Zman
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@oidonhagouda Good tip. I wonder if other neighboring Asian countries do this as well.
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To all my foreign friends who think we’re weird for this:
When Japanese people finish cooking rice in a rice cooker, the very first thing we do is… stir it vigorously with a rice paddle.
Foreigners: “Wait… you actually MIX the rice right after it’s done?!”
Yes. And there’s a very good reason.
Stirring (or “fluffing”) releases the trapped steam so the rice doesn’t get soggy.
It also evens out the temperature so every grain is perfectly cooked — no hard top and mushy bottom.
It’s not just a random habit.
It’s the secret to getting that light, fluffy, restaurant-quality Japanese rice texture.
We don’t do it because we’re OCD.
We do it because we take our rice very seriously 😂
So… do you stir your rice after cooking, or do you just leave it?
Tell me your country’s rice etiquette. I’m genuinely curious!
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So Jaxson Dart gets to publicly express his political beliefs, but Abdul Carter doesn’t? If this is about locker room sanctity and leadership, is it a good idea for the face of the franchise to attend a political rally for a president that is considered to be hugely divisive?
Lawrence Tynes@lt4kicks
The locker room is a sacred place because it brings together everyone from all walks of life and beliefs for one common goal. Calling a teammate out publicly for his political views and to get attention is nasty work.
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@soupcanarchist yes, that's her time to sort through all her experience and mentally prepare. This time is how she stores and learns from all she's experienced that day, activities, etc
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Ok first time mom question: When my baby wakes up. She just lays there quitely cooing and playing with her own hands.
I've started just letting her chill in there on her own until she cries out for me.
But today its been like 20 minutes. Do I just... let her be?
(I can see and hear her on the monitor obviously)
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@ianmSC @politicaldrinkr this is where reading comprehensive and critical thinking skill comes in.
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@politicaldrinkr But that's not the argument he's making in this clip. Yes, delivery is wasted money, and some people overdo that. And used cars are now enormously expensive. There's also much larger structural issues that he ignores because he's being lazy and unrealistic.
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I like Kevin O’Leary, but assuming he’s right about coffee and sandwiches, which he isn’t, saving $5 on coffee and $14 per day on sandwiches over 260 work days is $4,940
Which means it’ll take a 30 year old 20 years to save up a 20% down payment on a median home in Nashville
dank@cptdankkk
Kevin O'Leary says most people waste $15,000 a year on stupid stuff like $5 coffees "Stop buying coffee for five dollars and fifty cents" "You go to work and you spend $15 bucks on a sandwich, what are you an idiot. It costs you 99 cents to make a sandwich at home and bring it with you" "Bring your own water, your own drink or your own coffee mug. You start to add that up every day it's a ton of money" "Most people starting on their job making their first $60,000 piss away about $15,000 a year"
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@AmericaPapaBear man, even in meme debates, Asian males are replaced with Asian females.
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Let’s settle the debate.
Which race is the worst driver?
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Someone is selling an entire hill in Tuscany. 45 hectares, for €1.3M ($1.5M).
That's 111 acres of southern Tuscan countryside with a 500m² stone farmhouse on top, 9 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, a pool, and an outdoor wood-burning oven.
The estate sits at 400m altitude on a privately owned hill near Saturnia, 8 km from the famous thermal baths and 50 km from the Tyrrhenian Sea. The farmhouse was built in the early 1800s by the Piccolomini Counts as the steward's residence for what was once a much larger estate. The current 45 hectares break down as 37 ha of woodland, 7 ha of arable land, and 1 ha of olive grove with 50 trees. It borders a nature park and the Albenga River.
What makes the price interesting is the land. 45 hectares fully consolidated and bordering a protected park is rare at this level in Tuscany. Most farmhouses in this price range come with 1-3 hectares of land. Here you're buying the hill itself.
The trade-off is access. You're 160 km from Rome airport and 200 km from Pisa, so this isn't a fly-in-for-the-weekend kind of place. Then again, if you're buying a hill in Tuscany, being hard to reach is probably the point.
How much would something like this cost where you live?
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@vikingzfanpage @KaplanSportsBiz @FOS Gotta include Asian coaches too cause they're apparently the 'wrong' kind of diversity
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#Vikings DC Brian Flores has subpoenaed 25 NFL teams — in addition to the six he is suing — for information about their hiring practices as part of his long-running discrimination lawsuit against the NFL, @KaplanSportsBiz reports via @FOS.
Even though those 25 teams are not being sued directly, Flores wants information from them to help show whether there may be a league-wide pattern in how minority coaching candidates are hired or interviewed.
That brings a total of 31 teams around the league being involved in Flores’ case.
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@LCNMindio @Alonso_GD what are you on? This is literally the same as, let's bring black face back because it was culturally ok 60 years ago. Time has changed.
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@Sunami_Z @Alonso_GD Oh shit, he brought receipts. Let’s move the goal post and strut around as if we still make sense.
Don’t see the movie, I don’t want to sit next to an asshole like you anyway.
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Ok let’s do this! Every Pocahontas played by a Western / non-Native American / White actress. Let’s go! Thread time!
