In most places, a property owner must ask law enforcement to trespass the person off of the property before someone is considered legally or criminally trespassing.

This is decided by and highly specific to the local court/prosecutors, so check local practices. I’ve lived in an area where three adjacent counties had three different ways to handle trespassing. One had law enforcement only trespassing, one had owner/manager only trespassing (as in, a random employee can’t do it, only the owner of the property or the person who is on the lease for the land/building), and the last was so loose a patron of a business telling someone to get lost was almost enough for the person trespassing to be arrested.

You don’t necessarily need more money, just more flow. Imagine 20 people sitting in a circle, each with a colored stone in their left hand, and $20 in their right. Everyone gives the $20 to the person on the right, and takes the colored stone. Everyone gets the stone they wanted, and everyone paid with $20. Now imagine only one person has a $20… the same exchange happens, but it goes sequentially.

Now, and I’m not advocating the removal of all fat-cats and big-wigs and promoting a cookbook here, but where things get really fucked up is you have businesses and governments inserting themselves as the intermediary in every one of those exchanges, and siphoning a little for themselves. If, in our example, the stone costs $10, and a business siphons $0.55 from each exchange, it ends up with $11, and everyone else is now at $19.45. Repeat until the business has $209, and everyone else is at $9.55… It gets even worse if the exchange is sequential, where only $20 exists to begin with. Ideally you would have a wise government who controls the money taxing and managing the overall picture, but complicated doesn’t begin to describe it. We’ve made everyone start equal in our example, and all have the exact same exchange. You can expand with different skills and services and products as you want, like imagining a coal miner and a farmer trying to be in the same circle with an oil worker and shrimp fisher.

I’m just bullshitting here, but I’d bet the US is sitting somewhere around the $11-12 mark right now. More and more people are feeling the squeeze as the companies get closer to having all the power simply by having the resources to get what they want while the people can’t afford it.

That’s the big issue in my area. The city and it’s lovely corporate-sucking politicians keep putting out ‘information’ about the city being “X% developed!” The only thing being developed is more strip malls and high cost houses. Everything green and natural is disappearing. It’s all single-family sprawl, with only a few super-high luxury apartments scattered about and maybe 2-3 apartment buildings that anyone on a lower budget could afford. The politicians get their greedy fingers into higher tax revenues, the developing/building corporations sit back and suck up investor money, and investors get to suck up their profits because housing is relatively scarce and the cost for properties shoots through the roof.

We tried to put on a movie or another show exactly twice and it promptly got switched back.

That’s the irritating part for me. Every time I visit a certain segment of the family, it’s as if I was stepping into 1984 with the big brother screens, except that they must be on all the time. I was forced into it during the missing MH370 news. They blatantly, incessantly push fear, and it hooks the idiots into believing if they aren’t watching 24/7 that they’re going to miss the apocalypse.

Huh. So we have all the cheesy, melty goodness that sits around the chicken and calamari, and when you finish with that it’s like a sweet dessert? Maybe if you only have one slice, so it’s like you are eating a three course meal: Appetizer of cheese and chicken, meal of the calamari, then the oreo.

This is why all the best summoning spells have you keep on chanting until interrupted by the great gouts of [insert your religion’s scary hell-atmosphere here] as the mighty [insert your religion’s hell-denizen here] rises up through your maddened circle. After all, setting 15 repeating alarms works well!

It’s not about the company being responsible. I’m more referring to the hosts of the session being able to pursue legal action, or press charges. In the eyes of the court, would you be accessing (one of the ways to run afoul of that texas law) the hosts’ “computer systems” running the zoom software, or are you accessing Zoom’s computer systems? Is Zoom able to be run on your local server, or is everything processed on their end?

In either case, could they say that you were accessing those computer systems without the owner’s consent (one of the conditions for the crime I quoted)? The failure to set a password, giving out the password publicly, and maybe your option #5 might ways that a lawyer could construed as them giving ‘everyone’ permission to come, and thus void the crime… but we’re also talking about texas, and the law down there is as flippant as it is in the extreme court.

I want to give people things to think about before they did this, considering that the minimum level of crime they’ll be looking at carries up to 180 days in jail. Definitely use a burner phone, VPN, and every other way to cover your tracks.

Which is hit or miss. I’ve been in those CE courses and seminars, and they range from informative and exciting to literal time-wasting. An example: What doctor needs to care about log-rolling patients and backboarding them? That’s something a firefighter or EMT does.

Would they be able to do anything, legally? Like file harassment if enough people did this, or whatever computer hackery legality they could twist to fit? The stuff from here: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.33.htm#33.02 is pretty vague in regards to the definitions given in https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.33.htm#33.01

Could you say you had ‘permission’ from Zoom to use their ‘computer systems’ by virtue of the systems literally being set up to be accessed?

Or for the entire month. It saves money… :'(

Depending on where you are, local clubs probably abound. Anything outdoors is going to be a good start, because they have a vested interest in you coming back to the club to keep it going. All clubs will, but outdoors ones will not want to add any difficulties that might drive off the next generation in their club.

Hiking, running, rowing, biking, skydiving*, geocaching, gardening, birdwatching, fishing (rare, but they’re there!), sailing* (used windsurfers and small sailboats can be less than $1k; not great, but an option), motorcycles*, monowheels, fixer cars, mountain biking, sports (ultimate frisbee, pickleball, soccer, outdoor volleyball, basketball, baseball; all will probably have young adults in organized ways), dancing [don’t discount this one! Especially if you can find a swing club nearby, you will have tons of fun], mud runs, rock climbing*, bodybuilding…

Man, I can’t even think of all the clubs/hobbies I’ve briefly talked to people about. You can definitely find something out there that you’ll enjoy, but you may have to try a loooot. Don’t give up hope.

*these are probably a bigger investment or money sink than the others, either requiring gear, a significant training period, or ongoing costs for travel/maintenance

Your body’s immune system may be pretty good, but fungal infections are some of the most difficult to fight. For example, if you get fungal meningitis, it’s a massive headache to deal with.

Elden ring blocked the nig in the middle of knight. That always got an eye roll from me.

Where I lived quite literally had the lines for the town’s intersection painted so that it didn’t happen. You could tell when people from ‘elsewhere’ were passing through, because they’d pull past the painted stop line in the left turn lane to be even with the people going straight.

Oh god, the waiter just added twice that by breathing! Sentence him!

Eats, bushes, and leaves.

And the creator of SCSI wanted to call them ‘sexy’ standards. The wants of the creator are easily disregarded, as seen by our pronunciation “scuzzy.”

It’s all okay, buddy, I got you. Just remember to pull. Or is it throw? >.>

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Bill’s gonna come and find me now.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=TIf3IfHCoiE

This’ll get ya started ;)

Depending on where you are, there can be veeeeery good reasons to do that. Wait until a truck pulling a horse trailer, or a tractor-trailer with a load of logs comes up the road on your right. Now it takes a left, and scrreeeeeeeeeeeee … there went your bumper and mirror. Sure, insurance will cover it… after the long, dragged out court case, the backup at the body shop, and the newfound wonder at how much those stupid body panels cost.

It can also just be the cause of some extreme stupidity as the truck gets ‘stuck’ and you are now stuck at that light for minutes as it laboriously backs up and pulls forward.