baltakatei
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz
<p>/ˈbɑːltəkʊteɪ/. Knows some <a href="https://reboil.com/res/2022/txt/20220320T1802Z..devoe_thermo_book_retypeset_draft.pdf" rel="nofollow">chemistry</a> and piping stuff. <a href="https://texmacs.org" rel="nofollow">TeXmacs</a> user.</p> <p>Website: <a href="https://reboil.com" rel="nofollow">reboil.com</a></p> <p>Mastodon: <a href="https://twit.social/@baltakatei" rel="nofollow">baltakatei@twit.social</a></p>
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Hard mode: set time zone to UTC (or Reykjavik; it's the same) and force yourself to add/subtract offset hours every time you want to know local time. Also, this forces you to track when exactly daylight saving time starts and stops. Benefit: you know when space probe stuff happens because they're almost always timestamped UTC. Also, playing Eve Online becomes slightly easier.
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Reminds me of the final pages of chapter 3 of the second volume of [Maus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus) (1991) in which a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust acts egregiously and unrepentantly racist to a black hitchhiker, surprising a friend who thought that the suffering would have engendered empathy for discriminated races. ::: spoiler page 259 of 296  ::: To...