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Yeah, pretty much.

The whole thing about guys not stoping to ask for directions and never reading instructions for assembling things all comes out of that generation where you never left home unless you knew where you were going, and everyone had basic level carpentry, plumbing, and electrical skills because had built a barn or assembled a kit house or installed a sink before.

Hand someone from that generation a manual of a swedish amorphic blob giving you a thumbs up to assemble an IKEA end table and they're like "yeah I don't need that". It's not about the end goal of having a table. It's about having the knowledge to assemble the table. What is this part? How is it used? What would it do if I put it here vs there?

Interesting, maybe it's a perception thing? UHT is supposed to be shelf stable for like 6-9 months, although it might last even longer if refrigerated. I'd imagine I'd your area's milk is normally refrigerated, then it could be hard to sell UHT milk to someone if it's not even in the cooler at time of purchase.

Regular refrigerated shelf milk is not brought to the boiling temperature. It is brought to 71.5 C / 160.7 F for 15 seconds. The boiling temperature of milk is around 95 C.

ultra high temperature pasteurized milk is brought way above the boiling point (135 C) for 2 seconds, but you won't find that in the refrigerated section. It will be sitting in a carton in an unrefrigerated aisle.

I'm your back door lover

That's not idiots. That's people that don't make much money, hate their job, and saw an opportunity to leave with some change in their pocket while dumpster fire is just smouldering and not a full blown blaze yet.

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Excellent list, I hope OP see's it!

Also, I should have added a caveat to that last bullet: learn how to make friends without becoming an alcoholic. Meetup.com is usually the answer for finding readily available like minded people interested in the same physical activity as you, but meeting a whole bunch of new people at once can be overwhelming.

Good luck man!

As someone that left the US a decade and a half ago, here's some things to go ahead and start getting answers to so you don't have to figure it out when the time comes:

• Figure out how to get a bank account (hopefully you've already worked this one out before arriving)
• Where to buy toiletries and medicine. Specifically deodorant. The UK is mostly spray deodorant where as I'm a stick deodorant person. At one point I was just bringing 4 sticks of deodorant back with me after every trip home. I'm not sure which way NZ leans but it was definitely something I hadn't considered before
• Where to buy socks and underwear you're comfortable with
• Figure out how the health service/insurance works. Go ahead and book dentist and doctors appointments 6 months in advance if possible so you get in the habit.
• Figure out how paying taxes works
• If you're a US citizen, remember you're still required to file taxes with the IRS every year.
• Learn how to make friends. I still haven't figured this one out. Let me know if you do.

Yeah, walking away from every person you've ever known and every support system you've ever had in hopes of a better future with no real promises to fall back on if it doesn't work out isn't courageous at all.

I actually stopped using mine a long time ago, and every time I get a new laptop, I remove it. Not because I hate it, but because I like it. Even after modifying the acceleration settings to where I like them though, the repeated stress of pushing on the nub eventually start to develop dendonitis in my finger.

After I've trained myself to only use the trackpad I put the nub back on. Partly because it's so iconic it just looks wrong without it, and partly because I want to avoid conversations with guest about my growing clit graveyard (although I guess I could just not leave them in a cup on the coffee table where everyone can see)

He's perpetually stuck in his 8 year old rich kid nerd mindset. He thinks people will want to hang out with him if he has cars, rocket ships, and video games.

SteamOS plus the next gen of MSI Claw or ASUS ROG ally is going to be the absolutely superior gaming and customer experience in the coming years. There's no good reason to buy a Switch unless you need Nintendo exclusives (or have kids, and then it just makes sense).