I know some people who largely do exist off grid, but in any case, for asylum claims it’s common to claim asylum after having already crossed the border of the target country without going through the checks. My friends who are asylum seekers have done that. I imagine in general you’d have less chance of being deported if you’re already living in the country vs trying to cross the border.

From the phrasing “fleeing a country” I imagine they want to circumvent border checks/wouldn’t be able to pass a border legally anyway?

Gold is still the preferred way of storing wealth in many parts of the world. You can just take gold bars with you which should have value anywhere.

If they did have insider knowledge why would they explicitly say so in a public forum that may not be anonymous?

Stealing is morally neutral, but can be a dick move if it’s against individuals/results in the dispossession of something a person needs or cares about. But shoplifting/stealing from businesses is fine. They consider it inventory loss the same as if they dropped a bottle on the floor. It’s written into their spending calculations and is an expected part of business. And quote unquote “small businesses” still had enough capital to start a business in the first place, and are ultimately insignificant anyway since the petit-bourgeoisie is doomed to forever either become big bourgeoisie or become proletarianised/unpropertied; proletarianisation is a progressive force and I’m not bothered if members of the petit-bourgeoisie become proletarianised, not that they will anyway purely from someone shoplifting lol.

Just follow the standard advice. Don’t shit where you eat (don’t shoplift somewhere you’d be upset if you got banned from) is the main one I adhere to. If you’re only shoplifting small amounts I wouldn’t worry about cops either, for small amounts they’ll just ban you from the store, at least where I live idk about everywhere.

For individuals, I wouldn’t steal from them if you care about your relationship with them. If they find out they’ll probably be upset. If I found out someone stole from me I’d mostly be upset at the dishonesty. So it’s good that you’ve been honest with your mom and are going to tell your brother. If it were me, I would be thinking, if you need something from me you could’ve just asked. Although it sounds like you’re not stealing because it’s something you particularly want or need, but just because you find stealing fun. In which case I would say just try to limit your stealing to shoplifting, or piracy if it scratches the same itch. Or steal from people you find particularly contemptible I guess.

It’s detached from reality because you’re just randomly chucking in some political terms you learned on reddit under an unrelated comment thinking it’s some kind of slam-dunk.

Imagine your issue with .world being that it’s too left-wing

Not at all. I don’t eat eggs. Never knew the prices went up (beyond just general inflation) till I saw this post.

I’ve not responded to the majority of comments in this thread because I’d have nothing to add except “thanks”, but here:

They’re now starting to experience random corruptions that will sometimes compromise entire folders.

Er why haven’t you bought new drives at that point??

I’ve not responded to the majority of comments in this thread because I’d have nothing to add except “thanks”, but here:

They’re now starting to experience random corruptions that will sometimes compromise entire folders.

Er why haven’t you bought new drives at that point??

I’ve not responded to the majority of comments in this thread because I’d have nothing to add except “thanks”, but here:

They’re now starting to experience random corruptions that will sometimes compromise entire folders.

Er why haven’t you bought new drives at that point??

For .ml, it’s a mostly FOSS/adjacent subjects enthusiast instance, so you may be interested in communities like !privacy@lemmy.ml, !linux@lemmy.ml.

Hexbear calls itself “leftist”, though its userbase seems to lean ML.

Cause they’re spineless

Lack of growth does not mean death. That’s a capitalistic mindset. It’s entirely possible for a community to be sustainable based on the people it has and have no need to grow. Lemmy’s not trying to sell a product; there’s no need for it to grow. People can join if they want to, and people can leave if they want to.

In terms of actual future prospects, Lemmy seems fairly large to me, and regardless of whether its userbase is growing or shrinking, it would have to shrink by quite a lot to become “dead”. Especially as Reddit continues to enshittify, I imagine its userbase will only grow. Hard to find social medias of this nature otherwise; almost all other social media is based around following people, not communities, and also obviously most social media is much more commercialised, less anonymous, much less text-friendly, etc, so link aggregator/Reddit style social medias fill in a niche people want and people who want a social media in this niche will gravitate towards the one they see as the best social media for whatever reason. Maybe Reddit because it’s the biggest, maybe Lemmy because Reddit is shit and Lemmy is federated and open-source, maybe their niche alternative because they’re part of a specific niche community that uses different software, who knows.

I don’t celebrate my birthday and I don’t tell people my birthday unless it’s required for something.

…No, it’s a social media app.

If you’re referring to the title of the book, it’s called “Quotations from Mao Tse-tung”. “Little red book” is an English nickname and Chinese people don’t call it that, so the app name would not be a reference.

OP asked what’s the most incorrect way to eat a pizza. That’s the canonical method, authentic from Italy

I didn’t know they allowed you to search without JS before. If you’re at the point of disabling JS, presumably for security or privacy reasons, why not just use DDG which works perfectly well without JS?

I use LLMs for search results when conventional search engines aren’t providing relevant results, and then I can fact-check whatever answers the LLMs give me. Especially using them to ask questions that are easy to verify, like mathematical questions where I can check the validity of the answers. Or similarly programming questions where I can read through the solution, check the documentation for any functions used, and make sure the output is logical, and make any tweaks if the LLM gives a nearly-correct answer. I always ask LLMs to cite their sources so I can check those too.

I also sometimes use LLMs for formatting, like when I copy text off a PDF and the spacing is all funky.

I don’t use LLMs for this, but I imagine that they would be a better replacement for previous automated translation tools. Translation seems to be one of the most obvious applications since LLMs are just language pattern recognition at the end of the day. Obviously for anything important they need to be checked by a human, but they would e.g. allow for people to participate in online communities where they don’t speak the community’s language.