@nprofile1q... I always had the suspicion that Jones was some kind of disinformation agent at best. Even when he said true and important stuff the way he said it and what he mixed with it would make people that cared about freedom look like nutters. I don't think it was accidental.

@nprofile1q... Linux Mint to me occupies a sweet spot between Debian and what Ubuntu is becoming. More up to date than Debian, still in the apt / ufw world, most online information how to install different software and do things applies fine. Some things just work with less work than on fedora or any arch variants, even the easy ones. And it avoids the corporate craptastic stuff that Ubuntu seems to be headed toward.

@nprofile1q... Yes. One of the great things about the internet is the freedom to find your own peers and tribe, not based on age, or anything else but based on your own individual characteristics and sense of being heard and hearing others.

@nprofile1q... Remove most stuff from phone to secured backup (not fucking iCloud or Google cloud unless encrypted yourself). Minimal stuff when crossing the board. Restore the backup when past the border.

@nprofile1q... They can and have retained people for longer or kept their gear when they refused.

@shortwavesurfer2009 I probably should sell convert some to fUSD stable coin and spend that to buy more on the next dip. Makes for a nice ratchet.

@nprofile1q... Always good to find a fellow book-a-holic. :)

@nprofile1q... How can it being unethical to initiation force be problematic? That is all the NAP really is. It is a statement about what is ethical and a committment to being ethical. It is a standard in short hand form for what is right and wrong. We can't get to more ethical society by being unethical ourselves, can we?

Non-initiation of force doesn't mean we rule over to those that do initiate force. NAP is never against defending liberty. It is not against use of violence, only against initiation of force against those just going about their business. It says we can only ethically interfere with choice of others when they are initiating force to stop that wrong or when they are physically harming others.

What are borders? Are they not established by a State - by self legalizing monopoly initiation of force over everyone withing its claimed physical territory? That someone comes into that space without the State's permission says nothing about their intentions. If they live in ethical voluntary interaction with others why would I object? States have grand strategies and conspiracies of one against another. A bunch of free people voluntarily living and cooperating with one another? Not so much I suspect.

I think part that is hard is to learn to think outside the confines of reality as defined by the assumption that the State is legitimate and learning to recognize which problems are problems only with that assumption and perhaps not so much without that assumption sneaking in. It takes time and patience and then I often still get parts wrong or parts still aren't so clear.

@nprofile1q... If you use it we don't make you homeless or murder you. See how much easier and more convenient it is?

@nprofile1q... Of course radio waves are one medium for using TCP/IP protocol messaging over. If we get high speed internet from low flying satellites everywhere on earth why would anyone still want cellular? Government required PSTN networks to keep a lot of metadata. CALEA and other travesties. Location is prime data for ad targeting.