When I was alone: apartment. More economical. Did not want to pay for a lot of space I did not use.

Girlfriend and two dogs later: looking for a house.

Palt. Potato dumping filled with meat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palt

General consensus is that he is ego driven. He wants to be seen as someone who gets good deals, he even wrote a book on it, and he was talking about tariffs during the election. Either he gets a good deal negotiated with Canada or he fulfills campaign promises. I don’t think he cares which.

I’m sure that you can find a Canadian, Mexican, Chinese or whatever that had smuggled in fetanyl into the US and therefore you can consider it technically true. Not that it matters.

It’s meant to appeal to emotions to support whatever agenda he is trying to push.

He likes media attention and he is very good at manipulating media to talk about things he wants them to talk about.

Auto playing video if I clicked a link that was not indicated beyond any reasonable doubt that it was a video.

Making any sound at all unless instructed to.

Like I described in the last paragraph.

I solve engineering problems for a living.

Step 1. Check all the common problems. Is it the power supply? Measure every node? Check the wires? Everything is as it’s supposed to be yet it does not work. Know every part of how it’s supposed to work.

Step 2. Get up and go for lunch. Thoughts still swirl around in my head as I eat, I sit down with my coffee and usually get one or two more things to try popping into my head.

From what I’ve had described to me it’s the same thing being creative.

1. Sit down and write. The last paragraph does not sound good. Rewrite it, again and again. Still sound bad.

2. Get up and do something else, take a slow walk or something and see if you get some ideas.

Countryside, as far away as possible while still having a reliable internet connection

Sleep is like it’s always been. Tired in the morning and awake in the evening. The lack of daylight in the winter is getting worse and worse the older I get.

Other than that quite good and slowly getting better.

Stop what I’m doing at 23-ish. Take dog out for his evening pee, brush teeth, talk with GF for a while, sleep by about 00:15.

Alarm goes off at 7:45. Turn it off and roll around in bed. Ooze out of bed, get dressed and brush teeth. Take dog with me to work.

15-30 minute nap at lunch.

Not sure if that is a thing. From what I’ve been taught:

When you concentrate on something your brain will tend to use familiar thought patterns and not be creative.

When you relax and un-focus you get more creative.

So in a way you can’t try to deliberately come up with ideas. The way around it is to focus on something you want ideas about for a few hours, then get up and do something mindless, have a walk or a bath or something.

Obviously they will be hateful. This should not be enough to consider them guilty however.

Most car trips don’t warrant a stopping for food.

There is very little space in the engine compartment on modern cars.

The engine usually run around 90°C which is not enough to boil water. You could use the exhaust pipe but that is harder to reach.

3 year horizon: Not stock market. Unless you are okay with delaying the purchase for as long as it takes for the market to recover.

High interest rate account is what I’d look for.

Books don’t emit light in the visible spectrum so it does not make it easier on the eyes in low light conditions.

Historically it’s also cheaper because paper is some shade of white and it’s cheaper to not soak the page in ink.

I like to do a fun exercise every time I read something like this.

Swap the word for who you are accusing with some other group. If this make the statement distasteful then the statement is distasteful in it’s orginal form.

The Left like to blame men, the right like to blame immigrants so for example: “it’s a shame immigrants love to commit murder”.

Why is it okay to say men love to murder but not immigrants?

I’m not a regular at the doctor’s office yet. Last year I came 10 minutes early and the doctor was on time.

After over a decade of using it exclusively at home and partially at work I still googled how to add users to a group last week.

I don’t live in the US.

He is cashing in on all the goodwill the US has built up in the western world since the 1942.

What happens if a human is deliberately trying to fail the Turing test? Are we better at pretending to be machines than they are pretending to be human?

Does a new one every few years count?