Notices by Scott (scott@mastodon.uy), page 2

@santiago
FWIW, if I had just thought about it for 3 seconds, I would have been able to figure it out myself without a translator.

@santiago @admin
Oops! I was trying to copy the text of option one to paste into a translator. Instead, it voted for option one, and I can't remove my vote. Please disregard one vote for option one. Lo siento.

@santiago
¿El camión de libros estaba cerca? 😁

@santiago
Da miedo. Y hubo un enorme incendio forestal cerca de Fort McMurray en 2016.

@santiago
This is a scary situation to be in. We went through this last year, and it's very stressful. We were down to several days of water left, too. The city government drilled wells and set up portable water treatment stations with public tanks for watering trees and grass and other uses. That left the water in the reservoir for household use. The water department turned the water off in each district of the city on certain days. We were trying to conserve water and reuse clean water as much as possible. But it was the arrival of the spring monsoons which saved us in the end.

Here's hoping you get rain to break the drought soon!

@santiago The bottle.

@santiago
This is a method I heard about a long time ago (from Africa, I believe). Would it be safer to use glass instead of plastic?

Hi! Can I get some help with two Rio de la Plata-style recipes?

1. Polenta - I want something savory and easy. Not merely polenta, but something added to it to make it tastier (I know there can be cheese and tomato sauce, but is there anything else?). I can try more difficult recipes later, but I need something basic to start with.

2. Baked fish milanesa - Yes, baked, not fried; and yes, fish, not beef. I want something healthy.

I don't have the language skills to search for this in Spanish, and I don't have the culinary skills to evaluate the authenticity of the dish. So I need your help. A link to a Spanish recipe is fine. I can use online translators to translate it to English. I just need a link to a good recipe.

Thanks!

@santiago
Actually, I should correct something. Not everyone goes to university. They have trade schools here which are sort of like 5-year high schools. The students get 3 years of high school and then 2 years of training in a trade of some kind. Those schools are brilliant! I wish they
had them in Canada.

@santiago
We pay 150-200TWD for the doctor's visit, but almost all of the medicine is free. Some surgical procedures require a fee if it's not deemed entirely necessary. For example, my wife had an endoscopy a long time ago, and we had to pay for the anesthesia (because the procedure can be done without it, it's just uncomfortable). Another example, I had surgery a couple of years ago, but we upgraded my room to a 2-person room (standard is 4), and I had to pay for the blood salvage machine (standard is blood transfusion).

I'm less sure about education here because we don't have kids. Elementary school is free and the gov't has free junior and senior high schools (there may be some fees involved for these latter two for books and materials, but I'm not sure), and there are private schools, too. Almost everyone here goes to university. That's not a joke. Those that don't go to university do so by choice, not because of financial problems. I believe it's subsidized, but I'm not sure how much. It isn't financially burdensome, though.

@santiago
I don't want to belabor the point, but this particular list puts Taiwan at #2 in the world for health care a couple of years ago:

https://ceoworld.biz/2021/04/27/revealed-countries-with-the-best-health-care-systems-2021/

It's certainly possible there's some error in the rankings, but it jibes with my experience that the health care here is top notch.

Canada's health care used to be much, MUCH better back in the 1990s. The quality is there, but the wait times are really long now.

@santiago
Yeah, lots of foreigners come here and complain about the traffic, weather, food, etc. However, the one thing they don't complain about is the health care. I think almost anywhere I go in the world will be a step down in terms of health care. It's fairly fast and cheap here.

Thanks for the list. I appreciate it. I'll try to be mindful of those things.

@santiago Hi, Santiago. I hope everything is going well with you.

I haven't asked you a question about Uruguay in a while. Here's one I've been wondering about. What things do foreigners who visit or live in Uruguay do which local Uruguayans find annoying?

@santiago
Apparently, Mastodon v4.0.0rc1 will have support for translation. Maybe that means some servers are already running it and that's why I saw it on only a few accounts.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1

@santiago
Here are some more interesting things:

- I can't see his Translate link if I use Tusky (which is the app I use for my Mastodon dot Social account)

- I can't see any of his posts if I use Fedilab (which is the app I use for this account)

I'll stop now. This is getting beyond my pay grade. I hope this all makes sense to you. 😀

@santiago
@santiago
Yes, I searched for his account that way, too ("webfinger handle" is a new term for me). But his remote account doesn't show the Translate link on his posts. It only shows up for me using the Mastodon interface with my Masstodon dot Social account.

Are you able to see his posts? Do you see what I mean about the Translate link and how it works?

@santiago
I have seen a couple of users on other instances who have a "Translate" link at the bottom of their posts. When I click on it, it translates their posts into English for me using DeepL. Is it possible to do something like this on this instance?

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19218

(I'm not a tech person, so I really don't understand anything in the above link, so forgive me if I misunderstood what it's talking about.)

@santiago
Here's an account that I mean:

sanderturnhout at mastodon dot green

But it seems like our instance may not be federating completely with his instance. I can see his profile and posts just fine on my Mastodon dot Social account, but not on this one.

@santiago
I've been thinking about this. When I first signed up for Mastodon in April 2017, I chose one of the largest instances, thinking that there would be more commitment on the part of the owner(s) and more stability. That wasn't the case, as it soon had performance issues. (I believe it's better now, though.)

I then started an account on the original instance (that's the account where you and me first started chatting). I still chose a large instance because I noticed a lot of people notifying their followers they were switching accounts/instances because their instance was shutting down.

So I would say performance is one issue, but don't rule out longevity. Is there somewhere you can mention how long your instance has been around? Sort of like businesses that put "Since 19XX" on the signs on their storefront. That may help show your commitment to your instance.

@santiago
This one factors in things like crime, societal & political stability, armed conflict, prevalence of weapons, relations with neighboring countries, etc. It seems to encompass things other than economic and education factors.