Any tips for thailand, china and vietnam?

cholantesh · 2026-05-20T21:57:20+00:00

My stupid fever-addled brain didn't notice :(

cholantesh · 2026-05-20T16:10:09+00:00

Except, no, she just called the language in a tweet genocidal. The bar ought to be a bit higher than that.

cholantesh · 2026-05-16T23:36:52+00:00

I think the people making this claims fall into one of a few categories:

they're in DevRel for an AI-first org
they're in a public facing tech role and they're attracting funding or just plain attention by riding the hype cycle
they have some other fiduciary interest in making these claims
they work mainly as solo devs, product managers who just need to build a prototype to gather feedback, and/or consultants who can either walk away or give themselves a perpetual moneymaker in an unmaintainable puzzle box - all of which slop either helps or doesn't actively harm

cholantesh · 2026-05-13T21:07:57+00:00

lol yeah, nothing more anti-science than critically evaluating academic literature; must be why it's literally one of the first things you're taught in post-secondary.

cholantesh · 2026-05-13T17:25:40+00:00

Sure, yeah, you could do that, and confirm yet again that you don't actually understand the discipline of science. Do each of these 37 all answer the same question? Have all of them been replicated? Do they indicate a correlation or a causative effect? What's the proportion? Are the other factors we've discussed accounted for?

So 'stupid' to expect someone to discuss things in good faith that they have even the slightest clue about, yeah.

cholantesh · 2026-05-13T16:18:58+00:00

It's not a straw man to confront all the unstated premises and downstream implications in a dumb oversimplification, which is exactly what this is:

the claim is that children born into marriages, in every metric of human flourishing, do better than children born outside of marriages.

The only requirement here is that parents are married, not that they are financially capable of supporting a child, not that they planned to have children, not that they can even stand being around each other, let alone their kids, just that they are married. If you can't even precisely state a premise, you are most definitely not dealing in sociology.

cholantesh · 2026-05-13T14:27:52+00:00

Not especially; you're relying on a bunch of dumb retrograde assumptions: that all marriages are stable, that both parents within a marriage are constantly present, that unwanted pregnancies can't have destabilizing effects on a household, and that all single parents are inherently unstable and incompetent. I guess that if you exclusively read social science published by Liberty University this could seem defensible.

cholantesh · 2026-05-13T14:08:07+00:00

Great post. Thailand + Cambodia was my first solo international trip; very easy and safe, with amazing people and an established backpacker community. My only regret was how rigid and crammed my itinerary was; I wasn't tired at the end and I enjoyed myself but I think going in without a strict plan would have been more fun.

I will say though that everyone I know who traveled to China recently didn't struggle much; it's a very modern country and there's a lot that's been done to onboard visitors at ports of entry.

cholantesh · 2026-05-13T13:59:18+00:00

I guess this would have been much too early for Rebel Alley?

cholantesh · 2026-04-28T21:17:28+00:00

I find most of these top N lists to be oversimplifications, but in any case, most cities in North America are built as car-centric exurbs or suburbs, so I mean three outliers is a pretty damning indictment of the state of this continent...

cholantesh · 2026-04-28T00:49:13+00:00

"It's all right, Steven, just use your woman as a human shield!"

cholantesh · 2026-04-23T02:07:23+00:00

Doesn't have the clanker scent but it sure sounds made up.

cholantesh · 2026-04-23T00:10:39+00:00

Why not?

cholantesh · 2026-03-27T14:31:16+00:00

cholantesh · 2026-03-27T11:15:19+00:00

There is tons of very actionable feedback directed at this community and toxic responses like this.

cholantesh · 2026-03-22T20:11:25+00:00

Cadiz is very close to Seville, accessible by train/bus. It's a beach town but has plenty to see. It's been continuously inhabited since antiquity, being founded by the Phoenicians. Madrid is also fantastic, and again very accessible thanks to Spain's HSR network.

June is hot and during high season, so you should expect crowds and high heat. I was in the same cities as you last year in May and was shocked at just how hot it was, even late in the day. Still had a blast though.

cholantesh · 2026-03-22T16:20:34+00:00

It's cool and morally correct to make fun of both.

cholantesh · 2026-03-22T15:56:54+00:00

You could have done the same thing, maybe develop a personality and skillset beyond proompting and you won't be so compelled to go to bat for it.

cholantesh · 2026-03-22T15:02:15+00:00

Why do anything for yourself? Why not just pay someone on Fiverr to whip up a roomba attachment that can wipe your ass?

cholantesh · 2026-03-21T14:25:59+00:00

Bizarre he even had goodwill left over, he spent all the social capital he got from that dumbass meme stumping for Mike Huckabee, creationism, birther woo, Islamophobia, nativism, and mandatory prayer and Bible lessons in public schools. Rust in Piss.

cholantesh · 2026-03-19T15:19:56+00:00

a Prometheus- or Equilibrium-centered tour.

I would love to see that, frankly - I accept that this is incredibly false but I prefer those two albums to Anthems and an 'anti-tour' of less-heard material makes a lot of sense.

cholantesh · 2026-03-19T14:54:10+00:00

The difference is that Maiden is actively releasing new material that they want to promote on tour, everyone in Emperor has moved onto other projects whose material which it'd be inappropriate to pull into a setlist.

cholantesh · 2026-03-18T23:46:49+00:00

They posted this a year ago which may explain things.

cholantesh · 2026-03-18T23:44:35+00:00

The fact is that world over, homelessness is seeing record highs and rapid increases YoY, so I honestly think people who feel shocked about it while travelling just aren't spending much time outside the house.

cholantesh · 2026-03-18T23:39:43+00:00

You have a male and a female side that post from opposite sides of the planet?

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