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Especially this week.
Especially this week.
Same.
Of course, the first phrase I made absolutely certain I could rattle off was “excuse me I don’t speak French well”. Deliver that with a smile and they can be pretty damn forgiving.
The only one I use is Safeway, to scan the in-store coupons. I’m not sure how much info they can get, because the app fails to load until I pause my VPN.
I don’t know if it’ll hit everything, and my use case is significantly different to yours, but Tuxedo is a pretty attractive option to me. I do want a serious dgpu, so my shopping list is very different to yours. Nonetheless, the keyboard and ports look good to me.
I was going to edit my other response but I’ll just make a new one so OP sees it.
Calum Raasay , out of Scotland, makes some outstanding historo-scientific videos. He travels around quite a bit too.
Another that I haven’t seen mentioned is Our Own Devices , he actually used to write for Simon Whistler. Most of his videos are shot in-studio, like Technology Connections and Joe Scott, but he also ventures out into the field for special projects. It’s a similar mix to what you’d see on Forgotten Weapons.
That’s a persistent itch.
Here are two channels I think Tom’s viewers would appreciate.
Alexis Dahl makes interesting videos on history, science and life in Michigan.
The Tim Traveller makes ridiculous, yet strangely informative videos about locations all over Europe.
Both channels consistently provide answers to questions I hadn’t thought to ask. Both do it with a genuine sense of wonder and a lot of heart.
I think the first time I saw him was when he covered as a guest for Tom?
Honestly? Sometimes my brain just runs with stuff like this. Having travelled enough, it gets really fascinating, what’s expensive where and why. A universal value metric would be about as useful to me as the Kelvin scale is. It’s nice to have it as a thought tool, but it’s not particularly useful day-to-day.
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I get it, and I wish there was a more stable way to measure value internationally. Not for trade or anything, just a baseline. Something along the line of total global money value / total supply.
I’ve only thought about it casually, but everything I’ve come up with makes the concept more complicated. It spirals pretty quickly. Value in what? Gold? (no). Watt-hours? Who’s energy?
I’m sure someone with an economics degree has gone absolutely nuts trying to figure something out. I’d be very interested to learn more.
This video uses blind sight in the Intro as a hook for an hour long lecture on sentience.
It’s a very long Royal Institution video, but the first section covers this topic with footage of Helen the monkey. The whole video is fascinating.
Mid 40’s by birth
I shit-canned about 20 years with active alcoholism, but then made a fairly good showing in the following 15, I’d say I’m probably 10 years behind. Thankfully, my current job has a real pension, rather than a defined-contribution plan. I should be ok, assuming the city is.
Yeah, no. I’ll stand up right away, help people around me reach their luggage, along with getting ours down and prepared to roll. Nobody behind me on the plane is going to appreciate it I’m fumbling around with my bags while they’re trying to get off.
That’s awful.
Absolutely.
I’m actually in that group 1 position right now, in a LatAm A320 premium economy seat. Besides the service upgrade and baggage allowance, it’s just economy with the center seat reserved. Oh, and free messaging WiFi, too, which somehow includes Lemmy Sync.
Pains me to say it, but Cody’s Lab.
I still catch an episode now and again. It just hasn’t been the same since he moved to Nevada.