Why is it so hard for people to just leave their electronics at home?

Seems like a mask and no electronics on you would be a far better solution here. Perhaps even a fancy mask celebrating the great Spooky Season holiday.

Uber is going to start implementing the same thing, so mobile Flock that you wouldn’t be able to take down.

It can’t if you leave your phone and electronics at home, which you should be anyways.

I’ve always been a fan of UniFi products. You keep the data, handle it how you will.

Even in wealthy ‘liberal’ neighborhoods they welcome them as well, because they assume they help protect them from ‘the poors’.

I’ve used Proton for quite a bit, and it’s well worth it personally, just the VPN blocking ad’s is pretty fantastic, along with storage and everything else. For Maps, I haven’t found a ‘great’ solution, and instead of Spotify, I just run a Navidrone server at home, and that easily allows me to stream all my audio at the bit rats that I want.

Median square foot is close to the same. It’s cheaper to build larger than smaller in the US because of the space for expansion and developers aren’t being forced to pay for services needed when they expand suburban areas.

Or perhaps consumerism should lay off. Wealth doesn’t happen when people don’t buy things they don’t need.

I’ve had GrapheneOS for a little bit now, and while it’s great that ‘Google’ has been stripped from it, but the giant warning that you can’t avoid when restarting the phone, so many services simply breaking, it feels a lot like the old days of custom ROMs. Maybe for certain people it can be a daily driver, but goodness it’s difficult to diagnose and fix bugs when it all comes back to Google permissions and services that you really can’t get around.

which is why a single blue collar salary that used to be enough for a good house, a car and the expenses for a family of 5 in the 60s, now can barelly pay the rent of small appartment in a major city.

Except this isn’t remotely true. For American’s you had the 62% home ownership in 1960’s for much smaller homes (on average 700 sqft) vs 65% now for an average of 2000sqft. The average American family in 1960 owned 1 vehicle, they now own 2. They went on less vacations, moms typically had to work on top of taking care of the family (little to no daycare), oh and interest rates were much higher as well (on top of that pesky women couldn’t even own a home by themselves). Single person living was roughly 10% vs 30% now, oh and those hard working dads often didn’t live by a year past retirement. And if you were a minority? You absolutely were f’ed.

Yes, costs are higher now relative to income, but demands also are. Want cheap, you move out to rural areas, but risk you don’t have work. The same problem that has been endemic in the US since it’s inception.

Other Dems vote for it at a higher rate, so I don’t know. Saying one side is all good or one side is all bad is the entire problem.

Because that’s Bernie in a nutshell. It help rile up the base, you think things are being done so you keep voting the same way, but nothing changes.

His voting record shows Bernie votes with Dems 95% of the time, one of the highest consistently Dem voting representatives there are. So yes, he may be an ‘Independent’ but his voting record says that’s absolutely not the case.

Build some housing and crisis help centers for fucks sake.

Cities, counties, states and the federal government could all do that right now, but seems taxpayers aren’t willing to vote for it.

You could think that, but the only reason historical cities built tight and dense was 1. lack of transportation and 2. lack of space. Since the US is much younger with neither of those issues, you see people spread out. It’s why the American ‘dream’ is home and land. But that means to get places you need transportation, and since everything is so spread out, it would be next to impossible fiscally to have adequate and speedy public transportation.

A lot of place around the world aren’t as large as the US either. It’s not as simple as ‘fuckcars’ would make you believe.

Houston it’s taken 50 years with few regulations and while better is still very car centric.

Depends where you live and how that area is designed. In much of the US unfortunately public transportation isn’t even an option or is an option that is so slow or so expensive it isn’t affordable. Vehicles may not be either, but that’s not how many people see it.

Speaking of opposite experience, absolutely. Even if you lock it down, high likelihood of getting stolen, especially if left overnight, and if it’s a ‘high value’ bike, especially an e-bike.