I think a potential solution or workaround could be to opt for cooperatively owned large solar installations, but this would require buy-in from a community to get it started, and is something those subsidies would’ve made easier.

Still, it could be that only a portion of your power bill is covered by the solar coop, making the initial price from each member lower. Then more panels could be added slowly as members choose to invest small amounts each month, until over time all of their power usage is from solar.

Simpsons already did it.

Having a home printer allows for easy printing of shipping labels, zines, letters, etc.

As for books, it can be useful for rarer books that a library may not have access to, though that is a bit more rare of a need.

I’ve had an operational printer in the household since around the year 2000, and I cannot fathom not having access to one. I would be a virtual headless chicken running around wailing about gutenburg or something.

Switching from Ink to Laser printers was a game changer as far as maintenance and costs (you can pick up a reconditioned laser printer from the early 2000’s from a company that specializes in refurbing them and rock it for decades).

Well I’ll be damned!

Though someone in the comments of that video mentioned that the dual cuff zip tie (which I didn’t know about until now) are much harder to use that method on, and now I’m guessing the other methods I posted may not be as effective against those either. I’m unsure of how common the dual type have been at protests.

Ah crap, thanks for the info! I think I’ll swap out the images since the slipping out one might be more relevant then.

Unfortunately, police zip ties are much thicker, and likely resist that method.

Or find a buddy, and do a little shimmy 🎶

Glad to be of help and that you’re up and running! :D

I had to go to the F-droid setting, click on Include Anti-Features, then enable ‘Tethered Network Services’ for it to show up in the F-droid search.

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Their military is in shambles. Satellite photos show their armored vehicle stockpiles are virtually empty, to the point where they’re sending some troops on suicide runs using ATV’s, golf carts, and motorcycles because they don’t have enough APC’s to spare.

They are in no shape to invade anyone besides ukraine.

Wouldn’t it still be semi-effective in arid environments, as the breeze will help your sweat evaporate?

And Pirates Gold on the Sega Genesis is a good option for any emulation handhelds, basically a pixel art version of the remake.

3 people may be enough, believe it or not. It wouldn’t hurt to toss 'em an email and see what they suggest. With a company that small, it’s likely they’d take you on.

Honestly, it sounds like you could use a union. If you have a good relationship with your coworkers, you may want to contact the IWW and see what they make of your situation.

I dearly wish we had better public transport as well.

But in the event that it does not improve, either due to lack of political will or other reasons, that’d pretty much leave us with making collective personal choices as the only viable option again, whether or not internal combustion vehicles are banned.

then others holding wooden spears or just sticks … then lastly the prehistoric human holding a rock in his hand ready to strike … OOOGA BOOGA!!

According to David Wengrow and David Graeber’s book, Dawn of Everything, archeological evidences shows that human societies were extremely egalitarian for most of their existence (millions of years), and only fairly recently in human history did we start to become coercive and authoritarian.

The current dominating forms of society are an aberration from the norm, but it appears our natural state is cooperation and mutual aid, and there’s nothing suggesting we can’t structure our societies to let us return to that state of being, which is essentially what Anarchists have been attempting to achieve for the last couple hundred years, nearly succeeding a couple times.

That could’ve been an option if action was taken against big polluters decades ago, but we’re now at the point that we need collective action to prevent our world from becoming an awful place to live in, and death for those living in more vulnerable areas.

The vast majority of pollution comes from corporations. Stop punishing everyday people for being a raindrop in the ocean.

It’s not a raindrop, unfortunately.

Transportation is responsible for roughly 24% of global emissions, of which 18% is made up of personal cars and trucking.

Reducing car usage on a mass scale would be a massive help in stemming climate change, and the only way to do that is by each of us collectively using more efficient means of transport, whether that’s public transport, ebikes, or electric cars if necessary.

Maybe it might be helpful if we start thinking about climate change as a war, and like in some wars past, it will require war rationing to win it. The corporations will never stop polluting as long as it’s profitable, and many if not most governments around the world are now corporate captured, meaning we have few effective means of muzzling their emissions.

That leaves it up to us, as individuals, to make the hard choices for the sake of the planet. Reducing our usage of polluting cars, meat consumption (the alternative meats like Impossible are incredible replacements), and purchasing of non-essential high-emission luxury goods is one of the more powerful weapons we have in this war. It’d be a travesty not to use it.

We put together a privacy guide with different tiers of inconvenience, which you may or may not find helpful:

https://slrpnk.net/post/17910446