bitofarambler
@bitofarambler@crazypeople.online
I like to travel, learn and tell stories
- Comment on Fist of Jesus 2 days ago:
Wow!
Fun in the beginning, but after the fish showed up I was all in.
That’s great.
- Comment on Crash Site | A Sci-Fi Short Film Starring Steven Yeun and Sam Richardson 5 days ago:
Thanks, I appreciate it, never heard of it but they’re both great.
Favorite yeun?
Burning 2018 is mine. Movie is good, yeun is at his best.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 5 days ago:
The world is muvh, much bigger than one sparsely populated country, and there are far more important metrics than the physical size of the US.
Metrics like population, geographic isolation, health care, political instability, violent crime, countless others that define a country, mark the US as an entity to be safely disregarded.
Thailand passed the US in health care years ago, China passed the US in renewable and next-gen tech, not to mention manufacturing, most countries citizens enjoy much more robust civil rights.
Yes, the physical country is large, but the US is s small, insecure, violent pocket of the world that people don’t need to pay nearly as much attention to as its groupies demand.
The US looks very tiny from out here, and even tinier from the inside after seeing some of the rest of the world.
- Comment on Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company? 5 days ago:
I get it, I was shocked when I looked it up. Extremely disappointing
- Comment on Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company? 5 days ago:
Michelin inspectors will not visit cities unless the city registers with Michelin, which carries high, recurring fees.
That’s why many prominent cities have zero Michelin star restaurants, because they won’t pay the fees(tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on the city) that Michelin demands for their stars.
- Comment on Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company? 5 days ago:
They’re so highly valued because advertising and elitism works.
The Michelin Brothers thought it would be good advertising for their tire company, and it was, and it kind of became its own thing but stars are still owned and operated by Michelin the tire company.
Important to note that beyond it being owned by a tire company, they don’t even give stars to the best restaurants, only restaurants that guy certain prestige requirements that pay Michelin to give them a star.
Other tire companies don’t pursue the same scam because Michelin is the front runner, and it obviously doesn’t tie in to car accessories very heavily, so there’s not much incentive for other tire companies to do the same thing, especially when it’s basically just a “pay me $400,000 for a fake gold star racket”.
I looked into this after watching the bear, when they were talking about Michelin stars, and then I found out the extent of Michelin star chicanery.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 5 days ago:
My information does not require trust; it’s all based on publicly available resources.
Go ahead, confirm IRS form 2555 for yourself.
Ass traveler, I have a travel community, nothing strange about that
I haven’t tried to sell a thing, and I have months of legitimate conversation, travel advice and information publicly available for scrutiny.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 6 days ago:
I hear you and understand your resignation; tender despair is very common and the result of those whirlwind insubstantial threats and proclamations.
You don’t have to leave your spite behind, most don’t, and I’m not telling you to; I’m letting people know that if they want to live for themselves and others rather than dying for their enemies, it’s possible and I’m here to help.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 6 days ago:
Thanks. I appreciate simple, correct solutions and I understand why emotional investment and habit makes those solutions difficult to accept and implement.
If you take a step outside of your situation, it will quickly become apparent that the grip you believe others hold you in is largely insubstantial and based on empty proclamations and threats. Magnates can plead for your attention, but you don’t have to give it to them(climb a mountain, play video games), your government can scream for your taxes and you don’t have to hand them over(IRS form 2555, foreign earned income exclusion).
The world is huge and no matter how important someone demands you think they are, they’re wrong.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 6 days ago:
There are no failsafe safety assurances anywhere, but some places are safer and more comfortable than others.
I’m originally from the US and have mostly been living abroad for over a decade since I left over many of the issues US Americans still deal with today
Perspective on the US is much more clear from the outside.
If you’d like to live abroad, I can definitely help you do that with information and advice, I’ve helped several other Americans move abroad.
tldr is get a passport, secure $500 USD in monthly income (English teaching is currently in high demand), buy a plane ticket.
Someone from the US I’ve been offering advice to this year literally left the US today based on that tldr.
I’m very happy to go into details and supply more context for anybody interested in living abroad.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 6 days ago:
Yup, that’s basically what has happened.
Political leaders and journalists have visited and done “welfare checks” on the US, and came to the same conclusions you just have.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 6 days ago:
The US looks bigger and more influential from the inside. Its tantrums look tiny and rambunctious from out here.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 6 days ago:
Do yu mean Russia? Their attacks have resulted in external military buildup near borders, NATO assurances, local military alliances.
Russia’s aggression directly harms and threatens other nearby countries.
Different measures for different circumstances.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 6 days ago:
There are 200 countries and the US is one relatively small, isolated pocket making terrible decisions and hurting themselves. Many countries hurt themselves and the US is just one of them.
US problems benefit their rivals immensely and is influencing their allies to become more independent and form new local alliances, there’s no benefit to anyone to long jump into one isolated hornet’s nest.
Sanctions are specifically difficult against the US because 1) they’re largely hurting themselves, most countries don’t agree the US is doing the wrong thing about Palestine/ foreign/other policy to warrant sanctions and 2) the US has so much, albeit dwindling, legacy political and financial/banking influence that sanctions won’t make much of an impact.
If your dog starts defecating on the floor and rolling around in it, you clean up your dog.
