the big error in the work video I think is he's making inferences based on data for the market for day laborers and ignoring the vast amount of non-market home production in pre-industrial times. Just spinning all the yarn, just that, was more than full time work for the entire population
basically he proposes a universal "30 minute city" rule and then unironically talks about a bunch of cities that didn't follow it while attacking capitalism and falsely stating that there were no improvements to material conditions over the 19th century
not one of his good videos tbh. This and his work video are bad
A man standing atop one of the historic Teotihuacan pyramids opened fire on tourists Monday, killing one Canadian and leaving at least 13 people, authorities said. n.pr/4comA0Q
Like I think a lot of people do the math wrong when the calculate the time. The airport is like an hour away, both at arrival and departure, plus waiting around, plus flight time, but that's not even the biggest time sink, the biggest time sink is the flight schedule, with car you can leave anytime
if you're going anywhere that's less than a 6 hour drive, it's probably less all-in time to drive than fly, plus you have a car you can use at the other end. And it's all massively cheaper. It is tedious and more dangerous but the advantages are significant
Green goblin: "I could squash you like a bug"
me, waking up from the sleeping gas: "spiders...aren't...bugs"
"infrasound" implies a vibration too low for people to experience it as sound but people can still experience it as vibration which is perceptible depending on proximity, resonances, interference, etc. And if you can perceive it, it can keep you awake
I planted some seeds that really aren't supposed to go below 50F. Perhaps foolish to plant them in april but in my defense it was 85F for all of last week
so I put down cardboard and a plastic tarp over my garden. I have a temperature sensor beneath the cardboard. Outside air temperature is 42F, the sensor beneath the cardboard is 49.8F. So it's working but uh kind of underwhelming. Presumably the delta would get larger as the air temperature drops
I think infrasound is way more common than is generally acknowledged, so I tend to believe this part. I think a lot of the health claims are bogus but it certainly can interfere with sleep and whatnot which of course does affect health
Poll:
A)chocolate chip cookie dough
B)peanut butter 'n chip
the drycleaners also screwed up the collar which I find pretty mysterious because it's fine when I re-iron it. It's using actual professional tailor collar interfacing, only difference vs a mass-market shirt is that it's not fusible. Has this drycleaner never encountered a bespoke shirt before?
I used cheap walmart shirt buttons on my funeral shirt because I didn't have time to wait for a shipment of buttons and there are literally no remaining fabric stores in person. So anyway it turns out those buttons melted when the drycleaners ironed them
that's the scenario that leaves me juggling too many bags
I don't fly much but when I do what I generally want in terms of luggage is:
-one large suitcase that gets checked
-one backpack that I keep with me at my seat.
I don't want to add more pieces, that ads too much complexity, much better to have a bigger suitcase.
I never use the overhead bins.
waiting for them to show up takes a long time because 1)the flight is delayed about half the time, and 2)it takes a loooooooong time for them to disembark the plane. I think almost every flier is severely underestimating the time it takes from "arrival time" to when they can actually exit the craft
Most of my airport comes from picking various people up from various airports, so I've got a lot of experience about flight delays and baggage claim. I spend considerably more time waiting for the person to show up than waiting for their baggage at baggage claim
7)while the total amount of time your flight takes is immaterial (it'll take all day no matter what), the quality of that time matters a lot. Fussing with the overhead bins takes a ton of time but importantly it much more miserable time than the same amount of time would be at baggage claim
6)there's a lot of places where it makes sense to bring what you have instead of buying new at the destination. Have you seen the sunscreen prices in Jackson Hole?
5)there's things you can put in checked baggage that you can't bring on a carry-on
4)there is a lot of piece of mind in knowing they can't lose your carry-on, I get that. I've never had a bag lost but it would be a burden if it did
3)Baggage claim doesn't actually take very long. People act like it's this huge burden, maybe it was back in the 90s but these days it just comes right up
2)the actual time difference is unimportant because flying is pretty much guaranteed to derail one entire day no matter what you do. Just not realistic to schedule any other activity on the day of your flight.
1)over-packing is mostly better than under-packing, and *in particular* a too-big suitcase is better than too small. You'll never regret having a suitcase that's slightly too big, never
ok, some more checked baggage thoughts...
every trump appointee's wiki now is like "early life and inheritance" scroll down to "first trump administration" and down at the bottom "controversies and rape allegations"
I'd settle for both of them having a fee tbh. Just in principle a carry-on should cost more per pound because they inconvenience all the other fliers
Checked bags should be free, carryons should be taxed bsky.app/profile/opin...
do not print in the newspaper that I am pressured