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Nope, no special name that I am aware of. Other than “that bad storm in October that one year”

The storm itself wasn’t abnormally bad, it was the timing and sequence. It was very early so some deciduous trees still had leaves. The storm started with rain, then slush, then it all froze. So tree branches were overloaded with weight and tore down. Oak trees that had survived for a century were downed. Older neighborhoods and towns with power lines on poles instead of buried lines like newer communities would have now had pretty much all lines and poles torn down. Lineworkers from all over the country were brought in to help. I was too young to really follow at the time, but I’m told some of the delay was simply supply chain; getting enough new wires and poles there quickly enough to keep the crews supplied.

Read books. Go to bed early as soon as it’s dark. Empty the fridge if it’s going to be a while longer.

The longest I was without power was as a kid. A winter storm knocked out power lines all over. It was a week before we got power back on, the longest it took for some was 12 days. We had a wood burning fireplace so my parents invited all the elderly neighbors to stay with us. I wasn’t happy about sleeping on the floor while some weird-smelling old person slept in my bed, but looking back now I’m glad my parents modeled civic-minded behavior.

Us kids played a lot of cards and picked fights with each other. Dad had us scooping driveways in the neighborhood and eventually the streets by hand just to keep us active and out of the house. It was not a fun week.

If they want another five movies out of the next Bond actor, I’m not sure that’s Pattinson. Craig has been vocal about not liking being stuck with the character for five movies. And Pattinson already has experience being saddled with a less-than-stellar character for movie after movie (Twilight).

I would be more interested in 007 movies rather than James Bond. Keep the universe, put different characters in the 007 position so we get fresh stories. 27 Bond films seems like plenty, I’m not sure how much more can be said about Bond. I would be more interested to see Pattinson as 007 and free from the Bond baggage.

Around 48-50 hours. I didn’t want to. I was in excruciating pain and couldn’t take anything due to conflicting conditions. I didn’t hallucinate in the way of seeing people who weren’t there, but I have no idea if any memory from that stretch is real or something I imagined.

Lol, who’s profiting? Big coconut oil?

Maybe spreading misinformation that unscientific home remedies are a substitute for modern dentistry, but that’s a larger assumption than I wish to make of OP. I’ll just go with good ol’, “I forgot Google search exists”.

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Curious why you would ask this here instead of just doing a web search? If you don’t like reading search results, you can just get an AI summary. It’s at least as reliable as asking a bunch of internet randos chiming in. Here you’re probably more likely to get “10W-40, twice a day” answers over serious ones.

Personally, I prefer 5W and only oil pull once a month.

Idk why a ban is necessary. Just remove some of the protections so they can be held liable for things they should be held liable for.

They’re currently not liable for third-party content (if they have reasonable moderation policies and respond in a timely manner to requests, yada yada). But if they promote it, they are no longer a passive hosting platform; they are actively promoting content so should be held proportionately liable for that content.

I know very little about the amateur radio scene and don’t quite understand the impact this would have.

When I lived in a Western US state, there was some bad weather and a child went missing. The amateur radio community heavily overlapped with first responders and search & rescue types. Completely on their own, they organized and managed a search, mustering hundreds of people efficiently, while keeping local law enforcement in the loop. Law enforcement simply didn’t have the resources and relied on this volunteer hobbyist community for situations like this.

If public frequencies are turned over to corporations, would that eliminate the ability for such a volunteer effort to spring up? Would they have to pay for frequency access and be subject to whatever limits and censorship some corporation inflicts?

Sure. Me. I’ve lived in and traveled to many states with paths that are part of the Trail. There is a very nicely maintained, popular walking and biking path in my hometown that is part of the Trail. Most people who use it probably aren’t aware it’s part of the Trail.

RSS reader -> skim headlines -> open the full article from maybe 10% of the headlines -> skim the first paragraph to see how clickbaity the headline was -> read through the full article on maybe 50% of those.

And this isn’t just global and political news, I follow science, tech, sports, and other niche interest news this way too.

Some days I just listen to NPR’s Morning Edition podcast snips. Double speed. Skip over any with a title that doesn’t interest me.

And finally, I discard any completionist feelings. My RSS feed will never be all caught up. My podcast queue will never be empty. That used to bother me but I have some tools to manage my stress over it a bit better now.

Yeah. After a mediocre first date where he showed signs of a quick temper. We had no friends in common, no overlap in any social circles. I really did not want to deal with his likely negative response to me telling him I didn’t want to continue talking to him, so I didn’t. His second text after I didn’t respond to his first within ten minutes told me I was correct.

Maybe once a month, almost always at Walmart. I don’t know why.

A smashed avocado and a tuna packet on a tortilla is a phenomenal hiking lunch when I need a lot of calories without blocking up my mojo with a brick of a protein bar.

A mentor once gave me an exercise to identify my “core values” or goals or motivators. Out of a list of 60, the task was to narrow down over time and conversation to my top 5.

E.g., I value financial stability. Not to be confused with other values of earning high compensation or achieving lofty corporate positions and recognition.

It helped me frame for myself that I’m going to work to be comfortable and stable and beyond that, my motivations lie elsewhere, like spending time with friends and working on personal projects. There are people who put greater value on achieving a high salary or earning the c-suite title or having their names on patents; that’s perfectly valid and great for them, it’s not me and that is also ok.

There are tons of similar exercises online. If it sounds like something that might help you define your perspective on work differently, to narrow it down to you instead of getting overwhelmed with the whole world’s problems, please look into it and good luck.

Thank jeebus you didn’t have to get married to the type of men in the community/cult we grew up in and pop out babies.

Idk, I’m too chilly to think about it. Can you turn up the temp of my brain vat bath?

I can’t even tell if you’re a human or a chat bot.

What do you mean “going too far”? What are you planning to do?

Just like any hobby or leisure activity, my interest peaks and wanes. Marie Kondo said it best, “if it’s not sparking joy, yeet it out the window”.

Pretty sure that’s exactly how she said it.

Personally, I tend to enjoy listening to audiobooks over reading. I keep a looooooong list of books that look interesting so I can pick a title when I feel like reading. Note, I don’t call it a “to-read” list because I am not going to read them all. I will never read everything on the list unless I stop adding to it at least ten years before I die. And that approach to a to-read list does not spark joy. From the get to, recognize this is not a list to ever be “completed” by design.