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I read “debt, the first 5,000 years” by David Greaber. If his words are to be believed, people look down on us, on me, for being “beneath them” in favor.

Currently, I’m “homeless” yet I do incredibly well for myself, because I was able to find and strike a balance between my “lowered” standard of living, my ability to use money as a tool to acquire resources, and my leverage as a human with a social network, and social credit.

On the flip side, the USA gov is literally out to get me, and discriminates against me at every turn of the die, I can’t build anything other than a house of cards, in their gambling Hall.

People either look at me and assume I’m just an eccentric man with a funny lifestyle (my alibi is that I’m getting ready and practicing for a world-tour on a BikePacking set up! And I live nearby) until they hear or assume I’m homeless: because then they assume I’m a meth addict that is bad with money, would do crimes to get chicklets, and somehow stole someone’s dog to eat it for breakfast.

In the book I mentioned, the author makes a point to say that social credit is related to perceptions of morality and debt: so if you owe, you’re a horrible bad person that killed his/her own parents, because you’re poor and in debt.

In comparison to most poor people, I’m utterly destitute. Compared to rich people with money, im classier and have a soul, a rich spirit.

I’m not in much debt, about 7k. It’s absurd, I’m not gonna pay it back, since god isn’t real, and god is money at high interest.

I’m trying to make more friends who do any of these specific hobbies:

-BikePacking
-backpacking
-hammocking
-camping
-less doom scroll, more bird watch
-hiking to look at plants and stuff
-regular normal people who aren’t hell bent on some cult nonsense, and staking a claim to ethical morality upon threat of discrimination in you do not agree and die for their cause.
-dog freeeeeee, cause *cancel me, idc: we exist*

I’m rather introverted BUT I don’t do online. I don’t game, I don’t play the social media games, I don’t ghost dates, I do want to date but I have standards that are simple. It would be nice to BEGIN to find friends :)

Joe-31m, local. We used to be a proper town.

It’s going to be 10 years this Sept since I had a traumatic brain injury, where I lost my hearing for 2 years, at 21.5 years old. I can’t remember much about who I was, before. I was an INFJ and then became an INTJ, after 2 years of recovery. I lost so much of my life…

I got my hearing back, I was doing well, then boom: had awful house mates use their gang ties to try to harm me, ruined our housing, stole, and I became homeless. It’s been easy, because I had it worked out IN CASE.

I’ve just noticed a growing sense of distrust, but I’m not sure if it’s just aging into your early 30’s, compared to being idealistic and 20 something, or if it’s solely related to being homeless for about 3 years.

I’ve been a part of the dog free community for over a decade now, mostly on Facebook: but it’s not local!

This year, I want to really try to get out of my shell: as an introvert. I’m not lonely, and I want to try dating. I’m 31m, west coast. I own my own small business that (dun dun dun…) works with dogs: entirely indirectly :) so I don’t have to deal with mutts!!! I’m legit thinking of expanding, to ANYTHING besides dog walking and dog sitting *grossssss*

I’m just keenly aware of how disgustingly inane dog culture is. I went to a NICE part of town yesterday, a school playground and a park next door. There was a zillenial couple (my age) pretending their stupid pedigree dog was a toddler, coaxing the damn thing at the play structure: the dog was indifferent, and only wanted to play when an actual toddler came in a stroller: the dog probably wanted to bite the baby.

I have tried dating women (who were otherwise great) who own dogs: some just own a dog, some, are stupid and the dog serves as their master and lord. I think I’m saying that I recognize the yellow-flag aspect of this possibility: and the likely chance that somewhere, a woman is DONE with dogs, but still has an old one.

Back in Nov before thanksgiving, I randomly met a woman, Veronica, who also dislikes dogs, and we hit it off. Unfortunately, she’s incredibly NORMAL to a fault, and I’m unabashedly a nomadic punk. I’ve got a good job I made, a good reputation, but she didn’t want to see past that, once she sobered up (we had a beer together, and she’s the side chick of some stupid local singer who owns her decisions.) it made me sad!!

I also happen to live in a city FULL of dog nutters, counter culture idiots who destroy wonderful things, and it’s also bleeding out: the city is expensive and stupid to live in.

