Alcoholicorn
@Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
- Comment on Anyone feeling like doesn't belong anywhere? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anyone feeling like doesn't belong anywhere? 2 weeks ago:
Your neighborhood is 30 minutes away by subway and bicycle, and not in the direction my hotel is in. But it should be somewhere in this picture:
You can get a hk based esim via alipay for 50 cents a gig, your mom is massively overpaying. Otherwise, most servers on latvpn and vpnify work.
You have to apply for chinese visas at application centers, and it takes multiple days once you hand over the passport for them to add it, and there’s like 3 centers in the US, it was easier to fly family to Hanoi and have them get 60 day instead of 90 day L visas (tokyo is another option) than DC or Chicago. If you ever apply, book cancelable flights, screenshot the proof, immediately cancel, they don’t check. Have AI generate your itinerary.
how’s everything going for you?
Good, still doing the digital nomad thing. Wasn’t expecting to miss Japan so much. It’s kinda lonely not being able to speak the language, but that will change when I meet up with friends in vietnam again. I understand even less vn than mando, but theres more english speakers.
Honestly, if it was practical, you should have done it. Just go find a cheap hotel room or hostel for <10USD/night, and do your own thing, maybe meeting up with family for standard tourist things.
- Comment on Anyone feeling like doesn't belong anywhere? 2 weeks ago:
I was born in Guangzhou,
Hey I’m in Guangzhou right now! Even if you went back, it’s probably not the place you remember, though the air is the worst of the 12 chinese cities I’ve been to so far, and its almost 90 degrees and humid so that’s probably the same. (Not as bad as Almaty, Hanoi, or HCMC, but still absolutely destroying my allergies).
- Comment on You have nothing to lose but your brains 2 weeks ago:
If you’re calling marxists utopian, you have literally no idea what your talking about, and are just guessing at what is in that book.
- Comment on You have nothing to lose but your brains 2 weeks ago:
My point is you have no idea what communists are trying to achieve or have achieved. Also he was an economist lol.
- Comment on You have nothing to lose but your brains 2 weeks ago:
It’s a shitty utopia thought up by a grumpy German philosopher
You know he wrote a book specifically attacking utopian communist projects, called Socialism: Scientific and Utopian. This should tell you everything else you think you know in the subject was just some guy making shit up to stop you from actually educating yourself.
- Comment on You have nothing to lose but your brains 2 weeks ago:
We can measure how democratic a country is by how much its actions favor the people rather than the capitalists. Most communist countries, particularly Cuba are more democratic than any country ruled by capital.
- Comment on Hrmmm 🤔 2 weeks ago:
Violent crime precedes ice cream consumption. Clearly crime makes people hungry for ice cream.
- Comment on Giant Drake ice sculpture in downtown Toronto is getting hosed down because fans were lighting fires to melt it. 2 weeks ago:
It wasn’t even a statue of Drake, just a rectangle of ice blocks?
- Comment on My shopping list: Coal 2 weeks ago:
Same, but laundry. Also wearing pajamas.
- Comment on Why do airports place a cap on 10,000 USD for undeclared cash? 3 weeks ago:
I carry 2 phones, 2 laptops, a couple external hdds, etc. I’ve been asked about it by chinese customs once, but otherwise, a dozen crossings, almost half into China and nobody’s cared.
- Comment on Why do airports place a cap on 10,000 USD for undeclared cash? 3 weeks ago:
It’s like if some one has 800 Chanel Handbags & 200 Hermès watches and mens footwear combined totalling to $50,000 in value stuffed onto mutiple huge suitcases and attempts to travel with that since huge stacks of cash will be flagged, so accessories are used to bring in money.
Depending on the countries, you might end up paying import taxes on that.
- Comment on What's the best way to tell a kid that their dog died? 3 weeks ago:
we did this during her naptime and told her beforehand that she was going to die like the fish in the book.
You told her the dog is going to die, right??
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Its so sad when you return to a tiktok account you haven’t seen since 2020, and its 4 years of doing the same bit once a week.
- Comment on Apparantly there are some rural places in China that have never seen a white person... So... are there like places in the US I can go where they never seen an Asian person before? 3 weeks ago:
There’s definitely rural areas nobody goes to or leaves where nobody has met an Asian, but they’ll have seen them on TV, it shouldn’t be too shocking.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 4 weeks ago:
Thank you! Nobody I’ve pointed this out to seems to understand what an abomination cold butter on raw bread with sprinkles is, I thought I was the crazy one.
- Comment on Why is 'Philippines' spelled with a PH, but 'Filipino' is spelled with an F? 4 weeks ago:
Do you mean Spanish or Tagalog?
- Comment on it's spring 4 weeks ago:
Governor of NY and mayor of NYC always competing.
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 4 weeks ago:
Who’s we?
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 4 weeks ago:
Given that we’re talking about terabytes of data, it wouldn’t be surprising if the bulk of the files were video used for blackmail, but what doesn’t add up is how friendly they all seem in the emails. You don’t ask the guy blackmailing you when the wildest party is.
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 4 weeks ago:
There’s another, even dumber world where Trump has such a great visit to Iran, we team up to invade greenland.
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 4 weeks ago:
AFAIK, The only blackmail we’ve seen in the 2% of epstein files that were released was blackmailing Gates to cover up how he gave his wife an STD. It seems like they were simply ideologically and materially aligned with Israel.
- Comment on The Struggle 4 weeks ago:
It gets easier if you go 100% cold turkey for a few months; I stopped any kind of refined sugar in like 2016 and now more subtle sweetnesses stand out, and the occasion I eat things like ice cream with chocolate or a glazed jelly donut makes me physically ill.
I was recently given a monster and holy shit people drink that, by choice? Why is there so much??
- Comment on More than a dipper 4 weeks ago:
Birds are denser than water??
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- Comment on Anon is bored of it all 5 weeks ago:
Depends where you are, nature is cheap and accessible in asia.
- Comment on Anon is bored of it all 5 weeks ago:
Go to a better place?
- Comment on Gotta go fast 5 weeks ago:
Supercritical phase, it still changes pressure with heat, but there’s no abrupt phase transition. This increases efficiency somehow.
- Comment on Gotta go fast 5 weeks ago:
sCO2 turbines are like 1/30th the size of an equivalent steam turbine.
- Comment on Gotta go fast 5 weeks ago:
Wot if instead of boiling water, we boiled CO2, and instead of boiling CO2, we kept it at high pressure so that it never quite reached boiling or condensation?
