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Dunno, it’s as good a choice as any but isn’t that the long way around? Or am I projecting my Atlantic Ocean scale sense onto the Pacific too much 😅

Set sail to the most habitable world outside of Earth! Whatever we deem the most likely exoplanet to be earthlike on the day our fusion drive starts the acceleration burn, that’s where I’d want to go looking if there’s a second evolutionary tree to explore.

How did they solve heat management? Did they develop photon-sensing organs like we did? What’s the mechanism for passing genetic information between iterations (maybe they don’t call them generations)? Do they flap their meat to communicate, the way earth animals’ vocal tracts do? Are they made out of meat?

And if there is no life, I’d learn a lot about geology, the local solar system and, subsequently back home, all the more appreciate what we’ve got going on Planet A ❤️

What exactly are you looking for? All you’ve said is you want to put up cameras. That’s simple, like, visit any home improvement store or use your favorite search engine to find an online store for cameras. Is there anything specific about Ring LLC’s products that you’re looking for, rather than everyone just guessing what you want?

Consider that your morals and laws might not be universal

I’ve never noticed any effect after not having it for several months and I drink black tea as dark as possible (just short of using multiple teabags in a cup xD). Do you really notice that you’re more awake, like beyond placebo?

I didn’t know it had caffeine until recently, so I think I just never got the placebo effect of “this should keep me awake” and apparently the residual effect, at least on me, is unnoticably small. When I learned, I avoided it for a while during the evening (even though I didn’t remember any effect, I wondered if maybe I sleep worse and just didn’t know to attribute it?), but I’ve since tried it out and there’s really no difference even if I drink it straight before going to sleep

Maybe more broadly, consider that it’s not always simply “kids these days” but often just the stage of life one is in. Don’t worry, they’ll come around to seeing most things your way - just that you’ll again have moved on to a yet later stage and not notice that they’re now in agreement with your former self

Netherlands, born in the 90s. My mom tried to teach me (maybe at like 15? Idk) but I basically refused because she had always done it and I didn’t want to

Not saying I’m proud of that, just giving the data point you asked for exactly as it happened! I know that many other families handled this very differently, but that’s what it was like for me

Of course, that meant catching up once I moved out ~4y later. Still hate cooking (and my gf hates it even more than I do, so the task falls to me) but I’ve only got one life and I have yet to find a place that sells healthy food that you can just shove down the gastrointestinal tract as-is… ^^’

To be fair, I’m also seeing people spend crazy % of their income on housing. The lack of a kitchen might have other causes!

Fast food is (sadly) not the type of meal that’s expensive. I doubt the proper meals my mom cooked (meat+potatoes/pasta+vegetables) in a kitchen are significantly cheaper than sticking a 3.5€ frozen pizza in an oven, whereas space for a stove, countertop, cupboards and everything is at least like 3x2=6m², × ~12€/m²/month = almost a month’s worth of frozen pizza’s :P

Not that I’ve actually ever seen living space without kitchen, maybe that’s not as much of thing in western Europe

That seems strange, do you remember where you read that? My understanding was that until one or two hundred years ago (like somewhere between our grandparents their great grandparents, depending on where they were in the world), virtually everyone was a subsistence farmer or hunter-gatherer. You’re saying most of these people couldn’t have prepared what they found/farmed without someone there to do it for them? :o

You make it sounds like that’s a lot but what’s between the USA and China? It’s just Japan and a few islands neither group of citizens could find on a map no?