Em Adespoton

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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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    17 days ago

    The challenge here is that it takes more than money to solve world hunger.

    You also need some way to prevent the greedy from hoarding food and using it as a weapon to subjugate others, keeping them hungry.

    As usual, the problem isn’t lack of food or lack of money, it’s greedy people not wanting to share.


  • In my area, the leaves turned from green to brown two weeks ago and fell off last week — something that normally happens at the end of September/beginning of October.

    Temperatures are still in the early Autumn range with no dips below freezing yet this season, although it’s finally starting to get close. In past years, it wasn’t unheard of to have snow for Halloween.


  • The Roma are an easy target because traditionally, they haven’t owned land and have been their own political entity, not beholden to any local government.

    This makes them difficult to control, which makes them extremely dangerous to property-based politicians.

    Think of it— Western government is generally based on the premise that people who live in defined geographic areas select representatives to govern them. And the Roma live wherever they want, with their own language, culture and politics, and can’t be manipulated based on where they live and who controls that land.



  • I moved into a place with a Ring doorbell.

    I bought myself a Reolink doorbell and swapped them out. Reolink doorbells can be configured to be local storage only with no callhome, and they support RTSP. You can essentially configure them to precisely the privacy model you use — I even have mine set up to black out the parts of the screen that show my neighbors’ property, so it’s not available in recordings or the streaming video.

    All the benefits of a Ring without the privacy invasion.