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  • General consensus is that he is ego driven. He wants to be seen as someone who gets good deals, he even wrote a book on it, and he was talking about tariffs during the election. Either he gets a good deal negotiated with Canada or he fulfills campaign promises. I don't think he cares which.

  • I'm sure that you can find a Canadian, Mexican, Chinese or whatever that had smuggled in fetanyl into the US and therefore you can consider it technically true. Not that it matters.

    It's meant to appeal to emotions to support whatever agenda he is trying to push.

    He likes media attention and he is very good at manipulating media to talk about things he wants them to talk about.

  • Like I described in the last paragraph.

    I solve engineering problems for a living.

    Step 1. Check all the common problems. Is it the power supply? Measure every node? Check the wires? Everything is as it's supposed to be yet it does not work. Know every part of how it's supposed to work.

    Step 2. Get up and go for lunch. Thoughts still swirl around in my head as I eat, I sit down with my coffee and usually get one or two more things to try popping into my head.

    From what I've had described to me it's the same thing being creative.

    1. Sit down and write. The last paragraph does not sound good. Rewrite it, again and again. Still sound bad.
    2. Get up and do something else, take a slow walk or something and see if you get some ideas.
  • Sleep is like it's always been. Tired in the morning and awake in the evening. The lack of daylight in the winter is getting worse and worse the older I get.

    Other than that quite good and slowly getting better.

  • Stop what I'm doing at 23-ish. Take dog out for his evening pee, brush teeth, talk with GF for a while, sleep by about 00:15.

    Alarm goes off at 7:45. Turn it off and roll around in bed. Ooze out of bed, get dressed and brush teeth. Take dog with me to work.

    15-30 minute nap at lunch.

  • Not sure if that is a thing. From what I've been taught:

    When you concentrate on something your brain will tend to use familiar thought patterns and not be creative.

    When you relax and un-focus you get more creative.

    So in a way you can't try to deliberately come up with ideas. The way around it is to focus on something you want ideas about for a few hours, then get up and do something mindless, have a walk or a bath or something.

  • Most car trips don't warrant a stopping for food.

    There is very little space in the engine compartment on modern cars.

    The engine usually run around 90°C which is not enough to boil water. You could use the exhaust pipe but that is harder to reach.

  • Books don't emit light in the visible spectrum so it does not make it easier on the eyes in low light conditions.

    Historically it's also cheaper because paper is some shade of white and it's cheaper to not soak the page in ink.

  • How cold?

    How old is the battery? I live very far north and a 4 year old battery has done it's time.

    If you have a lot of cold starts every year consider installing a block heater and and using an oil with good cold performance.

  • Lasagna plates if that counts. If not Macaroni. Compromise between shelf space per serving and ease of getting the portion size right (1.25dl raw, 2.5dl cooked). Contender is spaghetti which wins on shelf space but I always end up with too much or too little without resorting to the kitchen scales.

    I find the larger variants are hard to get a good mix of sauce and pasta in your mouth regardless if you use a spoon or fork.