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That temaki and maki actually look great! Where is this?

In my experience, AYCE restaurants are just not worth it, especially sushi. The ones that have decent quality are too expensive; I'm always much better off just ordering a la carte from a much higher quality restaurant. And all of the other AYCE restaurants have garbage quality.

But if there's an AYCE sushi restaurant that's cranking out those rolls, I'd gladly conduct further empirical testing!

In a clear attempt to ease customer anger, Google is offering a $130 discount on the fourth-gen Nest Learning Thermostat in the US, $160 off the same device in Canada, and 50 percent savings on the Tado Smart Thermostat X in Europe since the Nest lineup will soon be gone.

Fuck right the fuck off Google. "You fell for this the first time. We're betting you fall for this shit again." I hope hope hope that nobody ever buys any of these connected, "smart" devices ever again unless it explicitly runs on your own infra such as Home Assistant.

I had a crusty, old programmable thermostat in my last house with an RF remote that worked everywhere from inside the house. Worked flawlessly and outlasted the first furnace. An acquaintance bought that house from me in 2014. Thermostat still works great.

I don't get the downvotes. Anyone who spends a few minutes with active transportation and micromobility knows that automobile-caused fatalities are typically a slap on the wrist, if that. The dictum in active transportation is "Want to kill someone without any consequences? Use a car and make sure they are on a bike."

Y'all need some nonviolent communication (NVC). Seriously, ALL humanity needs NVC. I feel like at least 85% of relationship advice questions would be obviated or at least much more morally gray area if we were all given and repeated NVC skills at every level of education.

Folks, do yourselves a huge professional and personal favor: either read Marshall Rosenberg's source book on the topic or take a workshop. Actually, do both. https://bookwyrm.social/book/887974/s/non-violent-communication

This will yield dividends everywhere in your life. It helps reduce reactivity in conversations. It makes sure everyone feels heard and understood before the conversation can continue.

Our stoned faves:

• Mario Kart 8
• Watch "Stop Making Sense"
• Painting party - get a giant canvas and paint a cohesive image together
• Leftover Voltron - try to come up with the tastiest, most novel, most colorful food combos from the grazing spread that was set out
• Guess that candy flavor - blind taste test Skittles, gummy bears, etc, and correctly guess which color
• Current event punchlines - get into a serious analysis on a topic, then summarize or come up with a hilarious metaphor for what you described

"Ask your doctor about tacos." https://youtu.be/zYpuuLLKQx4

That'll wreck anyone's day. Sounds like multimodal commuting is also a no-go for you? i.e., drive to something like a park-and-ride, then bike the remainder?

Thank you for all of this information, I very much appreciate it. And great points about all the gotchas… I suppose it’s like an RV – you have all the problems of a house and all the problems of a vehicle

Happy to help. And you nailed the simile. Add in: the water is always trying to get in and, in the case of saltwater, always tearing things apart. Also, UV light is constantly attacking everything. UV embrittlement is a tireless enemy.

what kind of battery setup does that require

I did the hull speed and endurance modeling based on a 600Ah 48v nominal LiFePO4 traction bank. The banks that I built are 8 discrete banks of 16s 100Ah LiFePO4 cells (so 800Ah, 48V nominal), each bank with its own BMS and cell-leveling. Each bank has its own charge and discharge contactor (think: relay switch on steroids), with all banks connected to separate charge and discharge common buses. The banks can be charged by solar, regeneration (sailing the boat), and shore power. Shore power is handled by a 4000W inverter-charger + isolation transformer, although I only have it linked up to a 30A shore power inlet. Two banks of bi-facial solar rated for 1800W total feed into two MPPTs connected to the common charge bus.

My boat is a 1979 Formosa 46, center cockpit cutter-rigged (two headsails) sloop. The design intent was to cross oceans and weather storms, carrying enough provisions for six people for up to six months. This is the sailboat I dreamed of owning since I was a kid. My family were into powerboats, but I hated the noise, stink, and wastefulness. I wanted the freedom from all that. I wanted to just go buy my own small sailboat so I could learn, but my parents wouldn't let me.

