More #enshittification dimensions:
Requiring more than 1 device to sign into non-essential apps/services
Apps that don’t update configuration so each update requires another hour to reconfigure.
Love it when the ferry tries to depart with a dock line still attached. Happens about once a week and we’re just flopping around next to the dock while a crew member tries to cast off. #sfba
Operation Epstein Fury
Vaccine clinic in Saigon. Cleaner and better managed than most places in the US.
Hospital pharmacy in Saigon (everyone is fine for now)
Night surf at Long Hai, Vung Tau
Oncologist: Can you think of any environmental factors that might increase your risk of cancer?
Patient: We live in a normal house near the highway so the air quality isn’t the best.
Meanwhile in Vietnam, no AI needed
Does your cat even lift, bro?
City Mouse - 1 / Country Mouse - 0
Evening vibes
At current exchange rates, a 2-piece KFC combo in Saigon costs tree fiddy.
Still more reliable than PG&E
Lunchtime view
Ancient wisdom
When things don’t go as smoothly as you hoped …
Binh Chau mineral springs garden view
Theoretically, most web services should work in most countries given CDN services and a reasonably fast connection. As a practical matter, my accounts are often locked under the assumption that an access attempt from Asia to an account usually accessed from the US is likely a hacking attempt.
There is a special place in hell for the company that made durian ice cream and did not clearly label it as such.
$3 haircut with AC and free WiFi and the barber remembers me from 8 years ago!
One of the better lines in TV dialogue from Fallout S02E01 “Plans are hard; chaos is easy”
Greenland sent their weather as a first strike.
Of course Cline Family Cellars has a train car in the back of the property named “John Galt Express”
Between east coast weather and Trump, my timeline looks like a Vanilla Ice song.
San Francisco mermaid by the Ferry building #sfbayarea
