The Alba Y823-5000 is a neat little digital watch I picked up at a flea market in Osaka Japan for about $10. Beside the usually quartz watch offerings, this one had a button that will read the current time to you in Japanese with a button push.
Well it had a lock icon. You can't just make those up!
Not too quirky or obscure but I really just like to fix shit. Clocks, washing machines, cars, crooked door, hole in a sweater, electronics... Nothing is outside of my interest.
On the more obscure side I like to fiddle with wrist watches by adding aftermarket parts and modifying their overall look.
I saw this while in Mexico and really liked the idea. I was then immediately bummed out when realizing almost everything had that label on it and buying food without excess sugar and salt was a lot trickier.
A friend had this mantra of "You do you." that I've really embraced. Stop giving a shit about the things you don't agree with or views other people are into. I'm not looking to change minds, just being personally receptive and open is enough for me.
He makes a point, I shouldn't be tipping anyone.
Per hospital billing, that's probably a $10,000 sweater.
I did it for about a month and and loved it. We got an Airbnb in Arizona. We woke up early, clocked out early, and went hiking nearly every day. The weekends we did a trip to the Grand Canyon and Sedona, both great experiences. If you can make it work, then try it out. I know tons of people that maintain jobs while travelling almost full time.
This one is cheating a bit. This abandoned water park in Thuy Thien Lake has fallen into disuse but had found its second life as a tourist attraction. While the park project has been abandoned, on any given day you’ll find a number of tourists wandering around taking pictures. The best part is riding a motorbike down the decaying sidewalks between former attractions. The former aquarium inside of the dragon body held three crocodiles that were only recently removed from the premises.
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More information can be found here: https://www.expatolife.com/thuy-tien-lake-abandoned-water-park-hue-vietnam/
This one is cheating a bit. This abandoned water park in Thuy Thien Lake has fallen into disuse but had found it's second life as a tourist attraction. While the project has been abandoned, on any given day you'll find a number of tourists wandering the premises in their rental scooters taking pictures.
Interestingly, the former aquarium held three crocodiles that were only recently remove from the premise.
https://files.catbox.moe/tnrgho.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/1ws9t1.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/wcpb6h.jpg
More information can be found here: https://www.expatolife.com/thuy-tien-lake-abandoned-water-park-hue-vietnam/
I can't imagine having paid money for reddit bux.
Time to put a team together to "rationalize" our tools then rinse and repeat.
I have the opposite of Spidey sense and will frequently forget I'm cooking something if I don't set a timer.
I just realized I'm taking my ad-free experience in Lemmy for granted. It's refreshing to have a little corner of the internet that doesn't slam you with advertising.
Is there an option to report accounts / comments? Are bots even forbidden? I'm with you, Reddit was a bot shit show and I'd love to see a space with zero bots. I think even the utility bots like unit conversion added very little value.
It's pretty interesting to see how people give and interpret ratings in the US vs. Asia for example. In the US it seems like less than a mid-four is a gamble, in Japan you get some great restaurants hanging around at 3.0+. The reviews will say like "Everything was perfect great food, 3 stars".