Most people that do legitimate emergency preparedness programs tend to only go two weeks out, because unless you have specific geographic restrictions, any emergency that lasts longer than two weeks is essentially going to end the world.
While .world does tend to block a lot of instances, watering down would in this case be a problem with over-federation. .world tends to host the most popular communities, which then is a self-feeding cycle that increasingly centralizes user share on .world, which then produces more content than native communities, then making .world communities more popular, and so on.
It produces much more average (to American and Euro-centric tastes) posts, while also being the defacto instance/community for a particular topic. Watering down what could be much more specialized topic posting and discussions.
China has produced more Nuclear power plants than the entire world combined. They have installed more solar than the entire world combined. They have installed more hydro than the entire world combined. Yes, they have a lot of coal as well. Because they are simulataniously trying to raise the standard of living for 1.4 billion people, while meeting their climate goals which are far more aggressive than any other nation.
USDT has a higher average daily volume, ETH has more total daily trades, ETH has more total utility and is accepted across more platforms for actual use, even SOL-based coins/transactions have more total daily trades.
As far as most valuable, while BTC has the highest total market cap when converting to USD, as has been noted it cannot handle high levels of transactions, whereas ETH and SOL and their derivatives can, meaning it is not a valuable currency and isn’t often used. It is speculatively the most valuable, whereas ETH is actually the most valuable.
You’re asking this on .world, the normie instance. .world is the watered down version of lemmy.
But to answer your question, yes, ideally all people should move to foss versions of corpo software, if only to devalue digital data trading and advertisement space. Yes that means more instances going further right wing, and some instances choosing to no longer federate with the larger, more ‘normie’ ones; but the overall good to society is worth the cost.
Bitcoin is one of the least traded crypto currencies in the world, and certainly isn’t the most popular or most valuable.
Legally, as long as you have a social security number, as in you know the number, there’s no problem. Driving can be hard but most of these people have lived and worked within 5 miles of where they were born for hundreds of years now. But besides that you don’t need your ID for much.
It’s not a model, it’s a guaranteed constitutional right that has been upheld a LOT of times in the supreme court over the last two centuries. You cannot have a poll tax, period. In any possible way, shape or form. It cannot cost a single cent to vote. Ever. Under any possible circumstances, without a significant constitutional amendment. It cannot be changed via law, and any laws passed that do require ID but do not make IDs free are undeniably unconstitutional based on 200 years of precedent.
So we find ourselves trapped in a loop, because voting is an enshrined right.
It’s also… just not needed. The only way you can register to vote is by proving your identity and citizenship. Using the free process that exists in every state and most US territories (not for federal elections in the territories unless they overlap with a state).
Don’t worry little buddy, when liberalism fails again and has to be saved by socialists, you’ll learn to love the tanks.
First, sorry for the late reply, this did not show up in my notifications for some reason.
How do we define memtal illness? Is it just about anything that bars you from avhieving social success? Then doesn’t it fully eliminate the choice factor?
Mental illness, specifically disorders, is any category of psychiatric illness that interferes with daily life. I used it in two ways. Many who develop a severe mental illness, say schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, clinical depression, and even cases like mild to severe autism, will end up homeless. Sometimes this is arguably a choice, as in their disorders lead them to act in ways that others perceive as a voluntary action, which supports the far-right narrative you’re basing your argument on. Most of the time this is not a choice.
Additionally, the severe stress of homelessness has been well documented to cause PTS in otherwise mentally healthy people. This then can cascade into other mental illness, which can lead people to either use drugs to calm themselves (as medical care is out of the question), or can result in the ‘voluntary’ choice of not seeking help after enough rejections. This is where the myth of ‘they don’t want help they want to keep doing drugs,’ lie comes from. People with severe PTSD from homelessness that have found a way to cope with the damage that state of being has done to their brain. When you are in survival mode constantly and find something to give you peace, whatever it may be, that is what your brain will fervently keep trying to get even if it is illogical or in other words bad for you in the long run. Which leads us to:
Rightwingers would argue that starting drugs (and even continuing using on early stages) IS a choice.
And in some select cases, they’re right. But they’re also not capable of understanding the concept of choice.
If I force you into labor at an early age, force you to work unsafely in such a way as to cause chronic pain, and then force healthcare costs to be unobtainable for you; you are left with a few choices: Drink yourself to sleep so you don’t feel the pain, seek drugs so you don’t feel the pain, or kill yourself to stop the pain. Pain management isn’t covered in ER visits unless you’re having a heart attack from it or have gone into shock. Most Americans cannot afford anything but ER visits, because ERs cannot legally turn you down.
So do you have an actual choice in that scenario? Because half of working Americans by the age of 30 find themselves in that scenario. Nearly all drug addicts found themselves in similar scenarios.
If you want to stop drug addiction and abuse, and homelessness, then the solution is universal healthcare including mental health care, AND WORKER PROTECTIONS INCLUDING MINIMUM WAGE BEING SET TO THE COST OF LIVING.
But how does a VPN prevent those things?
Alone, it’s not the most effective, like the lock on your front door handle. Like the lock on your front door handle, it only keeps out the honest criminals.
Your Advertising profile, in the US the most common one is your Credit/Consumer Profile, tracks your ip address, browsing habits (through super cookies/app sniffing), and your overall fingerprint on the internet. This means Google really does know you visited facebook 12857192 times in the last year, it knows you searched your old crush’s name, and it knows the size of the sex toy you most likely are to buy based on how many seconds you spent on sex-toys.jesus thanks to google analytics plugins tracking your ip address back to the same one you used on google, the same one you used on facebook, etc.
