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  1. Definitely the blurst of times over at Tesla. Never fear, though - I'm sure they'll get even blurse.
  2. Amazon Primate. (And fuck all these fucking fucks. The Russian army's too good for them. Well, maybe not.)
  3. Yeah, if you travel through a pre-clearance airport overseas (Dublin, Shannon, Bermuda, Nassau, Aruba, Abu Dhabi, and the major Canadian cities), you're released into the general horde when you arrive at your arrival airport in the States as if you were arriving from SFO or JFK. You've already cleared everything before you leave (this means that once you do that, of course, you're in a sterile part of the foreign airport and have to stay there until you depart, so keep that in mind). The fine folks that give you patdowns without warning want to ensure that it's only US Americans who do that prior to you joining the domestic air travel scene (the benefit if you're connecting in the US, of course, is that you've also cleared customs and immigration and can just go to your next flight). If you travel overseas at all, I'd highly recommend Global Entry as it speeds up customs and gets you TSA pre-check.
  4. All/almost all US and Canadian airports (Miami used to be an exception, don't know if it still is) make you pass through security after arriving on an international flight. The only exceptions to this are if you are coming from an airport that has US pre-clearance (most Canadian airports, Dublin, some others); then you've already cleared customs and TSA there and your transfer in the US is treated just like changing planes domestically. Other than that - yeah, you're going to have to clear security again. Some airports are better than others and have dedicated security lines for international arrivals; some don't and make you go back into the airport like everyone else. I try to avoid those if I can, much as I try to avoid airports where you need to leave airside just to transfer between terminals domestically, which has the same effect. It sucks, no question - and it also seriously sucks about your duty-free.
  5. Grew up on that stuff (Brisket's right about the chowdah, although Duke's is probably better). The original is a block from the office. The Alaska cruise season literally started a few minutes ago, so we won't be able to get in any of those places or buy our fish at Pike Place Market for 6 months now.
  6. @Nicole44? Same thing here in the PNW. Decent restaurants will tell you if the fish is local; seafood is serious bidness here. Alaska Airlines flies a metric fuckton of fresh Yukon or Copper River salmon to Seattle in season as well, plus you can often buy the local stuff fresh off the boats in town. I look for the Texas/Gulf stuff when I'm down there, for the same reasons.
  7. No, she's just tired and shagged out following a long squawk. Probably also pining for the fjords.
  8. That... doesn't work. WWII out front shoulda told ya (and not just Russia, but pretty much all combatant states) .
  9. Well, yeah, the Italians gave King Zog the push in 1939. An Albanian just isn't gonna forget something like that.
  10. "Continue reading in the app." lol Enshittification.
  11. Lol, Patagonian Toothfish. Nice try. We're on to you.
  12. Well, it's not smashed into a wall.
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