I'm in your age window here and I know that what you're talking about are certainly not classics...

Hell, I'd argue anything in the modern era isn't "classic" especially from the 70s on but I guess it's all subjective, people like to use the word loosely as something being "classic to them". A classic to me is something timeless and definitely not what you're talking about, just my two cents there...

ANYWAY I'm sure you can find these things on YouTube if you dig around. Just use whatever plugins people are talking about or simply use brave browser to do it otherwise you'll be inundated with ads... I don't like being a brave browser pusher but it definitely works to zap out a ton of the noise with all the ads... I'd probably use a different burner account while building out playlists on there while blocking all the ads though.

For solar, you can utilize LiFEPo4 batteries which are safer and last longer.

You still MUST buy batteries in cases where you want to utilize power and that's on top of the panels (which fortunately do have a much longer lifespan, but still, very expensive)

The problem here is that everyone is so reliant on some sort of 3rd party shit to just exist. I'd be ok living in the woods and burning wood for fuel for crying out loud. I could read books for entertainment. But I'll still have to figure out and rely on others for additional food.

There is no clear solution to this problem, society as a whole needs to really be fixed so that we can have a tolerable well running economic system going on. It'd probably be ok enough as it is but thanks to all the big guys who just forced dependence on oil and the ones who forced to go with heavy industrialization we have what we have today - a big fat mess. We could've gone slower with the advancements but instead everything got rushed... And it seems like that hyper rush rush rush bullshit has to keep going on to keep everyone blind about all these things going on because we're all caught up in the imagination bullshit instead.

To get to your question though, realistically I would find it a pretty big pain in the ass if I really needed to magically disconnect from utilities but it would be manageable.

What you're describing is the goal of the desired constant position that we're in. If you want to examine it, it's basically what we've been in for a while.

We're in a stalled out phase and I'm not sure how the hell it's going to turn out from it - hopefully we'll regain traction but apparently we're not right now and haven't been for what, think about it, how many years now? I'm talking major stall (by design) for a LONG time now.

Maybe we're going to get out of the rut, but with how easily everyone gets distracted (look at this musk character go about, why the fuck is he really a thing??) It doesn't look like we're getting out of the rut anytime soon.

Things are going to turn simply because they determined we hit that point of no return and we need to scale things back for a bit to heal just to try and do treachery again in the next N years... I'm sure they'll make that cycle more hyper with their computer calculations to try and push it to the absolute edge each and every time too.

I'm already seeing turkeys out for $1/pound.

They just want to scare you to buy it now instead of waiting.

There's a whole subsection of story there about how humanity was enslaved by drugs which resembled a white, milky substance in order to keep them subdued.

In the episode the Q doesn't like how humanity can get so stupid to get trapped by this and used it against humanity in the trial in this episode.

I think Gene could've gone much further with this but just decided to keep the audience happy with a variety of scenarios.

It's pretty good.

"The white"

Yeah, I get what you're saying - I'd probably wind up running some sort of Thunderbird instance with all the security parameters set and just access that in a secure way. Maybe try to figure a way to proxy that concept >>

Email provider >> more "static" client to do the email (imap/pop3 whatever crap) >> proxy off that somehow

That way maybe you can just find any email provider that'll be much cheaper and do what you will with that... I put static in quotes because something about what you're doing is tripping things off somehow and maybe you can fine tune things to get it so whatever that thing that's getting tripped is, you can overcome it.

I don't use tor often and am no expert in that realm, I did notice proton saying how they support that too but it looks like it's more around their web interface... Again, not an expert so I'd say you'd have to research it more...

Tutanota might be best for it all too. For my situation though, they just didn't offer quite what I was looking for so it was proton for me...

I'm not sure why you'd trigger any of that unless you're doing something very weird. I haven't experienced anything of the sort with them. At least not yet, anyway...

Everything on that URL you've pointed out is behavior I'd like to have as a precaution in case someone is trying to compromise my account... Tutanota might or might not do any of that but I'm not sure...

