Sounds like one of them ran from the country. Since you don’t usually do that without extreme circumstances, I assume a longer stay in the tax-paid hotel was at least on the table

I did a master thesis in CS. My supervisor was crazy good at what he did. I would spend days with a certain idea, and he’d just casually reproduce it, find several new things based on it, and point me to where to look next, all while we were casually talking. Yeah, in hindsight, not my best sub-field.

Yeah.

I now hold a trade degree, a bachelor in engineering and a master in CS, my mom had an economy degree, worked as vice department head for one of the largest companies back then before she took a maternity break, and did an open university remote bachelor in natural sciences afterwards because she was bored in her public service job.

Not bragging, well, maybe bragging a bit, but I’m trying to say that doing homework is not a great measure for success in schools and life.

I went to high school in a European country until the early 2010s. I just stopped doing homework and nobody really cared (they pretended to, and would tell you to do it, to which you would nod and smile and maybe do the bare minimum next time and then conveniently forget it again). My mom largely tells similar stories from her post-68 youth.

Thanks! As they say, question your spelling, especially when you’re about to apply to a boat full of semen.

Oh yes, I’m trans. Male-to-Cosmic-Horror.

Not my first language either. But I just couldn’t not make the pun…

Public transportation can absolutely go into the suburbs. In fact, I think it should. Every time they have tried to extent a tram line or set up some light rails, people protested because “not in my backyard” and “everyone will just go to the city, this place will be deserted”. Every time they actually went through, the suburb became more sought after and local commerce actually increased.

also, let’s not forget that propaganda is most effective if you have a little bit of wealth and are afraid of losing it

https://meshcore.io/map https://meshmap.net/

If you can make it to a repeater that is in a good spot, there are decent chances you would reach someone. Now, of course, repeaters require someone to set them up and maintain them. If you live in the middle of nowhere or in a country with super strict radio laws (like Belarus or India), you are mostly out of luck. But if you live in a place where it is illegal, chances are that ham radio will not be trouble-free either, to put it mildly.

Oh, I fully agree here, the economy is fucked, money only moves one way (up), and housing is not really affordable unless you either settle for dogshit in bumfuck nowhere, or make a lot of money.

May I interest you in LoRa stuff? Meshcore seems to be the big thing now. No license, and 95% of the traffic is “can you hear me? I can hear you”. So basically the same as ham radio.

I mean, that is how a mortgage works. You don’t have to accept the inheritance after all, or you could sell the house to pay the reminder of the mortgage. Still sucks.

Of course. My 80-something grandpa said (practically) on his death bed, that one of the biggest regrets was not seeking out a partner again after his wife had died.

It you can still long for a romantic relationship when you’re 80 and just got a cancer diagnosis, then idk what could stop you. Most people are simply wired by nature to enjoy romantic relationships.

Well, lonely widows / widowers are prime targets for romance scams, that is true.

They are also prime dating material for other single people their age.

The hard part is being open enough to have fun and if possible, find love, but careful enough to not get scammed.

Ask them if prices have risen since last year. Then ask them that you are interested in how California fucked this up recently, and if they could tell you which new Californian law has been enacted in recent months, that made gas so much more expensive.

Ignore all propaganda videos they might send you, and keep asking for that law that must have changed.

Wearing rubber slippers, measured against (presumably) good ground. Granted, my voltmeter is absolute trash, but I can do it with a decent benchtop one at work and I’m confident the value will be similar.

I’d be much more concerned about EMI / “electro-smog”, all the electromagnetic fields and radio emissions around us. Those are very much measurable, they don’t really care about any arbitrary concept like “ground potential” whatever that might be, and your body works like a (bad) antenna, if you want it or not.

I am still not particularly concerned about them, fuck, I work in microwave tech and am a ham radio guy, if it has any negative effects, I’m certain I’ll notice them first. I also occasionally drink, sometimes eat meat, exist in a car-rich environment, am full of microplastic and exercise way too litte, so it is still very far down the list of my health concerns.

That is correct. My concept does not meet the industry definition, nor does it meet the common usage of this term. That I does not disagree with. My argument is simply, “it is a very stupid term”.

And I can absolutely make them at home, with a bit of specialised ingredients you can buy online and maybe a food processor or programmable hot plate or something like that.

And the biggest argument against highly processed food is that has lots of cheap, effective, low-nutritional-value shit in it. But you can do that just fine with regular food.

I didn’t know the navy personnel was possessed.

Huh. I am not ruling out that there may be something to it, but this article somehow triggers my bullshit detector. A lot of very flowery language, with what looks to me like wild speculation. And some of the claims about electricity are just… weird.

G Chevalier and JL Oschman are independent contractors for EarthFx Inc., the company sponsoring earthing research, and own a small percentage of shares in the company. Richard Brown is an independent contractor for EarthFx Inc., the company sponsoring earthing research.

Ah yes, here we go. Doesn’t inspire confidence in them being unbiased.