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Sam Lin

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  1. Yeah man
  2. Do you even 'murica bro?
  3. Thread title does not check out.
  4. I'd preorder one right now. Set mine for mosquitoes-only. I can handle the rest myself.
  5. Can someone explain to me which of these I should buy, and if you're feeling wordy, the flavor/texture differences where I'd want to use one over another? Please speak slowly, this is literally foreign to me.
  6. The missing jalapeno is driving me nuts. (referring to CoachTex sandwich)
  7. Re: cabbage Fairly well known Thai restaurant Supanniga Eating Room has a really famous riff on a normal Thai dish, cabbage stir fried with fish sauce. Theirs is wonderful, if expensive. During Covid they sold "cook at home" sets and released this little YT short showing how to cook it. Flash fry/blanch, then quick wok fry with fish sauce.
  8. The Way My Husband Is Coping With Our Month of No Sex Is Infuriating https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/01/husband-horrible-surgery-advice.html
  9. That's the pry bar.
  10. I learned that lesson pretty quick, turns out each partial execution costs a trade, so my $5 in shares cost me $9.95 to trade. Will never make back that loss on the remaining $25 in shares! Now I always uncheck the "allow partial execution."
  11. to Bolivia
  12. Just now, more cancer than ever before.
  13. Why not 99th percentile? Shame.
  14. Welp, that was an underwhelming finish, it's very clearly half of a 2part story and not intended to stand as its own book. Onward, now starting "Judas Unchained" - the second half of the story.
  15. Thankfully, we can now choose drug-resistant gonorrhea! https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/gonorrhea-is-becoming-unstoppable-highly-resistant-cases-found-in-us/ Yes.
  16. Just read the first 3 of Scalzi's "Old Man's War" series and really enjoyed it. Fairly easy read, quite human story. Bought the fourth but it's stylistically different enough I'm not sure I want to continue (I only just started it, but the first 3 books were such a nicely finished trilogy that I'm not sure what the rest of the series can add.) Currently reading Hamilton's "Pandora's Star" - definitely harder sci-fi, goes into probably too much detail describing just about everything. I find myself skimming over paragraphs at a time where it's just description that doesn't have any affect on plot (but at the same time I'm incredibly impressed at the amount of detail that he's thought through in creating his worlds). I'm 80% through; will see what I think when I finish. Do find the writing to be very clever, this is almost a grand epic of a book; so many different but converging plot lines, such diversity in imagination of worlds, species, motivations, and some fun humor tucked in there. I'm enjoying it, just need to decide if it's good or great.
  17. Quite the humblebrag: uses tools, knows which one to use, puts it back in the drawer. gtfo!
  18. I understand and agree with the general message above to always book with the airline, as it does give you the most chance of getting a rebook or change if something goes wrong. However: Sometimes resale agents will buy up a block of seats at a specific fare. There are cases where you can get a much lower fare if you find one of the resale agents trying to sell their seat, esp if you book last-minute and they either sell it or lose it. This is a case where Skyscanner, Priceline, Kayak, etc sometimes can find oddball listings that you won't get on the airline's own site. The other reason to use an agent (that I've personally run into): many airlines require showing the credit card used to purchase at check in, if you are in a higher-fraud-risk country. If you are buying a ticket for someone else and won't be at the airport with them, it may be inconvenient to do whatever alternate authentication the airline requests (for example, I've had to go to the airline ticket office and sign docs and have them check my ID). If you book through a booking site/agent, the site/agent takes the fraud risk and the airline won't need to check anything. As most of you are US-based, probably not a big issue. This card verification can be very common in Asia.
  19. If you want to get really serious with specific routing codes and tricks, Google still maintains ITA Matrix: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/search It's supposed to be getting shut down as everything moves to Flights, but Flights has so much less functionality that they haven't killed ITA yet. Oops, Chopper mentioned it in the previous post, I just totally glossed over the address as it didn't URL.
  20. I would quite doubt that 100k is average. Probably closer to double that. It's pretty serious savings.
  21. "each the other's world entire"
  22. Just got the email for that. Fuck you Amazon.
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