Between the motors and batteries, there’s some good scrap value at least.

Have you ever been to WV? It is incredibly beautiful.

There’s definitely tradeoffs, but my balance is using LineageOS with MicroG. I have 3 or 4 banking apps that work fine (sometimes have to disable VPN). Backups are not great (at least the restoring part isn’t!), but I use Nextcloud to auto sync my contacts/calendars/photos/files and that works awesomely. I’m sure I’ll never get to use tap-to-pay, and I still can’t get android auto to work.

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I don’t really have a problem with it. If you do (and you haven’t already heard this tip), try focusing right between their eyes. From their perspective you are making eye contact, and from yours it may be enough to lessen the discomfort.

I’m nearing 50 and I clearly don’t have much need. We also just moved into a small apartment, and if anything I need to get rid of stuff.

For me, at least, that feeling is because I just like knowing my software is up to date. Only rarely do I come across an issue that is solved by a newer version, but that’s just me I’m sure. I definitely see the appeal to not having to think about your desktop applications individually.

I guess I could buy it, iron my flags then give it back.

I only see irons when I stay in a hotel lol. My flags are def wrinkly. Maybe I’ll try leaving them in the bathroom while I have a hot shower.

Friendly reminder: black stripe on top :)

Oh shit! They have a new site just for NA?? Stoked to learn, ty.

Curious who the other bids came from.

Just because you don’t like our plans, doesn’t mean we don’t have them.

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Diversity of tactics!

All good homie, I just thought one of us was taking crazy pills.

I’m not antinatalist lol. I don’t have kids, but only because we couldn’t. Fuck, dude we spent a lot of money trying if you need to know. Maybe I’m misunderstanding the context here, since I only read the excerpt you posted. And yes, material conditions is exactly what I’m talking about: people can’t afford it, people lack the requisite hope for the future. Ignoring those systemic problems and saying “people should just, like, have more kids” is a form of individualizing a systemic issue. It’s akin to blaming plastic pollution on people using straws. I’m not at all saying not to have kids, I’m saying that if you want people to have more kids, the system needs a major overhaul.

I’m saying this piece is doing that. Like “stop being selfiah, and have kids already”. Ignoring the material conditions that lead people to have fewer children and making it an individual responsibility to " fix" the problems (real and imagined) that are the result of our decaying capitalist system.

More individualizing the “solutions” to systemic problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportee_(Plane_Wreck_at_Los_Gatos)