If your neighbor starts defecating on their floor and rolling around in it, well…
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 1 week ago:
I can’t imagine that some of its lessons won’t stick with her.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 1 week ago:
Bluey and Bob’s Burgers are both amazing for healthy family dynamics, and Bob’s burgers can be so funny I’ve cried laughing. Oh, the camping episode!
But how much the parents care for their children and each other is also extremely touching.
Bluey has such a healthy, compassionate family dynamic I was confused watching it for the first time.
- Comment on How do I beat the roaches in this house? 2 months ago:
Roach motels(pic when the situation becomes unmanageable.
From what you’re describing, the roaches are probably laying eggs and living inside rotted wood or old furniture.
I’m not a fan of fumigation since it is expensive, rarely works anywhere near 100%, and uses toxic chemicals, so it makes your house dirty and then the roaches are back in a couple weeks.
Buy a 12 pack of these glue traps with packaged bait, put one in the area of each room you see the most roaches, somewhere dark, under furniture or out of sight.
You don’t need more than one per room. Check them daily in the beginning, replace them when they are one layer full of roaches trapped in the adhesive.
You will have a whole bunch of live roaches you can feed to your chameleon and you will notice the roach infestation going down rather drastically. They catch young and old roaches with equally effect.
Very simple traps, and I’ve always found them to work very well.
I recommend buying the highest rated variety of the trap below with the highest amount of people who have bought it before.
- Comment on Oh crap. 2 months ago:
Got it. Thanks.
What a job.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I did these in China.
4 first, poor had nothing, moved to teach English. It was fine, I paid for things with cash, I had a debit card to use the ATMs.
And up until that point I still didn’t have any phone, so I climbed the hills behind the apartment I was renting and just walked around town learning stuff, trying for, living life.
Then I got a dumphone, which changed little except I could hang out with close friends from the school but usually we coordinated when we work together in the school anyway, so there was very little change with a dumb phone.
Then I bought a laptop and I could study Rosetta Stone and watch TV/movies.
eventually I got a smartphone and then I could start dating in the modern world. I dated in China before that through organic meetups, but I didn’t realize how far into the digital age dating head lapped until I got a smartphone and used all the apps.
It’s very feasible and I’ll say a lot less stressful to not have a phone, but it’s not as anxious-fun, and I do like looking stuff up all the time and having gigabytes of music in my pocket.
which reminds me before I had a laptop or smartphone, I bought a mini iPod in China and used one of the school computers to load it up with music.
Shoot that was a revolution for me, I loved the little clip on the back and how late it was.
How bad would it be for your social life?
I’d say that without the tech you won’t make new connections as easily on a surface level, but whenever an unteched person does get into a conversation, their side of the conversation tends to be a bit more well thought out and significant.
You’ll also put more work into the real life relationship since you don’t have a hundred virtual relationships vying for your attention on your phone.
So it would probably help your social life, by my metrics.
- Comment on Oh crap. 2 months ago:
More than other fish?
- Comment on Magic Rocks 2 months ago:
Dang, I’m reading that next. That sounds fascinating
- Comment on Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released 3 months ago:
that sounds really fun, I want to play tempest or earthquake mode.
- Comment on Honorary 3 months ago:
- Comment on Fuck off Babish 4 months ago:
i make my own noodles thanks to babish.
babish is cool.
or was when he taught me about noodles.
- Comment on Caption this. 4 months ago:
Methalodon
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 5 months ago:
just started journey to Savage planet, which is a lot of fun.
the humor reminds me a lot of outer worlds and the exploration feels a lot like outer wilds, coincidentally.
I’m having a really good time playing it and will probably check out the sequel when I finish.
- Comment on How strong is fermented bean curd supposed to taste exactly? 5 months ago:
if you’re talking about the fermented bean curd that I’m familiar with, the flavor is insanely strong.
and despicable, haha.
describing the spiciness of fermented bean curd as superfluous sounds accurate to me.
- Comment on You Are Diving in the Ordovician Period 5 months ago:
that is a great video, the “all original artwork” tag impressed me.
- Comment on Why can I get a credit card for $2,000 at best buy for dumb shit but can't get a care plus card for dental work? 5 months ago:
You’re accessing a system meant to profit rather than provide care.
medical tourism means you choose which country has the medical procedure you’re looking for at the price point you’re looking for.
I get all of my dental work done in Thailand: same technologies, same expertise, much lower prices, often 50% lower even at the best international clinics, cheaper if you go to the local clinics instead(many still speak English)
the Thai government heavily invested in medical infrastructure 20 years ago and it paid off for both their local economy in terms of medical tourism and for people like me and you who don’t want to pay obscene amounts of money for medical care.
- Comment on I’m very good at math and would like health insurance. What is the easiest option? 5 months ago:
hi, I’ve been living abroad for 15 years or so.
if you want to move, you should move.
most countries have a very low cost of living, so you can teach math or English abroad(what I usually recommend for first time travelers who want money) and save thousands per month, in a country like Thailand, which is very welcoming to trans people and has great, affordable medical care.
if you can get any remote programming job that pays more than $500 US a month, you can live abroad and immediately start saving any income over that 500, which covers your own apartment and food for the month.
and it is awesome out here in the world, btw.
you can live and save abroad for a couple years and if for whatever reason you want to go back to the US and buy a house, you’ll have the money to do that.
I’ve helped other people move and would be happy to go into any details you’re curious about.
