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El Guiri
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Geologist and nature lover

Yes Boa. I agree. I love snakes. Keep a reasonable distance but I love looking for them. Favourite so far to see in the wild was a golden coloured cape cobra in south africa. Found a few coral snakes in the garden here too which are stunning

Yeah you're thinking more along the lines of little neighbour I had to wait to cross the road for a few months ago

No tiny little viper. Rather venemous apparently

Boa, Fer De Lance, Coral, Cat-eye, loads of vipers and tree snakes. We saw a viper... I'll try find the photo

A friend is visiting Costa Rica. One always expects to see a lot but we saw 4 Quetzal birds in a single tree and 3 sloths and over 20 tucans on a single short drive.

He definitely realises how lucky he is but for many, they visit and go away not having seen any of these things.

We should always remember that our perceptions are based on our experience and our personal experience of a the same situations or events as other people may not lead to the same perceptions. Listen accordingly!

PV

The simple fact that age, sex, skin colour, or anything other than competence and policy is discussed regarding potential leaders of nation states is utterly retarded. It's not surprising that we are getting such profound examples of the dysfunctionality of large scale centralised authority!

Obviously got their priorities correct. I still never truly understood why i didnt have issues in the countries ive lived in where i just didnt bother correcting name on official paperwork. Have a friend who emigrated from Iran to Uk. They fucked something up on his name and date of birth and caused hell for him. Blew my mind it took over 10 years to fix. Decentraluse everything, call yourself Bob to everyone to make it easier to remember and be done! In costa rica, everyone uses whatsapp so on mine, name is close but nit correct. Makes it easier for me whn people contact me. If its someone i dont remember cause am an idiot, i know cause they use mt real name. If its someone i dont know reaching out from a community chat, they use the wrong name. Simple triage!

Had someone calling me wrong name for six months. When he found out, he asked me why I hadn’t corrected. I told him I knew he was calling me so what’s the big deal. Seemed confused like I should’ve been put out. I’m a person, not a name, who gives?!

Sometimes, a little sloth ain’t a deadly sin!!! PV

#costarica

Have no idea where you are. Weather weird many places this year. Let's all just forget massive eruption couple years ago increasing atmospheric moisture 10% globally. Been warning friends past year but i think its a human thing to forget if not immediate cause and effect. I still expect another 4 years of weird weather from that eruption

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Met a friend of a friend who used to work at Santander and recently started a new role at a money remitter.

It’s a company similar to Western Union.

By the Main course I’d gone off on one about how these companies are parasites preying on the poor and that KYC/AML is borderline evil.

Yeah… how not to make new friends šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø

Anyway, he was genuinely curious why I thought that way.

Really decent bloke coz in hindsight I was being rather insensitive.

He naively said that at banks and these remittances companies, we have AML to stop terrorists. And it works!

I was like, hmm. How deep do I go on this.

His job pays him to think that the incumbent system is good at stopping terrorism and stopping the bad guys.

He hasn’t realised that he kind of is the bad guys. But it’s certainly not on me to tell him that!

naturally he has no idea that KYC/AML is a retardio system that affects the poor and the misfortunate the most and it does sweet f*ck all to stop terrorism.

I gave the example of Peruvians not being able to get bank accounts, Ghanaians then Cape Verdeans cut off from banking before the conversation moved on. Oh and how stupidly expensive it is to send money across borders coz of companies like his. (Oops)

I showed him how to send bitcoin and we talked about how last year, my immediate friend got a bottle of wine paid in btc and it’s now 2x.

I sent him my latest peru video and *I think* I managed to save my first impression.

Anyway, I took two things from this.

a) calm down your arrogant muppet.

we’re in a bizarre bubble in that we’re a bit obsessed with how messed up money is. But some people we literally paid to look the other way. And so, they think their system is helping people. It’s not their fault.

Don’t put your foot in it like me.

Be a bit more understanding. oops.

B) people need a few more triggers and they will eventually get it.

This guy is either really nice or he is on his way to getting it.

It is hardto hold back. Don't beat yourself up. Am trying to repeat internally to be aware..... i mostly fail

The dience should always be in awe. If not, whats the point?

Assume the 3.3kw. It is something interesting. Lack of range. We could do with 100w increment miners on the market