I find both my Paratschwert and my Sigi Maestro will do a perfectly acceptable Prelhau. Plenty of flex.

Still, a gorgeous sword with plenty of flex is awfully nice, and that one is gorgeous.

I am not claiming that finding “work worth doing” will make it easier to pay the rent or put food on the table.

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My claim is that finding (and doing) "work worth doing" helps the mental health issues.

This only succeeded in alienating their base. I hope a take-away lesson of Mamdani is that you appeal to your base by championing their issues and not by triangulating to avoid offending the rich. #uspol

If you really want to be untethered, local solar time is the easiest! Just look to see where the sun is, to know the time within an hour or so. (Or set up a sundial.)

Great! I hope you find it useful and interesting.

I would support anything that ended changing the clocks twice a year, but I still think the right solution is that we all go on local solar time: www.philipbrewer.net/2015/12/12/l...

Back in my days writing for Wise Bread, I wrote a whole article about that: www.wisebread.com/fund-your-ow...

I think it stands up pretty well.

*Note: Obamacare is a great program, which came along at a critical time for me, and lasted long enough for me to get on Medicare. My gratitude for the program knows no bounds, and I feel immense sorrow that the Republicans continue to try to ruin it.

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