Cut to 30 years later, I finally bought my first sailboat in 2013 and moved aboard shortly thereafter. I had been searching for an F46 for years, but they were all either meticulous and priced ridiculously, or were clapped out and still priced ridiculously. I knew that I would want to make a lot of changes, so I didn't want to pay the premium on a mint boat. But I wanted a boat that I could still sail and determine what all I want to change.

Cut to 2015. In the same week, my marriage imploded, I spent Thanksgiving (my favorite holiday) and my birthday alone, and I was fired from the software company I co-founded in a hostile takeover. I also found my ideal specimen of F46 and it was in the same region, to boot. I'll take that silver lining.

I'm re-modeling and rearranging the interior, re-powering with electric drive, taking it down to bare glass and refinishing with modern coatings, re-rigging with Dyneema, fixing all of the engineering errors in the boat design, reducing the through-hull count, installing modern wiring and reducing the electronics (while modernizing the electronics I'm keeping). Modernizing the plumbing. Adding systems for longevity and autonomy (in the context of "extending time between having to visit ports"), e.g. solar, dual water makers, recovering dead spaces, shoring up deck durability, moving chainplates...

These following pics are the same place inside the boat:

Regarding using your boat as an office, there are a few caveats I share whenever anyone starts thinking about getting a boat. All boats leak. Everything you do in a boat creates humidity, and that humidity must be managed. The magical numbers are >55F and <55% relative humidity. Anything outside of that is inviting mold. While having your boat in freshwater reduces maintenance costs and lengthens maintenance intervals, owning and maintaining a boat is still at least a half-time job. And you know what they say about guys with big boats? They have big bills. The little-known origin of the word "boat" is actually an acronym: Bust Out Another Thousand. :D You really have to want this life. And the less that this is your life, the greater the overall expense in terms of opportunity and financial costs. It's crazy hard, but super rewarding.

Oh, and if you have an engine/fuel on your boat, your boat stinks of that. If you have a holding/blackwater tank on your boat, add in those wonderful smells, too. All of these are mitigable, but they are factors. Just a few things to think about...

Depends on the Scotch. I had a speakeasy tiki bar, i.e. unlicensced and strictly word-of-mouth, for a couple years. I used the whiskey sour as a specific example; I played around for a long time at making my ideal whiskey sour. Top shelf, wells, Islay, Speyside, Highland, playing around with sourcing the eggs for the whites vs. using dried albumin, Amarena vs (real) Maraschino... you get the idea. Lots of my supertaster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster) friends sampled more cocktails than might be healthy. :D The winning recipe used Clan Macgregor Scotch, which is absolutely a nasty well bottle. The kind of bottle I wouldn't serve to even people I hate. :D But the final result won blind taste tests and is much more than the sum of its parts.

I have some really rare and expensive rums. I would never subject something like, say, Plantation (now Planteray) Trinidad 2001 to a rum and coke. I think even a cocktail that showcases a spirit, such as the Mai Tai, covers up too much of the complexity of high-end spirits, becoming less than the sum of its parts. Some spirits are just meant to stand alone, maybe neatened. Bringing this back to coffee, most great beans IMO are similarly meant to stand alone.

Now, all that said, garbage in, garbage out. For most anything that goes into the pie hole, I agree that one should use the best one can find within certain contexts. Planteray OFTD or Stiggins in a double R&C, with a homemade cola, fresh-squeezed Meyer lemon, and .5mL of double-strength vanilla... <chef's kiss!>

For me, I'm buying beans that are expensive enough and complex enough, my FAFO is dialing in my grind and brew temp. To mess with these beans by doing anything beyond water is about like using 21 year old single malt Scotch to make a whiskey sour. **The results are less than the sum of the parts. **

Now, if for some reason, a bag of beans gets a bit old, I'll play around a little bit. Also, I've had people gift me really awful or bland beans, and I despise wasting food. I find a drop of fruit extract in the brew water can add a little hint of complexity.

Have you read "Red Team Blues" by Cory Doctorow? And if so, how did you feel it captured Red Team work?