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  1. Just a good ol' boys, Never meanin' no harm,
  2. it probably makes sense if you already use google fi as primary provider at home, and use its extension for international data for using google fi exclusively as a traveling provider, the flexible plan has base cost + data. pretend its a 1mo period using 5gb, fi is $20+$10*5gb= $70. airalo for 5gb of regional use is $20.
  3. these near-direct-to-consumer platforms reveal how insanely cheap manufacturing can be. almost magical, really. imagine you want to buy a pair of pliers: someone had to mine the ores, refine it, distribute it, it goes to a factory that stamp/cast/forge/shape it into pliers, its sanded, polished, grooves cut into it, pin affixed to it, some colored rubber sleeves applied to it, (fake) brand name etched into it. it gets packaged, shipped across the globe to your door in nebraska, with (pennies) of profits allocated to the supplier, the factory owner, the reseller, the selling online platform, the shipper, and so on... ...and it cost the consumer all of $3b. thats a fucking miracle.
  4. Think of how stupid the typical surlyhorn poster is. And that they represent a mid-aged graduate of a flagship university. Then think of how much smarter they are than the average person from the general population. And consider how dumb the bottom half of that distribution is. In a way, if not this, these people would do something else equally dumb sooner or later. Good to identify them now.
  5. Dude gets flown across the ocean and given a free blowjob and he has the temerity to complain. SMH.
  6. In the summer I would plan seeing an opera on the water in Bregenz. In Burgenland theres Oper im Steinbruch which is their version of Red Rocks. Imst in Tirol has the world's 2nd longest alpine coaster / toboggan. But there are a ton of other ones around the Alps region too. Many of the ski slopes do downhill bike rentals for thrill seekers. Places billing themselves as "sporthotel" typically have outdoor packages and facilities. Stift Engelszell near the Passau border hosts one of the few trappist breweries in the world, and the first outside of Belgium/Netherlands. Vienna has a stupid amount of free outdoor public festivals/events year round, but especially in the summer: e.g. music festivals, arts performances, wine/food celebrations, red bull sponsored activities, avp volleyball, outdoor soccer tournament projections, film projections (multiple types and events). Check Wurstelstand for the schedule. Popular local thing to do is hike around the vineyards on the foothills at the edge of the city where you can eat and dine at the taverns (Heuriger), often set outdoors. In comparison, Bratislava is pretty boring from a tourist perspective, but if you want to go there you can take the hydrofoil on the Danube and that in itself can be an attraction.
  7. Do rankings matter anymore with an expanded playoff
  8. Ive been using google fi on esim that i can suspend and resume at will. But the value is no longer that good compared to providers like airalo
  9. This slur is extremely offensive. I wish you'd said "mother lover" instead.
  10. Fuck that auditorium class, esp at 8/9 in the morning
  11. arch now has more TDs on the season than Quinn.
  12. maalik murphy is throwing ROPES out there
  13. DJU is to CFB what Jamarcus Russell is to the NFL
  14. DJU with 14 passes attempted for a total of 31 yards completed. i will never not make fun of this guy.
  15. Karuns accent is also a bit annoying 😶
  16. Just tuned into F2. These cars look so smooth and organic, better than their bigger brother.
  17. No. Because outside of doing a direct subsidy a la Kuwait (which wouldnt pass), politicians dont have the direct ability to effect a change of that magnitude for that duration.
  18. youre going to have to work for uncle sam or aunt kamala if you want defined-benefits pension
  19. their cash and equivalents havent changed, its always been $30-40B level. since the new year they've shifted most of their holdings in equities to 6mo/1yr T-Bills. a part of that is likely a view/bet of rates dropping (it did!), and even if not, 5% yield at the start of the year is pretty nice guarantee at maturity. any correction anticipated, they couldve made on the company books itself using derivatives. berkshire has done that before.
  20. How was celebrimbor so gullible? Was magic an exclusive trait to elves/valars…such that if annatar performed a trick that was enough proof that he was sent by the elven gods?
  21. a bit funny apple has the balance sheet and cash stash to shrug off the $13B european fine like it was a monthly cell phone bill
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