Lol, I’m a privacy advocate. I’ve seen how many websites have my data, and played the cat and mouse game of opt out requests.

This is a dream. I would mourn my stellar credit score, degrees, and professional certs, but I would go pick up shifts as a plumber’s apprentice and just go enjoy life.

For the kind of people that use IG handles as a way to keep in contact, do you truly think you can say “Oh, I only have Mastadon” and even have them know what you’re talking about?

Stay strong! Just because people call to you from their walled garden doesn’t mean you need to lock yourself in there as well.

Depends entirely on the audience. The problem with privacy issues is that privacy nihilism sets on quickly, and people with short attention spans and no intrinsic idea of how much they’re being ripped off quickly take refuge in the comfort of a no-friction status quo.

An IG account isn’t a phone number or email, and I think it’s weird that young people treat it like it is.

Just say you don’t do social media, and if they can’t respect that, it’s a quick test as to if they’re your people or not.

When the misogynistic radiation ionizes oxygen, it smells exactly like Axe body spray. So strange.

Well, up until only a generation or two ago, no one born into those paces actually did have a choice to stay or not. It’s not easy to leave a family support network, especially in a niche environment.

That being said, living in the desert, I saw tons of Midwestern tourists that underestimated it, and quickly got into basic trouble that I learned to avoid as a child. Bit, the people that were always cool and always prepared to deal with a harsh environment were the people that had spent time in Alaska. Spend time in an extreme place, and you learn to respect any extreme place, and be perfectly fine.

And the extreme cold option is always an option on the table. Not nuclear winter, but one bad volcanic eruption can affect large parts of the globe. Just ask folks in 1816, when an eruption in Indonesia led to a year with literally no summer in most of the northern hemisphere. Totally brutal famine in Europe, as one could also expect from AMOC collapse.

Yes. I’ve lived in West Africa for about 7 years total. I’ve seen plenty of 50m deep wells pulled by hand go dry or collapse. People collecting water from puddles after a rain, rather than walk a mile to the well.

The old guys in Mali and Niger talk about being kids, roaming forests and keeping hyenas from eating the goats. One village I knew was named “it’s an elephant.” It’s all gone now. It’s been gone for 30 years. The elephants, the hyenas, the forests north of 13 degrees N, are mostly gone.

But some trees are still there, all the way into the Sahara. There are oasies and seasonal lakes with fish and wells and crops. Herders graze goats and donkeys in narrow bands far into the Sahara.

Im not saying it’s great, but im not saying it’s absolute devastation and hell on earth. I’d rather be there than some isolated community in Alaska or Siberia.

That’s when you dry out the stuff you grew when it was only 100°F

Also, Millet, sorghum, cow peas, pigeon peas, cactus, okra, and sweet potatoes are the crops that already grow in the Sahel, where it’s usually right around triple digits. People live like this right now. They have for generations.

Ever heard of a well?

Why not?

If their email servers are flagging you incorrectly, correct them. Worst case scenario, nothing changes.

Friendo, for those of us that have lived in deserts, no one gets naked. During the day at least ;)

Light clothes are amazing. I lived for 3 years on the edge of the Sahara with no power and pulling water from a well. When it was 110+F, sitting under a tree and soaking your shirt in water was perfectly fine, and more than enough to be comfortable. Turbans are amazing technology.

And I’ve spent time above the Arctic circle. I can compare the two.

While you like to think “you can put in more clothes,” that’s nice and all… Both if you have the right clothes, and have imported heat and calories. OP is talking about perpetual Arctic circle winter. Nothing grows, you will run out if wood to burn to stay warm. You will import everything, from boots to gloves to pants to coats. Look at an Inuit diet. Now look at a Mediterranean diet. Civilization flourished in areas that get hot. Humans spent 50,000 years in the equatorial zone. We are built for it.

You do you, but, uh…enjoy your narwhal blubber and seal jerkey I guess?

Triple. No hesitation.

First off, coats are heavy and stupid. Breezy linens all day every day.

What food you going to grow in below freezing temps? Millet, sorghum, rice, grapes, tomatoes, onions, garlic – all already grow in triple digit temps. I’m eating well.

Natural evaporative cooling is easier to achieve than burning slow-growing resources for heat daily. Millennia-old technology exists to handle high temps.

More people live in the Sahara than the Arctic. I’m not a penguin, no matter what the other kids said in school.

Right? I couldn’t even get Voyager to show a feed, and every browser kicked for warnings. No idea how they would have missed it.

Hm. Well, either you’ve been flagged by someone else, or may be just the unlucky recipient of a wrongful profiling back when Proton was new. But it seems to me that it’s an individual problem, either your email address in particular, or your recipient.

If it were me, I would have a couple friends with gmail go and specifically mark my address as safe and trusted. Especially anyone that has your emails sent to spam.

Beyond that, maybe email some Google support and ask to be white listed.

Yeah, I told them them late yesterday. I figured someone else would, and apparently no one else did.

I think our instance just failed some social dynamics test.

I have both for years, and never had a single Proton email go to gmail spam. Both personal gmail and a corporate Google Office account.

If it’s a custom domain, it’s likely a DKIM issue. Otherwise, this sounds like an issue with the recipient having previously marked an email from Proton as spam.

This should absolutely be held up as the example for people that say “I have nothing to hide.”

The world isn’t fun time sunshine lollipops, kids. It’s literally inevitable that your data gets leaked or stolen.

You either naïvely trust the service you give data to more than you should, or you naïvely trust criminals to skip you when given the opportunity. There no evidence of a middle ground or other options in the matter.

IIRC, they’ve stated that they won’t accept Monero because it means they would fail external financial audits they need to remain in operation in Switzerland. Sign all you want, they won’t do this.

Plus - y’all, email is not secure anyway. Even Proton. Why would you sign a petition to make the payment method more anonymous than the service they provide? Just send them cash by DHL.

It can look professional when you aren’t posting a gmail address and the domain isn’t poopypants.net

Pick something neutral that isn’t your name. Try a band name generator. JupiterEvolition.net or IdealMachine.XYZ,.which sound better than herpderp common gutter trash Gmail.com

Having a custom domain means you get things like me@IdealMachine.XYZ and also chosen.one@… And bestcandidate@… Etc. So you can make something for professional stuff, and then chocolate.starfish@IdealMachine.xyz to be funny.