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    Loveable Indonesia Pos

    Well, there's your solution! Mail the envelope to someone you know in Australia, and ask them to mail it to the US for you.
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    DON'T PANIC.... well, maybe a little bit.

    Woke up this morning to the first personal impact of COVID 19. It is spring break for my son, who is in college near Philadelphia (east coast of the continental US). He had gone off with his girlfriend to California for the week to visit her family. Now his school is saying "don't come back...
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    Yay (or EEK?)

    No solutions for you, but a helluva lot of sympathy. That sounds like me and my paperwork for things like taxes, bill paying, insurance, car registration, blah blah blah. I keep looking for my big girl panties, but I think I left them in the wash, or something? Many years ago I accompanied my...
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    Live and learn: a thread about bakwan

    Hah! Now I feel somewhat vindicated. Thank you.
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    Live and learn: a thread about bakwan

    As many of you know, I live on the island of Hawai'i now, teaching a Javanese gamelan class. One of the students is Indonesian, and she enjoys cooking delicious Indonesian gorengan for us. Needless to say, we are all very happy about this. The other day, she brought us bakwan. I took some home...
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    Being gold digger is a national program

    While such a blunt and half-assed approach to social engineering is unlikely to produce results, there is a kernel of truth at the heart of his advice. I've read that one reason economic inequality is increasing in the US is that wealthier men used to "marry down" economically more often because...
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    Dating

    I believe that statistics show a focus on professional opportunities is more damaging to the romantic lives of women than it is to men. Not that I'm trying to argue anything in particular. Work-life balance and common sense in seeking relationships are good values for people of all genders and...
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    Dating

    I'm not sure what that question has to do with my reaction to the thread. I was merely mildly put off by the sense that men view women as some kind of mysterious creature whose habitat and behavior must be analyzed in order to sneak up on one for capture. Balifrog's point that "There are good...
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    Can I shoot Youtube without a work visa?

    Ah, "the right visa." Good point. I did not know that.
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    COVID-19 what would you do...?

    I would probably "self quarantine and stock up on meds/shopping to see you through the next couple of weeks" but the order is wrong ... you should be stocking up before you think there's a chance of catching anything so you don't have to go out once you're sick. Likewise, if the virus reaches...
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    Dating

    Speaking as a female (one of the few who post here), I find this thread slightly weird. Not that the thread is sexist, exactly - I don't think it is. Sexist would be something like "where are the hottest babes?" or "which country's girls are more submissive?" This thread is far more respectful...
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    Can I shoot Youtube without a work visa?

    Sasha Stephenson would be locked up for life if foreigners putting up videos about Indonesia was really that dangerous, wouldn't she? Or is she a special case for some reason?
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    Any Harm or Real Danger?

    That's exactly what it was like! Even looks like the same motorcyclist :)
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    DON'T PANIC.... well, maybe a little bit.

    I'm paying attention! Substitute "landslides" for avalanches, and harryopal's list applies pretty well to my location.
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    Trove of New Bird Species Found on Remote Indonesian Islands

    Fascinating. I wonder why I haven't seen more coverage in the US (I subscribe to both the New York Times and the Washington Post, and CNN is my home page). Probably I'm either not reading thoroughly enough, or there's too much else happening.
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    Hello!!

    How could anyone forget Missnaughty? I'm not in Jakarta, and the rain has been far more devastating there, but it's been crazy-rainy here in Hawaii too. Lots of flash flood warnings, roads closed due to being washed out/tree falling/landslides, bus route cancelations, and other inconveniences...
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    Hello From Houston

    Congrats on your progress! Be sure to let me know if it is ever possible to ship it to Hawaii!
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    Wait, it's raining?

    I was listening to National Public Radio in my car a while ago and they mentioned that Jakarta has been experiencing the worst rain/flooding in a decade. Not sure how I didn't know this. How is everybody doing? They said something like 62,000 people needed to be evacuated. I can only imagine...
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    [redacted] BOILER ROOM Thief Kidnapped MILLIONS STOLEN FROM AUSTRALIANS BY [redacted]

    Setting aside the question of readability*, it's all about manners. The internet long ago decided that posting in all caps = shouting. As this is a pretty much universally understood social convention, those who defy it are sending a message. Mind you, I am not inherently opposed to defying...
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    Anti-gay hiring practices?

    It is far more than "disagreeable" when a poster "applauds all anti-gay measures." You do realize that such measures, as dafluff pointed out, have included forced castration and concentration camps? Even today, among the "anti-gay measures" implemented around the world are forced conversion...
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