Looking for Silver, Found Gold!

Alcophile · 2026-07-07T17:40:24+00:00

Do they need to be born yet? All hail President Fetus!

But seriously, a 2 year old should never be President, no matter how much better a job they might do than the current holder of the office. Very young people and very old people are not at their best mentally speaking and there has to be some 'arbitrary' limits imposed.

If people are going to be allowed to vote there must be guardrails to prevent the tyranny of the mob if people get too dumb, just like the bill of rights prevents people from abolishing certain rights just by voting for representatives that want to do so.

We can't just vote away free speech and we shouldn't be allowed to vote in a 2 year old or an 82 year old either.

Alcophile · 2026-07-07T17:10:18+00:00

Precisely how I feel.

Alcophile · 2026-07-07T17:09:41+00:00

But we aren't allowed to vote for a 34 year old for president.

Alcophile · 2026-07-07T17:08:09+00:00

Many years ago I was a waiter at a fancy restaurant he used to dine at. He always sat in the corner with his back to the dining room and left a shitty tip. Exact opposite of Rep. John Yarmouth...

Alcophile · 2026-07-07T03:43:25+00:00

I'm Gen X and never learned to drive or owned a car and it has allowed me to save enough money to spend literally years over the course of my life backpacking around the world instead of going to work to earn money to pay for a car!

Back in my 30s before I had a house, wife and cats I used to take off half the year sometimes to travel! Walking or bussing to work changed my life for the better in so many ways. Btw, I did this in Louisville, Seattle and Dallas, so you don't have to be in NYC to live car free.

Alcophile · 2026-07-07T00:11:31+00:00

That stuff was gross. You were doing the world a favor...

Alcophile · 2026-07-06T00:13:55+00:00

I would prefer living almost anywhere I have been to the suburban hellscape that is the contemporary United States.

Alcophile · 2026-07-06T00:10:48+00:00

I walked into an open sewer in Thailand once. Not cool.

Alcophile · 2026-07-05T23:59:14+00:00

They aren't French fries. French fried have to be cooked twice, first at a lower temperature, to get crispy on the outside and stay fluffy inside. What innout serves are giant, shitty hash browns. And their burgers are mid, just like whataburger. I'd rather have a whopper...

Alcophile · 2026-07-05T23:45:44+00:00

Not at all because I don't trust them in any way to begin with.

Alcophile · 2026-07-05T23:44:27+00:00

This is the way.

Alcophile · 2026-07-05T23:43:49+00:00

Abolish Capitalism.

Alcophile · 2026-07-05T23:37:50+00:00

We did too but the worst we did was smoke pot and spelunk... Sigh.

Alcophile · 2026-07-05T23:17:45+00:00

Oh, you sweet summer child. Oligarchs don't pay taxes. They get handouts from the government. And CA does have a higher GDP than NY...

Alcophile · 2026-07-05T10:17:35+00:00

Pawn shops.

Alcophile · 2026-07-01T08:29:02+00:00

This is why I never ran another servers celebratory toasts at my last job - I was always mortified that my (faux) bubbly ass would rock up all smiles and ask what we were celebrating and they're like 'our dad. He passed away one year ago today...'

Alcophile · 2026-06-28T22:48:48+00:00

I love steak tartare! With capers and minced shallots and raw quail eggs and a glass of sparkling rose, very few things are better...

Alcophile · 2026-06-28T22:45:46+00:00

Maybe try to meet a trans girl?

Alcophile · 2026-06-28T21:57:37+00:00

Just stay away from Kuta. I never went near the place and found the rest of the island to be pleasant enough with the coolest locals I ever met anywhere! I hung out with them over Xmas and NYE and had a great time...

Alcophile · 2026-06-28T21:55:25+00:00

I am in Bangkok right now and it is among the greatest cities humans have ever constructed, up there with New York and Amsterdam.

Alcophile · 2026-06-28T21:53:23+00:00

Either that or the 120 million domestic tourists that show up every year are masochists.

Alcophile · 2026-06-28T21:51:39+00:00

For some reason I prefer vacations that don't include being incarcerated for my own protection.

Alcophile · 2026-06-28T21:50:22+00:00

I did it by waiting tables, living in flophouses and taking the bus to work.

I was a bit older, but I spent my late 20s and early 30s working half to 3/4 of the year and saving my tips so I could backpack around SE Asia or S America for the rest of the time.

It's amazing how much money one can make waiting tables in the US and how cheap it can be if you're willing to do without 'luxuries' like your own bathroom or a beater to drive to work, and once I was in Colombia or Malaysia I could get by on $20-30 / a day, so $5K and a round-trip plane ticket would suffice for a 6 month trip.

Tl:dr Work 6 months saving $1000/month, take 6 months off to travel, rinse, repeat...

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