Thanksgiving was told to us in grade school as a fable of pilgrims and indians being friends. But what really happened was more like a bunch of colonizers showed up and murdered the indians and took the land they lived on to claim as their own. Thanksgiving is the celebration of whitewashing genocide, some may say.

So that may factor in here

For sure.

Standard oil was pouring gasoline into rivers as waste before Henry Ford and his Model T came along.

The auto industry gutted public transit across the country. GM diesel buses replaced electric urban rail systems.

GM made the EV1 and it was a huge hit, then they destroyed them all after collecting them from their users (they leased them all, no one got a chance to buy any)

And now, Ford just got a bunch of credit for putting a Billion $$ into the Detroit central train station, .... so they can "design" EVs.

They are mocking us, that train station has no trains because the auto industry killed them. The building was unused because of cars. And now they are going to design something that was figured out 125 years ago that they destroyed. It is a monument to their domination of our economy.

Imagine, what kind of public transit we could have if we stopped building infrastructure for car companies and built actual mobility systems?

I moved to Detroit from a HCOL city I was established in. I was renting and the options I had to buy were not hopeful. The taxes alone would have kept me working for more money year over year for the foreseeable future.

I took what would have been a down payment and bought a place outright. I bought a project and it was cheap, only half my down payment fund.

Now I am all set up. I have no mortgage to pay. My house costs me taxes ($1700/yr) and insurance ($1500/yr) plus utilities ($50 internet, $150 gas&electric, $60 water) That is about $550/month.

In michigan, taxable value increases are capped at 5%.

I figure I can work any job and stay ahead of the bills. Yesterday I did a brake job for a friend of a friend for $200 and didn't even need to leave the house. I can do things like this here and there and get by without even having a job.

I have never known this amount of stability in housing as an adult before. It is wild. I own this whole damn house and everything in it. I also made a bunch of equity right out the gate by fixing up an abandoned trap house.

Not trying to lay out a plan for others, just wanted to share how my plan has been a success and that Detroit is a place where home ownership is attainable.

Oh, couple other things. I have no kids and the schools were not a problem for me. Although the neighborhood kids are all wonderful.

I am not interested in living in "the country". I am a city person, I want my resources close. I can walk to a hardware, grocery, and auto parts store from my place. No thanks on 30min drives to dollar general and TSC on the fancy days.

reduce, reuse, recycle.

That shit is in order of most impactful.

I buy as much as I can second hand. Doing so, I am not bombarded with trash. No boxes, no bags, no plastic wrap.

We should 100% just not be producing all this trash. Coffee at home has zero waste, no plastic cup, no receipt, no carrier, no lid,...... do that shit everyday x millions of people. smh

I spent a decade living 1500 miles from any family and really enjoyed not having to do the holidays. I moved back a few years ago and kept my ways of not participating. My family is a fractured mess of divorce spread over 3 hours of driving if one wanted to partake, and, I am a long time Vegan, And, I am a long time non-alcoholic

My family is cool enough, but I have no interest in celebrating genocide while watching them eat animals and get drunk. I am certainly not going to drive 3 hours in the cold and heavy traffic with jacked up gas prices, with a bunch of drunks out on the road.

I told them, pick any other day for any other reason and I would love to come hang.

I feel seen.

I am sitting in front of a free tv I got because it has some failed leds, it has an old laptop I got for free from a client plugged into it. I have the same exact trackball mouse. But I am running ubuntu.

I recommend going to the rom archives and loading up. My rig is old and can't handle anything past gamecube emulation. Be nice to play some og cod zombies.

Oh, and check out KDEconnect, turn your phone into an airmouse. and a bunch of other cool shit.

Need any free streaming site rec's?

Thank you for further context. I would love to see this spread. Privacy in the US is like smoking in the 50's, we all know, but no one cares because the cancer hasn't metastasized yet.

Oh, I like this idea. 7 seas PAC, endorsed by anonymous,

"We want you to download cars!!!!" as a slogan

sounds like a face is worth ~$1.40 to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellebrite

both of those are israeli

Bro,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellebrite

Makes them look incompetent to work so hard to get in

I think it was an apple.

stockholm syndrome for capitalism.

or,

Economic cuckold

you are the one saying you had it in your childhood home.

Show me. I want to so your dryer and fridge connections to the variable port condenser from 40 years ago.

So you have an integrated system that all the appliances I listed run on? Or you have an old fashioned forced air unit with its own condenser?

??? the power grid is already a single point of failure. And, with what I proposed a fridge would only have power for the light, it would not need to be plugged in to get cold. You should look into hermetic pump systems before you go off making obtuse dismissals.

I call this the laser disc phase. When a tech is new and cool but still not evolved to practical.

We need to see whole house systems. All heating and cooling in the house in one system. AHU, dryer, fridge, water heater, oven, .....