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I was waiting on the ocean highway in Oregon with my partner and our two backpacks, thumbing for a ride after camping in the trees outside town. Along comes walking our way a sandy-haired, sports-jacket-toting guy who introduces himself as Mr. Sidewalk. He'd gotten the name by having a hobo...

Right on! Hit me up if you two wanna share a meal while you're here

Are you coming through Ottawa? I'll be here until July before setting off West myself

Dude tried to float across right on a main street... Could have just walked an extra hour south and might have gotten away with it!

I'm pretty well versed in Ontario's tenant rights, and I helped a friend look up the rules when she worked for a hotel out in Banff for a season. Unfortunately your accommodation agreement will most certainly have a clause about it being conditional on your employment. The legal specifics will...

Hey! Welcome (back?) to Ottawa! What's your intentional community like? Got any serious plans for building those houses or are you still in the collecting skills stages? Lemme know if you wanna hang out!

Hitchhiking the Trans-Canada is a breeze. The only other way West really is through Sault Ste. Marie or Windsor/Detroit into the states.

Everybody does! Me and a friend are heading to Vancouver in August, so if you're still on your way we might catch up with ya!

Welcome to STP and Canada! I'm in Ottawa for the next couple months, so if you come through on your way to Toronto I can house you up and cook some food for you! How far West are you going?

A passport is $160 for ten years of freedom. It sounds like a lot when you're talking beer or food on a day to day basis, but it's really nothing at all. A day and a half of easy work. Much better than all the trouble you cause for yourself and those who have to deal with you when you get caught...

I've got a few dry bags I usually keep my clothing in. If it's gonna be raining for days on end and I've gotta commit to getting soaked I'll just toss my electronics in one of those and it'll be good.

I bring along a mirror-less camera with interchangeable lenses (I bring a flat prime and one medium prime). I've got card readers and adaptors so that I can get the RAWs onto my smartphone, and from there I can edit them as much as I need to on the go. It's certainly not as precise as a desktop...

Let me know when you come through Ottawa! I can cook you a meal and help you with any more bike troubles you collect!

Great job! What's the thought process behind doing something like this over bringing a lightweight tarp and some rope to get a quick solid shelter that you can later bolster with those same natural materials? I'm keen on making multiple shelters around

From some brief internet sleuthing I'm lead to believe that isn't a real, officially erected sign, but rather just something someone bought and stuck in the ground themselves. Someone with a hate-boner for hitchhikers? Who knows. I'd have taken it down, maybe keep it as a cynical souvenir.

Hey Gleb! Had a blast with you in the woods. Glad we didn't scare you off!

The sportier a lifestyle you have the less ankle support you need. If you're someone who runs/jogs/bikes or plays any sprinting sports, you can get away with hiking shoes. Work shoes might be alright here, but you'll need flexibility in the sole, so no steel shanks. If you're someone who doesn't...

I've been meaning to check out NYC at some point too so I'll keep those dates in mind!

When is your bookfair?

October? Which weekend?

When I went through Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, beer was sometimes found for less than a dollar but easily for a dollar and plenty tasty. Food wasn't unbelievably cheap, but there's still stuff in the city dumpsters like everywhere else. Hitchhiking worked the whole way and kickdowns weren't...

It's definitely presented in a legalese fashion, but skimming it seems like most of it shows you how to communicate with other boats and how to not be dumb and avoid collisions. The comprehensive "keep right, lights at night" of boating.

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This is right up my alley. I've never had the resources to pour concrete slabs in. I've stuck to wood and recyclables for now, and mostly above ground, but as you've described, tucked into a hillside. This is precisely the kind of spot I keep my eyes out for: Ground quality is something I'm...

Haha yeah I zoned in on their use of 'unsafe' thinking: that's how they justify taking it all down without feeling like they're throwing a person in real need to the streets. Good idea on the homeless person's part, that looks like a sweet setup if you can manage the visibility of your comings...

Looking forward to seeing your stuff published!

What's your transportation situation like? Are you planning on being on the move or just bunkering down on the edge of town somewhere? If you invest in a van, and some lumber and labour, you might be able to manage a very snug life with your pack. Outside that, I can only see a life of walking...

Aha! The moment I've been waiting for! In the details you mention bringing a bike! Is that how you're going to be traveling onwards from there? Where are you heading afterwards? I'll see if I can rig one of my bikes up to be a decent touring bike for the 3 day ride down there, but if that...