Giving them a common, easily searchable, easily provable (without a warrant) data point to tie all their other data points is literally doing their work for them, and is making them wealthier than all their other business ventures combined. If you use a vpn and regularly change your ip address, fingerprinting is harder. If you use a slightly hardened browser and/or mobile OS, fingerprinting is harder. The less information they have on you, the less information they can sell to the government without a warrant.
This is like if you had a magic button to change the license plate on your car. Flock would be worthless, for the most part. Yes Flock collects a lot of other data, but if you cannot tie that data confidently to a single user, it becomes useless and worthless.
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Secondly, many VPNs do not keep logs, many do not run their software on persistent media whatsoever, preventing all possible warrant scenarios, even if they were in a country that was able to send them a warrant.
This prevents one data point in government tracking, the easiest one to explain to a judge. The easiest one to explain to a jury. If you make a comment on twitter that ICE doesn’t like, they will subpoena twitter for your ip, subpoena your ISP for your personal information, and then pay you a visit.
Guess what they have to do if you have a VPN? They have to subpoena twitter for your email/phone address/device ID/IMEI/etc, then, with varying levels of difficulty, all of which can be avoided using simple opsec tactics, subpoena all of those related companies, and then hope you used personal information like your personal IP when interacting with any of those services, and then pay you a visit if, with all this extra work ALL OF WHICH HAS A LAYER OF PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY THE MORE LAYERS YOU HAVE, convince a judge to let them pay you a visit.
Given how quickly it is becoming illegal to be trans in the united states, gay people aren’t far behind, and honestly anyone brown should already be on a vpn and have anonymized online accounts when posting, you should be working on reducing your fingerprint-ability via every means. Given you can get a vpn for 5 euros a month paid through monero, there’s no real excuse not to have that easy extra layer.
Sometimes I forget that Americans exist. Then people like you pop up and remind me.
The United States government, since the mid-1800s, and especially since their pets committed genocide in china in the 1940s, has spent more money spreading sinophobia than on propaganda against any other nation. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48823948
I miss when nazis were scared.
Obfuscation of your advertising/government profile and removal of corporate and government censorship (which now affects more than a quarter of Americans).
Those two things are valuable to the average person. Even the average American given how disliked the average American is by the current government and how many times in the last couple of years government agents have started to arrest people over twitter comments.
This is already the experience if you’re on a common VPN, which you should be if you live pretty much anywhere in the world.
Answering in good faith as someone recovering from homelessness, knowing this post is so severely downvoted and will probably be removed or ignored.
In your humble opinion, are the majority of the homeless people responsible for the situation they are in?
No.
For this and the rest of your questions there are 5 main types of ‘homeless’ and all categories below often find themselves into multiple of these categories the longer they are homeless.
Archetype 1, The Victim: Nearly all homeless technically fall into this category, but I’m going to define this as you did, ‘victim of circumstances outside of their control.’ All homeless start out like this. Either from being born mentally ill and no longer having care, losing a job, losing a house, running away from abusive parents, running away from other domestic violence, being a part of the foster care system, or getting addicted to drugs (most commonly through the opioid epidemic.) But to further clarify and deal with annoying people:
Archetype 2, The Mentally ill: American society specifically is not built to handle those that cannot help themselves. It is so violently against the chronically ill and mentally ill, that the majority of those suffering from severe illness of any type will end up homeless at some point during their lives (including ‘couch surfing’ as homeless). Most homeless people will eventually become mentally ill if they stay on the streets longer than six months. Given the lack of available reasonable resources to get out of homelessness, this is a large minority of The Victims.
Archetype 3, The Druggie: Drug addiction is a disease, a disease you are either genetically predisposed to, or not. It can start as a choice, but does not always start as a choice. Stopping is not a choice most can physically make. This, like all addictions, will only end when it is ended. Barring arguably divine intervention only hitting rock bottom and staying there can truly ‘cure’ someone of drug addiction. So once they reach the end of their grace with their loved ones and friends, they’re still alive, but cannot maintain enough free floating cash to maintain a home (if they could even qualify)
Archetype 4, The Victim, but old: In many parts of the country you cannot get a job past a certain age, you will be discriminated against. And it will be done automatically in a plausibly deniable way. This gap usually exists between 55 and 62. This is the age you are most like to become homeless for the first time as of 2020. You get laid off, you get fired, you get constructively let go, you don’t have social security, you don’t have a good enough body for general labor, you will be discriminated against severely by pretty much everyone hiring… and then you end up homeless. And until you get your social security, you will stay homeless, as older people (before social security age) are usually at the bottom of the list for grants (specifically older white men have the least available options and programs to help them out of homelessness).
Archetype 5, (Rare) (Epic) (Legendary) The Actually Prefers Homeless: Easily the 0.001% of homeless people. These are never the ones you have ever seen on a broadcast or news report, except when they rarely get caught. They don’t and won’t ever fully fit into society, as they fundamentally reject the concept. Everyone else can and has been cured before, this is the only archetype that ‘deserves’ to be homeless, because it is genuinely the only thing they want in life.
Generally you keep secrets between governments, especially secrets that don’t look good to the current government. But this is the age of AI so now anything that is real can be said to be fake, and vice versa.