mitram

@technocrit what pseudo-science is being exploited?

Syncthing might work for your usecase.

At the moment I’m not involved with any group of volunteers, but I was a volunteer at a homeless reach out group for almost a year up until a couple months ago.

We would walk around a spot known for housing a lot of homeless people in the city and “door knock” until we met somebody who wanted to talk with us. It was very interesting, I had a lot of fun and we were more or less successful in helping our regulars get a step up. It being a new job, health check ups or getting them in contact with some social workers for some tricky situations (irregular immigration status).

We stopped because most of the regulars left and we lost contact over the winter. The group I was in also started fading due to all of us being students unable to find a compatible schedule. Some times I feel remorse in not continuing, I might have to try to find the contact of one of our oldest regulars and check up on how he is doing in his new home.

P.S.: One of the regulars Mr “Zé” would tell us all about his petty crime days in Paris, when he was a teen. He was a troubled man, even today, but very fun and kind within his means.

being this butthurt about an island that never was yours

What do you mean by this? Are you referring to the island being mostly inhabited by non-han natives before the split between the ROC and PRC?

From what I’ve seen up until now, the island was a close by colony to where the “defeated” remnants of the ROC escaped to at the end of the civil war.

Fines from DSA can be relative to global revenue, not only revenue from Europe.

Good, but aren’t all corporate social media platforms implementing these same dark patterns? Is anyone aware of investigations into Meta or Google platforms?

This seems similar to those who say a fully American digital infrastructure is fine since it’s cheaper.

Might be cool in the short-term, but in the long-term it’ll be a great threat to European autonomy.

Yeah, I’m with you on this one. Shitty people exist on every political spectrum. (I’m not saying the .ml guys are part of that group, I don’t know) As long as they desire a worker controlled economy they are socialists in my book, but might also be transphobes, etc.

Oh really? Why are they fake socialists? I don’t interact much with them

There’s no double standard, the “socialist” refused to even say he was part of the “left” in the initial interviews while the other candidates had no problem announcing being part of the “left” or “right”.

What double standard are you talking about?

“socialist”

And up until a couple hours ago we have had the highest turnout since 2006!

I know literally nothing about him, what has he done?

I just heard this song for the first time yesterday. This feels like a glitch in the matrix 🥴

For OP: This is one possible way to handle this situation, but it’s not the only reasonable one

Great question.

We are building, although not enough, a lot of houses, unfortunately, a big chunk is high income/luxury housing and another big chunk is used as an investment vehicle which can sit idle for years even when it’s placed in the middle of our biggest cities.

For some extra context I leave this excerpt from another comment:

In Portugal we have more than 170,000 (state/private) empty houses. A fund of more than 100 million euros (and counting) for the renovation/construction of public/cooperative housing which has been collecting dust for 2 years now. We have the resources to fix this, but our politicians seem more preoccupied in punishing 10K people for being Muslim (they have valid concerns, wrong solutions)

I’m mentioning this issue in the context of the EU, due to the EU naturally allowing a more free flow of people and capital. Which is great for the “core” of the EU and at the same time the cause of big issues in the peripheries.

The same would occur in any kind of free movement agreement.

I give the benefit of the doubt to those who implemented this ideas, I understand the logic, I’m just not convinced by the results.

The tax incentives for digital nomads are a big issue for sure. I love meeting digital nomads, always a fun conversation, I just don’t understand why we should subsidize highly paid individuals looking for a cheap place to live for a while. They do not create roots or care much about the country they live in. If things go south they will leave and the people of the country they enjoyed will be burdened with all the issues.

I say we welcome all digital nomads if they wish to live with us, but they should pay their due like everyone else.

I don’t know much about the American phenomenon you mentioned so I can’t comment on that.

In Portugal we have more than 170,000 (state/private) empty houses. A fund of more than 100 million euros (and counting) for the renovation/construction of public/cooperative housing which has been collecting dust for 2 years now. We have the resources to fix this, but our politicians seem more preoccupied in punishing 10K people for being Muslim (they have valid concerns, wrong solutions)

I don’t think the EU per se is the reason for this. I think the free flow of foreign capital into industries of essential goods is more to blame, and that lax regulation does come with the EU.