Biden’s courting of the black vote

I remember that.

If you don’t vote for me you ain’t black. - Joe Biden

I felt so understood, loved, and represented.

what could she do for her VP pick? Aside from a mid-Western old white guy.

The other old white guy. It’s a big tent. The old white guys are voting identity and marketing just like you are.

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He’ll always be Balki Bartokomous to me.

I’m not really following

That’s because the truth sucks and your brain is rejecting it in defense of your mental health.

500 year old think tank

force multiplier

There’s one. What else?

Modest home. Stone fruit trees. Nice big pole barn for projects.

My wife and I have been searching for community and reasonable housing costs. My data analyst self began mad research of all sorts for about a year. Then, we moved into a vehicle and explored for eight months.

Boots on the ground, we learned that everything is much, much better if you’re at least 40 minutes from the closest Walmart. This is harder than it seems. It’ll likely be an hour+ commute to a workplace with decent pay. But, it’s been consistently true wherever we’ve traveled (US): No Walmart nearby means a solid community and cheap land.

We found a place we like. My wife accepted a job offer today. We bought a 14’ enclosed utility trailer and will build a temporary home in the two weeks before we leave, avoiding rent and mortgage until we find the perfect piece of land.

We intend to change the social contract.

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They don’t, of course.

I wrote a draft for the .world mods as was suggested elsewhere in this thread. I’ll get it sent tomorrow.

The vast majority of Americans lack practical alternative choices as a function of Weber’s Iron Cage, effective poverty, and time scarcity.

It’s a minority privilege that seemingly you and I enjoy to be able to speak with our dollar. It’s important we realize others have far less freedom than we do.

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Hasty generalization with a red herring.

Good luck with your whatever.

“People” didn’t author the comic.

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There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism. We don’t hang ourselves. Our system crushes us under its boot.

OP, those assholes have you blaming yourself. But, they’ve provided for us no practical alternatives.

In the early 1900s a sixteen boy year in rural America knew how to drive, to shoot, and to run the entire farm. If he wanted to set out west to make his own way there was a good chance his parents already viewed him as a man capable.

A sixteen year old in the city didn’t know how to live in the city or the boonies. They knew nothing of firearms or why the rural kid needs one.

All that’s changed is a lot more people now live in cities.

He came at me by not reading half my short response, strawmanning, and continuing to strawman after being told. When I told him I wouldn’t fight with him I was banned from news for “violence and civility”.

He’ll ask other mods to do his dirty work for him. He’s picking fights blindly to feed his ego.

Great stuff.

The entire cellular network, particularly T-Mo 5G unlimited, would put it to shame. If one wants better then Starlink.

The way to do wireless would be to form a neighborhood ISP, put up a tower, then wireless P2P to each home. I’ve seen it in a few places. More common is citywide wifi.

I do know that AT&T has a fiber line that runs through my neighborhood, yet I can’t get fiber internet

The local exchange carriers (LECs) typically change from plain olds telephone system (POTS) to fiber at the neighborhood level. Coax carriers also.

Fiber to the neighborhood is already there. It’s not hard to run a line across a neighborhood to connect whatever on either side.

The difficult part is getting from a neighborhood connection to each individual home. It’s a flower pot install on each property, all connected together underground, and it can’t fuck with gas, water, sewer, etc.