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went for a walk to the prettiest place i've seen so far here and most photos are crap because it's mostly cloudy today. and most days are sunny i just picked a bad one
after moving to europe i kept seeing my argentinian therapist through whatsapp video calls, with a very convenient time slot (8 or 9pm) which almost never got in the way of other plans.
now that i'm back here it's at 4pm *and* i gotta go there physically ;_;
therapy is another thing argentina is really good at. cheap, accessible, plenty of supply, not stigmatized. it's the reason i'm Normal(tm)
yay, moved the therapist appointment to 7pm. so i'll be at http://nerdear.la on thursday! let's hug, if anyone is there??
something about the network setup of this house is cursed aaaaand it's up to me to fix it. welp
people trying to find something to talk about and asking "how's work?" and all i can say is "i don't know, haven't been there for a couple of months"
got keys to the house, got cash, i am free now
there's therapy (talking to a person you pay to listen to you) and there's therapy (spending time with my family and resolving stuff that felt pending for years)
going to nerdearla today!
i'm at this weird sleep cycle where i still go to sleep 5-12 europe time (0-7 argentina time), which is very convenient when i actually gotta wake up early like today. i forgot to set an alarm and didn't need it
had to go back home from the train station and change clothes because 18 C 89% humidity doesn't feel like 18 C
you'd think allowing google to know an excessive amount of information about my location would mean i wouldn't have problems like "the weather app keeps doing geoip and concluding i'm in the UK because i'm roaming" but welp
[totally in the UK voice] congrats to our new prime minister the lettuce
i am now legally required to say the following: "las malvinas son argentinas"
note how i have perfect mobile data reception here, underground, in buenos aires, unlike certain "first world" cities
i'm in and no idea what to do in a tech conference if there are no friends to cuddle
i just learnt that falabella, a clothing shop chain, closed all the clothing shops at some point and became a fintech/bank??? what the hell
big hall 20% full, almost no one is wearing masks, 2300ppm 25 mins into the first talk
ooh co2 actually went down, 787 now, and temp is a bit lower too, i guess they enabled air conditioning
yeah i'm more interested in co2 levels than this talk about fintech
cute, next talk is in english but you can borrow a headset to hear it translated live
four speakers, the argentinian guy has the hardest to understand english accent
i'm really sorry if i sound like this when speaking irl. i'm trying my best to get rid of my voice and not say a word ever again.
oh my god the accenture VR thing has characters without legs and has super bland sports minigames is this the facebook thing???
lol some guy said "de que planeta venis?" ("what planet are you from?"), commenting about my fancy mask.
later i run into the same guy, who seems to be staff, and he tells others "guarda con esta chica que viene de marte" ("careful with this girl she's from mars")
i love this shit. that raw argentinian shamelessness and disrespect.
just bought a choripan for $800 from a foodtruck by scanning a qr code in the mercadopago app. this sort of thing would be cash only otherwise. the future
OH: "todo eso de crypto y metaverso me dan ganas de cagarlos a piñas. y entiendo que somos mercenarios los de sistemas pero hasta para nosotros, crypto y metaverso son cosas toxicas"
lmao the google translation for "cagarlos a piñas" ("fuck them up") is *perfect*. it still has the debuff of being english but that's it
the context is that three different companies have VR stuff in their stands, and some of those companies have nothing to do with VR it's just accountants who hire devs for pipelines and apis and boring shit like that
i think i'm spoiled by ccc organized events because (aside from there being a bunch of cute girls interested in cuddles) there's a lot more filtering of bigcorp presence
my general impression here is "sysarmy? this you? i thought you were working class. what happened"
but yeah an event like this only happens because of sponsors and it's not surprising that the sponsors end up being banks, accountants, and google. just. welp.
left the event, but i got around to hang out with the friend who invited me there, who is a volunteer for orga. that was nice. i got to see the backstage :3
also nice to see the other point of view: the event grew a lot, in people and in budget, while the orga team didn't change much, the thing still runs on spreadsheets
good meowing! today i'm flying to bariloche, a cute city in the south with mountains and maybe snow
learning that apparently you gotta book things ahead of time and like. "plan". weird concept
serious lesbian vibes with the bus driver, wearing flannel and having two girl names in pink written above the windshield. i like this place already
reached the hotel! it's cute
we're right next to a lake that's clearly not working properly because my sister got shocked by touching the window and turns out humidity is 28%
morning! today: going up cerro tronador! glaciers and stuff!
lunch break! i was gonna upload pics but the wifi isn't that good. but trust me it's pretty
hiiiii i'm back. remember when it was normal to not have an internet connection with you at all times? like 15 years ago? wild. how did i put up with that. no idea.
i remember having to prepare for a long roadtrip and being uncomfortable with the idea of such a long time away from technology, so i tried to convince the rich kid to lend me his portable cd player.