JubilantJaguar @ JubilantJaguar @lemmy.world

European. Contrarian liberal. Insufferable green. History graduate. **I nev

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This is exactly how I do things too.

It's all in the backend of Twilio

I would be avoiding eye contact and playing deaf

Bubbles and echo chambers.

Yes, I know. I am one of those people. But still, I would think that in the Venn diagram of "people who go up to complete strangers and ask if they can sing" and "introverts", there is extremely little crossover. If only because introverts tend towards misanthropy.

if you disagree, you can always just go to another instance

This seems to unintentionally reveal something less positive that the internet has done to our culture.

This seems to be above all a hit piece against one rich Californian family.

But I think you make some good points.

Yes the Greeks classically ate a Mediterranean diet quite naturally. But that was before there was 8 billion people on the planet all trying to adopt what popular consensus tells them is the best diet. Do we have the resources for everyone to eat a Mediterranean diet?

This is reasoning that I share, but almost never hear from others. It is never "sustainable" to do something (anything) unless you are sure that everybody else could do it too. I'm always surprised by how many people, otherwise thoughtful and responsible people, do not really seem to get this. There's an awful lot of solipsism.

To live in the countryside with one's own farm and raise one's own animals, etc - maybe it's counter-intuitive but none of this is sustainable. There are simply too many of us, there's simply not enough land. We need economies of scale.

I like to walk around town and ask if people want to hear me sing

I’m pretty introverted

Something's off.

And renters miss the fact that by intelligently investing the renter's dividend that I mentioned they could usually make a much better return than they can by investing it in their own property. Almost none of them even save that money, let alone invest it smartly.

Anyway, this debate is boring. Everyone is entrenched in their views.

Not necessarily. All else being equal, mortgage + property charges + maintenance + tax is usually quite a bit more than rent. The issue is that renters almost never save or invest that delta, they spend it.

This is not a showerthought and it obviously breaks rule #3.

Moderation please.

Incomprehensible. Ungrammatical. Not even a showerthought.

Moderation please.

How does this post not contravene rule #6? Is there any moderation here?

Seriously, it's a good subject but there must be a more appropriate place for it.

It's no secret that Ukraine has conscription. It's a country at war, because it's been invaded. Wartime rules therefore apply. This is also why the election has been postponed, automatically and legally. Historically, many countries have had peacetime conscription. The UK had it until the 1960s for example, France's until the late 90s.

Ukraine had conscription for only for 27-and-overs until recently. It's now 25.

None of this is a secret.

Since you seem especially concerned about the moral aspects of the subject, and cite scandalous abuses, the question is unavoidable: why you are so exercised by Ukraine's situation when Russia is far, far, far worse on all these fronts? It's odd.

You seem to have a whole theory about what's up, and it might even be right. Or it might not.

That's the point. Nothing here is falsifiable, and the subject is inflammatory, so your chances of getting a productive discussion are approximately zero.

Move on.

Fair enough.

But are you aware that Russia has had multiple rounds of conscription? Have you considered that many of Russia's hundreds of thousands of dead soldiers were not properly supplied and used cynically as cannon fodder against Ukraine - and were therefore obviously deployed under some form of duress? Either as prison convicts or press-ganged off the street in poor remote parts of the Russian Federation that nobody in Moscow cares about.

Let's remind ourselves who is the aggressor here, and who is responsible for the vast majority of the war crimes in this pointless war that could end tomorrow if Russia called off its illegal invasion.

In the light of all this, why would you be so concerned about the aggressed party's respect for legal procedures as defined under its own laws?

Perhaps it's time you stopped watching this "bunch of videos" and starting getting your information from reputable sources instead.

This is the correct response to OP's transparently bad-faith question.

Yes, Twilio. There may be other providers but this is the market leader. I have rented a number for years for this purpose. In their interface you can plug a script into the number to redirect all SMS messages to an email address. No need for any physical phone or SIM. I am always mystified that so few other people do what I am doing.

2 USD a month for a European mobile number. Canada may be different but for many countries you will need to submit documentation to prove identity and your right of residence there.

#notashowerthought

Last time I looked there was nothing under 5 USD