for sure! I love talking about this stuff.

if you join an online platform with in-place curriculum, then they assign you to classes so the students are already there.

I didn't want a schedule, so i made myself available to casually chat with ESL learners on an app called palfish.

enough people called me up for me to make a few hundred a month, which is all I needed to travel. dorms are $100 a month in SE Asia, food is 1 to $4 a portion in all of asia, and I was backpacking half the time anyway.

when I landed in a country, I bought the unlimited data-only plan, clicked the "online" button, and then people called me up whenever they wanted to practice their english with me.

that online work was partially to offset using my savings, but i had already taught in person for ~7 years.

with each month of in-person teaching affording me ~3 months of living expenses, i had enough savings to travel for a couple decades by the time i started traveling full-time.

quick note: there's no competition for ESL students at the teacher level. there are way too many ESL students and not nearly enough English teachers to fulfill the demand. it's not even close.

there are a few big issues here.

1. The consistency and efficacy of that pathogen

2. those people wouldn't be zombies, they would just be carnivores.

3. if cannibalism/societal colapse/megetables are going on, people are going to notice.

there are already pathogens that make someone vegetarian, but because of the resilience of the human body, the effect only takes hold in a very low percentage of people introduced to the pathogen (they're not sure which mechanism in tick spit prompts the meat allergy yet, afaik).

The brain is incredibly complex and can rewire itself, so to have even 10% of the population have consistently perfectly rewired brains while maintaining all other normal functions and the coordination to conspire, cannibalize people and change the global food supply is a pretty magical scenario.

"they need no circulating blood nor an heart pumping it?"

yup, those are the magic zombies. real complex organisms whose muscles won't function without energy/water/bodily structure are much more demanding.

and keep in mind that every moment after death those bodies will be decomposing, that that body is not living, then it is decomposing a piece of steak left over from a picnic in the forests decomposes.

All of the dead soft tissue is going to break apart very quickly and won't be able to hold the body together.

"moving in hordes"

a horde could be a problem for the few hours that they are coordinated enough to move until dehydration sets in.

"Pure brain rot instead of flesh rot...what would I do...I would be throwing all the books from my personal library at them"

this is a great idea, very poetic retaliation.

i mean the internet, or screens in general, although social media can be particularly aggravating.

thanks, I did check that out when the developer posted it and it's definitely my backup if I can't figure out how to sync my feed.

very cool that they built and shared that.

I've been able to automate most social media posts, so I'm assuming there is a way to do it with lemmy and I'm just not technically minded enough to know how yet.

Whoa! That is a legitimately fascinating video, thanks again for sharing. "We Can Do It" is such a great image too.

Youtube shorts might net you a little extra revenue if you have a bunch of these clips, btw, if you aren't way ahead of me, haha, i just learned about shorts.

How long did it take you to develop such a steady hand for the solder?

oh wow and it's a time-lapse, you legend!

that definitely gives me a better idea of how the process goes, thanks a lot for sharing, that was very cool to see.

so that's the copper foil at the end and then do you use a blow torch or something to melt all the pieces together?

that must be so much fun for you also, do you have a lot of projects going on at the same time or do you tend to focus on one at a time?

the coolest.

i was on a bike, so i guess he felt like he had to hustle.

bruhbviously:

definitive.

Birds aren't real; eggs are.

but eggs.

"why we are suffering this shit now. "

mostly because of Citizens United, it looks like.

the Supreme Court allowing money into politics and then Congress never dealing with that is arguably the largest factor in rumps elections.

I think technically that's the same thing.