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Xiamen, a city with a population of more than 4 million people, is directly across the Strait from Taiwan.

Every Fast and Furious sequal

triple shots of espresso

While fucked up, at least Xi and Mao are nominally real (though their particular origin stories and revised histories are also just as made up as those of the religious bunch).

Even after growing up with the deeply entrenched racism of rural Georgia, I was shocked at the overt and outspoken racism of Boston and the area around it.

Old dirt bag techno fascist.

I was using two already older but pretty good and not cheap hand grinders (Knock Feld 2 and Helor 101). But I recently got the Fellow Ode Gen 2 flat burr grinder ($300) for V60 pour overs at home and it was a complete game changer. At the same time, I took the somewhat recently purchased Fellow Opus conical grinder to the office to use with the Clever Dripper and now my coffee both at home and at the office are substantially better than before.

Buying a pretty nice coffee bean grinder made such a bigger difference in the quality of the coffee I drink that I count it as a solid win.

Considering how shitty flying economy is in general, it seems like a 2 drink minimum is need to even tolerate it.

I stopped looking at ABnB a few years ago. It stopped making financial and quality of life sense. The costs became nearly equal or greater than that of hotels I cross shopped.

The hassle though is what really killed it. The inconvenience of dealing with a host that was not on-site and often not available to deal with issues plus the long list of chores required and the potential penalties of not following them perfectly just made it not worth doing.

Yup. Tried Rumble once. It was all right wing or pro-Russia or other extremist trash.

Not available in Vietnam or I would be all over it.

Sun says yum.

Anywhere outside of the blocked areas would have been fine. I think my VPN was set to Japan when I watched it.

Yes, that would be the one.

The recent Daily Show with John Oliver episode really does a deep dive on just how completely nuts RFK Jr is.

Bullcrap. Can’t do the time, don’t do the crime. I knew the risks and I don’t blame anyone else for the time I did when I got busted. I agree the laws are wrong but it is delusional to blame anyone other than yourself when you knew what the risks and penalties were.

sounds like a win-win

Nice outside the box thinking.