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RE: How To Avoid Extortion By Costa Rican Authorities
howdy sir dandays! wow I'm sorry I missed the voting time on this dog gonnit, that's why I set up the autovote. Hey! dang, your 100% vote is worth .12? wow. my lousy vote is only 5 or 6 cents at 100%. It's my most frustrating challenge.
I even have to lease sp every month just to give everyone a pitiful one cent vote. can't wait to get better.
Sorry for complaining but I so appreciate your big vote on my post. This post is so good! People have no idea that it's that way. It sounds like Costa Rica doesn't produce anything, except tourism? So extortion and bribery is a way of life there. That's pretty sad.
Have you talked to people who've paid them off, how much does that cost?
That’s all it is, Janton, tourism—100%. I’m so naive I actually thought “high season” and “low season,” a local Costa Rican’s way of life, was referring to agriculture—nope! They’re referring to tourists.
It’s sad really. It’s disappointing and too bad but I’m glad we engulfed ourselves in the culture otherwise I never wouldn’t known nor understood the truth. So you know what?? I have a buyer for the truck coming by tomorrow morning and two on the back burner if he changes his mind. But he’s flying in from Washington state to purchase it only to fly back and won’t be moving here until August so I believe it’s sold. One of the restaurants across the street wants the few cooking tools Pura Vida has, those are sold. Know what that means, sir? It means we’ve had enough of this trap—they can have it! “Dust your feet off,” that’s how it goes, right?
About missing the voting period on this one, I’m used to you doing that, Janton! 😉 Ha. Eh, but really, I’m just thankful you enjoy reading what I have to say, I don’t care how late you get to it.
About my vote, well.. it used to be $0.21! Haha. I figured I haven’t been by your page in way too long so I needed to give you a 100. Puras votes are worth more than mine—sounds about right, right?
Oh yeah I’ve talked to plenty! I heard $300 cash for two seatbelt tickets, that was the most expensive one I heard, it all depends on what they can get you on. Typically they’ll just fork out $40-$100 and be on their way but you know what I think?? I think all of these English speaking sissies who pay off the cops around here are disgusting and need to have a talk with the mirror and ask “are you a part of the problem or a part of the solution?” Paying off someone who’s job is to help you is hideous. I have a really good book I love to read daily, I believe it’s your favorite book too and nowhere in there does anyone spell out how to bribe fellow humans.
And about that 1 cent of yours—it’s perfect! I’m always grateful for your Lincoln’s. <— How in the F my phon knew I wanted to spell “Lincoln’s” with an apostrophe S out of L.i.N is beyond me. So weird these devices.
Thanks for stopping by @janton. I always love hearing from you.
Ps—this one is still generating Janton, you didn’t miss anything. 👍🏿
howdy sir dandays! People paying the corrupt cops are definitely part of the problem, wow. That's unreal and if you were just visiting then ok, maybe once or twice to just get them to let you get on with your day but if you lived there and you were white and they tried to shake you down for the rest of your life??That would get old fast!
But you guys are exactly right to dust off your feet! There are many wonderful places out there for you to discover and it sure is going to be fun to see what you find.
What do you think of the new hardfork? I;ve read several posts about it, seems no one knows for sure if it will do what they want or if it will hurt the platform.
I'm glad to see this post is still generating, think of someone thinking of visiting there and how much hassle you can save them!
I’m just as guilty as most of us as far as paying attention to the hard fork specifics. Correct me if I’m wrong but this is the one that’s going to generate a downvote pool, correct? I don’t know what else is coming with the new fork but I think rewarding downvotes is a terrible idea and I hope it’s not the platforms demise.
Either I was wrong about the pay period or you got in at just the right time because this one is done now. Thanks again for taking the time to read it.
What do you think about the hard fork? Do you have a pros and cons?
And thank you, too, for being interested in our travels—that really means a lot.
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Howdy again sir danday! who WOULDN'T be interested in your travels? That's my question. lol..my gosh what you guys are doing is the dream of so many people. Not mine that's for sure, but more normal people who don't tend toward hermit traits. I think it's an amazing grand experiment.
The big change coming on the hardfork is they're changing the pay distribution for authors getting 75% to just 50% and making curation 50% instead of 25%. They think that will force more people to look for and vote for good content. But so many people are saying that it won't work that way and like you said..creating a downvote pool most think is a horrible idea.
From what I've read no one has any idea if the changes they mean for good will work at all. They might have no affect or they might have damaging affects. But it has so many convinced that it's a terrible plan that they're powering down and leaving.
I think steemit will probably survive and eventually thrive but maybe that's IN SPITE of the leadership. It IS a little frustrating to read about other blockchains making brilliant moves and making astounding progress and then you look at steem and you wonder why they never make improvements to help the little accounts make it or to help the platform grow.
Each hardfork we've seen has made it much more difficult for the small accounts to grow. So once again I'm adopting a wait and see attitude to see if this hardfork actually improves the platform but I'm not holding my breath.