I believe age and exercise are two important factors here. Older people tend to function okay on less sleep. Regular exercise helps with both regular sleep and sleep schedule adjustments. If you can, try to put in more exercise for a few days after the switch. Hopefully it helps.

Yup, this is all true. Worker cooperatives, unions, and expiring patents faster are all things that can help. None are a magic wand. But they make a difference.

I have definitely heard parents encouraging kids to go into the trades. Could be a regional thing. Anecdotal either way.

I agree elite schools are bullshit for the vast majority. There are some PhD and medical programs that aren’t. But that’s a tiny percentage of students who would benefit.

Glad you mentioned that. It can be very hard on the body, and for older people they will likely want to transition into ownership, or a supervisory or admin role…and those slots are limited.

We need to think about using technology to help people work less. Not just fatten profits.

Agree. We need trades people but we also need jobs, re-shoring, affordable housing, affordable health care, affordable education, etc. to go along with. It could become another bubble like pharmacists and knowledge workers.

The longer I’m in the workforce the more I think David Graeber was right.

“Go to trade school” is my guess. I’ve even suggested it. I’m not sure it’s really being over pushed, but maybe it is. Easy answers to complex questions are a trope.

The anti-reflective (AR) coating can create blue or purple reflections from certain angles. The coating is meant to block some of the UV spectrum of light to help protect your peepers. It also prevents some of the reflections that would be annoying, hence the name.

Your experiences are anecdotal. They don’t tell us anything about the performance of all public servants. Perspective is important.

Someone smarter than me said: if you smell shit everywhere you go, check your shoes.

I get this question a lot, since my wife and I always vote in person. The place where we vote is right around the corner from us, a 2 minute walk. We go mid morning and there’s never a line. It’s just more fun for us, kind of a tradition. The same poll workers have been there for several years and it’s always nice to see them.

As microscopically unimportant as our two votes are in the big picture, they are still important to us.

If I still lived in some of the places I did in the past, I would definitely mail it in. Those places always had a long wait.

Looks like you’re right. They may have updated this since I last tried it.

Fastmail lets you create masked email addresses. They are randomized and can’t be linked to your main account. Great way to track who sells your email to spammers. You can create a new masked email for each temporary need and tag it. You can also disable them individually, so you stop receiving mail for that fake sddress.

Some folks iron their hair with a heated electrical device called a straightener. You could try one. I don’t think they are expensive. Read all of the directions and be careful. YouTube is maybe useful here, too.

A chemical treatment called a relaxer can also help do what you want, but proceed with great caution. I understand not wanting to pay for hair care. I cut my own as well. But, some things are best left to a pro. Relaxers are alkaline, and chemical burns are easily possible. Some may contain formaldehyde, which is nasty stuff. Long-term use is probably a bad idea, IMHO.

Anything you want, you got it.

Ming the Merciless.

I encourage aggressive blocking. Without it, the assholes drive the decent people away over time.

I’d be fine without voting, too. I am glad they at least got rid of karma.

The density of nerve endings varies. Women tend to have more in their fingers than men. Also, skin can vary a lot. Some people have thick tough skin, some have thin delicate skin. This can also vary in the same person on different parts of their body.

Orbital mechanics makes launching stuff at the sun extremely difficult.

The earth has a gigantic a molten layer under our feet, and we couldn’t even dump it down there. Too expensive and difficult.

Long term, my guess is engineered super bacteria and/or robotics may clean up the trash in the future, if we don’t extinct ourselves first.

In some places, spaghetti meat sauce is gravy. Badabing!

Suckers. People point and laugh at me for free.