u/Hopeful_Drive5845

I'm pretty desperate as I am having unsafe water in the apartment (just us, neighbors ok) after combi gas boiler maintenance back in February of this year and I remembered (too traumatized) we have insurance on the apartment. They called me after requesting some documents and we're trying to bully me into submission to agree with the statement t that we aren't covered for pipes, heaters etc.

After I slowed down post phone call, I e asked Gemini whether we're insured and lo and behold, we are (pipes etc. are considered part of the structural elements of the apartment)

I've sent the statement this morning along with another document they requested.

I've yet to hear from them. They don't want to pay us at all.

All plumbers I talked to don't want to get involved with contaminated water. Too much of a liability.

LE: south east of europe

Compared to communism. Where socialism was labeled as communism in the USA from the cold war communist scare.

Since you've mamdani in NY and other leftists winning, are you hopeful or still equate socialism to communism?

If you had an income of €1k a month, in which Western EU country would you be homeless in?

Given developing events such as the ICE murders and the nonstop barrage of threatening news every day, do you manage to find moments of safety, and/or do you feel safe? How are you coping?

I heard someone saying he got advised to watch Yellowstone in order to understand the modern American society and how it changed. I watched 1923 as a prequel to Yellowstone (will soon start watching Yellowstone too).

How much do you resonate with TV shows such as 1923 and/or Yellowstone? Do you think they represent the USA and how it is nowadays¹?

1: I'M NOT SAYING THAT THE USA IS all cowboys riding horses in the 21st century; I think you know better I'm referring to general lines

I tried cryptsetup LUKS with a SanDisk 64GB with NTFS and doing rsync for 64GB went into uninterruptible sleep after 20GB. Same when copying normally without encryption.

I ended up just writing debian 13 netinst to it as anything above 700MB rendered my whole system unresponsive and in an inconsistent manner as I had to forcefully shutdown.

Anyone else encountered this issue? I'm planning on buying an external drive of 1TB to encrypt it with cryptsetup LUKS and copy all of my home and what I had on USB drive to it. Would it work?

^(I've signed some papers without reading what I signed when I used a charity's help to relocate back to my home country. I won't afford to get a mortgage as I've to give my mother €4k to fix the water in the apartment (she refuses to use bottled water except for drinking and making coffee, giving her health problems that continue to worsen when using tap water).) I'll return to Ireland to live in a tent and a sleeping bag that'll hopefully keep me warm enough in the winter.

Is it wrong of me to return after telling the charity I won't come back because I'll get a mortgage?

LE: thanks everyone for your kind words, it's proof of what makes Seattle so awesome → it's people. Keep doing what you're doing! I wish you to be happy, to find joy and to be content.

Last time I visited Seattle was in 2019 before the pandemic hit. I miss Eggs and Plants next to the glass blowing which permanently closed, one Veggie Grill which also permanently closed, visiting the Boeing factory before they messed up their planes, and just the people, infrastructure, my orca card for transport etc. 

How has Seattle changed in these years? I saw the highway (iirc) was brought under and the area pedestrianized. 

So I researched hammock living as a solution to reduce the chance of getting an animal borne disease (such as from rats) and it seems hammock living is ideal when the weather is mostly clear. If it's raining, then it's possible you'll get soak wet. If you use a tent, then you're touching the ground and thus might get a disease.

So, I'm thinking to go back to a tent and a tarp. Using the tarp with a hammock can make the water fall in at the ends.

Is my reasoning solid here?

How'd you solve the problem of rain with a hammock, under quilt and a tarp? Or would you rather use a tent with a tarp overhead in this situation?

Same questions but with snow, although that isn't much of concern to me as it snows like only one day during March in Ireland. 😅

I slept in a tent in a park in April and there were rats.

How do you deal with avoiding getting a disease from animals in the wild?

Particularly forests.

For me it was going homeless. Once I said that (after previously, before becoming homeless, supporting them through resourcing), it was good bye. Stopped getting messages, stop getting invited, but it was great when I could give insight into their partners choices, or, hold space for when they were realizing they lack the Relational aspect in life (successful, but not happy).

Did you also got abandoned by your "friends"?