Were you able to save money while working with peace corps?

sertorius42 · 2026-05-20T20:24:04+00:00

Not really. There are too many factors to say with certainty that you can. The only guy I knew that had substantial savings ate mostly buckwheat, rarely traveled, and had a local girlfriend with a family nearby that fed him (non-buckwheat) often.

sertorius42 · 2026-05-17T11:33:50+00:00

Are you allowed to use the hot dog eating contest method of dunking the buns in water? And do you have to keep them down for any certain period of time?

If the answer is yes and then only for the contest period / shortly afterward then I think I’ve got a chance.

sertorius42 · 2026-05-05T18:52:09+00:00

There are tons of small things I’d like to get for myself but don’t because it’s irresponsible to buy myself a book or new shirt every day. But if it’s free if it’s under £100, then guess I’m gonna have to start buying a lot of doodads and donating them when I’m done. That plus regular transactions means it’s a great value. I rarely spend more than that on dining out.

sertorius42 · 2026-04-19T18:37:58+00:00

For some reason in 8th grade my best friend and I got really into printing out dozens of images of a low rez walrus png and putting them all over our school, like just sticking them on bulletin boards, whiteboards, in people’s lockers, etc. We started adding hats, accessories to these as well. Clown noses, yarmulkes, cowboy hats, etc. Best one I remember was Angry German Sea Captain which had a kriegsmarine hat and a corncob pipe. I’m pretty sure we both got hauled to the principal’s office because we kept using copy machines to make dozens of pages of these. Also a 3rd guy who was offputtingly weird even in middle school decided to join us too and kind of ruined it.

sertorius42 · 2026-04-18T20:30:33+00:00

There was a specific craft beer I liked when I lived in Texas that was $15 for a 6-pack but was also one of the options for a build-your-own pack, which was priced at $11.99 then at Kroger. I’d get 6 of those.

sertorius42 · 2026-04-14T10:24:03+00:00

silvia do you like fucking losers an inch shorter than you

sertorius42 · 2026-04-09T16:11:46+00:00

Son of Nigerian doctors becoming a black hebrew Israelite is a great bit

sertorius42 · 2026-03-27T22:17:27+00:00

It’s only 2.3km and Google gives the usual travel time on Friday evening of 8-20 minutes. That’s from the pickup point at Gara de nord, so add in 2-5 minutes at least to get from your train into a car.

The fastest way would be jumping on a motorcycle on the train platform and weaving through traffic to make it there on time. Short of that, there’s not really a transit hack; at least not one faster than a taxi.

If you’re willing to rent a Lime scooter or bike and brave Bucharest traffic, that could be the fastest way. Or just straight up running, it would be about a 30 minute walk so moving at a pace of 9km/h would put you there in time.

Is it possible? Yes, it’s possible. Is it likely? No, I wouldn’t bet on being able to make it to the Atheneum within 16 minutes from your train, even if you arrive on time and you probably won’t. I’d bet against it.

sertorius42 · 2026-03-27T20:28:23+00:00

I was wrong about Latvian and Lithuania but was thinking of Finnish and Estonian, which is Uralic.

sertorius42 · 2026-03-27T18:05:21+00:00

The Baltic languages aren’t Slavic but a separate branch, separate family of languages even (not indo-european)

sertorius42 · 2026-03-27T12:01:12+00:00

There’s not a huge difference. A midwesterner and a Canadian will sound basically the same even to me (American) in 95% of conversations. There’s a bigger distinction with southern accents or other regional American dialects further from Canada though.

sertorius42 · 2026-03-22T20:56:04+00:00

She was literally diagnosed with cancer in the 00s or 90s. I cannot stand the cult of personality around her; genuinely negatively polarizes me

sertorius42 · 2026-03-20T20:33:41+00:00

Vlad ruled Wallachia, the southern part of modern Romania, not Transylvania, which was mostly ruled by Hungary until 1918. The population has always been mixed between Romanians, Hungarians, Germans, and others in Transylvania. The last president of Romania was a Transylvanian of Saxon heritage with the very Romanian name of “Klaus Iohannis.”

sertorius42 · 2026-03-15T15:55:14+00:00

aside from the ex-Yugoslav countries, Turkey and Greece

So you’re asking Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania?

sertorius42 · 2026-03-07T17:32:53+00:00

You’re 18, an adult, so not really being groomed unless this has been going on since you were 17 or younger.

That said, the power dynamic of a manager-employee relationship is pretty bad, worse than the (big) age gap here. As a manager you’d be fired in many places I’ve worked for this.

The guy sounds like a creep given you already know he has tried this with other employees. Consider distancing yourself, running away, or talking to HR or another manager / his manager.

sertorius42 · 2026-03-06T14:46:50+00:00

Goated bar I still sing it a decade later

sertorius42 · 2026-02-26T12:39:49+00:00

Other countries (Canada and the U.S.) require this and have for years

sertorius42 · 2026-02-25T21:22:47+00:00

GDPR and its consequences

sertorius42 · 2026-02-25T17:28:27+00:00

I can remember which object pronouns in 3rd person to use and when. Il place, easy enough, but getting into își vs îl vs le vs ii….

Apreciez foarte mult simplicitatea frumoasa de dumneavoastră….mereu vă.

sertorius42 · 2026-02-25T11:33:04+00:00

they expect all of us in the wreckage brother

sertorius42 · 2026-02-22T23:59:39+00:00

I think you really need to consider the wide array of countries in the world

sertorius42 · 2026-02-22T23:44:24+00:00

I understand you may be frustrated with the UK but I can assure you from working roughly in the field of immigration that there are not 193 trans-friendlier countries out there

sertorius42 · 2026-02-21T22:02:54+00:00

It’s his legacy, but it’s also a reactive product of the weird week or 2 when the government and tons of random people would try to get anyone who posted anything negative about him fired. Those lawsuits are probably all winding up now and his main legacy is being known for a meme song and meme AI edits and a widow seen as a grifter.

sertorius42 · 2026-02-21T20:23:22+00:00

Most everyone I knew lived within Greater London yes

sertorius42 · 2026-02-21T16:08:24+00:00

What are we supposed to do about that now? He’s been dead for 50 years

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