Amen to that. Everyone has their own balance point, Calyx seems to hit that for many.

Calyx also comes with MicroG, right? So mitigates many problems with a bit more Google.

And Fairphone 4 here, partly for Divest (had it on Oneplus 6 before this and just used to it), partly because of a good deal for a barely used one.

There’s also the Lineage-based DivestOS that attempts to keep up with more security updates, and relocking the bootloader in phones that support it.

https://divestos.org/

Try to buy over 50% of ExxonMobil or Shell (Saudi Aramco and Sinopec probably aren’t up for grabs) and shut down everything I can while holding on to the owned/leased land so nobody else can start there either. Fossil fuels get more expensive, hopefully pushing for a green change, and at least some of them remain in the ground.

A Question, An Answer - Baroque Meditations on Life and Death (compositions by Tobias Hume, played by Stefano Zanobini on the viola d’amore)

https://open.spotify.com/album/4AfnvV6htZlnl7WVB2wmYv

Stumbled across this one a few months ago when looking for music for viola da gamba (which this is not), and last week listened to it a lot. Something about the simplicity, playfulness, and contrast of professional soldier/innovative composer historical fact appeals to me.

Yea, absolutely, hence the approximated 4-6% return on investment - some years more, some years negative.

There is this apartment that I’ve been eyeing for a while, and I’ve seriously considered becoming one of those loathed landlords myself. Feels like trying to do right by the apartment and by a tenant would be putting out more good to the world than a passive stock fund, you know? So been reading up on it quite a bit lately.

If you get an investment house you plan to keep for 20+ years, those in-demand areas change (here’s hoping the next areas to lose their lustre will be the car-dependent suburbia).

“Sold it for a much higher price without ever using or modifying it.” Proper upkeep over several years counts as “modifying it” in this context IMHO.

I think most of you are underestimating the cost of housing maintenance. We had some bad luck and a couple of structurally necessary renos were bigger than initially thought, or didn’t address the issue as well as we hoped, requiring new renos. In the last 20 years we’ve paid the cost of our townhouse apartment once over, easy. And now the bathroom, kitchen, and flooring could use an upgrade (25-50 years old), which is again expensive. In that time its value has risen maybe 50%, not quite keeping pace with local inflation.

Not complaining, we bought it for living in and it’s been great for that, and now that everything is at the end of its lifespan is a good time to really make it ours. But house prices aren’t rising insanely everywhere, house upkeep isn’t free (there are always “modifications”), and at least here the average ROI for being a landlord is abt 4-6%, same as stocks lately, and that’s assuming no major surprises.

There’s doctor-patient-confidentiality involved.

…yeah. 😟

OMG is the cat okay?

Hysterectomy is a big, risky and expensive surgery. Just snip the men at 35 (for average couple age difference), same panic effect but way less expensive.

/s just to make sure, super bad idea probably breaching multiple human rights agreements either way

I’ve made an inexcusable mistake that caused someone to die. It’s been 20-ish years, still not over it. Is anyone even allowed to get over something like that and go on with their lives?

People ask because murderers exist, and if they’ve served their sentence, they might be willing to answer and have interesting stories?

Good journalism tends to cost a lot, more than independents can gather. Especially independents that don’t do it to promote their agenda.

The only one that comes to mind is CSM. It’s nonprofit, and in spite of the name, there’s been nothing religious about it.

The international version of Der Spiegel and the Singaporean Straits Times are backed by for-profit organizations, but I appreciate their reporting.

They’ll keep bringing this up again and again and again until it passes, huh.

Next Council deliberations and vote in October-December.