Check FB marketplace and craigslist. Used and rundown RVs are a dime a dozen. They’re not built to last, they’re built to sell to boomers, get used twice, then get sold off by the kids once the owner dies.

I got one for a few grand and lived in it for a couple years.

Soda is enjoyable, aspartame is healthier than corn syrup. It’s pretty simple.

Angela Davis

It’s been a few years since I was invested in this topic, but I think the “meta” for reconciling the tension between blocking tracking and unique fingerprinting was to, in some cases, spoof information rather than outright block it.

Tor browser does that by default, though a few years ago when I tried to use it as a daily driver it was too tedious thanks to cloudflare.

Most of my research regarding browsers was focused on computers. Now that Firefox mobile can run extensions some of this might be mitigated that way.

Blocking JavaScript unfortunately makes you super unique but the tradeoff is probably worth it imo. I don’t want every random site I visit to immediately run a bunch of code, especially third party nonsense. Even if it makes my traffic stand out.

For most threat models I suspect unrestricted JavaScript is more dangerous than the potential for fingerprint-based tracking. Or at least JavaScript is very likely to leak multiple unique data points, whereas a “blocks JavaScript flag” is just a single unique identifier.

Sandboxing and siloing can also mitigate some of the risk, and is relatively painless once implemented.

All of it comes down to threat model and motivation. You can probably get like 70% better privacy/security for 20% of the work, which is a good standard for a typical usecase/person. Install ublock, disable some of the higher risk and less useful tracking (websites don’t need my fucking battery and gyroscope).

Diminishing returns start to hit hard, in part due to the passive fingerprinting / active tracking tension, due to cloudflare, due to everyone around you that doesn’t give a shit. Anything on the other end of the risk spectrum should just be done without a smartphone in the vicinity, if possible.

The video very clearly shows the tanks leaving the square

No you see the USA is Snape, China is Voldemort

songs because they wire-up your other-hemisphere ( right-hemisphere for the 85% of people who have language in the left ) with the language, & that reinforces the language’s patterning

That’s something I’ve never thought about. Interesting idea, I’m gonna try adding that to my study routine.

Also bourgeois/liberal democracy is the quintessence of adopting democratic aesthetics, forms, and language without any actual democratic function. No one can vote according to their interests, and no one’s votes actually influence policy.

The reason most modern imperialist states have evolved their own form of liberal democracy is because of how effective it is at mediating domestic capitalist contradictions so they can be externalized.

If the US were somehow a true functional democracy it would have evolved beyond capitalism decades ago.

Not to minimize how fucked the US is, but this is true to some degree. There’s a lot of ways to get a mortgage with lower credit, with or without federal and state grants. Most people could probably get approved for a mortgage.

Now, getting approved for a mortgage that’s large enough to afford anything near your work is a bigger question. But if you can afford to live in a cheaper area and have consistent income, it’s worth checking to see if escaping the rent trap is a possibility.

Lol what???

Marx is either gonna be number one, or the list is assuming you’ve already read the manifesto.

Capital should absolutely be in the top 80, and the only reason it isn’t usually top 10 is because anglos are too lazy/illiterate/overworked to attempt it.

But many lists will have Wage Labor and Capital as well as Value, Price, and Profit as easier alternatives to Capital.

Most of his stuff is essay-length and wouldn’t necessarily show up on a book list. But Essays on Feueurbach, the German Ideology, and Critique of the Gotha program are commonly recommended, for example.