Greg

What gets me really excited is the idea of messaging in low internet connectivity areas (aeroplanes (to someone else on the plane)) on the subway/underground

The idea of Bluetooth/WiFi direct mesh, with "internet gateway" devices (maybe those people are rewarded in some way)

In this dream of mine, people can communicate, send data, through non ideal internet conditions (maybe one person on an aeroplane has internet, and they are the gateway for others)

There may be some relay servers running on AWS or whatever, but people could also run their own relays (I guess all devices are a relay)

I've tried to get this working myself, using a library called "reticulum" I found in GitHub (good library, but I couldn't get Bluetooth/WiFi mesh working)

I'm not seeing any WiFi direct/Bluetooth mesh capability with Simplex

It looks like a p2p messenger - which is cool, but that's not what tickles my pickle

I think I tired Briar, but I either couldn't get it working on android or on iOS

And if someone can't afford a car, and they live within a car-centric area of the world, and they can't afford to move?

Maybe they make a gamble and buy a car with the hope it will be an investment, and provide them with more income…

But when interest rates have been at near zero for over a decade, and now they have shot up - it could upset quite a lot of finances!

My mouth waters at the idea of decentralised, infrastructure-less, encrypted, p2p, mesh messaging

Thanks for pointing me towards Berty!

Wish granted! Humans are no longer born with spinal vertebrae

I've added the url, thanks

Isn't that the nickname of your mum?

This project is similar to that (and sibling projects such as nomad network and sideband)

Edit: forgot the link! https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum

There are too many of these comics, I'll make one to be the true comic response and unite all the different competing standards

Even better:

Free cloud storage that doesn't require an account and provides no limit to the volume of data stored

https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs

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Totally, however, to play devil's advocate of that… There is only so much inventory that these companies can hold. It's similar situation to house price crashes. Banks are left with too much stock.

However, with property, banks can rent them out… Maybe we will see a huge industry of second hand rent-from-large-corporation-and-never-own-anythings popping up soon…

Stay at home Wear a subnet? Wear a mask? Wear a class A network?

If you remember 2008, it wasn't the bank execs that were burned, it wasn't even really the bank employees that were burned (although some did lose their jobs)

It was everyday people that lost their homes, their jobs, their lives.

I'm all for a bit if chaos in the name of redistributing wealth, or resetting some madness that has worked it's way into society, but I don't think this is it

I don't know mu h about USA student debt, I'm in the UK. That does sound pretty different

I was trying to point out how a wide spread auto loan defaults could have far reaching consequences

Where it gets spicy is:

Buying (financing) a new car, and then having it repossessed at half the purchased value (still 50%) debt to pay

If people have cars repossessed en mass, the second hand car market will be affected, prices for used cars go down (because the supply goes up). This makes repossessions not cover the whole loan, see above point

Finally, as more and more Americans no longer have access to cars, they also lose access to… A lot of society (work, education, healthcare). If this affects a large enough percent of the population, there will be macro effects.

At birth babies should be working 5 jobs to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. No more handouts from mummy milkers! Bring back mandetory conscription for newborns! The market will provide, this toddler was homeless because the government is too large, and there is too much regulation!