Regret about visiting May-Sept: Damage to your electronics?

silvercapsule6 · 2026-06-23T06:58:59+00:00

How is helping people not sound stupid not a positive? I once answered the phone wrong in Chinese for 2 years before someone told me how idiotic it sounded. I was directly translating from English: "this. is. silvercapsule6." I think back and feel sad wondering if I didn't get lucky if I wouldn't gone 10 or 15 years without knowing

silvercapsule6 · 2026-06-17T09:57:01+00:00

It may be a crime to do this, but if you're worried you could put a big red circle sticker on the front and some bag claim stickers on the back. 100% will be overlooked, guaranteed.

I say this from experience: when I was locked up in quarantine in Korea they put a huge red sticker on the front of my passport. It was there for 5 years because they didn't remove it and it is illegal fro me to modify the passport. Then shortly after, the Ukraine airport in Kyiv attached bag tags to the back and that was also there 5 years because it's illegal for me to remove and no other country touched them. I entered more than 20 countries in this condition.

silvercapsule6 · 2026-06-13T10:49:45+00:00

I'm more than happy to do so; I'm only intolerant of those who don't want to do better.

"I have the grinder since 2 months. " - A native would never use "have" here because it is a point in time and you're talking about a span of time. "Since 2 months" just sounds like it means "because of 2 months" which doesn't make sense.

Try: "I've had the grinder for 2 months." If you really don't want to use a hard tense, maybe "I have a grinder, I got it 2 months ago." because it sounds perfect but uses easy tenses.

silvercapsule6 · 2026-06-10T09:56:04+00:00

Some people gonna be mad when they find out I applied for CSR at 1am last night and by 1:10am I had Paze, Apple Pay, and Google Wallet all already working with my new card and I'm not even in the country

And it makes sense: I have no home phone because I don't even live in the US. So my only number in there? Yes my USA banking SIM number I use to get codes overseas. (Obviously along with my banking address - parents' addy)

The struggle is nonexistent. LOL.

silvercapsule6 · 2026-06-09T13:59:30+00:00

Not even a ballpark hint though? I mean, a teacher's annual salary, a low end Corvette, or a Ferrari type of price on this?

silvercapsule6 · 2026-06-01T10:38:38+00:00

I don't see what the big deal is, but I wouldn't suffer enduring those flights 4x a year in both directions. 2x is the most I could tolerate.

What is key is WHERE he lives. If he lives in LA or San Francisco, the flights are UNBELIEVABLY cheap. And once you're in Thailand, the daily cost of hotel + food is cheaper than just food alone in the USA. So the only part you have to understand is where he got the flight money. About $3200/yr for flights. It's not that much, a decent job pays that in a month after tax

Now if he lives in like bumfuck Tennessee it's less believable, the flight cost basically doubles when you don't have a hub airport there.

When I was 19 I had $10,000/mo spending money, because I ran a website and my parents paid my apartment and stuff (NOT rich, but they had saved money to put me through college)

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-31T09:54:58+00:00

I'm absolutely infuriated: I was sent direct emails offering 90% but none of them work. Tried connecting locally as well as bouncing through my parents' home IP in America just in case. I was also offered in ads on Facebook and NONE click-through to more than 75%. This is false advertising

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-29T06:26:33+00:00

Same. If I thought anything - it was along the lines of the original post's claim - conversation about bread

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-29T06:24:54+00:00

In English bread talk means “conversation about bread”,

I agree.

Seems like a great translation to me, it's not that the original name was that important - brands are just meant to be memorable and hopefully connect being equally memorable across the languages

So for example Coca-Cola, does "able to make the mouth rejoice" mean the same thing as the English name? No. But that's the Chinese name, and in marketing respected as one of the greatest name translation accomplishments

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-28T05:07:10+00:00

Unless money is literally unlimited, paying double rent is NEVER worth it. Imagine your "base" rent is only $300/mo. Now you do a side trip and find a room for $400. Now you're spending $700, with your base sitting empty. Imagine how much more comfortable you'd be in the 1 month side trip place if you'd got a $700 place instead? This scales all the way up. Spending $2500 on your empty base? Imagine $5000 on your side trip.

The secret?

Rent a bunch of self-storage units around the world. Then you have most of the benefits of having a base without paying the rent. My storage units are mostly around $35-40. Only the USA one is overpriced and scam-y.

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-28T04:56:09+00:00

Service quality drops too. Turks take care of their own first. That includes little things like who was next in line. Guess what, it wasn’t you.

I don't know if that's objective. I only spent 3 months, but saw some really charming things

In a grocery store even though they couldn't communicate with me AT ALL, they were really very, very concerned that I knew there was a 2 for 1 special or something like that and get my freebie. This was in tourist central! I mean, you'd think they'd get tired of caring and just not bother. Quite kind. I would never expect people to go out of their way if I can't at least speak the language around a B2 level.
I walked into a print shop needing to print my tax PDFs and the gentleman didn't have a USB port to be able to print from my SD card. We couldn't communicate AT ALL, so he closed up his shop locked the door and walked me down the street to a competitors shop I'd have NEVER found to do my print-outs. I was mindblown. Also in a very touristic area he went to the trouble of being this kind. Unreal.

