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  • This is how the garbage pickup worked when I lived in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania. It was like $$1 each for small bags, $2 each for big bags. I think they recently switched from the blue bags to stickers. It was a nice system. My wife and I produced far less waste than a large family and we paid less.

    Ironically, where I live now is completely on the opposite side of the spectrum. Garbage pickup is included in local taxes and they take anything. They take couches and large things. If I put something heavy out there I’ll leave a tip for the guys.












  • When I was in 9th grade our geography teacher put us in groups and assigned each of us a group of countries to memorize. We were given the task of creating a mnemonic to help us memorize. We got central America.

    Panama, Costa arica, Nicaragua Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico.

    Please Call Nick He Sucks Good Butt Man.

    It has been over 30 years and I’ve still never called Nick, but I’ll never forget central America.








  • There is simply no way to hide your attendance at a protest. Yes, of course don’t trust airplane mode. But if you upload video of any kind you will be connected to the event. Facial recognition will recognize you.

    Even if you hide your face you will still need to travel to the event somehow. Your vehicle will be recorded by traffic cams. If you don’t think the government will go full black mirror here and put everyone associated on a list you’re lying to yourself.

    The algorithm already knows your viewing habits. There is a statistical model of your behaviors and motivations extant on a server somewhere. The NSA absolutely has access to this data and more.

    The only way to be unconnected to a protest is to actually not engage in content and actually not care. By the time an algorithm is feeding you anti establishment imagery you’re already part of a group that is statistically likely to be supportive of anti government ideologies. In for a penny in for a pound.

    So whether you bring your phone or not is academic. You CAN be identified one way or another.