If you’re a time traveller you could build up credibility with other things too. Start contacting a journalist with predictions of future headlines. Go back to October 2000 and say what’s going to happen with Bush v. Gore. Then in like July 2001 meet up with them, explain that you’re a time traveller which is how you know this, and show them the video.

Significant improvement there.

Hooked on a feeling in my ass

I don’t know where this is, but often this has to do with local alcohol laws. At restaurants with patios or sidewalk seating you’ll often see “no alcohol beyond this point” signs for the same reason. They can serve you alcohol, but they have to keep you within a certain space while you’re consuming it.

I don’t have time to get out a million little differently sized utensils because I need 2 cups of this, ¼ cup of that, ½ a teaspoon of the third thing etc. when I can put the bowl on a kitchen scale and use the tare function.

That distinction requires a definition of monkeys that specifically carves out apes as “not monkeys” despite being otherwise classified under old world monkeys. By sensible definitions, apes are monkeys.

40 teabags? What, are you shopping for more tea twice a day?

KDE Connect or Nextcloud. My phone has USB 2, but I can easily top 1 Gbit/s over wifi.