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  • Preparing for higher than normal rates of inflation or even Hyperinflation is a smart thing to do. I'm not an expert but I have been thinking about this for a bit. How you prepare is going to vary greatly depending on your living standards, your personal situation, your means, and your ability. But basically you want to be as self/comunity suficent as possible, while also investing in things you think will hold its value better than the inflated currencies.

    Learn to make or do as much you can, either yourself or with assistance from your local community. There is a large range of possibilities but the more you can do yourself instead of outsourcing (outside of your community) will greatly insulate you from inflation. Mending clothes, storing dry goods, sprouting beans, using free and open source software, foraging for food, or maintaining your own bicycles & machinery are all things that can help a lot. Some things might not be possible for you to do while other things might require some investment of sweat equity, training or tools/infrastructure.

    Things like growing your own food can take a lot of time and resources to start out. But helping a neighbor who already has a garden will teach you much, forge community bonds, and probably help you secure some food. This is all to say that the less you depend on the open market, the less inflation will affect you.

    Along with reducing your dependency on the open market you should think about your finances and what they will become in a high inflation environment. Using historical examples might be useful or they may not and you should realize that every situation is unique. The key is to hedge your bets and don't look at any one strategy as safe.

    Utilize fixed low interest debt (or your savings if you have some) to secure investments you know in your gut has some intrinsic value and that is very likely to stay close to your original purchase price. You can try to invest in things that may outpace or grow with inflation, but realize the risks involved. This applies to real estate, stocks, precious metals, other currencies, and pretty much anything that thing you can buy. Things with intrinsic value are more likely to still be worth money in the future, you might not make a profit but when dealing with high inflation the goal is just to not see your assets devalue while all the things around you raise in price.

    Bonus: I think a lot of this information applies in this context. https://pdfhost.io/v/wzrA1Oiy0_The_Modern_Survival_Guide

  • The dentist asked me to sign a waiver so they could use AI...I'm looking for another dentist

  • The true opt out is to stop using Microsoft products

  • So if one already had a dose of the previous booster about a year or so ago, would it be helpful to get the same version of the booster again now?

    Is the post simply suggesting to people that haven't yet had the booster go get it? Or is it saying you're better off getting the same booster again rather than nothing?

    Also, I'm assuming people with the means to go to a different country without these laughing stock "leaders" would be better waiting for those countries to approve and release up-to-date vaccines.

  • I'm still reading for pleasure. But now it's interspersed with reading for political revolution and toppling authoritarian regimes.

  • Especially with those tariffs.

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  • I named them "antibodies"

    • Untitled Goose Game
    • Kiki's Delivery Service
  • I think he forgot that the fascists were the bad guys.

  • Leonardo so I can tell him "Non capisco l'italiano".

  • Oh wait, I think the point is that if you are trying to visit archlinux.org, then you can use the URLs in the mirrorlist instead. That part about the reflector tool threw me.

    Guess I'm lucky, I haven't had any issues downloading ISOs or using the AUR. This is the first I'm hearing about the DDOS.

  • In the meantime, if you're an Arch user and if archlinux.org is unavailable, you should use the mirrors already in your pacman-mirrorlist package instead of relying on the reflector tool.

    I'm not too knowledgeable here, but why couldn't you use the reflector to generate a mirrorlist?

    I normally do something like

     sh
        
    sudo reflector --verbose -c CA --protocol https --sort rate --latest 20 --download-timeout 5 --threads 5 --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
    
      

    Which my understanding is that it would test all the mirrors in CA (Canada) and sort the fastest ones and then overwrite the mirrorlist.

  • Is this where all the orange braincells go?

  • There is only really "Upstate", New York, and "Long guy land".

  • Reminds me of being in high school again and "jousting"