People have lived in what is now Italy considerably longer (tens of thousands of years) than in North America and we know there were broad scale maps showing Italy’s boot shape at least 2500 years ago so I would be very surprised to find it was not Italy.

No, I’m generally pretty good with direction. There’s only been a few times I’ve had my internal sense of direction out of sync with reality and it’s a rather odd feeling every time. It surprises me just how many people are ok with never learning directions or where places are in relation to each other.

200 lbs won’t be walking out so easily

Unless it’s bolted to something solid a 90kg safe could be walked out pretty easily by two people or one person with a trolley.

I already do this and it works fine - as long as you take the critical step of not putting food waste in the bin.

I had an old Series era Landrover as a paddock basher when I was a kid, that had a manual choke. It also had a backup crank handle for starting the engine which I had to use occasionally as I was using starter batteries which had been retired from usage in the family cars, a gearbox with no synchro on first/second, and the foot brake didn’t work. Would recommend, I definitely had fun.

That’s one with big potential but not one to lead off with, best to wait until you’ve ‘invented’ a few obvious game changers and established your philosophic credentials before attempting to introduce basic medical hygiene…

Electricity is a hard ask to even attempt to do in ancient times. Luckily there’s a variety of other simpler things to establish yourself as a genius inventor - strirrups, wheelbarrows, magnetic compasses, the idea of a crank handle, and how to use triangular bracing to make a strong truss would be good options.

Knife, keys, and pen go into left pocket, phone goes into right pocket, wallet goes into back right or right cargo pocket depending on what I’m wearing.

Bags and jackets don’t change the base config, they just allow for more stuff. The exception is motorbike gear - then things move to the jacket pockets for comfort/accessibility.

I don’t have the issue of only having two pockets because I simply don’t buy regular pants/shorts with such a poor pocket selection.

They often do come with monitors, and at least in office installs they often get thrown straight back out again as the monitors are put in (the bases commonly get tossed as well due to fitouts using monitor arms).

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Not everything odd is AI, and I don’t believe this image is.

It’s consistent with the era of the monitors, has controls in believable locations on them, has a variety of angles that look right (including the supports underneath the base), and searching tineye with this image returns results with the same photo going back to at least 2015.

Gen Z, or those born between the late 90s and around 2010.

It can be applied more broadly to mean youths in general though, just as boomer gets used by the younger crowd to mean anyone older than them.

When I started school my year group would use encyclopaedias and the school library to look up information for projects, by the end of primary school (elementary for the yanks) we were using Google in the school computer room.

Better not let any clean freaks see this - they’ll have a cow!

It’s reasonably acceptable I guess, what people would hate me for is making jokes about getting a gnu name…

A soft drink bottle seems a good choice - they’re designed to handle pressure.

I’m quite happy to not see emojis spammed everywhere, I can deal with an emoticon or two - more so if actually useful for setting tone - but much more than that and you’re pushing it.

I tend to associate posts peppered with emojis with either immaturity or those out of their depth when it comes to technology. I’m sure it’s not always true but it does seem to correlate well with either kids or those whose typing method includes just tapping on the emoji whenever their phone keyboard suggests it.

I have mine set to one of the tracks from Simcity 2000. I was a bit curious to see if anyone would recognise it but nobody has so far (though some people have said it sounded familiar).

Most calls I get however are through my work phone and that just stays on silent to the point I can’t even think of what the ringtone actually sounds like.

Presumably a reference to the town, or more specifically the road sign for it.

A broken wisdom tooth rubbing against a nerve - would not recommend.

There’s a pretty good chance that you can get a bit of wire or a fine pick and push the key through from the other side, I’d be trying that first.

Aside from that the next easiest solution is likely to just disassemble the lock and replace the cylinder as others have suggested.