bitofarambler

@bitofarambler@crazypeople.online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck off Babish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i make my own noodles thanks to babish.

  babish is cool.

  or was when he taught me about noodles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Methalodon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I say “US Americans” to differentiate, works well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  correct.

  there’s also the maybe more important scientific literature ban that is forcing scientists whose job it is to make sure crops grow correctly in the US out of their jobs because they aren’t able to talk about the gender of the seeds they are breeding.

  or the physicists who can’t talk about the “status” of the material they’re using, because that word is banned.

  country is don’t want to buy American military equipment anymore because they rightly cannot trust the US, which is a huge source of revenue for the US.

  the disastrously policies already enacted are going to economically and socially reverberate for decades.

  the scientist who goes to another country rather than the US to practice physics, agriculture, anthropology, anything, that’s an entire career of innovation and scientific benefit lost to the US.

  and those scientists are already avoiding the us, that’s already happening.

  the market numbers are the tip of the iceberg here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  public baths in Japan got me comfortable with being naked and i wholeheartedly agree that there are some cultural activities like saunas that obligate nudity.

  and are far more comfortable when nude, anyway.

  that’s usually why those activities are done nekkid in the first place.