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Solar + heatpump + septic tank + water cistern + garden can handle or offset several of those, but not all of them. High upfront costs for the above, but they all pay off in the 3-10 year time frame.

Food banks can provide both types of food you list. Internet may be low income plans or asking a neighor for wifi access. Piracy + vpn can replace streaming. Libraries can fill the gap for other entertainment.

There are individual/community options for all of the above if you have some money at some point or ar least engage with the people around you.

The high road doesnt work anymore, if it ever did.

Ignoring someone stabbing you doesnt make them stop, it makes the stabbing effective. Stabbing back makes the stabbing stop.

Disney owns it now, so 50/50 chance palpatine will return.

Bill hicks had it right.

All of these systems are designed to prevent backflow when they have no utility input voltage. Its baked into them.

There should be zero extra danger to lineman unless people are DIYing these systems, which they can do now with or without a law.

You can likely sue them in small claims court. Many states let you file for a couple hundred dollars and will give you 3x damages if you win.

The most likely outcome is they settle when the court date approaches or dont show and you win hy default.

“Heres a purple heart. Get back out into the meat grinder. If you get hit again and live, you can put a little star on it.”

So you owned an uncommon phone with uncommon features in 2002, and youre using this to assert that these features were common at the time?

At a time when only 20-30% of people had cellphones, having one of the 5% of those cellphones with a camera or GPS was pretty uncommon. It means at any given point, less than 1% of people would be able to take your picture, much less post it to the “nowhere” that was social media at the time.

Camera phones existed, but were very uncommon. Same with GPS. Nokia “candy bar” phones were the most common at the time.. It looks like 2002 was when nokia first added GPS to its phones.

I think you’ve mashed 2000-2010 together into one big “cellphones had cameras and GPS before smartphones” year in your head. They were still very basic in 2002, most barely having web browsers.

All of this glosses over the fact that cellphones were not ubiqoutus in 2002, and the ones that people used at the time rarely had camera/GPS, much less any concept of a “phone app” or “social media.” It would have been much easier to “get lost” both actively and passivly back then because you werent surrounded by people brandishing data harvesting/broadcasting devices all around you.

Good catch. I should have said smart phones. Cellphones were around, but think calls/basic texting, no cameras, no internet, no GPS.

It was still somewhat common to not have a cellphone back then, so tracking people was not so ubiquitous as it is now.

Myspace launched in 2003, so it didnt exist. Friendster technically did, as it looks like it launced in march, 2002. Id still say that no, there was no social media of note in 2002, unless you want to talk about usenet/IRC. Neither of the latter were in common use or likely to help assist you finding someone who didnt want to be found.

You dont do any of that, for one, or you do it under a fake name.

It was also probally easier 24 years than it is now. No cellphones, no social media, very basic digital cameras, almost no survelance cameras.

We use these for soup:

https://www.soupercubes.com/products/silicone-food-freezer-trays?variant=45179217969378

Pricey for glorified ice cube trays, but really convinent to have the soup portioned to size.

Hmm, my client Summit doesnt pull the AI tag over, but im seeing it on the web browser. I recall the AI feature being discussed, but thought it was mainly for self tagging. Nice to see mods/admins able to use it too.

Well thats disheartening. Thanks for the tips.

I dont read him as an LLM, just someone verbose. A couple accusation in thread isnt enough to prove it either way.

Is there some other evidence Im missing?

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The above is just modern network security. The model is called zero trust.

Zero trust assumes there is no implicit trust granted to assets or user accounts based solely on their physical or network location (i.e., local area networks versus the internet) or based on asset ownership (enterprise or personally owned). Authentication and authorization (both subject and device) are discrete functions performed before a session to an enterprise resource is established. Zero trust is a response to enterprise network trends that include remote users, bring your own device (BYOD), and cloud- based assets that are not located within an enterprise-owned network boundary. Zero trust focus on protecting resources (assets, services, workflows, network accounts, etc.), not network segments, as the network location is no longer seen as the prime component to the security posture of the resource.

Google pionerred it in the 2000s I believe, but its very normal now. A commom deployment will have an always on vpn agent on each device, which will then use mesh vpn tech like wireguard to do peer to peer connections between the client and server. There is no need for a central vpn controller. At most their is a dns-ish directory service that runs to let each agent queiry to get public keys for the other agents. Access is gated with RBAC and ACLs.

Tailscale is well known name that provodes this model. Netbird is a FOSS example.

What we do know is being legally armed and not defending your life ends in summary execution.

The issue is clearly that he didnt pull and shoot when his life was threatened. He might have sent them running and survived, however unlikely.

Thats the stupid game this admin is playing. They want to kill with impunity, and cant stand that people may fire back if they do so, but also cant back down on gun rights because they absolutly will lose their base if they do.

They are now on a very stupid “only cops should have guns and are justified in shooting you if you have a gun near them but also you can have guns and cops cant just shoot you if you have guns near them” tightrope.

Yup, its predictable. “No ads for money,” then “no ads for money and light ads for free” then “no ads for lots of money, light ads for money, unbearbale ads for free” is literally always the model these fuckwits push too now.

Its not clear at all whose side they would come down on.