I’m losing hope but I want to find a summer romance, summer dog free friends. Anyone in Portland Oregon?

Long story short, I am Native American and mostly everyone in my family clan are similar: lean, muscular, strong, eating well(like farmers and traditional foods) and farming.

I happen to live in the city, where I have no land and am basically nomadic (ei homeless, but I do well because I figured it out decades ago, as a teen, before it happened.)

The thing is, I’ve had this group of friends for 2 years and they’re all vegan hippies and they’ve triggered my disordered eating. Some of them are friends but they shame me for eating anything that isn’t to their stupid standard. I find it incredibly annoying.

On top of that, they gaslight me about being impoverished, and I don’t want to be friends with some of the older ones, or some of the younger ones: just one or two, in this extended friend group.

My lifestyle is this: wake up around dawn, pack my hammock stealth camp, make breakfast (anything) and then leave the mountainous stealth spot. I do usually go do my own work stuff, etc, have dinner with my portable stove, and then head back to my camp area: usually around dusk, when I go seek a hillside forest to sleep safely.

The bike I have does most of the work: of traveling and going Up hills.

I genuinely do think I need to eat 3,000 calories a day, since about 1,800 is what I need to have a resting metabolism in any single day, if I stay home: that’s according to various scientific formulations for my height, weight, age, etc.

My biggest issue with eating well, is not having a fridge, food insecurity and sometimes: not being able to purchase food, that I prepare and cook myself.

Just this past week, I feel incredibly tired. I suspect it’s because I’m burnt out, as it’s been a particularly harsh last month.

My hippie friends don’t seem to care. I also think I want better friends. Most of them have health issues due to being vegans.

I have the Smooth4 and it’s HUGE, I’m thinking of either using a tripod and dealing with that lack of “cinematic” quality or else getting the Q3 by zhiyan (same company)

Does anyone take a camera gimbal with them on trips?

I am using an iPhone 13 for a camera

I was biking today, and I watch a group of three boys, most likely between the ages of 12 and 13, riding on e motorcycles. I see them accelerate and nearly miss a car at a round about. They then swerve into oncoming traffic then turn left into the pavilion parking lot. According to Orego law, class 1 e bikes are the ONLY e bikes legal for people aged 14 an up with class 2 and 3 being available for those 16 and up. If your vehicle goes above 28mph, then it is classified as illegal without registration, lights, turn signals, mirrors, and a driver with a valid motorcycle license.

E bikes are 13-15x more likely to end in fatality or death for the user than cars and remain an extreme safety hazard.

Your child can play outside without a need for a vehicle capable of going 65 miles an hour.

I’m trying to understand: why do some of us fail, crash and die, and others weather the storms?

I have an “aero” set up with my 1996 trek mountain bike, it’s a 20L backpack riding the top of the rear rack, and a 40L dry bag with my entire shelter and bedding, it’s not heavy. That sits horizontally, on my wide handlebars (that have Bullhorns and no drop bars.)

I also have a frame bag and 1.5L of water at the bottom.

I find that any weight in front of the pedals, I push. Any weight behind the pedals, I pull.

I biked 8 miles from a campground to the city, and without my gear, which stayed at camp.

I find myself going way faster when I carry that sort of gear, in that set up: maybe because it’s more aero but also because I have more momentum!!!

Anyone tinker with this?

I recently made a friend with this, and I also have a Pisces moon/pisces Saturn.

Seems like she’s a bigger hot mess than me, at my worst.

Yo, she just doesn’t wear shoes?

I am also into the barefoot stuff, my feet are JACKED and strong. I myself appreciate and value DIOGENES THE CYNIC a lot, and she is just… perpetually barefoot.
No socks. No shoes. Nothing.

Can someone ride a bike without shoes??

I’m gonna make her a pair of earth runner sandals and *make her* wear them.

We haven’t talked about this in depth yet

Long story short, I recently met a woman, a bit younger than me. I’ve been homeless for 3 years, and it’s been great: I’m basically a homeless blogger, I make some income, own a small business, and have discipline.

This woman, she has a lot of self doubt, guilt about needing help, and she’s got some simple health issues that are related to inside air quality and undiagnosed asthma or something. It’s circumstantial asthma or something along those lines.

