If your land, serving you and your family of 6, could serve a thousand people instead via infrastructure or urbanization, then yes, I think the government has the right to uproot and resettle you. Obviously, on the condition that you are compensated and helped along, which I know doesn’t happen in either country, but clinging to ideals isn’t helping solve the issue.
Why not vote against subsidies for farmers then?
What makes you think I don’t? Farmers also hold a disproportional amount of political power. My one vote isn’t going to uproot the fundamental flaws of how we choose to do democracy.
I think it’s more useful to talk about how insane the status quo is, like that land is a speculative market that effectively locks lower-class people out of living on their own terms, as it might awaken more people to the reality that we live in, and the inevitable far-worse future we’re rushing headfirst into.
There is world of difference between displacing a million people and doing little to help them along, and telling a small group of farmers to fuck off or get rolled over. It’s not either / or. It’s that in the western world, we attribute too much to land ownership because it’s deeply tied to peoples personal economy and nebulous concepts like freedom. I think that’s insane. Decomodify housing and ban the trading of land as a speculative market, and I think you’ll see people give less of a shit about it.
Here in Denmark, farmers (and suburbanites pretending to be rural, let’s be real) have an immensely disproportionate amount of power to veto infrastructure projects that benefit us all for the dumbest reasons, but I can’t veto the parking lots they demand be built on my street even though it only benefits them.
Last month, some-200 farmers got off their subsidized ass to bitch and whine about how some electric poles off in the distance would, and I quote, “ruin my life”. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/niels-bliver-nabo-til-44-meter-hoeje-elmaster-vi-faar-oedelagt-vores-livsvaerdi
The idea that you get to put a stake in the ground and then that plot of dirt yours forever is insane. The amount of infrastructure projects in Denmark that are put on hold indefinitely because locals are upset, not at being forced to move, but because they think they own their land and the view, is nuts.
LibreWolf is Firefox without the bullshit.
Tailored boilerplate code
I can write code, but it’s only a skill I’ve picked up out of necessity and I hate doing it. I am not familiar with deep programming concepts or specific language quirks and many projects live or die by how much time I have to invest in learning a language I’ll never use again.
Even self-hosted LLMs are good enough at spitting out boilerplate code in popular languages that I can skip the deep-dive and hit the ground running- you know, be productive.
That’s very hard to answer without knowing what type of camping it is. There is a huge range of options. On one end of the spectrum you have RV campers who bring half a house with them and are dependent on infrastructure. On the other end you have people who just go out and sleep on a bed of moss that they made that day who could probably survive the apocalypse with nothing but a shoelace at their disposal. Somewhere in-between that, but distinctly different from normal camping, there’s a whole genre of stealth camping where you’re roughing it like an urban hobo but for fun.
Took an angle grinder to a mini-ITX case to fit a full ATX size board in it.
The board is resting unsecured on an anti-static bag and has a few mm of wiggleroom.
The powersupply is resting, unsecured to anything, on top of the PCIe lanes.
The rear fan is pressed up against the back grill by cables.
The harddrives are just kinda chilling where-ever.
The cables are routed with hopes and dreams.
This is a hypervisor and is the backbone of all my infrastructure.
Valve are good in my book for no other reason than their investment in Linux and adjacent open projects like SteamVR, but yes. They made some of my favorites games, and also ruined them so now I can’t play them. They arguably kickstarted the concept of lootboxes.
Valve has, for all their flaws, at least done something very valuable for me. Epic has done nil and in some cases worked to make my life worse.
Just talk to people bro
Denmark doesn’t have government owned housing rented at fair prices. It has housing orgs which are beholden to special laws but are still private businesses. Because these businesses own a whole block of apartments, they can strike good deals with the municipalities to house or accommodate the less fortunate. If you are middle-class then you do not live in a housing org that houses the lower class. We don’t share space.
I live in the cheapest apartment in my city in the best housing org arguably in the whole country and I still can’t pay rent and my landlord won’t come and fix the several missing doors. My neighbors are fruit-fly breeding enthusiast druggies who don’t have to get up in the morning for anything but groceries and love to party all night on any given weekday despite the housing org rules but the housing org won’t do shit about it so I regularly don’t get to sleep and the cops don’t respond to noise complaints from renters unless you live in a good neighborhood. I also don’t have hot water in my heating system but to be fair I haven’t told my landlord that because I can’t afford heating anyway.
Denmark does not have a housing model that should be an inspiration to the rest of the world, especially not since the jobcenter is also partly responsible for housing you if you’re out of the job market and entirely responsible for you and your rent if you are handicapped, both of which are conflicts of interest and they have been documented to hold this power over vulnerable people so they can continue to have their labor exploited through “activation” programs. I’m perfectly capable of working despite my handicaps. Alas, the jobcenter has struck deals with local businesses and they won’t give me any of those jobs I can do because the jobcenter can just force me to do it and then not pay me so I can’t ever hope to move to better pastures.
You might have been thinking of the Netherlands, but their government housing isn’t exactly a perfect system either but it’s better.
Decomodify housing.
Thanks for Nothing!