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Psssst before one of the repost bots snatches it up and posts it on xitter.

I guess around 8-12, sometimes more, rarely less.

What exactly do you think happened with slaves too old to fulfill their duties?

Anytime! You could also check some blogs like nomad capitalist and others, they offer solutions like incorporating a ltd. company in Georgia (the country) or Belize and stuff, but that also comes with a host of other requirements, reporting and otherwise.

Depending on your assets, there are also some countries like Grenada for example that come with a citizenship by investment program, where you get a passport if you invest either into government bonds or buy a property that you must hold for a certain number of years. If you'd be a citizen from there and casually forget to tick the box for US citizenship when opening your Hong Kong account, you might just get away with it. (Strictly not legal, though).

Outside of the immediate reach requires you to open an offshore brokerage account; however thanks to FATCA reporting requirements, most banks don't want to deal with you unless you have significant assets under management.

Back when FATCA was first introduced I was working in private wealth management for a bank in Luxembourg, and we decided to terminate all but 3 accounts held by US citizens, all of whom had assets above 700k USD. I believe 500k was the internally communicated cutoff.

Banks in Switzerland now typically require 1M CHF to open new accounts for anyone who isn't onshore (Swiss citizen or resident), Hong Kong, Singapore and Panama also require minimum amounts between 500k to 1M USD. I think Bahamas, Bermudas, Virgin Islands, Caymans and all the other money islands ask for even higher deposits now.

One thing you could consider are the British channel islands (Jersey and Guernsey in particular), since Brexit they've had a bit of an offshore renaissance. HSBC Jersey for example only requires 100k GBP to open offshore accounts (though I didn't check about FATCA requirements since I'm not a US citizen myself).

If all you want is keep smaller amounts outside of the US, you could look into wise.com, revolut and other money transfer services, they allow you to hold different currencies in physical accounts domiciled in other jurisdictions. Read: If you deposit USD and convert it to GBP, AUD or EUR, those funds will be physically stored in UK, Australia and Belgium respectively. Since wise is a British company (revolut as well btw), the US government at least won't have immediate access.

If there are any online brokers that accept US customers with casual portfolio sizes, no idea.

Crypto of course is also an option, but I don't trust it enough as long term asset storage solution.

HDD tray with external fan, I had one just like this.

The company might be terrible, but most of their buyers are normal people who either don't know what brands belong to them, or don't care enough to carefully investigate everything they buy. And those normal people are the ones the ads need to reach. If they leave twitter, what's the point of advertising there?

Yep. I quite enjoyed how lemigrad and lemmy.ml used to be the forerunners of lemmy and then quickly got kicked to the back because nobody in their right mind wants to interact with tankies.

Federation = replication of content across multiple servers for the sake of preservation and accessibility.

It does not equate to freedom of speech or freedom from censorship.

If you want an instance that allows just about everything, I repeat: Start your own, nobody is stopping you.

Without censorship tools this place would be riddled with spam, porn, and disinformation bots, just like reddit at its peak.

What moderators use those tools for, is in their hands. If you don't like how certain instances or communities handle them, you can just start your own with minimal effort, that's the beauty of the fediverse.

LOL. Next they start burning books?

This fucking clown is going to push the whole world into a new recession.

Sure, just give your data to China and get their ads, who cares.

I did, it's amazing. Also just replayed HL2 with some fancy graphics mod, pretty cool stuff.

It's clearly some link farming bot account, just look at the username.

Space Quest (especially 4 and 5), PC

Bloody hell, I didn't realize it's that old. I played it in high school, feels like yesterday.

You bet I would.

Not tipping is not giving my money away for nothing.

Tipping culture creates unwarranted expectations and removes obligations from employers.

I've stopped tipping decades ago and won't look back.

In Luxembourg it's actual Portuguese, not Brazilians.