Well, up until only a generation or two ago, no one born into those paces actually did have a choice to stay or not. It’s not easy to leave a family support network, especially in a niche environment.

That being said, living in the desert, I saw tons of Midwestern tourists that underestimated it, and quickly got into basic trouble that I learned to avoid as a child. Bit, the people that were always cool and always prepared to deal with a harsh environment were the people that had spent time in Alaska. Spend time in an extreme place, and you learn to respect any extreme place, and be perfectly fine.

And the extreme cold option is always an option on the table. Not nuclear winter, but one bad volcanic eruption can affect large parts of the globe. Just ask folks in 1816, when an eruption in Indonesia led to a year with literally no summer in most of the northern hemisphere. Totally brutal famine in Europe, as one could also expect from AMOC collapse.

Oh no!

Anyway…

Oh, I never said I would play it well.

100% this. It’s a “company” that just needs to tick some boxes to look enough like a company to get a higher valuation. On top of the terrible name of TCP IP inc, VPNet is a name already worked to death. It’s like they purposefully don’t want anyone to hear about them outside of the industry and their own contacts.

Good for them I guess. But weird.

Edit: also, this looks like someone said “how do we make TOR commercially profitable?” And started the business from that. It is a clever way to approach the problem, and a protocol that might become a VPN standard in 5-10 years if legal challenges go on their favor, simply because it removes liability of the provider. But most western governments will immediately peg this as enabling csam and terrorism and money laundering. Unless the right buyer sticks it to the right truthy social media platforms and sanctifies it.

I would buy this album.

And I’ll play the harmonica.

Yes. I’ve lived in West Africa for about 7 years total. I’ve seen plenty of 50m deep wells pulled by hand go dry or collapse. People collecting water from puddles after a rain, rather than walk a mile to the well.

The old guys in Mali and Niger talk about being kids, roaming forests and keeping hyenas from eating the goats. One village I knew was named “it’s an elephant.” It’s all gone now. It’s been gone for 30 years. The elephants, the hyenas, the forests north of 13 degrees N, are mostly gone.

But some trees are still there, all the way into the Sahara. There are oasies and seasonal lakes with fish and wells and crops. Herders graze goats and donkeys in narrow bands far into the Sahara.

Im not saying it’s great, but im not saying it’s absolute devastation and hell on earth. I’d rather be there than some isolated community in Alaska or Siberia.

That’s when you dry out the stuff you grew when it was only 100°F

Also, Millet, sorghum, cow peas, pigeon peas, cactus, okra, and sweet potatoes are the crops that already grow in the Sahel, where it’s usually right around triple digits. People live like this right now. They have for generations.

Ever heard of a well?

Why not?

If their email servers are flagging you incorrectly, correct them. Worst case scenario, nothing changes.

Friendo, for those of us that have lived in deserts, no one gets naked. During the day at least ;)

Light clothes are amazing. I lived for 3 years on the edge of the Sahara with no power and pulling water from a well. When it was 110+F, sitting under a tree and soaking your shirt in water was perfectly fine, and more than enough to be comfortable. Turbans are amazing technology.

And I’ve spent time above the Arctic circle. I can compare the two.

While you like to think “you can put in more clothes,” that’s nice and all… Both if you have the right clothes, and have imported heat and calories. OP is talking about perpetual Arctic circle winter. Nothing grows, you will run out if wood to burn to stay warm. You will import everything, from boots to gloves to pants to coats. Look at an Inuit diet. Now look at a Mediterranean diet. Civilization flourished in areas that get hot. Humans spent 50,000 years in the equatorial zone. We are built for it.

You do you, but, uh…enjoy your narwhal blubber and seal jerkey I guess?

Triple. No hesitation.

First off, coats are heavy and stupid. Breezy linens all day every day.

What food you going to grow in below freezing temps? Millet, sorghum, rice, grapes, tomatoes, onions, garlic – all already grow in triple digit temps. I’m eating well.

Natural evaporative cooling is easier to achieve than burning slow-growing resources for heat daily. Millennia-old technology exists to handle high temps.

More people live in the Sahara than the Arctic. I’m not a penguin, no matter what the other kids said in school.

Right? I couldn’t even get Voyager to show a feed, and every browser kicked for warnings. No idea how they would have missed it.

Hm. Well, either you’ve been flagged by someone else, or may be just the unlucky recipient of a wrongful profiling back when Proton was new. But it seems to me that it’s an individual problem, either your email address in particular, or your recipient.

If it were me, I would have a couple friends with gmail go and specifically mark my address as safe and trusted. Especially anyone that has your emails sent to spam.

Beyond that, maybe email some Google support and ask to be white listed.

Yeah, I told them them late yesterday. I figured someone else would, and apparently no one else did.

I think our instance just failed some social dynamics test.

Many, many things are what’s called a “perishable skill.” If you don’t use the skill, or a language for that matter, it will atrophy and you will forget how to do it.

Always in exactly 2 minutes early. 5 minutes early always forces me to have awkward small talk with someone, usually the organizer.

2 minutes is great. 30 seconds to get in, 1 minute for mic/sound check, 30 seconds left not long enough to have more small talk than hellos.

I have both for years, and never had a single Proton email go to gmail spam. Both personal gmail and a corporate Google Office account.

If it’s a custom domain, it’s likely a DKIM issue. Otherwise, this sounds like an issue with the recipient having previously marked an email from Proton as spam.

This should absolutely be held up as the example for people that say “I have nothing to hide.”

The world isn’t fun time sunshine lollipops, kids. It’s literally inevitable that your data gets leaked or stolen.

You either naïvely trust the service you give data to more than you should, or you naïvely trust criminals to skip you when given the opportunity. There no evidence of a middle ground or other options in the matter.

IIRC, they’ve stated that they won’t accept Monero because it means they would fail external financial audits they need to remain in operation in Switzerland. Sign all you want, they won’t do this.

Plus - y’all, email is not secure anyway. Even Proton. Why would you sign a petition to make the payment method more anonymous than the service they provide? Just send them cash by DHL.

The problem with this is that it leaves left-leaning people using tech companies and slick, highly-produced products as status items. iphones and macbooks are still solid left-leaning status objects.

Also, the right doesn’t mind being scrappy and using janky, poorly configured crap if it appears to meet their agenda. Nearly every right-leaning social media platform is either a platform with a Mastadon backend, or some early 2000’s style forum.