bitofarambler @ bitofarambler @crazypeople.online

I like to travel, learn and tell stories.

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hahaha. when I was in New Zealand, everyone asked me what I was doing there, like they were shocked that I would even visit New Zealand, especially in the tiny town I was living in.

and I said that I just wanted to get to know New Zealand, I loved the culture and especially the humor.

and every New Zealander was like "what are you talking about? we're not very funny."

I explained about flight of the Conchords and eagle versus shark, and was told that those were fine, but not super funny.

New Zealand culture is so sincere and humorous, inherently.

hahaha, that was as funny as I wanted it to be, thank you.

https://share.google/XsyC7F7SYQV35SPWX

great point, and many countries would be literally poorer as well.

even undocumented immigrants pay about $100 billion in taxes to the US each year.

"Francis Collins....got behind the effort to eradicate hepatitis C in the United States by 2030. The Biden administration allocated about $10 billion to achieve this. With the new administration [of Donald Trump], this is all gone.*

also, TIL there's a cure for Hep-C.

try gImagereader.

it's a frontend to tesseract and is more workable via its GUI and option menus.

Load the file, execute the program.

That's all I had to do for a successful OCR.

vote with your feet.

I've been traveling for about fifteen years now, if you have any questions.

i did this with a chinese book, but have to check what i used.

The translation was entirely readable.

i think i used tesseract.

No, GImagereader!

that was it.

tesseract was also very straightforward, but gimage reader had a GUI, and all I had to do was import the file and then click export and it did the whole thing.

"...thousands of giant eggs from the elusive Pacific white skate."

i don't know if I'm familiar, who's rikke?

"Pāua is the Māori name given to four New Zealand species of large edible sea snails...

It is known in the United States and Australia as abalone"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81ua

high five.

i make my own noodles thanks to babish.

babish is cool.

or was when he taught me about noodles.

"Xennials are the micro-generation of people on the cusp of the Generation X and Millennial demographic cohorts.

Many researchers and popular media use birth years from 1977 to 1983,[1] though some extend this further in either direction"

never heard of these.

Methalodon

seriously interesting language/biology musings, I didn't know about any of that.

California is the 4th largest.

Texas is the 8th.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Texas

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California

yeah, looks interesting for sure.

I really enjoy backpacking and walking and I'm interested in seeing the Australian outback through the eyes of a walker.

actually, I think the second to the last podcast I put out was about walking specifically as a wonderful mode of travel.

thanks for the recommendation.

oh wow, thanks, this is my first hearing about it.

I appreciate the heads up, I'm checking out the website now.

Texas is the 8th largest economy in the world.

that blew my mind recently.