Thanks for the episode, fascinating. At some point it would be interesting to learn how your politics evolved, if they did. I guess I'm assuming that - though these stories are great - you don't think squatting is a good idea anymore.

A lot of people have a socialist episode in their youth, I did myself.

Yes, totally agree. You get to play around with all the different models, and pay for what you use.

Support is great (right there in the app) and there's also an active telegram.

Really amazing product. Does it have any near competitors that you know of?

I think it's very dependent on where you live (at least in the US).

From some leftist west coast cities, I've heard some real nightmare stories about people breaking into vacant homes, setting up camp, doing various things to "settle" themselves (maybe signing up for utilities, things like that), and then the homeowners are absolutely sunk, because the police and courts will not help them.

I'm sure a lot of lies will be coming out pronto.

There's an option at the bottom to "add a note" to an address.

Why would anyone want to do that? To dox someone, or?

How do you have the van set up, inside? Comfy?

What's the solution? Burner phones? Burner laptops? Encrypted drives?

Looks interesting, it's on the list.

What's www.bitcine.app?

Anyone have an archive link? I used to be able to read the occasional WSJ article with archive.vn, but it hasn't been working recently...

Did the owners ever sic "unofficial" enforcers on you? Like biker gangs, rough guys, etc?

This is apparently a thing, at least in the US. When people's property gets taken over by squatters (happens a lot, apparently, in leftist cities), people will find NON police to do some enforcing.

Yeah, I pretty much agree with that, and probably most of us do.

But I do find it tremendously interesting.

I don't believe so. If it doesn't work, you can probably find another one - they're advertising a lot on podcasts, and usually include a coupon code.

I wouldn't take it so hard.

I can totally see something like this happening just as a quirky thing - kind of similar to how Chinese parents sometimes (or at least used to) disparage their kids, that are doing really well. Inside, they're very proud, but on the outside, they don't want to presume.

As a kind of "gesture to the gods", in that you're not 100% counting on this good fortune of your son's marriage, which would make you more vulnerable.

Where's a place that still has that same vibe?

Really interesting, thanks for the post.

Would love some details. So...squatting was NOT banned before 2011? How did they get you evicted? Why did the homeowner leave it empty?

And how did you "make our own kitchen, shower and toilet" - what specifically did you set up?

Suspicious.

I'd say definitely not close enough to make comments like that!

Although maybe I could come up with "roundabout" way to mention a continuous glucose monitor. Apparently wearing those devices is a really good way for people to realize just how high their blood glucose is.

He had some good points, especially about the attention problems.

But his vaccine take makes me think less of him:

And one more thing about drugs: The right’s vaccine politics are insane.

That's a good point. I just looked in the settings, and you can set it to limit by time on website, instead of time in a particular app.

I may experiment with that, if there's not another option. The issue is that you have to come up with a huge (constantly updated) list of distracting websites. And I know how my monkey brain works - it'll work hard to find the distractions. ;-)

BTW I recommend ActionDash highly. Free, and seems to work exactly how I want (except for this annoying thing about the PWA apps).