The Twilight Zone - Nightmare at 20,000 feet, I believe

Layers - get a good base layer, merino wool is the gold standard for these. You also want to get a neck gaiter, plus some merino wool socks, and some kind of cap. These will keep you warm and dry throughout most cold weather. Add more layers on top when outside, and remember to remove layers proactively if you feel yourself starting to sweat - it’s never a good idea to be wet in cold weather. The base layer will make physical exertion a pretty hot affair quite fast, so you’d be surprised how fast the sweat starts pouring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZLqfM3wJnM

Barring societal collapse I believe I will be able to retire, but that’s only because I’ve gotten extraordinarily lucky in life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0InQkKyR54

Get yourself a few bottles of caffeine pills. They’re really cheap and might get you through some tough times

I’m sure it’s possible to find some good places on the island, but in my opinion, why risk it? Thailand has so much other stuff to offer at way less of a risk.

Pronounced “poo-ket”, messing the pun up somewhat

Two of my least favourite places I’ve visited have been Cancún and Phuket. Both were minor stops in larger journeys, and I had fairly low expectations, but hot damn these places truly sucked ass. The countries they reside in have some truly great stuff, but you won’t find them in these places.

Instant goosebumps hearing either Home - We’re Finally Landing or Home - Resonance

It makes for a more acidic brew, which I personally really like. It’s quite fruity as well, while still definitely being coffee.

Based on your recommendations, it might not be your cup of tea (or in this case, coffee!), but it might be worth a try if you want to expand your horizons. I am personally not into dark roasts, being mostly a medium to light-roast person.

I’m a sucker for variety and will drink whatever are the beans of the month from my local roaster (Kafferosteriet Koppar), but my all-time favourite has to be the Bridazul roasted by Kafferäven. Fermented beans are a truly special experience in my book.

I’m similar in that I like black coffee. There’s a nice rabbit hole for people like us in speciality coffees too, so we don’t need to feel too left out!

Surely it must mean “for those who don’t know”, right?

Right, so I chose lemmy.ml in June 2023 right at the start of the exodus from Reddit as it appeared to be a “sensible default” at that point. I’m not even sure that lemmy.world was around at that point, it certainly did not appear to be the “sensible default” it appears to have turned into.

I’m not using the instance as any kind of political statement, this is just the account I use to interact with Lemmy as a network. I could certainly move off the instance, but I’ve found that filtering out some content makes the instance mostly usable for my purposes.

Feel free to check my post history as to whether I’m auth left or not, I’m certain you’ll find that I’m not. Leaning more and more left as the days pass, to be sure, but with no love for authoritarianism.

I think you’re overestimating the influence of the auth-left on Lemmy - this is an extremely small place in the grand scheme of things, and while I think they had a truly shit take, it would be too generous to say that they even moved the needle.

China does a variant of this where the whole country is on Beijing time. 99% Invisible did an episode that covered it here: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/matters-of-time/

Basically the local Uyghur population in Xinjiang code switch and maintain an unofficial local time which aligns more closely with the movement of the sun.

I think this is basically testing:

1. If you have been practicing your leetcoding recently, and
2. If you’re decent at leetcoding under pressure

I mean, the pay is still way ahead of anything outside FAANG, really.

The Swedish state-run media puts out a very good comparison between all the parties each election year which I use to understand what position each party has. It’s been generally easy to figure out which party is closest to me using that tool. It can be used for the three tiers of elections that we have in Sweden.

Other than that I try to look at polls to see whether it would be generally better for me to place a strategic vote on a party that is not my first choice.