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  • This answer is very different depending upon your life circumstances.

    A single person with fixed income, is different than a two income household with children. I’m not saying they can’t both reach the same conclusion, just at their circumstances justify different choices being valid.

    There’s also your technical proficiency, and pain tolerance for saving money.

    For example, you could eliminate all external services, self-host everything, and then configure an S3 object storage provider for critical cold storage backups. That might also require you spending a bit more upfront to expand your NAS storage capacity.

    What’s convenient for you? What can you not afford to lose access to? What’s your budget? How much time do you have to manage different solutions?

    Those aren’t questions for you to provide me answers for, just some of the considerations that will impact different people’s answer to this question.




  • Your list of semi non-perishable foods does need some caveats about storage, because most of those things can go bad, depending on how they were stored.

    Frozen meat can spoil, as not all bacterial growth stops, some just slows down a whole lot. So if Grandma threw in a store plastic wrapped tray of chicken quarters, after being in the fridge for 3 days, and now it’s 8 years later, those might not be safe for human consumption.

    Stuff that was vacuum sealed, much more likely to last the long haul in the freezer, if done properly.

    Long-term stored grain, when not in vacuum sealed or other airtight containers, can develop molds or other bacterial contaminations.

    Improperly stored vinegar, if you try to use it…it will ruin your salad dressing, and taste like shit. But it’s pretty easy to see if vinegar has gone ick.

    Can’t say I’ve ever seen moldy or spoiled vinegar, but I’ve seen the type of kitchens that would be capable of making it happen in a long enough time frame.

    I’ve also never seen bad dry storage pasta or beans, but I imagine they carry the same long-term storage concerns as grains, even if they’re probably a bit more durable.


  • Aging for whiskey and scotch is done in specialized wood barrels with specific environmental conditions, not in the bottle.

    If the hard booze bottles been opened for a long time, it’s always possible some evaporation, or other slight changes have occurred that may impact taste, but still perfectly safe. Assuming it’s 80 proof and up.

    Throw out open wines if you’re not comfortable determining if they’re still consumable and not spoiled.

    TLDR: Toss opened bottles of wine, but any hard liquor should be safe, even if it taste is degraded.




  • Do you live in a high density urban environment?

    Because if so, that totally makes sense, and the other benefit of 5GHz/6GHz not traveling too far outside your apartment or condo wall, is pretty nifty as well.

    But if you live in a house in the suburbs, man, that is commitment well outside of necessity, or convenience. Not saying it’s bad choice per se, just seems unnecessarily burdensome IMO.



  • At no point did I mention laws, or legal loopholes.

    And I certainly never mentioned anything about the United States, or the legal liability of Twitter, except as in response to your comment.

    I think you’re confusing my acknowledgment of the daily reality of a country that is currently divided between 3 and 5 major and minor factions, all in various states of civil conflict, with being something else entirely.

    I wasn’t providing any opinion, or analysis, on the legality from Twitter’s perspective. I certainly wasn’t making any comparisons to laws in the United States and Yemen, or anything else that you’ve been talking about since your first comment.

    I would make the “duh no shit this is clickbait” observation if the BBC ran yet another story about how kids are selling drugs on Snapchat or Instagram.


  • Why are you assuming that there is a state of law and order to any degree, outside of maybe the capital…?

    Are you aware that we’re talking about Yemen…?

    Notice that Wikipedia page for their civil war doesn’t currently have an end date i.e. it’s still active…

    It’s not like Twitter is providing up support for these transactions, I’m saying it’s not surprising they exist on a public forum like Twitter for a country that’s ravaged by a decade war and famine.

    Just like how kids in the United States sell drugs on Twitter or Instagram.

    So no, Twitter is not automatically liable just because people are abusing the platform. I’m not saying it can’t get there, just that it’s not that simple.

    Regardless, I wasn’t saying anything about the legality of it for Twitter.


  • This is bordering on clickbait, because of course weapons are being sold in some form or fashion at most forums or marketplace in Yemen.

    It’s a country that has been wrecked by civil war and years of a genocidal air campaign by the Saudis, and now intermittent targeted strikes by American and British naval forces.

    I would be shocked if most of those people aren’t also selling those openly at their local Bazaar or market.