I’ve been there, I’ve been a mess of a person like she is now, at one point. I figured this out, with kindness and courage. I figured this out, being homeless.

Seemingly, she’s at the doorstep of fate, and she’s being dragged along by it. I chose to follow fate, and fate has been kind to me. It’s also helped that I’ve chosen wisdom over hype and intelligence over blind naive trust.

I empathize with her a lot, and I think I could genuinely trust her.

The only concrete solution I can think of, is asking her to be my gf/platonic sub, and be a good Dom. I’ve done this sort of thing already and was good at it: it’s not just the fetish, it’s also the trust bond and solution minded pragmatism, that works for mentorships.

I’m wondering if I should, because her mom doesn’t like her thinking this way: admitting that she’s at the slope that could easily lead to being homeless, though her self doubt and guilt is totally restricting her mind. We have all had this.

Understanding that it could happen, is (maybe) a way to manage it happening. Maybe there’s not a lot one can do to prevent it, right now…

Some of the shoes I’ve tried: vibram 5 toes, Aintap turkey-based barefoot shoe leather boots from Etsy, and the Atlas model of earth runner sandals.

So far, the Atlas 9mm are my favorite. They’re basically like the thong underwear: you don’t really notice them and they’re comfortable, minimal and provide excellent coverage and support.

Close second are the Aintap barefoot leather boots I’ve owned, 2 pairs.

Not sure how I feel about the vibram 5 toes yet.

I think I want to make my own earth runners though, since I found mine in a free box last year.

I’m perpetually hobbying as a BikePacker, but I’m trying to get better at Hiking and sleeping on the ground (as opposed to strictly hammocks) so if anyone has one trekking pole they don’t need or want, let me know!! I’m short and small (5ft) so I need one that can adjust or is for “kids” or something.

Hello, I’m Joe, 31. As a child, I realized that life is how you react, so I chose to bet on myself, instead of betting on the system being fair. I chose right, and it’s paid off: despite being “homeless” now, it’s been great, it’s been easy: and I love my “pata de perro” lifestyle.

I basically use BikePacking style equipment, to live! It’s fun, I get to enjoy nature, free time, etc:

Being a vagabond is better than being a homeless bum.

I have the “Kessel Pot” by a German company called Uberleben. It’s a 1L pot, either in stainless steel or titanium. I cook a lot, so I got the SS version.

I’ve been trying to make a caldera cone for it, but lack a work space: and even a desk (and a home) so I’d really prefer to simply BUY one, but none of the makers have a caldera cone for this particular stove pot, apparently!!!

I’ve been trying to make one, but the Captain-Chaos calculator on Zen Stoves is broken. I can’t use that. Did anyone back that up?

I’ve been trying to follow a few tutorials, but I have no work space, so trying to make it elsewhere is proving to be difficult.

Does anyone have suggestions on where I can ask a Maker to make one for a custom stove and just buy one?

Or if anyone backed up the calculator/similar tech?

It’s not that hard, I understand, but I lack a work space.

Long story short, I traded 4 bottles of vodka for a friend, with a Locked iPhone that they couldn’t unlock. I wanted it for the sake of the camera, to vlog, nothing more. Then, my trustee android phone’s screen cracked. The spare android I had laying around was total cheap end garbage, where as I couldn’t do a lick of computational work, without freezing it, and the battery wasn’t easy to charge. I ditched it, and have tried using the iPhone for a month now.

First world problems? Sure. Relevant? Yes: I can’t just charge and sync my phone overnight, and I need a phone that can also work computationally, not just for AESTHETICS, to do my job: as a small business owner.

I frankly hate the iPhone. Oh, I absolutely need to use a cloud server to upload anything? I can’t just use a cable?! It won’t work with anything other than some cloud server and other apple products? I can’t get some of the SLIGHTLY MORE THAN BASIC features on their free apps without paying more?! Maybe it’s just those apps. Either way, it’s stupid.

I absolutely hate it. It’s been frustrating to use, but hey, the OLED what ever screen looks cool with the Liquid Glass iOS 26.4 version!!! -_____-

It’s just hot garbage. It’s a rental, iPhones aren’t owned. There’s no SD card slot, which (for the broken android to the spare) I can switch between phones: if they have an sd card slot. I absolutely hate this, so much.

