure, joy and connection." 🌺

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The old UK arts scene, the dole and basic income. It is fun when you can merge two favorite subjects. It can shade into dangerous territory when your Visa is already bloated and you see books on the subject for sale. I did break down, but only twi…

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UBI helps creativity EXPLODE!! YouTube video by Tom Pogson

Not all creative entrepreneurs are in the arts.

Basic income is ignition, bringing all kinds of ventures to life.
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Common Wealth Canada graphic: Richard Garfield quote says citizen’s dividend is a right from shared human progress, not a gif

Creator of Magic: The Gathering (world's first and most successful trading card game) supports UBI as citizens dividends from common wealth.

CTV News headline: survey finds nearly half of Canadians live paycheque to paycheque, woman checking bills on phone app

We've seen this same headline for years now.

An advancing civilization should do better for future generations, instead of keeping them stuck.

A truly great man

The basic income group opened on the EH! app. Banner has a basic income now lawn sign, with a tabby cat watching from beside it.

So there's a new Canadian app called, naturally, EH! (eh?).

Yeah, find me there and let's talk basic income!

BBC World Service - The Inquiry, Why is basic income being debated? Ireland’s new permanent government cash transfer scheme is being watched globally

Great to be part of this discussion for BBC World Service The Inquiry on "Why is Basic Income being debated?"
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Staring guy meme. Caption: Worker to pwd client "ok, because you've said yes there you qualify for more money" Basic income advocates all like:

Based on a true story.

$50 for "yes"?!
How about, I don't know, "pomegranate" or "floorboard"? What do I get for them?

Makes Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" look simplistic. We're better off if people just have the money. Stop with the weird rules.

Basic income opens the subject of work to wide angle viewing.

The Next Moonshot: Universal Basic Income What Artemis II and the Return to the Moon Should Remind Us About Ending Poverty

The launch of Artemis II got me thinking about some UBI history and how Nixon saw his guaranteed income proposal and the Apollo missions to the Moon as both serving the same objective of showing people that government could actually work for them and accomplish great things. Let's do that with UBI.

Basic income isn't about the end of work. It's about giving people more choice. It enhances your place in your work story.

Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash | Rutger Bregman "Ideas can and do change the world," says historian Rutger Bregman, sharing his case for a provocative one: guaranteed basic income. Learn more about the ide...

Video #5 to add to your lunchtime YouTube watch list:

💻 Poverty isn’t a lack of character; it’s a lack of cash | Rutger Bregman (TED)
⏰ 14 min 58 sec
🪙 For anyone who loves a TED talk

https://youtu.be/ydKcaIE6O1k

Honestly...this poor, unsuspecting internet could easily end up getting me right now at industrial strength...🙃😂