One of my friends from college was living in Cambodia when she became quite ill, and basically had to be dragged onto a plane to Bangkok to get medical care because "institutional medical knowledge" is not a thing when someone killed the vast majority of doctors in a country.
@BethanyBlack as an 🇺🇸 who lived in NL for 2 years, the Dutch are very direct in a way that just does not compute to most Americans.
It actually is very helpful in the end because they will just tell you what they want and not make a fuss about it, but it takes quite a bit of getting used to.
Traditional thanksgiving trek to hang out with my dad and naturally he’s already signed me up to help him get a new phone and new headphones for his TV, and I’m not even at my hotel yet.
The righteousness of your cause and the manner in which you pursue that cause are two different things under international law. And a whoooooole lot of people are confusing them and/or forgetting that if one side in a conflict violates the rules, that doesn't give the other side license to violate them back.
It’s incredibly hard to talk about in any nuanced way on social media, but everything in the Israel-Gaza conflict is impossibly sad.
The closest I can come in a sentence: The sheer suffering being inflicted on people who have little to no control over the actions of their leadership (or sometimes fellow citizens) has been and continues to be horrific.
Normal bank: To receive an international wire, please have the money sent to this account owned by the bank, then write down somewhere the *actual* person you want us to give it to. Oh there’s nowhere on your end to write it down? Too bad! Also this will take a week and cost at least thirty bucks.
TransferWise: Here is a link to have this deposited into your account here immediately without having to tell the counterparty anything about your account. It’ll be there tomorrow, for free.
Was just looking at some stuff in my finance software, and apparently since I bought my Chevy Bolt in May 2020, I've paid 334.99 for electricity not included in my regular electric bill.
Not per year, over the entire three years.
For comparison, in the year my wife and I lived together before we moved to NL, we spent over $450 on gas alone for her Toyota Corolla, which isn't exactly a gas guzzler.