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I'd cook people flavorful meals, packaged up and ready to grab in the morning. Maybe they'd come home to a dinner spread after a rough day. And then I would infiltrate banking systems and regularly but stochastically credit poor people's accounts with amounts below the revenue departments structuring threshold.

Finally, I'd find people with test anxiety and coach them through the problems.

Holy balls. I used to be an instructor in the career retraining field, so I believed your numbers. Trust, but verify: https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now

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There's a word for this: mondegreen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

Ah, cool, thank you! I didn't realize the Expedition Terminal worked in both directions. I just completed phase 2 in the current expedition and wondering how the items get back to my main save.

I'm still learning the finer points of NMS, so please forgive me if my question is obvious. How does one transfer items to the main save?

I used to live in northern Vermont and bicycle was my only transportation. I live in a more temperate region now, but my partner has Reynaud Syndrome, so the challenges persist. Just not for my hands.

For sub-zero F temps, pogies are the way, although it sounds like they aren't quite working well enough for you. For long rides, I put a chemical handwarmer in each pogie, and that let me run a lighter glove. While wasteful, there are ways to mitigate the consumption of disposables.

For my bike without pogies, I used Pearl Izumi AmFib lobster claws. Those served me well to -28F, which was the lowest temp I saw when I lived there.

The following isn't a gear solution per se, but more of a prophylaxis: hunting reaction training. Our peripheral blood vessels rotate through a set of responses when exposed to cold. That rotation is called "hunting." It's "simple" to retrain our hunting reaction to maintain blood flow to hands and feet when cold. And holy hell, it's unpleasant. The short of it: keep your hands and feet hot while letting the rest of your body get cold. Like serious discomfort levels of cold. Do that for an hour everyday. For me, I noticed improvements in about ten days, and then only need maintenance training every few weeks and again in late Fall. My partner's Reynaud flares dropped to maybe once per winter after ~20 days of training.

The source you want for hunting reaction training is Army Cold Weather Warfare (Research Center?). I'm on mobile and can't find the original paper right meow.

Not electronic, but definitely a (set of) gadgets: a compact set of tools. Specifically, I carry a Wera Tool Check, but most any multi-tool with bits and adapters will do, e.g. the old Gerber Diesel with the bit set and carrier.

Regarding useful and reliable, it's Wera, so high quality, and I've saved so much bacon (including my own) with this kit.

"It's an older joke sir, but it checks out."

Also, one of my favorite quotes to bust out when someone starts talking out their ass about computers.

What cocktail did you pair with that awesomeness?

Great shot! What's the story of this boat?

But where is "Damn, I just suck at this game?" You know how some people are utterly amazing at games? That's not me. At all.

They were acquired by Opta Group in 2023. Since then, the quality has declined while prices increased. And around the time of their acquisition, they started doing some shady stuff when claiming USB-IF compliance. The cables were blatantly not USB-IF compliant.

Another example: I personally love my Anker GaN Prime power bricks and 737. Unfortunately, among my friends and peers, I am the exception. The Prime chargers are known for incorrectly reading cable eMarkers and then failing to deliver the correct power. This has so far been an issue for me twice, but was able to be worked around.