Keep working, drinking, and sleeping. Not much else to do no matter who wins.

Look up “Kingsman church scene” or watch the movie. The scene is one of the best action scenes. Won’t necessarily spoil the movie but will give up some info.

You’ve never seen The Kingsman?

Church Street Blues by Tony Rice

Talking out my ass here so please research and verify, but at least for the woman with elongated necks, it was originally to make them unattractive to men of other tribes. Over time, this turned into a specific beauty standard for their own tribe.

Plus Japanese 7-11 is considered decent food. Compare to 7-11 here where any food is a combination of salt, more salt, and sugar, with maybe some protein or carbs. I imagine this quality difference expands to other establishments as well.

They’re not straight country. More Americana/roots. There’s a Canadian fellow called Daniel Romano who made some really good straight country, but sadly only a couple albums then went to other genres. His album Come Cry With Me is the closest I’ve found to that 60s/70s sound and lyricism.

And probably still a lot more I haven’t found yet.

Today’s POPULAR country is that way. There are still great country artists, they just don’t get as big. Molly Tuttle, Billy Strings, Charlie Crockett, Margo Price, Sarah Jarosz

It’s warm to around 45-50 degrees Fahrenheit. Really good at blocking wind but it’s thin so it doesn’t conserve body heat below a pretty cool temperature. It’s definitely meant to be worn with base layers if getting close to freezing

Patagonia torrentshell. But I’d wager any similar product from a good brand works just as well.

That’s why I don’t go out in a downpour. The coat goes about mid-thigh so my calves get a bit wet. But since my legs are mostly verticle and I’m fat, they don’t get very wet at all.

A very nice rain coat. Now unless it’s a downpour, I still walk places instead of driving if it’s raining. And I stay bone dry.

There’s a book called How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler that covers this stuff. Don’t think it’s comprehensive enough to actually invent everything from scratch, but still a fun read.

It just says “groupa boykissera” in the Russian alphabet. Transliteration.

It is kind of fucked up. It’s one thing if someone is being abusive/combative and you’re filming them for your own safety, but so many videos are of mentally ill people or addicts acting weird but not harming anyone. People in the US constantly harp on about china’s social credit system, while basically making their own crowd sourced version without any limitations.

That’s a lot of unsecured gas cylinders

It’s because a lot of boomers think everything they see on the internet is sent personally to them. Took me years (literal years) to explain to my mom that someone’s Facebook status was not that person sending her a message.

Most don’t even realize the product questions are automated. They think amazon is personally asking them so they feel obliged to respond, even if they don’t know the answer.