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  • jerboa.

    summit is the only other client that i tried and wasn't irritated by, but I've reverted back to jerboa after a few days. i like how streamlined jerboa is, and how it just works and always has.

    it looks like the summit dev is working overtime getting everything in order and finishing several feature rollouts, so I'll check that out again in a couple of months.

  • I have worn my socks inside out for over 20 years now.

    I like the smoother side of the socks. feels nicer than the fuzzy side. especially if i can feel the seams, which I detest.

    it looks weird to you and me, but it doesn't seem like anybody ever notices. Even when I wear shorts. you should be fine.

    in fact, I had a girlfriend of nearly 4 years and she didn't notice my socks were inside out for the first two or three?

    so she tried it out and even years later, she still wears her socks inside out as well(we're on good enough terms to discuss sock developments).

  • that sounds like you're talking about permanent immigration.

    another easy way to permanently immigrate is to move a place on a tourist or digital nomad visa, and then stay there legally or otherwise until you're allowed to apply for citizenship.

    spain and portugal require about $40,000 a year for their digital nomad visas.

    The thing is, it's even easier to move without changing citizenship and you can still stick it to the US government.

    if you don't change citizenship, and you live outside of the US 11 months out of the year, you don't have to pay taxes on earned income. so you're not supporting the current administration.

    The cheapest golden visa is $75,000 for the whole family in the Philippines, btw, not 500k.

    I still wouldn't pay that.

    I travel full time, you can easily get 3 to 6 month visas in a bunch of countries, Visa-Free travel in the others, live permanently abroad, legally avoid US taxes and enjoy a much lower cost of living in countries that aren't tearing themselves and their constitution apart.

  • closest was two Belgian travelers who were SOL and money in Beijing, so I let them crash in an unused classroom for a few days in my school and take showers and wash everything in the staff bathroom and they were real happy.

  • I walk each day to the local markets and grab whatever I feel like that day That's a good walk and is usually my cardio for the day.

    Right now, it's usually a couple chorizos, and then I use the leftover oil to fry potatoes, seasoning the potatoes and then use the leftover oil/spice from the fried potatoes to fry a bunch of diced tomatoes so I have a thick fried salsa.

    bag of tomatoes is five quetzales, same for a bag of onions or potatoes.

    I grabbed a tamale and some carnitas yesterday for 4 bucks.

    I like walking around and seeing what's open and available each day.

  • no, that might be why you're confused.

    objectively incorrect facts being spread are misinformation.

    like your statement here:

    "The world's going down the drain."

    this is another vague, ill-informed statement that there is no evidence for and plenty of ubiquitous and obvious counter-evidence available for.

  • "I'm literally so confused"

    you literally are.

    "That Pew poll regarding scientific distrust is specifically related to the Covid pandemic"

    correct!

    "but you're taking about measles"

    incorrect! as I've stated multiple times and in every comment, I'm talking about the US-specific rapidly declining mistrust in science, leading to tragedies like the resurrection of the measles.

    again, for your benefit, the key phrase here is "the specifically rapidly declining mistrust in science".

    "why are the sociological elements I've mentioned before not value added..."

    because you are not contributing information that is necessary or requested.

    you began with platitudes, moved on to inconsequential tangents, offered unprovable negative hypotheticals with a through line that scientific mistrust has not been increasing in the last decade, which Is objectively wrong according to statistical analysis, including the poll I supplied to you with and every other poll you can look up on scientific mistrust in the last decade.

    If someone had asked, "were vaccines historically maligned?", one of your tangents would have been relevant.

    but no one asked you any of that, and you persisted in misinterpreting the meme and then continuing to misinterpret my statement as some sort of request for you to share misguided theories and misinformation, which i do not appreciate.

    "...this over a simple comment about the Human Genome Project"

    Yes, since you would not take me at my word initially and quadrupled down on your misinformation, i have had to repeat multiple times that your valueless comments are not appreciated and should not have been made.

  • again, your adding a valueless comment about a hypothetical unproven concern is not helpful, you're just wasting space.

    here is an example of a value-added comment that supports my four comments and disproves all of your comments:

    One of the polls I mentioned in the last comment showing a specifically recent drop in US trust and scientific authority and institutions:

    https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2023/11/14/americans-trust-in-scientists-positive-views-of-science-continue-to-decline/

    instead of making things up in your head, you could have easily checked the information I gave you from the real world and found that you were incorrect and I was giving you valuable information.

    so, yeah. ya got slammed. again.

    ~⁠>⁠`⁠)⁠~⁠~⁠~

    adrift.

  • "There was never any "science appreciation" among the general public"

    you are demonstrably incorrect and your confident ignorance is insulting and harmful in general.

    but here I am, being the guardrail to your misinformation again:

    less than a decade ago, measles was eradicated from the US.

    since then, vaccinations and science in general have been maligned and you can see in national polls that scientific authority is less respected than it was a decade ago to the point that measles has been brought back and is now killing children again.

    because in less than a decade, science appreciation has turned into scientific derision.

    you are completely wrong here, and you are not helping anything by spreading misinformation and flaunting your ignorance of the matter.

    "...comments like your reply might contribute to the science derision though, just saying."

    of course you are "just saying", that is the problem with your comments: they add no value..

    value-added comments are what is needed.

    If your comments do not add value, as your three have not in this thread, then they are value-less and should be withheld.

    you are adrift.

  • unfortunately, your new comment is a further pedantic and unnecessary expansion of both what the meme and my comment succinctly stated; you are apparently still missing the point of memes in general, this meme in particular and my comment: the specifically rapid public shift from science appreciation to scientific derision.

    I'm happy you're finally learning about this, but please make it clear that you have discovered something new for yourself and the reason you are publicly sharing this common knowledge, rather than pretending I asked for you to make a perfectly enjoyable, understandable meme 40 times longer and less clear.