I have at least a dozen USB A extension cables at work that supposedly don’t exist then.

Not exactly niche tastes for sure. I enjoy listening to almost any genre (seriously, even country). But the rapid commercialization and repetitiveness of most modern music (in any genre) is really off-putting. I do listen to current music but while it’s not super niche, it’d also never end up on a list like this.

I’m not one of those people who only listens to indie bands and thinks I’m superior. Last week I listened to everything Pink Floyd ever released. :D The week before that it was all swedish power metal.

I too have only heard one song on this list. But I was born more than 4 decades ago so…

I’m sure this will be lost in the comments but you CAN get 25GBit here in 'murica. My ISP offers it… But this ISP is also considered one of the best in the world so… https://epb.com/fi-speed-internet/#choose-your-plan

1968

18 was a long ass time ago for me. It would have been the late 90’s. The world was so much different that I don’t think anything I could say in 3 words would make any sense to my 18 year old self. I didn’t have any money at 18 so something like “buy apple stock” wouldn’t have worked.

Even taking the big assumption that I believed what I was telling my 18 year old self I can’t actually come up with anything that makes sense in context. 3 words just isn’t enough to convey anything useful given the time difference and everything else!

This map is really out of date. We now know there were humans in North America many thousands of years before “15,000 years ago”.

This is a better representation: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Early_migrations_mercator.svg/3840px-Early_migrations_mercator.svg.png

I am pretty sure that is NOT a Roman aqueduct but a Portuguese built one from the 18th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Águas_Livres_Aqueduct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Águas_Livres_Aqueduct#/media/File:Aqueduto_das_Águas_Livres_(1).jpg

I hadn’t actually considered that. That very likely makes me ineligible actually. Thinking about it like that, I doubt any of my ancestors were ever actually Canadian. I’d forgotten about the fact Canada wasn’t an independent country yet so they wouldn’t qualify and therefore I wouldn’t either.

My mom’s side of the family is all Cajun, which means they came from France, went to Canada, and then settled in Louisiana (where I was born). Considering how long ago all this happened there is likely exactly zero documentation about this. What can I do?

I did say the name in my post… It’s called Ice World and it’s an older sci-fi book from either 50’s or 60’s. It’s only about 200 pages long.

There are quite a few sci-fi stories and short stories built on a similar concept. One of my favorites is an alien ship lands on a random farm in the US and (leaving a lot of details out, read the book!) it comes to light that the aliens normally live at insanely hot temperatures like 900F (480C) and consider Earth an “Ice World” (that’s also the name of the book). Anyway, one of the catches in the book is that farmer figures out the alien wants to trade (again skipping a lot of details) but all he has on him that he can give up is a cigarette (the farmer doesn’t know it’s super hot inside the ship). He does the trade and we later find out that most of the galaxy is INSANELY vulnerable to being 100% completely utterly addicted to nicotine. When the alien took in the cigarette it instantly vaporized and sent the nicotine into the air and they breathed it and became instantly addicted worse than any opiod addiction IRL.