So I bike a lot. I work as a messenger downtown in the city I'm in now, and have been on and off for the past few years. Collisions come with the territory. Somebody's not looking, or decides to turn at the last second, shit happens, it's usually no big deal. Most of the time we just make sure...

@T Paradise Traffic violations are the one category of legal infractions that diplomatic immunity specifically does not protect from in the USA. It sound's a lot like NocturnalJoe is describing 'Sovereign Citizenship', but I don't want to put words in their mouth so I'll let them confirm. In...

Spoons and forks, tempted to try something more complicated soon

Whittling and bracelet making are what I stick to. I've already got my knife on me so picking up scrap wood's no issue. Bracelet/simple jewelry things stuff relatively small too. What sorts of tinctures do you make?

Messing around with genetics is dangerous. We'd have to do a lot of planning and think about what we were changing. Taking out our individuality? Our drive to be different? That sounds a lot like the driving force of evolution, and by extension surviving natural selection. What happens if we all...

And international affairs? Social policies? Who will develop these?

@malaclypse said so in the thread that spurred me to make this. More realistically it's a handful of wolves and hundreds of sheep. The wolves are content to let the sheep graze in between feedings, knowing it's this very action that lets them come back when next hungry. If the wolves simply...

Direct democracy is an interesting topic! I went ahead and posted a huge spiel in another thread so as not to derail this one. As for Pacifism in Anarchy: "The government" isn't really what you want to be talking about. The government is a collection of people, and you can be damn sure they...

With the advent of the Internet the dream of Direct Democracy becomes quite a bit more believable, but if we talk through what that would mean I think we'd be eager to come up with something a bit more stable. This is a long one. By no means am I 'right' about this, I've just thought a bit about...

Care to share the study? I'd love to delve into their methods. Did they use verbal or written descriptions of subjects? Did they show pictures? Videos or live actors? When I think of that situation as you presented it, all I can think of is "What is the person wearing? Is he in a track suit...

Everyone under the age of 80 speaks pretty good English in Reykjavik. Might have a bit more trouble around the ring road, but like 80% of the population is in Reykjavik anyways. Iceland doesn't have minimum wages set by the government, but rather the unions present collectively bargain for...

"and if duty is the only reason you're doing something good, that's A-OK for you."

Right yeah, you'll get a lot of utilitarianism from me, or altruism, or at least a disinterest in deontology cause I'm not big on that. It's an attempt to reason sentimental value into the real world past those who hold the sentimental value. In the end its a demand for respect for respect's...

I guess to bring it full circle to the title you chose, doing something out of passion is better than doing it out of duty, but doing something is better than doing nothing, and if duty is the only reason you're doing something, that's A-OK for you.

This is pretty broad, and easily answered with a 'yes'. A gun hunts for food and murders. lots of tools have all kinds of uses, both good and evil. Are there tools that are solely good or solely evil? Probably not. If you give me a definition of an 'evil tool' I'm sure I can point to how its a...

Pointing to the evil that could be accomplished with a tool does not make the tool evil. Any tool with value or power can have its power applied in negative ways. This isn't something unique to social engineering. It's equally a breeding ground for fascism as it is for democracy, or...

Like you said, William: those who are exceptional at things do those things out of some passion. Are you exceptional at something? Do you have passion? Then you're good! Are you not exceptional at anything? Well you're in luck! There's plenty of people exceptional at telling you what to do...

It's all good man, I'm not trying to say there's something wrong with using the food bank, it's what it's there for. Just don't go in there with the mentality that you could have worked for your own food but chose not to because "money is dirty". Like I said, it's not money that's corrupting the...

Theres lots of romantic ideas about how we all lived happily ever after with some sort of rudimentary barter system before we invented money, but ask any historian and you'll learn money (in the form of shiny rocks or sea shells) was invented right around the time we had any sort of surplus to...

Money's a useful tool to describe the value of something, and facilitate efficient interpersonal efforts. There's plenty good in creating specifically what you need for yourself and those close to you, but participating in a system whose goal is efficiency with other people isn't inherently bad...

We get 10 ft of snow Vancouver gets 10 ft of rain! And yeah Vancouver's got a huge homeless population, traveling and stationary. East Hastings neighbourhood is chock full of people.