Sakurai

An excellent reminder to shop at markets where you can, and grow your own where you’re able to

Bad Gear. Florian is definitely scraping the barrel for crusty synths when he turns his attention to plugins.

This was great content. I wasn’t aware Kryptonite had a new lock in this segment and it looks awesome! Still pretty satisfied with my Hiplok chain for portability but if I get an e-bike the vultures will be circling…

This, and working with a team, and working towards the public good. Building successful teams, improving processes, implementing efficient and sustainable systems - all good fun to achieve.

That said these take weeks and months to accomplish where I work. I’d love to be a chef where the results of my labour was more … immediate.

Public health. It’s fuckin great, mate.

Actually, not especially homogeneous. Australia is fantastically multicultural with an indigenous population who have dramatically lower life expectancies, for complex reasons. But we have universal healthcare and governments that care, which makes a huge difference.

What’s really interesting is Japan. Private health but high quality and reasonably affordable. I reckon their figures are also propped up by generational longevity which will diminish as the elderly die off and shitty western lifestyles creep in with the youth.