Very well.

I spoke nearly no Vietnamese and bikepacked across rural northern Vietnam for 3 months after buying my bicycle in Hanoi.

People in the city can speak some English, but even if they can’t they’re so earnestly helpful that I was able to easily buy clothes, bicycle repair items, get my bicycle repaired, buy food everyday(pho lyfe) be invited to tea and then a family feast, take shelter from a rainstorm, the stories of their generosity go on.

It’s definitely a good country to visit.

The mountains are pretty magical, and every single person was extremely helpful and gracious, either in the city or way out in the tiny mountain villages

no, why?

Are you asking another “is this possible at all” question?

the coolest.

i was on a bike, so i guess he felt like he had to hustle.

keep traveling, offer support to those who are thinking of travel.

bruhbviously:

definitive.

Birds aren’t real; eggs are.

but eggs.

Vietnam, Thailand, India, Guatemala, Taiwan is a good call.

in Vietnam, someone literally ran out of their house while I was stopping to adjust my headphones in order to invite me to breakfast at his home.

he had a tiny orchard in his front yard and we shared mango, dragonfruit and pancakes.

These are the plunderers: how private equity runs and wrecks America by Gretchen Morgenstern.

"why we are suffering this shit now. "

mostly because of Citizens United, it looks like.

the Supreme Court allowing money into politics and then Congress never dealing with that is arguably the largest factor in rumps elections.

yea, i said “rapist”

ooh, sharp.

good one.

they are getting what they deserved.

economy going down, prices going up, international scorn and ridicule.

that sounds like what people who voted for a rapist deserve.

“That’s a very short-sighted, one-dimensional take.”

those are ticket prices, not a “take”.

I’ve addressed all of your questions and many more besides, accounting for multiple variables and providing information with factual data, experience, consensus and outside inputs in mind.

if you believe the consideration of various perspectives, classes and cultures is one-dimensional, it is likely a result of your own perspective.

plus how to reheat pizza evenly…good point

I could have been reading Animorphs and Bigfart!

what a world.

that sounds like a plague to me.

this is where I’m at.

lemmy communities are plagues.

haha, I really liked that part of the description!

I think technically that’s the same thing.