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Sam Lin

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  1. Thank god you don't hate the word #Stonks, then we might have a problem.
  2. Check back after a few weeks. It comes back to limited showing Imax at end of month for me.
  3. Spoiler warning.
  4. I chuckled a bit when they showed NowThis news. Thanks Surly. Movie was well produced, the plot was just a hot mess/dumpster fire that had plenty of potential but all of it left untouched, and most of the acting was mailed-in. None of the plot made sense.
  5. TL:DR PETA is full of shit I posted this somewhere on a Thailand thread on TOS, but basically this story is utter bullshit from PETA scrabbling for attention and donations. This practice is largely a cooperation between the human and monkey and this statement from PETA is about as ludicrous as...any other statement from PETA: No one with large farms is using monkeys to harvest their coconuts. Monkeys are inefficient and a pain in the ass to keep and manage in any quantity. Why the hell would you pay and keep a monkey handler + a monkey when you could just pay the handler to harvest coconuts directly? On bulk farms, harvesting one coconut at a time is utter stupidity. They cut the entire cluster and deliver it to market. Faster and easier to transport. NPR did their own investigation 7yrs ago: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/19/448960760/monkeys-pick-coconuts-in-thailand-are-they-abused-or-working-animals Article from 2yrs ago about someone who actually has monkeys trained to pick coconuts. They provide a community service for local villagers who don't have a way to pick their coconuts. Yes some of these coconuts get sold to companies including Chaokoh. Most don't get sold to corporations, they get used at home or sold at the local village market. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-are-coconuts-picked As to the statement from PETA? No one in Thailand supports letting monkeys roam free and spend time with their families. They destroy everything, get in fights, and overpopulate worse than rabbits. - these "free range with family" monkeys have it far worse than any of the trained coconut monkeys above, and periodically the military comes in and "relocates" a portion of the monkey population to reduce the overpopulation problem. There is never any detail on where the monkeys are "relocated" - you can read between the lines on that one, but I guarantee PETA would love it. This problem is not far from where I live: https://www.buddhistdoor.net/news/monkey-mayhem-hungry-macaques-run-amok-in-thai-city-after-coronavirus-sees-tourism-tumble/
  6. Not sure which thread to use for general aviation hilarity, almost put this in the "news that reminds you of Surly" thread: https://www.secretflying.com/posts/girl-almost-dies-on-ba-flight-after-fellow-passenger-refused-to-stop-eating-nuts/ FWIW I've never agreed with not serving nuts on a flight because one person was allergic. They can travel a different way or bring a positive pressure filtered rebreather, it's their health problem.
  7. That's also the only way to do proper fried rice.
  8. Still pretty easy to calculate 10% in my head. Fuck this creep in tip percentages for basic service. But that is sleazy as hell to provide 18/20/25 and not 15/20/25.
  9. In the downhill racing stupid carnage dept, I present Mountain of Hell. 25km downhill in the Alps on ice/snow/rocks. Thousand riders. Hundreds of wipeouts at a time. See 2:35 for the starting pileup.
  10. For nonstick, I do have an AMT and a Scanpan, and I can fry eggs in those with no oil. Most of my pans are De Buyer, I like them for general use over cast iron simply because lighter weight. Properly seasoned, and cooked with hot pan/hot oil before adding food, you shouldn't be sticking to the food. Is it possible you're adding too much egg at once so you're bringing the pan temp down too far when you add food, or you aren't preheating the pan long enough? When your eggs stick, it is only around the edges or only in the center, or does it stick everywhere in the pan? Carbon steel, being thinner, has less stored heat than an equivalent size cast iron, and will lose more temp when you add food. (I keep a heavy cast iron skillet for stove searing just for this reason.) See 5:50 for scrambled eggs leaving his cast iron pan, completely clean release:
  11. You give them a shot of Jäger, because they deserve it.
  12. Perfect crust cook.
  13. That's a light dough and a single loaf. KitchenAid is just fine for small tasks like that. Ankarsrum is if you want to make 4 loaves at once or you have high gluten or very dry doughs (long knead sourdough, bagels, etc). You can make triple batches of most doughs with no issue. Bonus: the machine runs quiet doing it.
  14. Counterpoint: Ankarsrum. If your primary use is lots of dough or heavy dough, don't waste time trying to keep Kitchenaids alive. Now if you are doing lighter stuff like cookies, or needing to cream or whip frosting/meringue, then the Kitchenaid excels.
  15. He'll have a five-year-old after November.
  16. If you install the microwave upside-down, the door lifts up out of the way. #themoreyouknow
  17. The one that makes zero sense is the idiots parking up front to go to...the gym!
  18. No way is Sedona overrated for AZ. One of the most beautiful areas in the country if not the world. They only listed Sedona because the liberal weenies in Tucson would get pissed and protest again if they listed Tucson. (There was an amusing amount of protest at this shirt, which is actually accurately showing how most of AZ feels about Tucson.)
  19. PSA: you aren't denying anyone your essence when you hotbox the elevator.
  20. #teambackinparking
  21. I'm better off than you, there are a shitton of fugly watches that I definitely do not want.
  22. Correct. Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese are two very different dialects. Mandarin has 4 tones, Taiwanese 8 (or 5 depending on school of thought). The two are not similar enough to communicate verbally. Mandarin is by far the standard and is the "universal" dialect for all Chinese to speak to each other. In the current generations, unless you grow up with old relatives who speak Taiwanese or are in a part of the country with many speakers, young Taiwan people are not learning Taiwanese any more. If you want to rabbit hole: https://www.quora.com/How-different-are-Mandarin-and-Taiwanese
  23. Books are fantastic, you're in for a treat.
  24. You're supposed to cut a hole in the bottom of the popcorn bucket.
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