Well you should know, there’s a lot of bullshit on reddit and you shouldn’t believe everything you read there or anywhere else on the internet.

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Depending on where they are and how much they want to pay, they can get it.

(Also US banks are about 15 years behind the rest of the world. I was in Korea 20 years ago and the farm stands in the countryside took electronic payments and I could spend dollars.)

You should have said that. If I can’t access banks, it’s a way different picture.

Compounding that is the notion of privilege, which exists. I’m a cisgendered white male with a university degree and I speak English natively, I don’t have a persistent mental illness or a chronic disease, and I don’t have a physical handicap. The deck is stacked in my favor no matter where I am in the world. Taking away enforced regulations on housing, employment, and banking makes things easier for me, not harder. It’s way, way, way different if you belong to a group with less social power.

The phrase has been corrupted from its cold war origins to mean (putting it politely) the “developing world”. Whereas I’ve moved countries seven times, I’ve seen a lot of places, and I can say from experience that outside of specific prejudicial circumstances (being a woman in Iran, Uyghur Muslim in China, being anyone in North Korea, for example) there are paths to success everywhere.

It’s cute that you assume I wouldn’t. OP never said anything about that.

Denmark was supposed to have revoked her citizenship due to an administrative error surrounding whether her father was a citizen when she was born and that decision was reversed. She wasn’t the only one, and it had nothing to do with her comments on Facebook. The notion that she had lost her citizenship due to Facebook posts came from a reddit thread. That part was never true.

Spend my dollars on an apartment and a house cleaner, start networking with other folks, get a job. It’s not hard.

The only thing you need to be careful of is falling out of touch with modern life because you’re still watching 90s films in the 2050s. Part of my enjoyment of the niche entertainment I consumed in the 90s came from seeking out new people to enjoy it with, searching for it on the proto-internet, and forming communities around the experience of watching it. I find that nowadays I can watch the film again but it just doesn’t bring the same kind of enjoyment that it did when I watched it 30 years ago. I hope I live long so I can see more new entertainment options come out and try those too, and my dvd collection gets lost and broken and water damaged from being left in the closet where it belongs.

My ender 3 wasn’t my first printer, it’s not my only printer, and some days it’s my best printer. It’s actually underrated as a platform.

Me too, I often skip it and my soups are fine.

They do it bc that’s how they learned it in culinary school / that’s how the recipe goes. It adds a bitter flavor to balance onion and carrot. You don’t need it and you can replace it with something else.

I can’t imagine having trouble understanding that word but let me know if you actually need clarification.

Jesus christ those menu items really are what they say they are. RIP Castor and Pollux.

I’m really waiting for this idea to catch on. I got online in the late 80s to get away from normies and their boring, repetitive normie mind-viruses. Back then it was just nerds talking to other nerds. Nowadays you can’t even talk to your friends here. This whole thing is for people to get angry about politics and buy products. The sooner all these people leave, the sooner we can get back to what originally brought us here.

Hopefully soon, going on social media will be seen as a bad antisocial habit like smoking.

Anyone who buys gold online should have a tester, and there are reputable bullion companies like JM who don’t charge a lot of markup. If you’re on ebay trying to buy gold bullion there’s a chance it’s probably fake / silver wrapped with gold and stamped. There’s videos on the internet of folks cutting those bars in half and seeing what’s inside.

A way to increase your chances of buying real product is to buy coins that are in bad enough shape where there’s no numismatic value left. Whereas every country that mints coins has strict laws against counterfeiting them and you can go to prison for doing it, making “novelty” gold bars and rounds is perfectly legal and there’s almost no risk if you get caught scamming people with them (most often just a platform ban).

In the event of a collapse like you describe, I’m going to need something I can eat or wear, something tangible I can trade. If you can get enough people together that agree gold is a valuable bearer instrument then you’ve got a government. That’s not really a collapse.

Loser is as loser does. Your values determine that. Just remember that nobody is better than anyone else, and everyone is a loser to somebody.

Use drugs and kill people?

You need a break.