Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.
I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.
Pros:
This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.
Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.
It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".
I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.
We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.
Cons:
Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.
While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.
We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.
@InternetEh Serious Q: The universities that accept donations in US, are those the same universities that take such a massive fees from the students that even those that are fairly well off will have to pay it off for the rest of their lives?
Asking because coming from Czechia I never heard about unis having to beg for money from their students.
My latest pet #project: Replace the "free" #location sharing services with simple solution where one has full control of (a) data collection (b) data storage (c) data sharing/visualisation.
If you want to give this #GoogleLatitude like alternative a go, I'd be happy for any and all comments:
The main idea here is that for years I hade 24/7 shared location with trusted circle of people, so that I have a chance of getting help in case something goes significantly sideways on my (mountain) adventures.
And as #GoogleMaps is getting less and less useful, I thought that finding an alternative for this one use-case should be easy.
It is not. All the solutions I've found have questionable ideas about data processing or steep pricing model or vendor lock-in or all of the above.
So I thought that for folks with similar needs I should build easy(tm) to start & operate alternative.
I basically never have backgrounds on my phone, I havent for years. I usually just keep it plain black. So my wife is very amused I finally cracked and have chosen this as my home screen background
@Jeremiah@noybeu I actively avoided similar in #WhatsApp for weeks/months. It eventually disappeared. I would assume that they had there "if you don't accept in X days, we will consider you accepted the terms" or similar.
People who can comfortably live off 30% of their income cluelessly explaining savings to people who can barely live off 100% of theirs is a phenomenon I encounter way too often.
YOU'RE NOT BETTER AT BUDGETING YOU JUST HAVE MORE MONEY.
@sarahwedde I had a conversation with a friend recently who claimed that poor people are just bad with money and should be just taught how to save.
So we did a little exercise of how much one can save if one saves a bit of their tiny income every month. In a year we would have not nearly enough to get a second hand fridge if the old one would die.
Said friend could buy a brand new fridge every month without even noticing on their budget.
It's not wealth illiteracy that makes people poor. It's a lack of money.
People might know that there are countries where it is effectively impossible for Jews to live.
What less people know is that there are countries where Jews are not banned outright, or prevented from getting work permits by law, but are made to pay a "Jew Tax" in the form of preventing Jews from producing kosher meat, requiring them to buy foreign meat that is less available and costs a lot more.
Those countries are Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Slovenia.
These countries have a "Jew Tax" which requires their Jewish citizens to buy food at higher prices.
Canada has now joined these countries.
When I was in school and people would ask "How could people pass laws against Jews?", the answer is this... by starting with making life more difficult for Jews, then like the frog in the pot, turning up the heat.
Big-time voter suppression in Texas *the state makes it difficult to register, limits voting accessibility, & uses gerrymandering, corrupt schemes...
"It took me three tries to register to vote. I'm still thinking about how not everyone has the ability, the time, the resources to ask questions, double-check their reg. status, & make multiple attempts. Being able to participate in democracy should not be this hard-."
@KimPerales "Register to vote" is still a bizzare thing to me. In Czechia you have your ID. That's it. That's all it takes to vote. You just show up at the district of your postal address and you vote.
@danjac@hazelweakly But every now and then you are assigned high priority, super urgent, but trivial task in one of those codebases. And when you give an estimate in the scale of months, then everyone is surprised 😯
What is the best introduction #DrWho episode? So that it does not have too many confusing parts, but does the "it's bigger on the inside", "I'm The Doctor ... Doctor Who", sonic screwdriver types of things? Thoughts? #Tardis#Poll#DoctorWho