Varyk
@Varyk@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Roommates 3 days ago:
why is that vine so funny?
I feel like a hundred other people could have done a hundred other videos with that same scene and it would not be as perfectly funny as that guy is.
- Comment on Being in the trash is better then being frozen in the freezer. Forever waiting. Forever wondering. 1 week ago:
holy moly that is some serious ice cream hardware.
i prefer gelato to ice cream, does your ninja really mix it so different as to clearly make one or the other?
- Comment on Being in the trash is better then being frozen in the freezer. Forever waiting. Forever wondering. 1 week ago:
truth.
truth
have you tried using an immersion blender to make an airy iced pudding?
I haven’t, but i like banana ice cream and just thought of this last week, and I’ve been obsessed with the idea for days.
- Comment on Day 252 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 1 week ago:
what a great game, good call
- Comment on how do they decide where to put bus stops? 1 week ago:
the municipality asks civil engineers, who ask their computer, then forward the results back to the municipality.
usually the public has a window where they can offer input.
if nobody checks or notices anything weird, they start allocating funding and you have your bus stops whenever they have time and funds to build them.
i like civil engineers, and a lot of them seem to care about their jobs, but their jobs have a lot of restrictions and regulations, so not everybody will be happy with the results.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“am I just imagining some idealistic version of the past that never existed”
yup.
Americans have always been this stupid, but stupid people aren’t the problem.
everyone is stupid, greedy, or otherwise morally corrupt at some point or another or in some situation or another, that’s why legal rights and protections were so important, to keep the playing field level and the trains running on time when the assholes wanted to run riot.
the successful conservative suppression of civil rights and removal of restrictions on corporate and wealthy political stuff civil activity, particularly the allowance by the Supreme Court of money to dictate political action, has removed the guardrails that used to protect the stupid and keep corrupt people in line.
- Comment on How exactly are people lighting Teslas on fire? 1 week ago:
foam retardants aren’t effective? is the battery burning too hot?
- Comment on Hungy 1 week ago:
I am so curious how large the furry population is in general compared to the demographics on Lemmy.
I’m also curious about the country distribution on lemmy.
- Comment on Divided and conquered 2 weeks ago:
The public gets things wrong, that’s why it’s important to set the record straight rather than serve up pablum.
“The whole point of eroding civil rights is to help billionaires…”
claiming an absolute regarding complex and differentiated issues is how you know something is pablum.
The long-term conservative judicial and legislative campaign the meme incorrectly refers to has a lot to do with race and religion, for example.
“Always has been”.
this is just a line from a short-sighted meme that is often incorrectly used, including here by you. it’s a fun phrase that means nothing, it’s confetti stuck in your sock.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure where these questions are coming from, there are tens of thousands of people conducting dozens of protests across every single state at every level of government, and multiple stories about those protests in this feed.
there’s absolutely some media suppression since Trump is friends with the owners of some media outlets, but there is also a lot of media documenting the literally Nationwide protests.
there’s a super popular post like a few tiles up about the dozens of ongoing Tesla protests going on that are tanking the company.
- Comment on Spooky 2 weeks ago:
closer to fifty percent, but yea, That’s 700 million people waiting to get online, more every day.
- Comment on Divided and conquered 2 weeks ago:
this meme is dumb and short-sighted and the commenters are right.
it isnt a culture war conservatives are inciting, it is a war on civil rights.
- Comment on France to use interest from frozen Russian assets to finance arms for Ukraine 3 weeks ago:
they’re funding Ukraine with the invading army’s financial resources.
Yes, you can clap them on the back.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 3 weeks ago:
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; you’re just whining and repeating the same hogwash you wallow in.
- Comment on Hotel Galactic (in development), a fantasy hotel management game set in a "flying age of sail ships" world, with beautiful hand drawn graphics and narrative focus, releases a demo on Steam 4 weeks ago:
I really liked it. and it doesn’t hurt that it’s only about 80 minutes long, but there was a lot of good animation and fun storytelling, and I was laughing out loud at Martin Short.
- Comment on Hotel Galactic (in development), a fantasy hotel management game set in a "flying age of sail ships" world, with beautiful hand drawn graphics and narrative focus, releases a demo on Steam 4 weeks ago:
I just watched treasure planet like 3 days ago, so…cool.
- Comment on Two dead, nearly 230 sickened in US measles outbreak: authorities 4 weeks ago:
so that should be at least 10 kids inflicted with lifelong permanent physical disabilities, and many more with permanently or “temporarily” compromised immune system that last for years from a deliberately resurrected disease their parents have given them.
