What about cases where the move is only temporary? Should people sell every time and hope there is a place to live when they return?

In the private lender case, do you see that as different from someone who starts their own company and manages the property themselves while the renter pays them directly?

The earning equity piece isn’t necessarily incorrect, what the owner is losing is potentially the opportunity to move at all. This assumes they can afford a mortgage + whatever it costs to live somewhere else.

The economists’ answer is that renting exists for the people in this situation. You may be moving to another country for a year or two. Are you going to buy a new house every time you move? Renting gives flexibility in that regard.

Likewise for refugees, putting them up in a rental is a more efficient solution than building new housing for each family.

That said, the model provides an inherently exploitative market and needs some kind of overlay to function efficiently, which in most US cities it doesn’t at all.

100% it’s always a question of your resources vs theirs, but you’re dead on to make it harder.

I’ll just add to also turn it off, pull the SIM, and show in a Faraday bag on your way back too. If the recent reporting about ICE buying location data from ad networks shows anything, it’s that they are interested in a capability of following people to and from protests. Graphene should obviate this by disabling Google Play services by default anyway.

You should leave your regular phone at home, go to another place, power on your other device, speak your part in public, then travel another location and power off. This provides no consistent start or end location to work with for a particular device.

Alright, I already “umm, ackshually’d” someone in this thread but this post in particular hit a nerve with me. The Tor security model is based on 3 hops but does not guarantee 3 different jurisdictions. Their circuit building only takes into account “jurisdiction” in the way we’re using it here if you use guard nodes or specific cases when you cannot access the network directly or look like you’re exiting from a Tor node.

That said, it’s still a very strong project and security model. And everything you said about spreading out your providers without a single point of failure (or pressure) applies.

I know this was in jest but seems on topic with the post - please switch from pattern to PIN (or better still, password). Pattern is orders of magnitude easier to crack than PIN.

Sorry, I wasn’t as clear in my original post.

At the bottom of the settings page you can generate a “bookmarklet” that includes the config options in your URL. So https://duckduckgo.com/ becomes https://duckduckgo.com/?kae=t if I want the Terminal color scheme. And this works without cookies. And this applies for all possible settings.

Interestingly I set my home page to a string that should disable all the AI features and I still got summaries sometimes so not sure if that’s a bug, user error, or hostile UI. In either case, something like you suggest with https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?kae=t&etc=… should give you the best of both worlds.

You can plus this up into a vodka cream sauce fairly easily. Throw some garlic in with that onion once it’s starting to look translucent. Cook the tomato paste for a bit until it starts taking on some color then add like 1.5 tbl of vodka and let it cook a bit to lose some of the alcohol flavor.

Throw in some butter and Parmesan cheese at the end if you have it. Also can incorporate different meats if they’re cheap that week and scales up real well.

Look up Brian Lagerstrom vodka pasta on YouTube or Piped for the recipe I’m referring to. He also gives options for shelf stable replacements so you can stock up.

Can you explain the difference between “agender” and “gender non-binary”? Is the latter just more restrictive in recognition of only two genders while the former is more inclusive?

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For you and whomever else needs to hear it, you can solve the second part by going to https://duckduckgo.com/settings and saving the bookmark with all the options included. Then you can clear all the cookies you want and it’ll always load the same settings.

Biggest challenge is finding an armorer capable of that type of work, and how much you’re willing to do yourself. https://piped.video/watch?v=Q8LDwmI0RQA is an interesting video about a commissioned piece with gilding and great craftsmanship, they don’t specify an exact amount but it was a labor of love for several people to bring it all together.

I tend to favor the sweet early in the morning. Momofuku makes a real nice chili crunch hot honey that goes well with just eggs & cheese.

If I’m adding sausage to the mix, I’ll use maple syrup and skip the hot condiments entirely.

Quarter inch is better. Hurts on impact but also gets the recipient wet, which sucks in a Minnesota winter. Sort of a damage-over-time effect.

I use StartMail (mentioned on the bottom of the guide) and it supports unlimited email aliases. They don’t have a free tier though to my knowledge.

I bought an Analogue Pocket maybe 9 months ago, so glad I dodged the fascist bullet on that one. But kinda sad that I have to wake up each day and read the news to see what product I have to start boycotting because someone running the company has jumped on the wrong side of history.

+1 for Explosions & Fire and Extractions & Ire. This guy puts out videos where he’s synthesizing various explosives or just extracting weird compounds from things, all laced with a blend of Aussie humor and shitposting. Highly recommend

You’re not alone in thinking that. The US economy is growing but all of that is allocated to 5 companies, and in any case the owners of that equity aren’t a majority median income earners. We’ve essentially decoupled the economic health of the common person, who would actually spend on the bubble survivors, from the overall “strength” of the US economy.

An interesting discussion on that thought about halfway through this - https://www.ft.com/content/bd6545dc-41b7-42db-af77-b2f32a1c9ae1

Sounds a lot like Japan. There’s colored bags that you can buy at the store for “combustible” and not waste. Then there’s metal and glass pickup, small yard waste (mostly twigs), electronics, paper, and certain plastic has a dropoff. I’ve never heard of trash police issuing fines, but they’ll leave your items behind if it’s the wrong day or type.

When I lived in the US it was just two bins - trash (which was really anything you can fit in a bag, nobody checks) and recycling. Recycling varied by municipality but it was mostly single-stream glass, metal, and most plastics. Things like plastic bags and Styrofoam couldn’t go in the recycling but most places like the grocer would take bags or fluorescent bulbs or batteries.

Of course, multiple studies have shown that most plastics just end up burned or in the ocean so guess it doesn’t much matter how they are collected…

Could tie it to something like a biometric. That and storing it on a write-only device would keep it from being shared too wide. The trickiss to tie it to a true multi-factor and not just something you have (if unencrypted) or something you know (if ASCII armored).

I’ll address the second objection first regarding the phone or browser. You’re always going to rely on some technology for the solutions that use cryptography, you just can’t do those calculations long-hand realistically. That said, look up frameworks like CTAP that allow a potentially untrusted user terminal, like a browser, to interact with a trusted hardware token. Those hardware tokens can be made fairly tamper-proof, see FIPS authorized Yubikeys, such that the phone is pretty much removed from the attestation process. Yes these can still be stolen, but they make hardware keys that are fingerprint authenticated and the biometric stays on the device. Doesn’t get much more self-sovereign than that.

The existence of a trusted credential provider is a challenge. Fully self-sovereign credentials need to either be trust on first use or validated against a larger system everyone participates in. Even if we had some system of birth certificates tied to a distributed ledger, we would have to trust the third party recording that certificate in the first place, be it a hospital, doctor, or state entity. These trust and proof systems don’t create the trust, they just allow us to extend that trust from one claimant to a verifier. Whether you place that trust in the state, an individual, or an independent third party is up to you.