Since I mentioned it in a response to another poster:
I would include everything I know (or had access to for the sake of this scenario) about germ theory. Admittedly my own off-hand knowledge is not much, but basic hygiene and sanitation and how to avoid getting sick would save a lot of lives. What germs are, how vaccination works, etc.
Despite being half Cypriot, I don’t speak much Greek. Apologies to actual Greeks who realize how badly I’m butchering my transliterations here; my ancestors would be ashamed. (Most of them would probably just laugh at me though.)
That said, one of the funnier ones that used to go around in my family works like this: You yell for me from across the house. I respond “Di?” (“What?”) And you yell again, usually meaning I should come over to wherever you are. Again, I say, “Di?” (“What?”) And in exasperation, you respond, “Si kephali su tribidi!” (Your head is full of holes!) with emphasis on the last, matching, syllable as if to say “that’s what!”
The US Postal Service in New Jersey was beyond useless. In person and on the phone. Whether I was trying to buy a money order or address a case of package theft, the amount of “because fuck you, that’s why” I got out of them was absolutely ludicrous. And the attitude that went with it! Holy hell, why would you put someone in a customer service role who sounds like they hate all living things that much?
Switch to Geico. I got rear ended a couple years ago and they took care of everything. They even offered to book a rental for me. I thankfully didn’t need it at the time, but my every interaction with them has been utterly painless. One of the few businesses I will unapologetically shill for because they legit took care of me when I needed it.
It’s funny, I was literally having this exact conversation with my wife last night.
It’s actually, as others have said, surprisingly likely. You’re not precisely “losing weight” so much as you are “becoming more dense,” at least in part. Like, yeah, you’re burning fat, but you’re also building muscle.
The big up-side is that muscle burns more calories than fat under the same circumstances, so as you do this – as you convert more of your overall weight into muscle – you’ll notice that you continue that process more and more efficiently. (I say as an overweight person who hasn’t benefited from this process in a very long time…)
Years ago, I used to write the monthly newsletter for a nonprofit I was part of. Most of this was just news aggregate kind of stuff, but I did get to have my little editorial section and write about whatever relevant content I wanted.
Thanks to a couple of people willing to boost my signal, I get to say my writing has been read on every continent (big thanks to a college friend of mine doing a summer geology thing in Antarctica).
I got one pair from Zenni and they were junk, definitely “get what you pay for” level crap.
I got my most recent pair from Eyeconic just because it’s connected to my insurance company somehow, and even though it cost around twice as much I’m definitely more than twice as satisfied with them.
I oppose on principle any attempt to further restrict, marginalize, exclude, or otherwise other young people.
I also oppose on principle any attempt to worsen surveillance state overreach.
And I oppose out of sheer fucking common sense anything a Republican says.
For all these reasons and more, I oppose this entire concept and its execution.
Rural America has very few people in it. The Electoral College makes “Rural America” matter by weighting it so that in effect landmass votes, not people.
My vote is worth something like 4/7 of a Wyomingite’s vote because my state happens to include two or three large cities (that I don’t live in).
All of the above. With sausage or bacon or ham, scrambled eggs (well done; runny eggs are a conspiracy to torment innocent tastebuds), and hashbrowns.