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I always recommend this site: https://theteahouseltd.com/

We've visited them in person and their tea was so fantastic that even non-tea people loved it. They ship worldwide. I tend to order in bulk these years.

Only one tea has ever come close, and it was a small Asian restaurant out of Vancouver, BC. This store has dozens of amazing varieties.

We just have an instant hot water tap. Can't live without it, haha.

Nobody shot off fireworks here because of the grave situation in our country. Just an eerie hush over the city. We've lived here for 60 years and never seen anything like 2025.

One lady saw me locking my bike up with 12mm thick chain and expressed sadness that we have to go to such lengths as a society just to keep others from touching things that aren't theirs. I sometimes think of her now when I'm locking up my bike.

Doubly sad too, since some people don't have cars, and bikes are their primary means of transit.

If you have to hope, it probably doesn't.

The other thing that's kinda cool is that you get to see a bunch of people who normally are kinda invisible, but make up a considerable part of your city and life. It's incredibly fun to see people from all walks of life and backgrounds all having fun together. It makes us all stronger and more unified. It reminds me that we absolutely can do anything when we all work together as a team. Also, about 60% of the crowd there is probably running your city's IT infrastructure ;)

Sweater weather. I already didn't like the downtempo vibe, but it got painfully overplayed back in the day. Unfortunately, I still hear it occasionally. Anything but that, please.

And the orange menace's POS daughter is attending, as icing on the cake.

I think this is my favorite comment so far, made me chuckle quite a bit :)

I met some nice people, but had better luck just meeting people naturally in my 20s. I think the reason why dating apps didn't work is that it's kinda like job apps online, where there's just waves of people, and everyone is just kinda putting their resume on their profile. Hard to stand out and meet "real" people among bots/hidden likes/ app design/bad matches.

Usually these companies make money by having users churn through loads of bad matches and then continually pay for premium.

I'd recommend joining a club IRL or volunteering, it might be a more organic fit. Friends -> dating can come naturally out of that.

Probably about 1-2 weeks, unless jumping in a lake during that time counts. We were in the back country deep in Canada :)

Frutiger Aero was heavily used in Elite Dangerous for a faction's ships. I love that look! Didn't realize it had a name.