Well, up until only a generation or two ago, no one born into those paces actually did have a choice to stay or not. It’s not easy to leave a family support network, especially in a niche environment.

That being said, living in the desert, I saw tons of Midwestern tourists that underestimated it, and quickly got into basic trouble that I learned to avoid as a child. Bit, the people that were always cool and always prepared to deal with a harsh environment were the people that had spent time in Alaska. Spend time in an extreme place, and you learn to respect any extreme place, and be perfectly fine.

And the extreme cold option is always an option on the table. Not nuclear winter, but one bad volcanic eruption can affect large parts of the globe. Just ask folks in 1816, when an eruption in Indonesia led to a year with literally no summer in most of the northern hemisphere. Totally brutal famine in Europe, as one could also expect from AMOC collapse.

Yes. I’ve lived in West Africa for about 7 years total. I’ve seen plenty of 50m deep wells pulled by hand go dry or collapse. People collecting water from puddles after a rain, rather than walk a mile to the well.

The old guys in Mali and Niger talk about being kids, roaming forests and keeping hyenas from eating the goats. One village I knew was named “it’s an elephant.” It’s all gone now. It’s been gone for 30 years. The elephants, the hyenas, the forests north of 13 degrees N, are mostly gone.

But some trees are still there, all the way into the Sahara. There are oasies and seasonal lakes with fish and wells and crops. Herders graze goats and donkeys in narrow bands far into the Sahara.

Im not saying it’s great, but im not saying it’s absolute devastation and hell on earth. I’d rather be there than some isolated community in Alaska or Siberia.

That’s when you dry out the stuff you grew when it was only 100°F

Also, Millet, sorghum, cow peas, pigeon peas, cactus, okra, and sweet potatoes are the crops that already grow in the Sahel, where it’s usually right around triple digits. People live like this right now. They have for generations.

Ever heard of a well?

Friendo, for those of us that have lived in deserts, no one gets naked. During the day at least ;)

Light clothes are amazing. I lived for 3 years on the edge of the Sahara with no power and pulling water from a well. When it was 110+F, sitting under a tree and soaking your shirt in water was perfectly fine, and more than enough to be comfortable. Turbans are amazing technology.

And I’ve spent time above the Arctic circle. I can compare the two.

While you like to think “you can put in more clothes,” that’s nice and all… Both if you have the right clothes, and have imported heat and calories. OP is talking about perpetual Arctic circle winter. Nothing grows, you will run out if wood to burn to stay warm. You will import everything, from boots to gloves to pants to coats. Look at an Inuit diet. Now look at a Mediterranean diet. Civilization flourished in areas that get hot. Humans spent 50,000 years in the equatorial zone. We are built for it.

You do you, but, uh…enjoy your narwhal blubber and seal jerkey I guess?

Triple. No hesitation.

First off, coats are heavy and stupid. Breezy linens all day every day.

What food you going to grow in below freezing temps? Millet, sorghum, rice, grapes, tomatoes, onions, garlic – all already grow in triple digit temps. I’m eating well.

Natural evaporative cooling is easier to achieve than burning slow-growing resources for heat daily. Millennia-old technology exists to handle high temps.

More people live in the Sahara than the Arctic. I’m not a penguin, no matter what the other kids said in school.

Right? I couldn’t even get Voyager to show a feed, and every browser kicked for warnings. No idea how they would have missed it.

Yeah, I told them them late yesterday. I figured someone else would, and apparently no one else did.

I think our instance just failed some social dynamics test.

Slight sarcasm - I’m also a Mint user, and it was like a recursive reference to this meme from forever ago. Maybe it was too specific and dated, but the point is that since Macs were so easy to use, the Windows people back in the 8.1 days treated Mac users like kindergartners as they paid for their $1,000 facebook machines (also a meme from that time).

All the “Yeah, I use Arch, BTW” people that love the struggle and the hobbyist tweaks of their distros seem to look down on Mint users because it doesn’t require a struggle to use Mint. I used to see it all the time when I first jumped over to Linux.

For the most part, it works well without needing too much tinkering by the user. It’s the Fisher Price My First Distro.

I tried it out with a 21.3 dualboot with Windows 11 and within 2 or 3 months I hadn’t gone back to Windows other than to push files over. Sure, there were a few “learning opportunities” with tweaks or weird driver issues that were because of the particular hardware I’m using, but they were manageable. At this point I’m running 22.1 only on this machine.

The nice part is that being Ubuntu-based, if I run into a problem, I can search for both the more widely-documented Ubuntu version of the issue, or look for a Mint-related version. Claude does a great job with small-to-medium troubleshooting rather than me dig through forums. It’s low-risk, low-work, high-reward.

The mitochondria.

Second Art Nouveau. Art Deco is nice, but I think over played as a throwback.

Also a fan of a neoclassical Italianate style. Square columns, low flat roofs, towers and tall thin windows. It can vary, but when done in a clean and simple style, it’s very nice IMO.

If this was me, and I used to just keep a notebook of the wines I liked, there’s a couple ways to go about this.

Edit: in the Fdroid store theres an app named Cavity (terrible name) or Wine cellar that might be what you want for your own wine tracking.

Info on new wines is simply not going to come for free (or “free”) bundled in an app unless you make it yourself. But wines you try is a much easier thing to track. If you can just accept they need to be 2 different things, it an easier task.

IMO, what you want is to create and self host a survey that let’s you easily and quickly enter year, location, attributes, photo of the label, notes, etc. Depending on how granular you get with flavors and tasting attributes, you could get in a groove and log a wine with dizzy thumbs and low light in a minute or two. Then you just decide where that data lives, and how to get it back into a spreadsheet or SQL db to search it.

You could do most of this in a Google form/sheet, though you’ll simply get nagged and tracked later in more subtle ways.

I’ll be real honest, I suggest you ask ChatGPT on options, and suggest things like you want to build a survey in HTML (it’ll do this for you) that lives on a device and is bookmarked for easy access, sends data to, let’s say a Dropbox file you access with an API, and you use another HTML page you save locally to search.

For real, let us know how it goes, because I would all get some use from this.

Yes, from a general misunderstanding of how microwave ovens work, and what “radiation” was during the 1960s and 70s.

https://kitchenpearls.com/why-do-we-say-nuke-for-microwave/

Not me, but my spouse. I love all the rugs they pick, we always agree, but I can’t match or really even understand the excitement.

But if it’s shopping for food in an open green market, sign me the fuck up.

I haven’t lived in the US in a while, and every time I visit and one of these things starts shouting at me, I wonder how anyone tolerates this shit.

Occasionally you’ll see one button that’s more worn, maybe bottom right iirc, that mutes it. Doesn’t always work, though.