- Comment on Failed ransom plots in the past might've succeeded if Cryptocurrencies existed. 4 weeks ago:
oboy.
☜ (↼_↼)
- Comment on Failed ransom plots in the past might've succeeded if Cryptocurrencies existed. 4 weeks ago:
how?
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, I do, that’s literally why I answered this question correctly and you consistently sound like a buffoon.
- Comment on If everyone goes to baseball games by car and everyone gets wasted like Randy Marsh, how do people get home? 4 weeks ago:
a lot of them understand the concept of airfoils also, but holding a random concept in your head doesn’t prevent them from driving home drunk.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 4 weeks ago:
all the advice I’m giving is from specific knowledge and experience, not assumptions, as I mentioned above.
The very fact that you commented on my experience without asking questions or requesting clarifications for what you didn’t understand means that you making incorrect assumptions and drawing false conclusions about my experience, which yes, you should be careful of.
- Comment on If everyone goes to baseball games by car and everyone gets wasted like Randy Marsh, how do people get home? 4 weeks ago:
exactly. when I grew up with it, I was like oh five beers? you can function all right because that was the culture.
and now when I visit the states I’m like oh these people are all driving home drunk, every person I know and many I don’t are driving home impaired to a dangerous degree.
- Comment on If everyone goes to baseball games by car and everyone gets wasted like Randy Marsh, how do people get home? 4 weeks ago:
many Americans don’t really worry about driving drunk. it is weird going back to visit, having beers with people and then everybody drives home drunk.
from concerts, from the bars, from restaurants, from bowling alleys, driving impaired is pretty normal there.
like you say, there’s no public transport to get them home.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 4 weeks ago:
there aren’t specific Visa coaches or recruiters that specialize in expats Independent of companies, although a lot of companies are looking for expats.
but that’s kind of looking at it backwards if you really dislike America.
I really disliked America 15 years ago and so I bounced.
it was a very good decision.
you can either teach English online or in person in the country you move to, which is very easy, or you can get any remote job that pays you $500 a month or more and you can at least get out of the states while you figure out if you want more money or what you’re really looking for.
If you have any questions, ask me, I am a font of digital nomad knowledge and love to share
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 4 weeks ago:
as I said, check the country, but, that’s not really a practical issue since not being double taxed is part of the US tax code and most country’s tax codes.
every country, in fact, that I’m aware of.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 4 weeks ago:
hahah! That’s so funny, as soon as I read “homesick for american chocolate”, I was like something’s not right here.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 4 weeks ago:
you always have to file taxes if you are a US citizen, you rarely have to file taxes as a digital nomad in other countries, but you’d have to check depending on the country.
the taxes you pay in one country will offset the taxes you pay in the other, so you won’t be paying double taxes and you can choose the more favorable tax home for you.
and If you are outside of the US for more than 330 days out of the year, you don’t pay earned income tax on $125,000(they update the number annually),
your employer in the US doesn’t have to do anything with the country you’re moving to.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 4 weeks ago:
are you replying to someone else? I didn’t talk about Mexican or Jamaican food.
prequel:
“There’s a lot of stuff you won’t be able to buy,”
that’s absurd. go ahead and give me an example of something you can’t buy in Europe that is available in the Americas.
also, since you brought up food, I should mention that you are you are completely wrong again.
like you couldn’t be more wrong.
especially with Mexican and Jamaican, two extremely popular cuisines.
there are immigrants everywhere, and you can find “proper”(false category anyway) mexican and jamaican food in Europe.
You’re obviously not a traveler, and are talking out your elbow, so you should probably sit this one out.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 4 weeks ago:
it’s much easier than you think it’s going to be and is practically all upside.
I’ve been an expat for a decade and a half.
All the other commenters seem to be theoretical, and mostly wrong.
If you have a company offering you a job, they’ll be sponsoring your work visa.
If you want to open a bank account in europe, you’ll be able to with your work visa.
you will not be “on the hook” for US taxes if you are permanently relocating, living outside of the US for more than 330 days per year means that you still have to file US tax paperwork, but you don’t have to pay $125,000 USD of earned income per year.
as for American chocolate? its maybe the worst chocolate in the world. Americans have terrible chocolate.
American chocolate is to real chocolate what American cheese is to real cheese. an ersatz barnyard embarrassment.
there are no American goods you’ll want that you can’t get or find a substitute for abroad, Im galf convinced that comment is satire for using American chocolate as an example.
If you have any specific questions, go ahead and ask.
Good luck! whatever the deal is, moving out of that country is the right thing to do right now.