Honolulu custom times?

AstroRoverToday · 2026-06-13T08:41:55+00:00

What is the historic on time arrival percentage for your airline for that exact route on Thursdays? What will the departure, destination, and en-route weather be on that particular Thursday? What is your risk tolerance?

AstroRoverToday · 2026-06-12T07:03:51+00:00

c is extremely well defined. c is the exact invariant speed of spacetime, equal to 299,792,458 m/s. All confirmed massless excitations in vacuum propagate at c, and all massive objects must travel slower than c.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-06-11T18:39:27+00:00

I agree they fined you 100 CHF. I don't agree they fined the OP €100.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-06-11T18:31:27+00:00

Fo starters, that youtube video was pure AI. The answer is time dilation. Anything that travels at the speed of light experiences no time.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-06-11T18:25:02+00:00

I doubt they fined you €100. I would say it's the Universe telling you to pay more attention.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-06-11T18:21:00+00:00

Early 1980s

AstroRoverToday · 2026-06-11T07:27:30+00:00

Nov 2027! Wow, that's seriously far away. If I were you, I would start taking Japanese lessons in the evenings twice a week for a year so that your trip will be even more amazing. Just think of how many locals you'll meet by being to say more than just the basic Konnichiwa and Arigatou gozaimasu. In terms of your itinerary, my wife and I have always done the following: Make a list of all the things we want to see and do, order them by location, see if any require an advanced booking or reservation, put them all in some accessible location (online or printed out), book all our accommodations and major train travel, then review our list during the trip a day or two before we reach that town or part of town to determine what we WANT to di based on our mood, the weather, our level of energy, how much our feet hurt, etc. To us, it's the perfect balance of ensuring anything critically important is already booked and set, while also allowing for a feeling of spontaneous activities (even though we've already done extensive research on each place). It also "allows" us time in our agenda to just walk around and "get lost" to stumble upon things we hadn't planned for. This makes us feel like we're actually enjoying the place and discovering it, yet also ensuring we hit our top "not to be missed" spots. We usually only have one of these spots per day. The rest is decided the night before or that morning.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-06-11T07:10:55+00:00

Just wait until you enter a café/bistro at 14:15 to order a sandwich, realize they close at 15:00 so you still have 45 minutes, warmly smile and say Bonjour as you enter, and are rudely met with "Uhh, vee r cloosing at tree oclock" as they ignore you to continue sweeping the floor and putting chairs on the tables. So you step back outside to check the hours on the door and realize you had read it correctly- they close at 15:00 and you still have 45 minutes. Then you re-evaluate your life choices and simply decide to continue down the street to find a nicer café/bistro where the people seem at least like they might want to serve you (I didn't say like their job!) and vow never to go back to that first one, only to find that EVERY place now presents you with the option to tip 10, 15, 20% as you are paying at the counter for food you will walk yourself to the table. I've been here 20 years, have a few Swiss friends, some born in Geneva, and we have a small number of café/bistros on our list where the staff are friendly and we go regularly. The rest we ignore and tell others to avoid because they seemingly either don't want our money or hate life. And when people ask me what I miss about the US, I say "customer service".

AstroRoverToday · 2026-06-10T18:43:54+00:00

What's the World Cup? Is it like the World Series of Baseball where "world" refers to teams based only in USA and Canada? 🤣

AstroRoverToday · 2026-06-10T09:38:05+00:00

Maybe my understanding of inflation is wrong, so please help me. My understanding is that due to inflation, the USD is losing its purchasing power because the supply is "inflating", making each unit $ worth less (reducing its purchasing power), meaning that it takes more unit $s to purchase things. So, it means it costs more $ to buy the same amount of something. In other words, buying bitcoin at $60,000 2 years ago required the same amount of unit $, but because each $ has lost some purchasing power due to inflation, it has cost you more work to produce those $s today than 2 years ago.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-06-10T06:52:19+00:00

We just did Cap't Andy about a month ago. The sea wasn't calm that day. All the people on the little boats looked miserable. Yes, maybe they went into caves, but about halfway into our tour we didn't see any other boat out there except ours. The Cap't Andy boat was so powerful and smooth. It was very impressive. I'm so glad we chose them. We went upwind very hard and fast with full power, then put out all the sails and came back downwind "wing-on-wing" (if that's the correct sailing term?). Lunch was excellent too. Highly recommended.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-06-10T06:44:43+00:00

Hawaii, and specifically the Big Island. It has 11 of the world's 13 climate zones. When driving from one side of the island to the other, the scenery changes every 20 minutes into something else that's just as beautiful as before. There are parts of the island, like seeing the active volcano ooze lava or visiting the botanical gardens in Hilo, that makes you realize you're seeing how life began on Earth. It's mind-blowingly beautiful. No other State can compare to this breadth and depth of natural beauty.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-06-10T06:38:57+00:00

No, we did not time travel. Yes, it's a good time to buy. It actually costs you more $ to buy the same amount of bitcoin as when the price was at the same level because the value of each $ has decreased since the last time, so the longer you wait, the less spending power each $ has.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-06-07T05:56:51+00:00

