Yes, that's what happens when you try and dictate silly timezone things to people. Newfoundland is a small island that was an independent British dominion when timezones were formalized, and they didn't send anybody to the conference. They eventually realized they needed some standardization and picked something within a minute of St. John's solar time, which is in the extreme east. Most of Labrador, in the west, thought that was dumb and so, outside of a little chunk around the ferry landing, they don't use it.

Newfoundland itself is a holdout with their half hour timezone. They used to be fairly common but all but a few have switched forwards or backwards to align within a whole number of hours. It's been proposed in Newfoundland a few times too but the Newfies like being different. They can get away with it because the only connections to the area using NST/NDT are air, a three hundred kilometre highway with literally nothing on it, a 6-7 hour ferry and another 14-18 hour ferry that only runs in the summer.

I have one actually. Very nice.

Why stop there? You should live in a small village with no more people than you can know personally, interact with the outside world very rarely and no more than absolutely necessary and devote your life to worship.

What could possibly go wrong?

The Amish are a religious splinter group with specific beliefs, i.e. a cult.

The group sex alien suicide cults are a small minority.

While Putin seems to have made up that specific term (in Russian) the Soviet Union was fond of liberations and friendly assistance.

The US has a long history of police actions, contingency operations, interventions, incursions, expeditions, foreign internal defence (probably my favourite), targeted strikes, extraordinary rendition, enhanced interrogation etc.

Ah, but imagine you are in a room that doesn't have any air!

China does that. Except they don't. Bejing decrees it and the locals just use their own unofficial time zones.

The kids in the dark thing is an excuse. Nobody wants to say "it sucks to get up an hour earlier in the winter."

I also grew up in the far north. Getting up in the dark sucks. Getting up an hour earlier than that sucks even more.

Newfoundland does. Labrador doesn't.

No, panspermia, actual life coming from space isn't what's being discussed. It's the idea that some or all of the complex organics, like amino acids, could have been delivered by comets. We observe lots of these in space and we know how they can be made there via processes that involve things like lots of UV that might not be as common on the surface of a planet.

except my desktop computer can run continuously, not just for 20 min at a time.

Probably not if you take all the fans off.

Sure. And when the government decides that the datacentre services you use, like this one, are low priority and should be shut down to free up capacity for others, you'll be totally okay with that.

Sure. I doubt very much there's anyone in the world who has hundreds of billions of dollars though. Probably nobody who has billions either. IIRC Elon Musk has claimed he keeps around $500 million in cash, but that's probably not really true either. It's likely almost all in something fairly liquid like government bonds.

Most people can't stick parts of cars together either. They certainly can't make those parts, nor make the materials those parts are made from.

Your "implied" bit makes a big assumption: that you get to start from a fairly small number of parts that fit together in a fairly obvious way. Paint by numbers. The OPs assumption about software vulnerabilities is even bigger: that finding one vulnerability is of similar difficulty to protecting against all possible vulnerabilities.

Very, very few of the rich hoard money. That's not how you get rich, and it's also not what the ones who inherit tend to do.