bitofarambler @ bitofarambler @crazypeople.online

I like to travel, learn and tell stories.

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that looks crazy good, especially after 5 days of backpacking.

were you backpacking in rural areas around your home or did you go a national park or something?

I used to backpack a lot, but never got around to it while I was in Australia.

you bought it, why shouldn't you also rent it?

only if the corporate citizen promises really hard we can trust them. like a super promise.

really good article with a couple surprises in there.

"some people speculated that, because of the political pressure against it, its release must have been an act of resistance by someone within the IRS. But the open sourcing of the program was always part of the plan, and was required by a law called the SHARE IT Act. It happened “fully above board, which is honestly more of a feat!,” Given told 404 Media. “This has been in the works since last year.”

Vinton told 404 Media in a phone call that the open sourcing of Direct File “is just good government.”

“All code paid for by taxpayer dollars should be open source, available for comment, for feedback, for people to build on and for people in other agencies to replicate. It saves everyone money and it is our [taxpayers’] IP,” she said. “This is just good government and should absolutely be the standard that government technologists are held to.”"

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.

for sure! I love talking about this stuff.

if you join an online platform with in-place curriculum, then they assign you to classes so the students are already there.

I didn't want a schedule, so i made myself available to casually chat with ESL learners on an app called palfish.

enough people called me up for me to make a few hundred a month, which is all I needed to travel. dorms are $100 a month in SE Asia, food is 1 to $4 a portion in all of asia, and I was backpacking half the time anyway.

when I landed in a country, I bought the unlimited data-only plan, clicked the "online" button, and then people called me up whenever they wanted to practice their english with me.

that online work was partially to offset using my savings, but i had already taught in person for ~7 years.

with each month of in-person teaching affording me ~3 months of living expenses, i had enough savings to travel for a couple decades by the time i started traveling full-time.

quick note: there's no competition for ESL students at the teacher level. there are way too many ESL students and not nearly enough English teachers to fulfill the demand. it's not even close.

both.

I taught in person in China at first, and then after I started traveling full-time I taught online because all you need is a smartphone.

and no, the market is not at all saturated, it is wide open. there are literally thousands of jobs available right now across dozens of countries and online.

if you have any interest in traveling, or you need money, and are a native or fluent English speaker, teaching English is such a great deal.

I'm happy to answer any other questions you have.

it's a great job.

teach as little or much as you want, save as much money as you want, go pretty much wherever you want, and then chill out the rest of the time.

I taught for several years and am still traveling on the savings a decade later.

if you're a native English speaker, you can start doing this next week.

every month you teach english generally results in 2 to 3 months of savings.

I just traveled to Guatemala and learned that once you're in Guatemala, which is visa-free for most countries, you can also travel visa-free to Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua during your stay.

haha, yeah, apparently when they're skinny fellas they call them crab-eating raccoons.... or Wikipedia does anyway haha, all the locals here just say "mapaches" without any qualifiers.

they are also pretty chill.

they have the chunky ones living in the forest here apparently, but these sleek fellas just run all around along the coastline.

these sleek crab-eating raccoons in Panama City are pretty cute:

that is a great video, the story, atmosphere and "all original artwork" tag impressed me.

You're accessing a system meant to exrract value rather than provide care.

solution:

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, better customer service, much lower prices, often 50% lower even at the most prominent international clinics, cheaper if you go to the local clinics instead(many still speak English)

the Thai government heavily invested in medical infrastructure, tech and education 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.

you can check the fees online before you go, and if you have any major dental work to be done, it'll be cheaper with a round trip ticket to Thailand than it will be in many other countries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um7CkufcOJw

very cool, I found it, I'll be reading it after a couple books I'm working through right now.

thanks!

ooh, no, thank you very much, I'll check it out now.

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 compared to the US, so you can teach math or English abroad(what I usually recommend for first time travelers who want money) and easily save 1-2 thousand a 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.

28 is probably my favorite zombie series, and those zombies are heavily magic.

moving super fast and uncoordinated means rapid dehydration coupled with injuries, blood loss and tissue loss and damage.

their bodies can't endure that kind of activity for more than a couple hours, and they'll rapidly render themselves immobile, deteriorate and decompose. there aren't going to be any zombies milling around inside houses or crawling around in fields 28 weeks later.

asymptomatic carriers are normally accounted for with any new pathogen, and with the rapid deterioration, incapacitation and death of any symptomatic infected, there aren't going to be major societal collapses.

asymptomatic carriers are going to be an important vector of disease to account for as soon as the disease is recognized, and they'll have to be separated from the rest of society as a vaccine is developed, but given the rapid onset, obvious symptoms, rapid deterioration of the symptomatic carriers and physical transmissibility, a short quarantine period indicates there aren't going to be many asymptomatic carriers.

rabies is a good example, because it's basically 28 days later zombies in real life.

extremely contagious, no cure, carriers become very violent but uncoordinated, they are fast for a very brief period of time but fundamentally incapacitated after a few hours because of dehydration and tissue damage, and then die.

conditions like transmissibility and natural human resistance make the 28 scenario unrealistic but for the most part, the rapid deterioration of the symptomatic carriers is the silver bullet here.

they are still great movies and I'm very excited to see 28 years later next month.