You can’t live 150 years next to the USA and not be influenced by them. That’s impossible.

Big cars, checkerboard cities, guns, house design, …

Not sure if that could work. It’s also a question about culture and values.
And sorry to say this dear Canadians: You are at least partly americanized.

Can’t just stay low for one day so we can catch out breaths?
He’s like a duracell bunny.

Horsey goes two in a line and one to the side.

That’s definitely a double jump! It’s gaming the system! 🤯

In the last two eps of Voy she came back through time as an admiral.

And he’ll continue getting all the weird chicks. He’s like a young Riker. :D

There are already cybernetic implants. I think pacemakers count as them.

You only see greyscale? O_o

No? UTC by definition doesn’t know time zones.

Let’s say the European goes to work at 8 o’clock UTC. The American in this example goes to work 6 hours later at 14 o’clock UTC. Both now exactly when the other one is in office. Time zones aren’t needed here.

Time zones are an invention to keep the zero hour (for hour counting) at about the same local time - midnight. Midnight was easier to determine that UTC (or GMT). A peasant could do it in a day without the help of expensive tools everywhere on Earth. As a matter of fact almost each city in medieval times had its own local time. To get that sorted out they where clustered into time zones.

Time to nerd this shit! 🥸

There were several counting systems:

• In Old Egypt and in the medieval times they counted 12 day hours from sunrise to sundown and another 12 night hours from sundown to sunrise. A lot of systems do/did that because one tracked the sun and the other tracked the moon and the stars. It’s more like as 12 + 12 hours system instead of a 24 hours system.
• In the Babylonian system the day had 24 hours, beginning at sunrise. The name has nothing to do with the ancient Babylonians though. 🤷‍♂️
• The Italian system was the same as the Babylonian system but began counting at sundown. This is also the case in the Hebrew and Islamic calendar. Btw that’s the reason why Christmas night starts at the 24th of December in some countries (like Germany) and the 25th of December in other countries (like USA). The former converted from the old date/time system to the modern done while the later just went ‘Nah! We’ll do what the Bible says.’
• The ancient Babylonians had danna, double hours. Hence a day had 6 day and 6 night dannas.
• Then there are still used 12 hour clock dividing the day in ante meridiem (before midday) and post meridiem (after midday). It is mainly used in Britain and countries that were ruled by the British Empire.
• There’s the current 24 hour clock starting and ending at midnight.
• There is the Julian Day where the counting -again- starts at sunrise. It is still used(!) in astronomy.
• There is Rammesses II’s hour calendar where the number of day and night hours changed depending on the month. June-July had 18 day and 6 night hours. December-January had 6 day and 18 night hours. Why does a country near the equator need 18 day or night hours? It’s not that the day and night length change that much during the seasons. 🤷‍♂️
• The Chinese calendar changed several times. Each day started and ended at midnight (like today) and initially was divided in 100 ke (1 ke = 14.4 minutes). Later that number changed to 120 (12 * 10), 108 (because 12 * 9) and 96 (12 * 8). When they also introduced double hours, ke became 15 minutes long. The double hours started counting at 23:00.
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Also it isn’t a bad idea to work less hours in winter so you can experience the sun at all.

In the times before the light bulb work could only be done during the day. Candles made from beewax were too expensive for the peasants. If they used candles instead of kindling they were made from tallow and created a lot of smut and didn’t gave much light. That made them a bit unpopular. I wonder why? 👤
At least in my country work days were divided in morning, midday, afternoon and night. You worked your field during the morning, went to market at midday, did handyman work and chores during afternoon and slept during night time.

Also Trump did say he wasn’t going to do Project 2025 during the campaign.

Nobody has any intention of building a wall.

- said Walter Ulbricht, head of state of the GDR in 1961, two months before he ordered to build the Berlin Wall.

What kind of stigma? In Europe there is none. Bikes are considered a reasonable alternative to cars but less convenient.

Title: You wouldn’t believe what I found.

It’s a rock and sand desert. There never was wind to even out the surface. It’s a challenge to find level ground big enough for a lander.

I’m not sure if #ebooks mirrors Libgen. I wouldn’t be surprised if they copy from each other.

I have allergies against ads, countdowns, etc. The interweb is polluted with that stuff and so are most piracy sites.

I find irc to be much easier to use than the alternatives. Just a click to start hexchat and then it auto-connects to the right server and auto-joins the right channel. All within seconds. I even get my animes from irc like I did in 2005. 😁

An alternative is plain old school irc. I’m not kidding.
Connect to irc.irchighway.net then /j #ebooks then !search <author and/or title>
Receive search results via xdcc which gives you the commands to download that stuff.
Or query one of the bots (e. g. @bsk) and get a list of hundreds of thousands of books that are available and search that for what you want.

I prefer that over ad infested one click hosters with countdowns, link shortener cascades and captchas. I find and get the stuff much faster by using irc.

Nun, ich habe nicht behauptet, dass alle dement sind. Das hast du mir unterstellt. Ich habe geschrieben, dass die Leute in dem Alter entweder dement sind oder davorstehen, Demenz zu entwickeln (“auf guten Weg dahin”). Es ist halt eine häufige Krankheit im Alter.

Hast du dich mal umgeschaut, wie viele alte Menschen alleine leben, wo keiner da ist, der den Mensch mal zum Arzt bringt und auf Demenz untersuchen lässt?
Ähnliches sehe ich auch in meiner Familie. Die eine Oma ist 87 und dement, man kann sich aber trotzdem noch gut mit ihr unterhalten. Die andere Oma ist 90 und hochgradig dement, aber nicht diagnostiziert, weil das Familienmitglied, das sich um sie kümmert, das nicht wahr haben will. Das ist jetzt schon ein jahrelanges Gezerre. Den Stress, den das Thema in der Familie verursacht, nur weil man das mal anspricht, ist gewaltig.
So sieht das bei vielen Familien aus. Alle wissen es, doch kaum jemand macht etwas, um den Familienfrieden halbwegs zu wahren.

I want an implant that can regulate body functions and even rejuvenate & regenerate me.

What would that mean?

• Forever young
• Adonis/Venus body
• Some sort of self-healing capability
• Some sort of body-shaping capability
• Possibly immortal