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This song has the best advise I've ever heard. Every single line. I remember hearing it when it first came out, and I remember thinking of it many times throughout my life.
Critically missing though, never get under a vehicle which is supported only by a jack.
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The "quiet part" you don't say out loud is you don't get work visas - you pretend you're a tourist and survive on those. However, an American could spend years just traveling the United States, and that doesn't even cover the possibility of the territories, etc.
Also it's an open secret that enforcement is poor to nil on the above setup. The major checkpoint is at custom control, where choosing your words carefully will be important. I'm sure Google offers some good advice on this.
OK, but what happens if you have a medical emergency? Googling suggests there are dedicated "digital nomad" insurance plans, but does a sizable fraction of digital nomads actually have insurance that provides cover for people who are doing illegal remote work?
It's amazing how every so often, I gain new insight into a line from this song. I recently hit 40, and "be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone" is starting to make sense in a way that used to be more abstract.
Hopefully this helps someone else. I'm approaching 50. I just took up mountain biking after moving to an area that has lots of trails. I have seen gains in my health and my mood that I worried might not return. I ride with a guy who's 60 and he regularly smokes the rest of us. My wife and I started kayaking together recently and that's done wonders for mood, health, and our marriage. So, here's my advice: 1) Don't st…
Do you do a 2 person kayak or 2 separate 1 person kayaks?
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While an EU citizen can at least roam in the EU fine, and a US citizen can roam the 50 states, seems that roaming outside of that would be exceedingly difficult and expensive to get appropiate visa (if they exist)
The "quiet part" you don't say out loud is you don't get work visas - you pretend you're a tourist and survive on those. However, an American could spend years just traveling the United States, and that doesn't even cover the possibility of the territories, etc.
In high school before I had even heard the song on the radio, we went on a field trip to local pharmaceutical lab. One of the chemists there had printed out copies of the lyrics for us from an email that had it mislabeled as being from Kurt Vonnegut. That was during the era where people of a certain age, even a scientist in a chemistry lab, would believe anything sent to them in an email.
Hah, according to Wikipedia[1] Luhrmann himself got the lyrics from that misattributed Vonnegut chain email, and only when trying to secure rights discovered it was actually from a Mary Schmich article. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%27s_Free_(To_Feel_Go...
This song has the best advise I've ever heard. Every single line. I remember hearing it when it first came out, and I remember thinking of it many times throughout my life.
Critically missing though, never get under a vehicle which is supported only by a jack.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The "quiet part" you don't say out loud is you don't get work visas - you pretend you're a tourist and survive on those. However, an American could spend years just traveling the United States, and that doesn't even cover the possibility of the territories, etc.
So you're an illegal immigration bouncing from country to country?
Ironically wearing sunscreen is advice that isn't always agreed by scientists in 2022.
I am a pasty Scots-Irish hillbilly from a long line of same. I lived on the equator for years, and have also lived elsewhere in the tropics. At all times, I have enjoyed a variety of outdoor activities and performed a variety of outdoor tasks. I have applied sunscreen perhaps twice as an adult? I wear a hat when I think I need to, a shirt when I think I need to, and I stand in the shade when it makes sense. I've gott…
I do know a couple red-haired folks with Irish ancestry and very light skin, and they burn even more easily if they don't wear sunscreen.
I agree that sunbathing is pretty bad for you, even with sunscreen. Unless you are ridiculously fastidious, you are always going to miss some spots, and re-apply a bit later than you should.
> rubbing random cheaply-acquired chemical potions over one's skin on a regular basis also doesn't seem wise.
Do you use soap and shampoo? Shaving cream or after-shave? Hand cream or another moisturizer? Anything like that? Have you examined the ingredients of all those as well, and chosen ones that have ingredients you deem safe? If so, there's nothing stopping anyone from doing the same with sunscreen; it need not be "random" or "cheaply-acquired".
> Humans lived outside for tens of millennia.
Human skin adapted over millennia based on local conditions. It shouldn't be surprising that places with more and stronger sun tend to have more native darker-skinned people. We of the light skin have outpaced evolution by moving all over the globe, including places with strong sun.
Then we have more recent issues like ozone layer damage, climate change, etc. Can't really compare today's situation with that of a thousand years ago.
> The primary defense against covid infection is vitamin D.
At best there's a correlation, and it's possible that people with a vitamin D deficiency are more susceptible (which does not mean that "more vitamin D" meaningfully helps), but "primary defense" is an unsupported overstatement.
Is this really Baz Luhrmann singing or is it someone else?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen#Baz_Luhrmann_ve...
I was in high school when this came out so I can recite this song word-for-word because in 1999, it was all over MTV, the radio, and most importantly, on Napster. I remember the original 1997 edit (even though I first heard it in 1999), because that was the version I downloaded off of Napster as a 15 year old. Even back then, there were all sorts of weird attributions to it (I think that my Napster copy had a Kurt Vo…
I hadn't known about the sampling from "Everybody's Free" from R+J! Always something new to learn.
Listening to it again today... the parts about getting to know your parents before they're gone for good (mine have both passed since I first heard the song), and being kind to your knees (I'm still recovering from a knee injury from back in January), really resonated with me. One major thing I am pleased about is that I have managed to hold on to those "precious few" close friends over the years; my life would be very different without them.