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theCircusWeakman
29d ago
I enjoy Lagavulin a lot, although the 16 is absurdly overpriced in my neck of the woods; I don't think I've ever seen it priced below $100. For a similar investment you could get some top shelf Islays like Laphraoig Lore, Ardbeg Uigeadail, or Kilchoman Loch Gorm, all of which I think are better than the Lag 16. Then again, I tend to gravitate towards higher-proof, bolder whiskies generally, while I think Lagavulin is aiming for a smoother, more subdued whisky that's still complex and interesting.
yofuckreddit
29d ago
I've generally preferred it to Laphroig for instance but I don't think it's a fair comparison since I only see their 10 year expressions laying around.
I haven't done as much of a deep dive on scotch as I should have at all. I'm in the southeast, so what I can get is the big boys you can see at any grocery or ABC store. I'm headed to scotland in June and plan to be very intentional about expanding my horizons.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
29d ago
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
29d ago
...how fucking hard making great whiskey is and why MGP is such a dominant force.
Hilarious that there are people that want to skip out on MGP because they don't like sourced and finished whiskies. More bottles for me!
theCircusWeakman
29d ago
I kind of agree, actually. My favorite spirits are those where the smell reminds me of a specific memory or a place from my childhood. That subjective quality is going to be unique to each drinker, and it's far more interesting to me than the proof, or age, or region that the drink is from.
Jameson, on the rocks, is what I always order the first time I try out a new bar. They always have it in stock, it's always smooth and pleasant. It's great when I'm just hanging out and don't want to have to concentrate on what I'm drinking.
theCircusWeakman
29d ago
Is Foursquare worth the hype? I've never been much of a rum drinker, although I know plenty of whisky enthusiasts who love it.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
29d ago
Meanwhile the Germans are planning to run a cable from Morocco for that sweet sweet solar power.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/britain-risks-losing-germany-16bn-155135780.html
drmanhattan16
29d ago
But it's not going to go anywhere. No one is going to back down on the credibility of their sources, especially if the inferential distance is too large.
Lewis2
29d ago
Oh, I agree. Like I said, I don’t find it convincing, but it is a few I’ve encountered several times in the wild, always from Americans of German descent. I imagine there is a bit of motivated thinking as a result of their ancestors’ ethnic background.
sun_the_second
29d ago
Does it matter that much? Memes have the nice ability to travel between and across generations.
grognard
Intel Pentium III 450 / Nvidia Riva TNT2 Ultra / Corsair 128MB PC133 / ABIT BH6
29d ago
You posted this excerpt:
Other online posts of hers furthered the prosecution’s case. Days before the attack, she posted on her social media about her and Ethan’s trip to the gun range and his new SIG Sauer 9mm firearm.
Under which you said:
This does not paint a picture of good parenting.
Another poster addressed that looking at bullets in class isn’t unreasonable nor does it suggest bad parenting, to which you qualified it as a “highly inappropriate” time and place, if not unreasonable.
I am asking a similar question pointed at by the other poster, about an imminently reasonable time and place - the gun range outing documented in your quoted section showing what you suggest(?) to be bad parenting.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
29d ago
I'd hate to see the French nuclear talent go, given how heavily we invested and how the uncertainty around the future of the branch is already killing it despite it being one of the few things saved us (and by extension Europe) from economic collapse when the oil and gas prices spiked.
It may actually work if the US tried it. There is a constant uncertainty looming over the fate of the French nuclear sector. Caused both by the flipflopping of our own politicians and the deep hatred of any energetic policy that involves France or nuclear at the EU level.
What kills me is that we spent untold amounts designing breeder reactors and other tech that makes the whole thing safe, effective and relatively waste free...and then closed Superphénix and sold the tech to the Chinese. Now the Chinese have the CEFR and we have nothing.
stolen_brawnze
I am the way Sia says "batteries" in that one song.
29d ago
I thought you had an America-hating girlfriend?
ChickenOverlord
29d ago
Most places where pumped water would work well already have dams and reservoirs built there.
I swear it's like you guys are programmed to ruin Europe.
The German government has spent the last 30 years sabotaging the European nuclear industry to favor cheap Russian gas and renewable memes and now that the window on that has been closed by the Americans it'd rather commit suicide than change course.
