I mean, hell, I just use a $60 Costco Instant Pot to sous vide the steaks and it works like a charm.

“Who’s Sonny Chiba? The oriental?”

In the present day, 41% of Americans don’t know what Auschwitz is.

I visited Morocco a few years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience, the culture, the food, the architecture, etc.

And also that it only cost 7 Euros to fly there from Madrid.

I learned the other day that pens are actually pretty high tech. Until a few years ago, China had to import all the balls at the end of pens from Switzerland, Japan, etc. because it actually took high end precision to manufacture those. It wasn’t until about 5 years ago when a nationalist sense of embarrassment…

Segway is yet another instance in a long line of mishaps of outsourcing to China.

Chinese local company (Ninebot) copies and sells knockoffs. They make so much money that they were able to actually buy Segway to head off IP theft lawsuits (not like they would do anything anyway). 

The tide is definitely turning (or at least it’s looking like it). The frickin governor of Alabama just blamed the unvaccinated for the latest covid wave.

Does anyone know if she’s not running for reelection or something?

AMGLOL on a M3

This seems like the right thread for this guy in my subdivision with TWOPHDS.

In the really early days of the pandemic (as in before it was even termed a “pandemic” - back in March-May 2020), there were numerous articles out talking about how the virus disproportionately affected POC. I recall that the byline or talking point was that this was not something that white people needed to worry…

At least there’s evidence that someone got laid in the back of a Corolla in 2021.

Back in the day, my wife and I bought a brand new 2005 Corolla - the effin nuclear holocaust cockroach of a vehicle, right?

The problem wasn’t so much the Russian winter. The problem was that the engineering presupposed a ready supply of replacement parts made to tight German tolerances and ready access to high quality fuel. Access to both of these things proved of course to be difficult on the battlefield (to the engineers’ credit, I…

I heard that some years ago, someone went through every wikipedia article about Maine and put in “Stephen King” in the “See also” section. No, I have not verified this information.

They won’t sell it for $80,000. They’ll sell it for $449/month @ 7.25% for 180 months.

BTW Can I be out of the greys now pleeeeease.

Save water. Shower with a friend.

The Brits are not to be defended for their colonialism and there’s endless documentation and historical artifact attesting to their shittiness. However, in the particular instance of Hong Kong - they were actually prepared to grant democratic autonomy to Hong Kong around the late 1950s/early 1960s. Word of this got up…

Because they don’t want to get into trouble for being seen as publicly supporting Taiwan sovereignty. Last thing a Chinese citizen needs is somebody posting some viral incriminating photo of them on social media.

It’s very meta. The fat and tripe got trimmed.