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I’m more of a van Gogh, misunderstood until after his time.

It varies with the server and how much work was done. If you explain it to the person it might go better. At some places the server gives a cut to other staff that help with the table. At cafes with a tip jar it is divided up at the end of the shift. The only certain rule is don’t tip with those fake half bills with a religious flyer on the other side.

Being in sunlight is tiring. It’s better to work in a hatchback or camper van at the beach. Then it can be moved to a wooded park in the hills.

An hour to six days is bad. There must be some kind of data ingestion and pipeline involved. Reading a database and generating a formatted xlsx file can be a few seconds to minutes.

An OpenXML library could modify and write to a new file without Excel. Microsoft’s version is usually for C#, there are similar libraries in other programming languages if your computer is locked down. If Excel gives a corrupted error when opening, the XML data can be viewed by renaming the xlsx extension to zip.

Merging Cells: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/documentformat.openxml.spreadsheet.mergecells?view=openxml-3.0.1

Cell style and background color: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44839512/how-to-work-with-style-index-in-open-xml

Halfway to the plot of Eagle Eye

If you can mail packages, sell unwanted things on auction or marketplace sites. That can give experience with marketing, sales, packaging, shipping, customer service, inventory, bookkeeping, and estimating the value of items.

If you can’t ship anything, then you’re limited to something digital (software, books), or to be fulfilled elsewhere (t-shirt prints).

Someone that has always inspired me is Paul Alexander. He was paralyzed from polio at age six and spent most of his life in an iron lung to breathe. He went on to become a lawyer and wrote his memoirs by holding a stick in his mouth and tapping on a keyboard.

Go anywhere someone is pushing a narrative and compliment them. Bonus points if they have a following.

Is it worth it? Maybe if you want PTSD and a custody battle. In those relationships, there can be only one victor.

Rich Corinthian Lather

I just found out it was acquired and buried to promote VS Code. That’s awful.

Some options are atom, brackets/phoenix, lime text. I went with gVim for now.

A relative of mine with late stage Alzheimer’s died from cancer. It spared a lot of suffering.

Many countries have entrepreneurship or innovation visas. Australia has subclass 188 visa. Canada, Japan and Korea all have a startup visa. UK has an innovator founder visa. Netherlands has the DAFT visa with the US. Thailand and USA have Amity Treaty which allows US citizens to own a business outright in a Thailand, which can be used to obtain business visa and work permit.

Spain and Portugal have digital nomad visas that can lead to permanent residency. France has a visitor visa for up to 1 year working for foreign employers.

Other countries to consider are: Ireland and Belgium.

Without any of those there is moving from country to country every 90 days as a digital nomad, or until you get A2 level in a language and find sponsorship, start a business, or attend a university.

I read books on algorithms and data structures and typed out the examples. The work computer was locked down for installers but I could download open source programs and compile Java. One of the more interesting chapters I remember was parsing basic math operations for a calculator into a tree structure, evaluating it, and converting it between infix and postfix notation.

My boss probably noticed I had automated things because sometimes they would send new data requiring an urgent redo of everything, and I would send results back in a minute instead of the 8 hours it used to take. He didn’t seem upset, more like pleasantly surprised that a temp-to-hire pulled it off. I even got a compliment at one point, which never happened before.

One day I applied for another job that was a lot of what I already did and some of what I wanted to do more of. I called in sick to do the interview and got the position. It was good timing because the place I was at got acquired, and that never goes well if you’re in a group that overlaps what the parent company already has.

Owning land is better to store wealth, but gold is better when fleeing to wherever land ownership is still enforced.

It might be an exploratory nomadic hunter-gather society that has predators and enemies day and night.

A study analyzed DNA of Neanderthals along with contemporary and prehistoric humans. They found ADHD associated alleles were on genes essential to development before the stone age, but selective pressure has decreased the frequency since then. PMC7248073

Another study on tribes examined an ADHD gene mutation that affects dopamine receptors. In the nomadic tribe, those with the mutation had better social standing and nourishment. In the sedentary tribe, those with the same mutation were malnourished, distracted, and regarded as unreliable by their peers. PMC2440754

A third study found ADHD participants collected more berries with more exploring. Non-ADHD participants collected less berries, spent more time trying to deplete bushes, with less time exploring. PMC10878810

Noita has some nice psychadelic cave music

Not all reasons are learned externally. It’s possible for someone to have a craving that cannot be satisfied, just as it is possible for someone to not be capable of understanding the feelings of another person.

The loneliness had always been a challenge for me. Even before I knew I was trans, I went places looking for something not sure of what: beaches, boardwalks, arcades, pool halls, nightclubs, raves, electronics stores, museums, gaming, etc. Getting into synthesizers helped me get through a really difficult time.

I’m happy to talk if you want to DM me. I’m not in Germany but neighbors.

Jane Goodall said something very moving, to the effect that you matter and every day on this planet you make a difference.

There was an Outer Limits episode with this plot - “Identity Crisis” with Lou Diamond Phillips