It's just funny how it always plays out that way somehow: commit to genuinely bold choice, find out it's not a panacea, refuse all compromise, destroy all of Europe.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
29d ago
To be fair, your price range (which is what, 15-25k USD or something?) is nicely lined up with the safe/boring/respectable market segment. Not saying you can't get fun cars in that range, but the practical cars dominate.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
29d ago
Those fumes can only be great for the environment. Or so I'm told.
theCircusWeakman
29d ago
I attribute a lot of the homogeneity of modern American whiskey to suppliers like MGP. It's not bad, but it's ubiquitous, and I worry that a lot of potential variety and novelty of flavor is missing because so many brands are just bottling one mega-producer's spirits. If it's not MGP, it's often some other supplier of "sourced" whiskey. I've started following this rule-of-thumb: only buy bourbon or rye that says on the label "Distilled AND bottled by..." instead of just "bottled by..." Whiskey needs to come pretty highly-recommended for me to break this rule nowadays.
SecureSignals
Civilization is simply a geno-memetic-techno-capital machine
29d ago
Last year I was at a social gathering with an (about 30?) year old, higher-class Indian woman who lamented that her parents refused to find her a match before her older sister. She was also talking about matchmaking sites where all sort of criteria are included, like skin tone. It was problematic that her older sister was darker skinned than she was. Wild stuff.
Huh. I definitely didn't know there was an association between age and driving a sedan. That's very much not a stereotype in India. Sedans are aspirational, and so are SUVs, though not as much as the States.
Yeah it's really hard to understate the dominance of hatchbacks among young car drivers, which is partly driven by their relatively better fuel consumption, insurance grouping, price etc. than bigger cars of course, but still, perhaps downstream of those factors there is a general cultural association of hatchbacks as young peoples' cars. Not exclusively, older people do drive hatchbacks often too, but virtually every young person drives a hatchback. Saloons/sedans are - at least in my impression, maybe other Brits would disagree - pretty deeply uncool for a young person and associated with balding professionals. Not necessarily a reason not to get one, if you don't care what other people think (and I have no idea how young you are), and it's not like it matters that much, but if you do something to be aware of. Also bear in mind that among some elements of the middle classes 'looking' aspirational is not necessarily a good thing, though again this doesn't really matter and no-one will care about your car much anyway.
Sedans just aren't that popular full stop, as they get outcompeted as family cars by crossovers, estates and SUVs which are more practical, and without either young people or families it doesn't leave a huge market.
A premium I'm willing to accept. I'd call it a deal breaker really. While I did/am learning to drive stick, I consider it a nuisance, even if I'm sure I'd get used to it like everyone else. I likely will be at best ok at driving by the time I'm in the UK, I'm resuming my driving lessons and do actually need to pass them, but even with our questionable roads, I doubt I'd be entirely comfortable. Still have to make do, if I leave with a driving license that earns me 2 years of leeway before I have to apply for a British one, which is much harder to get.
Fair (though I've got to imagine that even if the test is harder driving in Britain is much easier than in India), but bear in mind that if you do the test in Britain in an automatic you will not be allowed to drive a manual under any circumstances, which might be annoying if you ever need to drive a rental car/van/friend's car/whatever.
Overall, if you are looking for an automatic in the £10k range, you will be able to get a considerably lower mileage, more economical, newer car if you do go for a hatchback. For that price you can get a virtually new 2023 Corsa at the moment and you would struggle to get any low-mileage sedan that wasn't old or uneconomical.
HaroldWilson
29d ago
I can't imagine you'll see many comfortable BMWs unless the UK has a very different used car market than the US right now.
There actually are even under 10k BMWs with under 15,000 miles on the market online right now. Autotrader is very good for this sort of searching.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
29d ago
No I don’t know what you are talking about.
But I lived in poor countries with expensive and intermittent electricity. So I was just referring to what happens in such places.
And good luck with middle class installing Tesla walls when the Chinese stop subsidising your consumption in exchange for all your industrial capacity.
hydroacetylene
29d ago
There is nothing wrong with taking your child to the gun range, nor in supporting a firearms-involved hobby. One can perhaps say that this should go on hold when that child has a mental health issue- and it seems obvious that he did- but that wasn't my point. It does seem clear that she knew her son wasn't trustworthy with guns(she texted in that he can't be left alone), though.
I agree that you shouldn't get caught looking at ammo on your phone in class. But you know what the best way to not get caught looking at ammo on your phone in class is? Waiting until you're out of class to look at ammo on your phone. Yes the education system's hoplophobia is dumb. But it is a thing that is not changing and the rest of us just have to work around it, and sometimes dumb arbitrary things just have to be complied with and encouraging your kid to pitch a fit about it instead of knuckling under is at the very least questionable.
hydroacetylene
29d ago
How does one push nuclear in the US? This is an inherently heavily-regulated sector in a country that tries its best to prevent anything from being built.
"Miata is always the answer" is a meme for a reason.
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