Do you have a library card? At my library I can reserve the books I want, and if they don’t have them they borrow them from another library in their system, and I get an email when they’re ready to be picked up. I also use the app Goodreads to track what I want to read.
If reading physical books is difficult, consider audiobooks as well!
For something sci fi/fantasy but more a serious/intense story:
I have never been ashamed in just straight up throwing a book down if I’m not in pretty quickly. Not everything is going to be everyone’s taste, and classics of all genres can be dull if you don’t find the premise interesting. Too many books out there to slog through anything lol
Trains and short range motor bikes or human powered bikes can definitely replace cars. The problem is the city needs to be designed for it. It can’t replace it in most places in the US because all infrastructure has been biased towards cars for more than 100 years. But if you imagine a city built from the ground up with trains and bikes in mind it is completely doable.
It’s going to take another century to undo the car centric society we have built in the US.
I have been using VLC on linux and android since forever, but recently on my new Amazon Firestick 4k Max, VLC was having issues playing h.265 HEVC movies. So, someone recommended Nova Player, and it played them beautifully. Nice player, I may switch all my devices to Nova.
also where is a good place to get physical books from at a discount?
In the US, most public libraries have collections of everything you mentioned (including manga). Also, a lot of libraries have bookstores where they sell donations and old books from their collections. Reference librarians are great people to talk to for book recommendations.
The Chinese calendar year is the same length on average as the Gregorian year, because they have leap months.
The Chinese calendar follows a 60 year cycle of when leap monthd are inserted into the year.
A lunar month is 29 or 30 days long (because it’s exactly 29.53 days from one new moon to the next) so a lunar 12 month year is just over 354 days long, which is almost 11 days short of the tropical year. To keep the calendar in sync with the solar year, every couple of years thirteenth month must be inserted into the year.
The year 2020 (4717 in the Chinese calendar) had a leap month between it’s 4th and 5th regular month, and this year (4720) there was a leap month between the 2nd and 3rd month.
Generally, there are 22 leap months in a 60 year cycle.
This calendar would have an error of one month every 600 years
The Jewish calendar
The Hebrews have a similar system, inserting 7 leap months in a 19-year cycle (metonic cycle)
This one is even more accurate, drifting away one month only after more than 6000 years.
So these two calendars both have an average year length of 365.25 days, so your age in both of them is about the same as in the Gregorian calendar.
The Islamic Calendar
What you are looking for is the islamic calendar. It is purely lunar and doesn’t have leap months. Every year is between 354 and 355 days long, meaning that after 33 years in the gregorian calendar, 34 Islamic years have passed. So no, this wouldn’t make that much of a difference with the drinking age in the US, but you could get away with alcohol 8 months earlier that way. Of course, ignoring the fact that most Muslims that unironically use the islamic calendar for everything also don’t drink
I think it’s a little worse than GB, but I’ve not used GB for years so I can’t compare directly. It works almost perfectly when I give at least some effort into hitting the right keys, and then there’s always the suggestions, so unless I’m really careless or typing some unusual words, it’s good.
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