It’s just ridiculous. I HAVE TO use WiFi and the cloud to get anything and then it’s still a god damn pain. I can’t just use a cable, my laptop or even a little on-the-go USB with type-C/type A.

Literally, anything and everything type-C port is superior to this IPhone crap. I really hate it.

Back in my early 20’s, I had a loving healthy mutually exclusive relationship with a woman, with the Dom/Sub dynamic. She and I genuinely loved each other, we wanted to get married, have kids. We were (literally) each other’s best friend, giggling children together. Both of us come from good families and our families liked each other. She made an effort to learn my parents language, I made the effort to work at her family’s businesses and lands: we were both team players. Eventually, life broke us apart and that IS life’s simple tragedy.

Though, I bring it up because we had a dom/sub sort of rhetoric in our relationship.

She loved giving me the reigns of our management, and she worked her best with our shared goals: by herself, she recognized that she floundered and easily became lost. Her style of love was acts of service and kindness. I’ve always been great at being kind, reciprocative, disciplined and loving, because I see and empathize. We both mutually complimented each other, and I managed us both, our shared goals, aspirations and money. She literally submitted to my leadership, and I made sure to actually LOVE her in the ways she outlined/shared with me, to make her feel seen, appreciated and cared for. This also spelled out poetry in the bedroom, but I digress.

Is this common? A lot of hype spells out that this is abusive, horrible and I should be harmed for being this way: that she’s oppressed by the patriarchy, etc.

Now: I met a woman (she’s open to this!) who is a lost sub and I want to pitch to her this sort of relationship: I don’t want to sleep with her until she earns my trust (in mutual exclusivity and care) because I strongly prefer doing that only after several weeks of mutually dating each other: I like to take it slow!
I have had time to re evaluate this previous serious venture in love, that I had a decade ago. I can’t think of why it’s bad: unless I’m the typical low-effort man that would simply abuse someone.

It is said that “one cannot be a good master, unless someone is a good servant” and it’s a bit degrading, with the language. How ever, as David Greaber, anthropologist author of “Debt, the first 5,000 years” pointed out: Can we ever walk away from the metaphors of the market, in language?

I’ve been a good servant, and that made me a good master. This previous woman I was engaged with, also understood this: I learned it by submitting to the communist matriarchy of my family, and serving my elders and fathers. Funny enough, she also learned this from the same sort of thing, in her family: this is also outlined as part of the people-economy of communal communism: outlined in the book I mentioned, Debt, the first 5,000 years/ David Greaber.

In closing, I think about this a lot because i have tried dating and it’s an absolute fucking mess, mostly (as it would seem to me) because people
Only want to submit to God/Money/Mammon/Greed: not community and hierarchy, not to natural law and consequence-based reality.

Live fast, think cash. This seems to be ruining society, especially dating.

Last night, I got to my friends house late (9:30) after working hard all day, on a hot day. They were making a big dinner so they both invited me to eat with them and our mutual friend :’)

So then I loaded my bike, just with the essentials, and went up that great big hill. What’s going on???

This is the 2nd night I’ve seen this person: someone just sleeping in the dew strewn sloping grass of the park area, not much shelter or layers. There’s no flat ground on a hill. It’s harder to get to, and there’s usually a micro climate.

I got to my stealth spot like a silent owl, and set up my bed. 1am and I was in bed! Exhausted… I slept warm, my body was strong in the morning, a good sign of my vitality. I slept in a bit, got up, dressed, and set away my stealth kit. I bike down silently, and see the same person, on the grass, in the same spot. They haven’t moved and it’s 8am by then, I must have passed them around 12:30am. It didn’t get too cold, like 48•f, not much wind. But the micro climate!!! Conductive heat loss and the cool dew filled grass, the slope: and you have evaporative cooling from the flowing air, the cold moist ground, uneven ground, etc.

I seek out hills and mountains because I can. Its safety. Everyone wants to find a flat spot, which is rare outside of urbanized areas. I decided to not even require that!

I hate that God IS money, and we are being sent to Hell because the debt collector needed an excuse to enslave us, and some of us said No. Some of us said Yes and were still enslaved. The Normies don’t understand!!!

I might try to offer them help, but that’s very subjective to where they might be.