Historical Recurrence
The gremlins always return. That’s why the magic witch offers an annual subscription plan, to protect your investment from up to two types of folklore creatures, ranging from classical antiquity to the early modern period.
Once I used an oscillating multi-tool to saw a 1x2 wall stud that had water damage. It hit a nail and sparked a bit, then started to smoke, and then ignited the sawdust with a little flame shooting out from the cut.
More diseases in nature, bugs and fungus for food. Fossil fuels will be depleted, which made it possible to feed an extra 7 billion. Existing farmland will have accumulated salt. Refined materials (steel, rubber, plastic, glass) will be much more expensive to make. Concrete would be replaced with clay.
The US used to have free state colleges, but only Pepperidge Farm remembers.
HypnoDrones released, currency now irrelevant
Because many people would rather believe that someone is in charge of natural disasters and suffering. Some take it further as a pretense for convincing their peers to remove competitors for resources.
I’m more of a van Gogh, misunderstood until after his time.
It varies with the server and how much work was done. If you explain it to the person it might go better. At some places the server gives a cut to other staff that help with the table. At cafes with a tip jar it is divided up at the end of the shift. The only certain rule is don’t tip with those fake half bills with a religious flyer on the other side.
Being in sunlight is tiring. It’s better to work in a hatchback or camper van at the beach. Then it can be moved to a wooded park in the hills.
An hour to six days is bad. There must be some kind of data ingestion and pipeline involved. Reading a database and generating a formatted xlsx file can be a few seconds to minutes.
An OpenXML library could modify and write to a new file without Excel. Microsoft’s version is usually for C#, there are similar libraries in other programming languages if your computer is locked down. If Excel gives a corrupted error when opening, the XML data can be viewed by renaming the xlsx extension to zip.
Merging Cells: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/documentformat.openxml.spreadsheet.mergecells?view=openxml-3.0.1
Cell style and background color: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44839512/how-to-work-with-style-index-in-open-xml
If you can mail packages, sell unwanted things on auction or marketplace sites. That can give experience with marketing, sales, packaging, shipping, customer service, inventory, bookkeeping, and estimating the value of items.
If you can’t ship anything, then you’re limited to something digital (software, books), or to be fulfilled elsewhere (t-shirt prints).
Someone that has always inspired me is Paul Alexander. He was paralyzed from polio at age six and spent most of his life in an iron lung to breathe. He went on to become a lawyer and wrote his memoirs by holding a stick in his mouth and tapping on a keyboard.
Go anywhere someone is pushing a narrative and compliment them. Bonus points if they have a following.
Is it worth it? Maybe if you want PTSD and a custody battle. In those relationships, there can be only one victor.
Many countries have entrepreneurship or innovation visas. Australia has subclass 188 visa. Canada, Japan and Korea all have a startup visa. UK has an innovator founder visa. Netherlands has the DAFT visa with the US. Thailand and USA have Amity Treaty which allows US citizens to own a business outright in a Thailand, which can be used to obtain business visa and work permit.
Spain and Portugal have digital nomad visas that can lead to permanent residency. France has a visitor visa for up to 1 year working for foreign employers.
Other countries to consider are: Ireland and Belgium.
Without any of those there is moving from country to country every 90 days as a digital nomad, or until you get A2 level in a language and find sponsorship, start a business, or attend a university.
I read books on algorithms and data structures and typed out the examples. The work computer was locked down for installers but I could download open source programs and compile Java. One of the more interesting chapters I remember was parsing basic math operations for a calculator into a tree structure, evaluating it, and converting it between infix and postfix notation.
My boss probably noticed I had automated things because sometimes they would send new data requiring an urgent redo of everything, and I would send results back in a minute instead of the 8 hours it used to take. He didn’t seem upset, more like pleasantly surprised that a temp-to-hire pulled it off. I even got a compliment at one point, which never happened before.
One day I applied for another job that was a lot of what I already did and some of what I wanted to do more of. I called in sick to do the interview and got the position. It was good timing because the place I was at got acquired, and that never goes well if you’re in a group that overlaps what the parent company already has.
Owning land is better to store wealth, but gold is better when fleeing to wherever land ownership is still enforced.
Noita has some nice psychadelic cave music
There was an Outer Limits episode with this plot - “Identity Crisis” with Lou Diamond Phillips
Good movies with better soundtracks: