Ah, hope you find something for your dad!

There are these things that alcohol brewers and coffee people use to add nitrogen to their coffee.

Nitrogenated drinks (e.g. nitro cold brew) give a nicer head and go down much smoother. It’s usually a manual doo-hickey, and it use standard NO₂ cartridges. One example is NitroPress, I don’t know anything about the company, I think the general technique is neat and I’m sure there’s a half-decent company somewhere. On amzn there were some around USD 100.

Fair enough, why do you think people seem to get up in arms about it (say, as in this thread?)

I want to say Amerikkka is Franke 2, while Haiti is Franke 3. Then Lebensrum is Amerikka 2 (Franke 2 * Amerikkka 2) which is… wait what?

Dang, you used the solipsism card.

Might want to look into Wittgenstein’s Language Games, can help clarify the purpose and function (and at times pointlessness, not saying that is the case here) of the sorts of pedantic and ‘technically correct’ dysentery folks seem to engage in.

Yeah fair enough. They’re too busy sowing the seeds of their own destruction and can’t see the forest for the trees.

In Econ there’s opportunity cost, I think that’s what companies end up losing, the greater profit they could have made (if they were like a bit less short term oriented).

I wonder if someone could make a series of movie trailers for each republic with the executive producer being the US and having all sorts of poor takes.

Executive Producer: “No, no, we need LESS military oversight for the next one, SPEND MORE on practical explosions, the audience will love it!”
Director: “But sir, we already had half an hour of explosions, the most common criticism was about the confusing plot which was always interrupted by explosion sequences.”
Executive Producer: “We need those to keep the audience on their toes! We can’t plan explosion scenes we need to let the invisible hand of the free market decide and let us know!!”

I had no clue there were several republics kinda like France (I think?), I searched Wikipedia and it said that they are on their 6th republic, not 5th. Maybe you are off by one? Either way it’s a poor mark on the country and its governance.

Dispenser? You put like toothpaste from a tube and it’s like those soap dispensers you push to get soap?

I have a dog-shaped teddy bear which I almost need to support my arms. It has such a novel shape as a pillow, there are so many uses compared to a rectangular/square cube or tube.

A clever tea maker / mug all-in-one. I imported it from China, it’s not expensive or anything, it does use Tritan for this steeping chamber thing where it only decants at like a 45° angle. I have some food containers I use for lunch which use the same plastic and they work well, don’t get stained. Hope it doesn’t have some new kind of cancer or medical issue associated with it, I’ll update this post in ~15 years if that’s the case.

I liked the first Avatar blue people movie in 3D when I watched it.

A friend got some from a local Chinese supermarket, it was wonderful. I really need to get some one day.

I use FreeCad as an alternative to Solidworks. It has its own way of doing things… but it’s more or less feature complete with respect to designing stuff.

Tea is wonderful, what kind were you drinking? Oolong is probably my favourite, I got some fancy tea oolong from Taiwan and it’s the next tea I’ve ever had. It’s called 金萱 (Jin Xuan), also called milk oolong at least by my mainland friend.

An additional point, part of why I never tend to believe what any government claims prima facie is due to the selective nature and sort of lie by omission by such statements. I find such statements not to be false per se, but overwhelmingly lacking and unsatisfying. Much of what they say on first thought is true, but the details are left out and those are the juicy bits I tend to want to know most.

I don’t understand the comparison to Cuba, do you mind explaining?