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@dens I was cleaning out my old flickr the other day and found these mementos of the 2009-2014 golden years https://t.co/McbeUtJvOw

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Yah in hindsight this is what my guy had on his phone. Props on the domain name https://t.co/PRLpsGzd1P

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SF bums are on the tech frontier like everyone else here. I just watched one liberate a shopping cart from the Mission Foods Co parking lot perimeter invisible fence (asset protection system), using an Android phone emitting a high-pitched beeping sound, pressed against the wheel

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More on the sociology of shopping cart protection https://t.co/pArVmoHcRG

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@shagbark_hick “faces like nicotine-stained cottage cheese” is great (and correct)

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@Chris_arnade It’s from “Memoir, Letters, and Remains” which is included as an appendix in some but not all editions of Democracy in America https://t.co/hbFekkSevj
Anyway yah I love that social legibility in America has ALWAYS simply required appearance of manifesting some commercial hustle

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@Chris_arnade

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@Chris_arnade My fave Tocqueville moment is from A Fortnight in the Wilderness when he and his friend Beaumont go to Michigan to experience the primeval forest but the locals are suspicious so the pair pretend to be land speculators and everyone is like “oh of course, carry on”. America yup

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@Empty_America Very similar Chinese-designed Mexican-assembled aka Chinexican motorbikes dominate south of the border. I bought a Vento 250 similar to yours and eventually upgraded to a Honda less than a year later, the bike seemed sturdy enough but had annoying quirks like terrible turn radius

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@peteremcc @levelsio @marckohlbrugge @DanielLockyer Sincere question, how does nomadlist go so wrong on clustering Saskatoon with Prague, Tallinn, and Tokyo - is it just an artifact of thin data? (I have been to all these cities and am viewing the rankings of places I haven’t been to with extreme suspicion now)

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@graemelamperson I love sushi and ceviche as much as the next guy, but would advise to not eat raw freshwater fish, the parasite load can be extremely high

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@shagbark_hick There are commenters here implying it’s some kind of woke green Canadian conspiracy to not put out fires, or clear underbrush, or something. As a Northern Ontario resident who has watched summers here get hotter and drier for decades, I’m here to tell you these people are morons

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@shagbark_hick Got a bush property in N Ontario (similar climate to NE NY) with both a quite nice propane fridge and a small electric fridge powered off solar, batteries and inverter. After 5 yrs I decommissioned the propane one, it sucked 100 lb propane tanks dry FAST & threw off a lotta heat

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@bajadobe I think you’ll be surprised by how hard this is to scale with Baja vegetation. Old school kiln calcination uses like 1-1.5 tons of wood to fire a ton of lime. Around every Roman city in Europe there was mass local deforestation due to lime production, and they had real trees

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@El_Polacy @bajadobe @vaguepostulator Good luck with the homesteading! Keep us informed of your progress!

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@chachamin07 For what it’s worth, I have lived in Mexico for most of 4 years, and have never experienced or even heard of an incident of ATM skimming, so I suspect the risk is quite low nowadays.

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@IpnRodriguez @BowTiedPassport Lately Oaxaca is overrepresented. There are villages there where more of their people live in Brooklyn and Queens than in Mexico now