rhythmisaprancer

That makes sense. Sorry to hear there is an issue with discrimination. Also sorry to conflate them with sov cits.

travelers

I’m curious what this means. I am guessing not tourists, and I also think of folks in the US who are sovereign citizens. Is that a thing in parts or Europe?

I haven’t used a SPOT for ten years, but at that time they were pretty limited in their comms. They weren’t on if I didn’t want them to be on, and even when in and supposedly with service, were flaky. Now, I use an InReach. It has more functionality than the devices in the past, but the connection isn’t really any better. All of these devices were owned and managed under government contracts but I don’t think they would be any different. I have never used them to track myself as I go, I use different equipment for that.

Long story short, you’ll worry more about getting service when you need than you will about being tracked when you don’t want to be. A tree canopy or tall canyon can prevent comms.

Stay safe!

Too bad.

My main use case is with folks who have Apple phones. LocalSend has interoperability there. I cannot speak to Android-Android transfers with it, but have used the nearby share in the past.

Has anyone tried LocalSend? Not android specific, not sure about Windows tho

Can signal interact with SMS? I felt like I had issues with that when I used it a couple years ago. May have been me.

That website is lame. You can reject cookies, but then it just tells you you they are required. THAT is mildly infuriating, not trying some minor visual tricks to hide an antenna.

The only thing that is infuriating about this is that it stands up the same way I do when I first wake up.

Yes, in my experience a sooty window comes from incomplete burn. That soot is flammable! Burn it off.

Hmm, I wonder what they think of me using my sister’s phone number for some places, and the last land line I had in others?

Is that bidirectional?

You’re right, I had forgotten about each unit being multiple warheads.

37 times over

😐 even if you are over by 3x, that’s a lot of nukes.

https://archive.is/MEpfm since the cookie waver on that site is baloney!

Neat read. Bummer that we have 450 nukes waiting to blow someone up.

I wonder if just this exposure will lead increased numbers to alternatives. Would that be good?

Fuels is being used as a verb here. The title could also be reworked to say “Canada’s surging cost of living is fueling reverse immigration”
or
“Canada’s surging cost of living exacerbates reverse immigration”

Gosh this seems so relevant to the Wikipedia highway discussion. Maybe there cannot be flexibility in their rules when they are facing this type of threat.

This is interesting, and connected to the website that predates Wikipedia, https://www.aaroads.com/ ! I never really thought about the folks who ran that site, what a large amount of time and effort they have spent. And to do Wikipedia, also.

It does seem like these sort of hard rules will always come up against hard walls. There has to be some flexibility it seems.

I’m waiting for this to matriculate to kbin and will then sign up but am excited for some videos, too.

To add to this, “have got” is perfect tense. “You’re a man” is different because “are” isn’t an auxiliary verb here, it is just added to “you” as a contraction. That phrase would probably be an existential clause.

I miss World Wide Words!