I miss that show. It was so perfectly cheesy and fun and silly, with a great array of characters. The finale was great.

WOW. Way to throw me down that nostalgic rabbit trail.

What a fun game.

This semi-reminds me of that journalist who blew up her marriage and life by falling in love with Martin Shkreli.

Hmm, that’s a good point!

I’m trying to retire early, so I usually work my 40hr day job and then do another 20 or so contracting / consulting.

I meant the carbonated version. All plain carbonated waters on the market taste / feel different to me and LDs just seems to be a notch better.

Store brand ones taste metallic to me for some reason. Perrier bubbles are “tiny” feeling. Talking Rain is pretty good. Not a fan of La Croix.

I’ve looked into relocating there, but citizenship seems difficult?

I also think I read somewhere that there are stricter labor laws so I wouldn’t be able to freelance as heavily (~30 hours a week) alongside having full-time employment?

This is why I moved to rural Oregon, paid mid-5 figures for a one-off trenched fiber line, and still came out on top.

How is the tech pay there? Right now my jobs average between $120k to $200k base.

I hate him so much.

I love this comment because I recently learned bay leaves are hilariously divisive.

There are some pretty heated / humorous articles out there about them. I love it.

People call me crazy, but I agree. It definitely has a cleaner taste and better overall mouth feel that most.

Closest I think that compares might be topo chico, but it seems to go flat faster.

I tried Starlink, had high hopes, but unfortunately due to living sort of in a valley and being surrounded by numerous 100+ foot trees, service would cut out every 10-15 minutes. Wasn’t viable for video conferencing or large downloads.

Cellular was OK, but the speeds could vary wildly and really only peaked at maybe 100/30.

Ultimately, I ended up paying a local provider to bury a line directly to my house for me (well into the 5 figure cost). Worth it.

I really had my hopes up last year when he kept flubbing publicly and just standing there.

Alas.

Ohhh okay, sorry, I wasn’t sure if by commune you meant I lived in a multi-family commune - which I don’t.

Unfortunately, no, the actual town I live in address-wise has a whopping population of about 1000 people but that’s spread out over multiple multiple acres of farmland. And on top of that I’m on the edge of said town boundaries. If I lived in the town itself I would have had access to fiber internet without having to get a line trenched, unfortunately, I don’t.

Because it only benefits my property, no subsidies or anything available.

Not sure what you mean by commune?

Supposedly it drops to something like $60/mo (in today’s dollars). The rest is actually me having agreed to subsidize the digging itself. I just looked again it’s actually 8 years, so on the whole I still feel like it was worth it.

In fact, I remember them telling me they went way over budget on the project so I’m actually underpaying (we signed agreements prior to them breaking ground). So I guess that aligns.

Not close enough, no. Though I was briefly looking into offering something using some high-powered point to point hardware, just haven’t really done it yet.

Sadly, yeah. Moved out here mid-COVID and I really don’t anticipate needing to move (got a good chunk of land, it’s quiet, farm animals, etc.) and I can do my job remote so the internet was definitely necessary. But we’ll see where life takes me.

I live pretty rural and no service providers had any desire or plans to expand service to where I am. Best offering was 768kbps DSL.

I’m in a little bit of a valley with a ton of huge trees, so Starlink would cut out every 10-15 minutes. Cellular internet was…okay…but not fast enough for my needs.

I ended up paying a provider to dig a trench from a distant main road to my property and bury a fiber line direct for my use. It has a 99.99999% uptime guarantee which is nice.

I’ll be paying for it for 10 years…but honestly, worth it.