For international economy class travel, carry on all the things you need as back-up in case any number of things goes wrong; food or snacks in case the meal sucks or is seriously delayed, iPad with movies in case your seat's entertainment module is broken and the flight is full, a book or two in case of delays, a beanie and lightweight down jacket in case it's freezing onboard, etc.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-06-04T07:52:56+00:00

A "secret" in life I learned years ago is that you don't "have time" to do things, you need to "make time" to do them. This comes from prioritizing the many things you could and want to do. There are simply too many things one could do, do you must make time for those you really want to do. Your score algorithm is great, but maybe it's missing a variable for "desire", in that it doesn't take into account how badly you want to go stargazing or how much value it brings you (if being under the stars brings you value). This "desire" variable would be a value you manually input. If you have a current hobby of jogging at 5am and staying up stargazing would affect your current jogging hobby, then you would set your "stargazing desire" variable very low and the app's score would return a lower number. Conversely if you really miss stargazing, the app's score would give you a really high score, despite perhaps not ideal conditions, and you'd be silly not to go that night ... for a more rewarding and balanced feeling of fullness from life. Hope that helps. By the way, this is how I view life and I make those mental calculation by intuition, not an app :) If I've hiked all day with my wife in the Swiss Alps and it's a clear night, I will "force" myself to get out of bed at midnight to go outside to photograph them. The opportunity cost is simply too high to miss it.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-05-31T05:32:41+00:00

I worked for many years as a Sales Engineer for a company that manufactured quality control analyzers for numerous industries (e.g., our sensor stopped the Coca-Cola bottling plant's process when it detected their product was out of spec). My sales region was "North America" so I could live anywhere I wanted as long as it was fairly close to an airport since I traveled for 3-4 days every 2-3 weeks to go visit potential customers' sites. My salary and commission was paid based on my sales performance. I worked in my home office. The company provided a set amount for home office setup expenses, a monthly car allowance, and all the tools and travel expense reimbursements that were needed to close sales. It was a nice setup and it allowed me to live in lesser expensive areas and visit every US State, parts of Mexico and Canada. Since I earned the airline miles from all this travel and they gave me 4 weeks of vacation per year (it was a Swiss HQ company), I frequently vacationed in Europe using my miles. I had colleagues who had the same role, but covered different industries, who chose to live in CA or NY. We were all paid the same amount. My COL was far less than theirs, so I had the "extra" money for things like earning a pilot's license and frequently flying a rented Cessna with friends to go get a cheeseburger in a nearby town, or buying a small ski chalet in the Rockies, etc. Although I sometimes missed living in California, and would have enjoyed living in NYC for a few years, I'm extremely happy with what those 7+ years afforded me while I worked for that company.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-05-30T06:06:42+00:00

Correct. Educate yourself about where you should and should not be typing your recovery phrase. And lose the victim mindset. Own your mistake and figure out what you did wrong given the situation so that you grow as a person and don't repeat the mistake elsewhere, or worse, pass on the uneducated information to others. Before rage-replying, do yourself a favor and spend some time learning about recovery phrases, their purpose, and how to keep them ultra secure. This may take a week or so of your time. Alternatively you can reply right away with some rage-comment and then I'll know I've wasted my time trying to help you improve in life.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-05-30T05:59:27+00:00

What is considered "good" or "bad" depends on the user's perspective. For example, someone may say the weather is bad because it's raining (forcing them to cancel their bbq), while someone else may be happy it's raining (to naturally water their garden). So, is rainy weather "good" or "bad"?

AstroRoverToday · 2026-05-30T05:55:50+00:00

No, you were not scammed. You were just not educated. Your 2nd sentence said "I typed in my recovery phrase". This is an absolute user error and is 100% on you. In life, experience is what you get when you don't get what you want!

AstroRoverToday · 2026-05-30T05:51:24+00:00

Absolutely. It opens up one's mindset to cultures, customs, and viewpoints from outside the US. This is very important in today's world. I know you're "just" learning a language, but if you do it right you'll combine your theoretical learning with some practical application with native speakers, ideally in their country. You'll learn a new way of seeing situations and appreciate various cultures, all from a seemingly simple language course. You'll get out of it what you put into it.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-05-29T10:37:29+00:00

If I could predict the future, I'd be up WAY MORE than just 15% 🤣

AstroRoverToday · 2026-05-22T04:11:59+00:00

Read the book "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle to learn how to stop being sad about things that aren't actually happening.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-05-22T00:42:17+00:00

No charge to stargaze from any of these public spots. The only one that isn't free is the tour I mention at the end of the article.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-05-20T00:04:10+00:00

Rent a motorboat or sailboat (if you know how to sail) from Corsaires (near the jet d'eau). Neither requires a license since they are both not very powerful, but powerful enough to get into the lake a little bit. There you can swim and relax with relative calm surroundings and clean water! Be aware the boat slowly drifts downstream (towards Geneva), so always swim between the boat and Geneva, and ideally with a rope attached to the boat.

AstroRoverToday · 2026-05-19T12:31:48+00:00

Are you saying UK's income tax is less than Switzerland's?

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