@AmexBusiness travel portal asks me for almost all my info over again every time I book a flight. Known traveler number, airline rewards numbers, and literally everything for my wife. Ok bugs happen. So I try to help by reporting the bug and the form to submit bugs is broken 🙄
@JKLade It's not clear if this is adjusted for inflation, but if it's not, the story is more like, "scores continue to fall despite consistent spending"
If you come to France, learn just 5 words you can use to show minimal effort, and your whole experience of the country will change. It's truly wild an entire nation can be so pretentious when it comes to their language.
It's difficult to put into words how a language you don't know can feel so much more familiar than another language you also don't know... I'm basically fluent in Italian right now thanks to knowing a little Spanish. To hell with the Slavic languages.
Hungary was hard for me to pin down. Budapest felt so multi-cultural it was hard to distinguish the real Hungarian culture. That said, every single thing I ate was delicious, the architecture was beautiful, and the people were quite friendly.
The car thing jumped off the page when I read it. Driving in yesterday I kept thinking, "All these cars are so nice, but I thought this was sort of a poor country, and the buildings are decidedly less nice."
Slovakia 🇸🇰 makes more cars per capita than any other country in the world (5.5m people, over a million cars in 2019).
Historical Soviet control/influence is obvious in the architecture and general feel in Kosice, but most of the small country is gorgeous forested mountains.
As I travel through Europe, I am going to make an effort to:
- Read the Wikipedia page for each country
- Listen to the country's top 50 on Spotify
- Post what surprises me
My favorite stress relief therapy is getting in a good workout, then immediately driving to Outback and housing a ribeye and a 9oz glass of wine.
If you can eat steak and drink wine, what else even matters?
@infinite_edward@jordanbpeterson I understand the heat > rising sea levels bit but how does more heat lead to"extreme weather events" ? Legit ignorant and trying to parse the truth here. I think it's possible climate change is a real problem and the proposed solutions are just terrible. Help me learn.
A few weeks ago I called @JKLade out of the blue. The way he answered was,
"Ah Shane, what an unexpected delight"
That pretty much made my day.
Still think about it sometimes.
I'm not gay tho.