I do know that if nothing fits your bill, you can host your own email server. That you will have all control over, except for your ISP...

This stock market is all bullshit. I'd be ok if it was to somehow vanish - it always has been and always will be manipulated...

There's really only a couple options...

Tutanota or Proton.me

Your third option is to handle yourself and I doubt you'll want to do that as you'll hit plenty of walls all over the place if you try, but it's still an option.

I just paid proton for their two year package that has 500 gigs for email and anything else and it's working out great. If you're looking for something cheap and without bells and whistles, just email, either of the two mentioned above is fine. I found tutanota a little off tune for what I was looking for and proton fit my needs better.

HURRICANE SEASON YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE SCARED AND PANIC

Just open an account with the minimum amount needed to pay your bills, do the leg work to keep the account above the minimum to not incur fees. Find the bank with the lowest minimum for an account.

Save yourself the work from having to go to various offices to pay for utilities.

This is really your only reasonable middle ground here because you're paying for gas and time with having to go across all the different offices just to maintain magical cash transactions. You're not going to win this way...

So the golden age for entertainment has been over. Find something else for entertainment or go explore some classics.

That's it.

Uh you mean Bush 2?

You're probably better off staying the fuck away from the cretins. Saying anything to them won't do jack shit and they're not going to tell you anything worthwhile.

I'd stay the fuck away from them.

Yeah, into the ocean

Yeah just go ahead and do that it's easy!

I was just going to comment - they'll have to endure the nearly perfect weather with no AC... Imagine mid 70s with a slight ocean breeze with no AC! How will they survive?!

Dude, turn all that shit OFF -- you can turn off everything except the presidential alert.

It's easy, go into settings and search for "alert" or something like that -- turn them all off.

You had a night's sleep ruined over NOTHING. Any future alerts are all bullshit to get you wound up over NOTHING.

It's going to be so big nothing is going to happen

Not surprising, those cars are going to go to shit in the near future.... They look terrible on top of it.

Unless he's got some really smart way to recycle batteries I'm pretty sure he's going to be looking to cash out as much as possible before it becomes a problem.

The nature is nice, the people are fucking intolerable.

I agree and it's just simple enough to call that stupid shot a shot, you know, like we did with the FLU SHOT. What the hell happened with everyone where they're just regurgitating everything they're being told? Since when have doctors become God and you can go and simply take tests for whatever ailment to confirm it? Since when was it ok to be a fuggen faggot and why did we let them destroy the concept of marriage and rainbows?

We need to take it ALL back and stop bowing to this shit. I was commenting before, when they fucked around with all our medical insurance we ALL should've went on strike until they dialed that back - it was a bad enough system as it was and letting them make it even worse with how things are today is ridiculous.

It's not that simple. You fight back by fighting back like what our recent elders should have done instead of continuing to tolerate all this bullshit and falling back on social security and that medicare bullshit that they all seem to fuggen love so much.

I still don't get why nobody is even phased about how fuggen TERRIBLE things have gotten with the health racket and that insurance bullshit. It used to be the simple copay bullshit when I was a kid (what, $50 max for everything?) And now it's turned into being very expensive to have in the first place AND I get to pay over 10k in medical expenses to have a child (no complications, no special shit, just having the baby) while getting bullshit with "EOBs" and having to keep paying new surprise bills TWO YEARS LATER? THAT'S JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF BULLSHIT

EVERYONE should've went on STRIKE when that bullshit ramped up, but nope we all just fuggen put our heads in the ground on that one.

I'm sure there's a ton more examples to be pointed out but that's my big bone to pick within my lifetime. What a load of shit that is, and that's ON TOP of the bullshit taxes we pay that contribute to this shit.

I can't wait until I have enough money to opt out of all this shit, I DO NOT want to be servicing people in this society. They can all go rot.

Don't worry it should fizzle out by tomorrow. I don't get it either but I guess people just get SO EXCITED that they have to post something about it...