Being in Cloudflare is a simple fact. To withold important facts is to put your thumb on the scale.
Also note a very good quote from Desmond Tutu:
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
How about giving them an informed choice? I.e. put next to it something like: “(centralised in Cloudflare’s walled garden)”
As a user I detest cloudflare, fedi politics, and purity tests. As a mod I strive to be neutral and not put my thumb on the scales.
I’ll let it stand. My take is that users can make individual choices over what/where to read.
How about giving them an informed choice? I.e. put next to it something like: “(centralised in Cloudflare’s walled garden)”
I suggest adding !offgrid@slrpnk.net to the sidebar.
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consider removing the LemmyWorld reference.
I'll let it stand. My take is that users can make individual choices over what/where to read.
Agreed. As someone said (can't remember, pre-coffee) "there are no solutions, only tradeoffs". Years in the campervan taught me to leverage resources when I find them, and the apartment is certainly full of resources.
I appreciate your kind words
@fratermus Some time in an apartment makes you appreciate having a fixed place of abode but also reminds you of the things you enjoy on the road...
How is YOUR day so far?
I'm tired, too. Couldn't sleep last night then started the relocation from Los Alamos to Santa Fe this morning at 6am. Filled up on gas, water, some groceries then started the drive. The payoff was a hot shower at the PF in Santa Fe.
Relocation days are stressful but this one was particularly rough because of the sleeplessness.
The coldest time of most days is right before dawn. The environment has been cooling off all night.
Ah, yes. It sucks when such bottlenecks are legally enforced.
I mean, in case of the USA it's a clear legacy of racism, not just zoning laws, but also laws made to make spontaneous (I don't mean squatting and undocumented slums by that, just populated areas growing more naturally) development hard. Also how trains are perceived, it seems, there.
Say, if I can bear 2+hr long commute (would be like 1.2hr on the train, 0.8hr on the subway, and some waiting and walking in between) in case I need something in Moscow, buying a crumbling house in a literal village (with a train station nearby) is the cheapest thing (but not cheap) one can do. It's just - with such a property you need to think, because if you run out of firewood or diesel or whatever you use, you may literally freeze (or at least crush the pipes). You also need to fix stuff yourself. And you need to get to know your neighbors and be on good terms with them.
Unfortunately, it's common for U.S. municipalities to regulate how one lives on one's own property. Must have city water and electricity, for example. Can only camp on it for so long, etc. My family owns ~35 acres of rural property that I might try to build a tiny house on someday but I assume there will be much hoop-jumping, even outside a tiny town of ~600 people.
Funny to read as someone from a country where having a vehicle is far more expensive than having a place to live.
Anyway. I suppose if one can afford transportation (have a vehicle and can afford gasoline), then homesteading\buying a piece of land really far away from good places, making a basic living box on small foundation, with orgalite, polycarbonate and some heat isolation, and vinyl siding, a well (the hardest part) and a potbelly stove for heating, with lots of aspen around (really doesn't take effort to grow LOL) to have firewood, and a place to grow potatoes (maybe a greenhouse to grow something nicer), - can be more affordable than "normal" housing. While you are making the thing, you don't even have to live there.
I mean, OK, it's stupid.
I'm living in a trailer voluntarily and have been for a bit over a year. I've met some people who are living in their vehicle/trailer/rv/tent because it was their last option, and while it was more than I expected when I left its a fairly small percentage. But I also try not to pry into people's lives out here so there's definitely the possibility I've met people who I'm assuming are living this way voluntarily when they are not. I'm also mostly staying in free dispersed camping areas wheres people have to move on after a few days/weeks so I don't have a lot of interaction with people in long term spaces
And they dehumanize homeless people by accusing all of them of either committing crimes, being prostitutes, using drugs, having sexually transmitted diseases, being mentally unwell.
It's easy for them to be cruel to people that they do not consider to be full human beings.
The American dream
If you ride a motorcycle it’s pretty much a mandatory skill because there’s no spare tire!
I bought a smaller kit for the 250cc scooter just in case. Those lighter tires have got to be easier to work with than the heavy truck tire!
It's a handy thing to know how to do. Sometimes it's easier to plug a flat tire instead of swapping in the spare tire.
If you ride a motorcycle it's pretty much a mandatory skill because there's no spare tire!
People worry about a plugged tire being unsafe but I've ridden motorcycle tires with plugs down to the cords.
I'm more concerned about the crime going on in board rooms.
Yes. Probably not right away, but yes.
There’s a line in there about ability to institutionalize (paraphrasing) anyone with a mental disorder they deem a threat to themselves or the public, regardless of homelessness. If they make being trans or LGBT+ a mental illness will they start rounding up gay people?
Mutual aid networks are your safest bet - they're decentralized so harder to target, and you can help with food/supply distrbution, know-your-rights trainings, or just documenting police interactions from a safe distance.
That is a lengthy EO. Definitely designed to round up people as opposed to helping them.
There it is, the second group of Americans to go on Zee Airplane or to Zee Swamp.
We're so fucked bros...