Thanks Portugal! You are a guide and inspiration. We’re solar-punking our way outa this jam.

I suspect the main issues people ‘in the wild’ have with signal involves ineffective use of the app. Do you check the ‘safety number’ with every user? Do you use disappearing messages? Does anyone have access to your phone, or other linked device?

Here’s what the interwebs say about Signal and Security:

Signal encryption key vulnerability being fixed on Mac (and less fully on Windows), July 12 2024 https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/12/signal-encryption-key-vulnerability/

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/is-signal-safe-4129801

https://restoreprivacy.com/secure-encrypted-messaging-apps/signal/

This is particularly insidious, as they claim to use the same encryption as Signal, developed by Open Whisper Systems. But Meta allows themselves access. 2 billion users. SMH.

whatsapp is owned by Meta. I did a quick DDG search to see if I was correct and got this:

“Meta owns several companies, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Threads, Meta Quest, Horizon Worlds, Ray-Ban Stories, Mapillary, Workplace, and Portal (discontinued).”

I’ve been working to get the people I communicate with on Signal.app, instead. Other more informed individuals may be able to make additional suggestions.

M’angry now!

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The sort of ‘military’ style to the guy’s jacket makes me think you are on to something.

None of them! All of my secret conspiracies are SECRET!

LoL, not an English major. Edit…

Also there’s this survey that shows we actually would prefer stopping climate change instead of fighting war.
https://kbin.run/m/[email protected]/t/505138/Most-people-in-petrostates-want-quick-switch-to-clean-energy

https://www.wikipedia.org/

also for the strong of mind: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

As a child, once I learned to read, I started to really learn. And naturally shared all the fun facts with most anyone who would listen. I thought I would write a book of fun facts, but then someone invented the Intarwebs. I even thought I would narrow things down and just write ‘Bandana, 1001 Uses’ , but there was no point. (https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=bandana+uses+list&ia=web)

Actually we DID. Tho’ only for a little while. And the results were enormous. The B/Yamgata Influenza lineage appears to have gone extinct. The cool part is we weren’t even trying to do anything with those specific efforts to affect influenza. All of which should encourage us to cooperate more.

Mastodon Social awaits! https://joinmastodon.org/

No! Well, some idiot will. But not this idiot! Have you ever heard of Mastodon Social (https://mastodon.social/)?
https://joinmastodon.org/

LoL, the best comment!

It all depends on where you live, of course, and how far you are willing to look for that car. And you might want to poke around on Edmunds.com, if only to satisfy your curiosity. Like others have said, and I would agree, it’s getting close to your criteria - 90+ miles, $6K for a used. I suspect that there will be a whole lot more used EVs on the market over the next 5 years. All the ‘cool kids’ want to buy the latest, bleeding edge tech. And watching and waiting to get that tech seems like a prudent and viable option. The other thing the guy with the delivery biz said was that he was getting his cars from CA, because he could find them used, cheap, relatively good condition. Anyway, best to ya. I’m out.

We have a food delivery company in town, and they use electric cars. I got to talk to the owners a few years back, and they were paying around that price. So I suspect it’s getting close to fitting your needs. How far do you drive each day, on average?

Thing is that pound of gas is gone, that pound of battery is still there and ready for recharge.

There is that! I’ve been thinking of marketing exterior sound systems, that go Brum BRum, for EVs. Do you think it would help?

You betcha BB! Have a great day!