This is so self elevating it makes me sick. Buy the car or don't but don't use it as an excuse to show how great you are

Before lockdown, I would stay in cheap hotels relatively often - eg Travelodge, our form of motel. One bed, a TV, a teasmaid.

There would generally be two types of common guests. Workmen in the area to build something, tradespeople, or those the council was housing.

Typically it would be a mum and a couple of kids, up in the morning by 8am in their school uniform. These places don't serve food, and you'd see people leave with a couple of bags or boxes, as they get shunted elsewhere.

I'm glad they were not out on the street, but it broke my heart every time I saw it. I could well understand a parent thinking that a stable location would be better than shifting from one B&B to another. The lack of social housing is a genuine disgrace, and these resi conversions are absolutely not the answer.

Is this a joke? They’re very poor people. They don’t have choices like presumably you do.

Because they can't afford to. Housing in and around London is very much Not Cheap.

This reminds me of that Ben Shapiro quote that goes something like "If sea levels rise, do you think people won't just sell their house and move?"

How can people these people move? Especially if they own these places.

I believe from my reading that it's government housing.

As in: You would are poor and qualify for housing assistance. Here is your housing.

What most people might be envisioning is more of a stipend system, where you can live wherever you want, and the government just gives you money towards rent.

I believe this is more of a prescribed housing situation.

Moving costs money. These are council (government) provided houses for those on low incomes. Basically, they don't have a real choice to move.

Let them eat cake!

These are the grossest human beings you will ever meet (Buffalo native)

Trump, not "US"

This is probably a good idea. Nothing else is working.

I totally agree. Consenting buyer and seller, this is a leftover from the Mayflower (no dancing kind of thing). At some point the world should just stop wasting money on preventing things that humans want. Prostitution, pot, etc., will never be stopped because people want to buy and sell it.

Anyone ever get jitsi to stay connected? We use Google meet daily but it's still half baked, we actually liked jitsi but could never keep it from dropping

I’ve tried it for calls with a few people and didn’t have a lot of connection related issues. If you’re able to, you could self-host a Jitsi Meet instance at any cloud service provider with a geographically closer presence to you. I’ve been thinking of doing that but haven’t tried it yet.

Jitsi Meet does eat up phone/tablet batteries a lot and also causes a lot of heating. I guess it could still be optimized further to handle these better (improvements to the client and platform have been pushed all these months too).

I have it running on a 1cpu 1gb Ubuntu vps add can hold twenty or so people (audio only) at 15-40% cpu. (We're audio only because not everyone has good internet connections, and makes things run smoother). It's stable as a rock. Very impressed. The odd person will turn on video for no appreciable deficit to the rest, or the server.

I tried Jitsi Meet in a conference call of forty people and we all switched to Google Meet because it was so unreliable and broken. This might have to do with compute limits on the server side (Kubernetes auto scaling?) but it didn’t work.

I use MS Teams wherever possible because it just works and most group calls I am on are in a business context anyways so the other integrations are pretty useful

I’m pretty sure all video conferencing tools cause a phone to heat up and lose battery: the camera, screen and radios are all constantly active

self hosting Jitsi is pretty easy. They have a whole bunch of scripts that does everything for you.

I run a self hosted Jitsi instance for my student Club. We are using for meetings with up to 50 people in a weekly basis. Works pretty well. Everyone accept the speakers has to turn Video off at that scale. With Video it works reliable up to 15 people.

There are some tweaks regarding framerate and resolution but that only raises the limit slightly.

Videoconferencing

If you don't mind me asking, what sort of hardware and network did you use for self-hosting? I tested it out with a couple of people on a basic Digital Ocean droplet and it was spotty (quality dropped really quickly) and it convinced me not to bother persuading my family/friends to switch over for our calls

There's a useful thread of people reporting different server/users combinations that worked for them here: https://community.jitsi.org/t/recommended-server-specs-for-2...

Thanks

I use it for small Javascript meetups (15-45 people) and it works well for us. If the broadcaster has slow internet it pixelates badly though. This is using the free service they offer.

On our corporate network it always worked better than the official solutions Skype for Business (Lync) and WebEx. Sadly policy does not encourage/officially allow using it.

The only current issue I'm aware of is a regression in FF 80, which breaks screensharing, if participants are audio-only: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1663286

Just done jitsi on firefox on debian stable. At the end of a 2 hour session I got about 1 second of lag. No idea yet how I should even troubleshoot it, probably just going to chrome and see if it is better.

Atheists being militant and god not being possible can coexist. Belief in god is irrational, it's unrelated to atheists personalities.

Belief in God is rational if you are optimizing for different outcomes.