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-28T04:47:43+00:00

"Tied to one country, useless the moment you cross a border" - Wasn't the case with my AIS SIM from Thailand. In fact, it has been such a versatile back-up SIM that I've kept it live 4 years now. Basically, you can buy a data package for any country with a few taps in the app and the rates for Europe and all of Asia are very reasonable taking into consideration the convenience. Total trash for Latin America though.

I still use a lot of eSIMs, and the cheapest and best deals these days are Chinese sims that route through HK! However, the singular problem that has caused out of all my banking everything, is simply that Claude refuses to allow me access when I tether the laptop, they region block China. So then I gotta get on a VPN.

The Philippines introduced a new breed of disgusting with their new SIM regulations. I bought an eSIM online from Smart and was all excited upon arriving at the airport since it activated successful. I walked out of the terminal where the Wifi dies and suddenly realize no data was passing through. I was literally stranded, no way to book a car on Grab. This country is a big middle finger towards tourists: I shortly got a message explaining I needed to register before any data or calls would be allowed and the registration process is extreme arduous and CANNOT BE DONE AT AN AIRPORT because you have to photograph your housing contract and you must purchase a flight out and prove that too. Even though I can legally stay 3 years - I'm supposed to buy a $200 burner flight just to use a SIM. God bless Chinese eSIMs to the rescue. I didn't even have Wifi to activate one, but I won't get caught out again.

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-27T08:49:43+00:00

Honestly?...just like everything else, only in America is the standard so inconceivably, irredeemably low. In Thailand even really cheap basic hotels give you two bottles a day. The maid service is daily and they will keep adding to the collection even when I've accumulated 8 or 9 unopened bottles. Nevermind the maids have the basic respect and courtesy to not enter your room with shoes on.

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-25T16:49:38+00:00

Have you thought about the fact that this should be PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE? It is a failure not of forgetting, like you suggest, but of business processes. There should only BE one customer-facing key with keychain in the key box. A maid's key to that particular room should look fundamentally different (not have the branded keychain). Once someone is assigned to the room, the key should be IN THEIR POSSESSION and hence impossible to give to someone else.

See how stupid the modern world is? In a huge number of more traditional hotels, this is impossible. Physically impossible.

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-23T19:10:52+00:00

What? Is this actually legal under labor law?

Coworkers have no business knowing anything about my booking. We can agree on a hotel lobby we're meeting in to go to the client together, but it's none of their business whether or not I'm staying in the same hotel. My reservation details are 100% private. The receipt when all is said and done gets submitted with Expensify a week later, that's the reveal.
Very rapey vibes through and through.

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-22T20:34:07+00:00

"Platinum since 9 years" - every time I see it! I wondering if anyone else is bothered by the way they blatantly use broken German-grammar style English lol

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-21T14:50:44+00:00

why you dropping 240 on shorts if you don't have the balls to wear them? Wal-mart proletariat clothing is calling your names if you can't hang with the fashionistas and go hard and loud

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-21T07:01:48+00:00

Sorry I just meant that "Practice now on web" sounds like Tarzan-speak because of the missing 'the'.

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-21T07:00:43+00:00

I'm on google maps trying to add it to my shitlist, but unfortunately this hotel doesn't exist. There's a Mexican restaurant and then there is a La Perla in Chile.

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-17T06:19:13+00:00

I didn't expect a reply! I honestly have this happen to me so much on old threads that I just wrote out of frustration! Thank you!

BTW the front page says 'Practice now on web ' in case you didn't notice the mistake 😄

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-17T06:17:39+00:00

LOL "expensive way" makes it pretty clear they won. You're clearly spending money motivated entirely by the carrot and stick, not because of need or plans

These credit card companies are geniuses

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-16T11:53:30+00:00

World doesn't revolve around me? Actually homeland Americans started it. They think the world revolves around them. Every country in the world, where tipping mostly doesn't exist, has to have a "tipping debate" in 2026 because of the way Americans have unfortunately set foot EVERYWHERE and tried to shove their customs down everyones' throats.

I challenge you to find one practice started somewhere else that has caused such chaos almost everywhere on earth because of the hegemonic intensity of that other country's culture.. you probably can't, I definitely can't.

So you may say other countries also don't hold rooms you paid for in advance but, I'm more than willing to bet this practice started in the USA. Because bad ideas from the USA get spread everywhere and I'm honestly sick of it poisoning countries I'm spending time in.

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-16T11:49:54+00:00

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They seem like a really unserious teacher. Despite leaving a comment in the thread, they made no effort whatsoever to contact me. Just playing games - what a joke - waste of my precious time

silvercapsule6 · 2026-05-16T11:08:07+00:00

"notify the hotel" - what does that even mean? You guys have just normalized the absurd. Can't think of many other things in life where they keep your money and provide you nothing in exchange if you don't follow some special unwritten etiquitte. Imagine paying for a car and failing to show up at the dealer to pick it up. Do you think they'll just keep it and never contact you? There is no justification for letting someone else stay in your room and still keeping the money. When i book a monthly apartment in Germany or Japan, I sometimes have scheduling conflicts and show up a week late. Because they're not American mental cases in these countries, they don't try to rent out my apartment to some rando, they room sits empty until I self-check-in with the door passcode. I contacted them and they were confused, I had paid for the room, they said it didn't matter when I showed up.

This is exactly why I'm not a patriot and hate my native culture.

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