1) Pocahontas: The Legend (1995), played by British actress of French and Chinese heritage, Sandrine Holt
Taya Bass@travelingflying
Imagine the outrage if a historically non-White character like Pocahontas were made White in a movie. Yet it’s considered acceptable to make all historically White characters non-White in movies. This is racism against White people.
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@Hania16836 If this bothers you, you need to reevaluate your life decisions
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@WPXX2020 @OopsGuess i hear 4 am is a great time for grilling burgers and hot dogs
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@OopsGuess They are Muslims who impose their religion when their numbers grow. It seems you dont have Muslims where u live, try waking up at 4 to a loud shout out for prayers in a non Muslim country😂
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So have the Japanese ever told Western white Christians:
“If you want burial, go back to your own country”?
Of course not.
When white Westerners come, it’s called internationalization.
When Muslims come, it’s called a cultural threat.
So let’s stop pretending this is about “cremation culture.”
It’s not tradition.
It’s hierarchy.
The Japanese know exactly who they want to exclude —
and exactly who they still bow to.
Taya Bass@travelingflying
Japanese politician says that Muslims shouldn’t be buried in Japan. ”Japan is a cremation country. Allocating land for Muslim burials is not appropriate. If they want burial, it should be done in their home countries at their own expense.”
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@vikingzfanpage what most fail to see is it's not just 10 games, it's 34. failed to play in 24 of them. Best ability is availability
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#Vikings OL Brian O’Neill on JJ McCarthy:
“If I was judged after my first 10 games in the NFL, I’m not playing right now. It’s still so fresh, and he’s only going to continue to get better… you hear the term lose the locker room. He had the locker room more than anybody I’ve seen ever.”
(Via @greenlight)
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How to tell if there are alligators in the water in Louisiana 😂😂
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@end3of6days9 calling smart and financial literate crybabies when OP was being the crybaby
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This pro detailer is fired up and determined to prove that Dawn dish soap is useless for cleaning brake dust and grime off car wheels.
He pours it on, scrubs hard, and shows what’s left behind — all while ripping into anyone who uses it, calling them crybaby clowns, whiny b*tches, losers, and worse. He finishes by switching to his professional “Wheely Clean” spray and rinsing it down, leaving everything sparkling in seconds.
Honestly? I thought the Dawn actually did a pretty solid job loosening up that nasty buildup!
I’m not sure insulting potential customers is the smartest way to grow a business or win fans… passion is great, but kindness usually travels farther.
Have you ever tried Dawn on your wheels (or any wild cleaning hack that worked better than expected)?
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@JasonHarmonNFL it's a KO classic. Always wanting to be cute on short down cause he's run game scheme and plays are smaller than Musgrave's playcard
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This has to be the funniest possible play call on 3rd and 1 in a playoff game 😭
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Admission expert here:
You didn't get into Harvard because your stats are top 5-10% among Asian Americans- nothing special.
Your extracurriculars are basic vanilla striver stuff.
Other Asians win Olympics gold, STEM Olympiad gold.
Chess junior world championships.
You were captain of your local boyscouts and a starter in your school's titleless volleyball team.
Who cares?
Your essay is also the same old cliché "I needed to prove that I'm not an Asian stereotype" whining that every Asian stereotype does.
At the end of the day- we just can't admit only Asians.
They'd take over America in the long-term.
We need to brainwash Blacks and Hispanics too- and send them to all corners of the world to secure the empire's thought-leader dominance.
You are Asian American.
A typical Asian American if I may add.
You compete against other Asian Americans.
And you don't stand out among them.
But hey, Duke is also one heck of a school.
Otto- didn't you go to Duke?
Redd@ReddCinema
He had a GPA score of 97.3%, SAT score is 1560, enrolled in a top high school, and does lots of extracurricular work. He got rejected by multiple colleges. They call this equity and inclusion.
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@WomanDefiner people forget not two months before George Floyd, a Texan man died in similar fashion with the same technique but there was NO outcry. Wanna guess the man's ethnicity?
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I don't know why people argue with me over George Floyd. There are maybe like 12 people who know more about this case than me and none of them are academics or leftist.
- It took 17 minutes for EMS to go 2 blocks because they went to the wrong address.
- Chauvin called EMS 30 seconds into Floyds Arrest.
- Floyd is seen on Camera consuming pills
- Chauvin was trained in the technique he used and it was retroactively made illegal and prior training was hidden from the jury
- The medical examiner admitted if this happened at Georges home with no police, it was an OD
- EMS didn't hook George up to Oxygen when put in the ambulance. They forgot to hook the tubing to the O2 tanks
- Floyd still had a faint heartbeat when he reached the hospital despite all of this
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@MikeOnFootball @adampatrickNFL Package is fine. He's a great pass rushing not elite. Most pass rusher after 28 gets 1 day 3 pick. Khalil Mack was traded for a 2 and 6. Greenard basically traded for a second round pick and he is not better than Mack.
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@adampatrickNFL I don't think the issue is as much that they traded him, it was what they received in return.
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Pretty shocked by all the pushback that some have had following the #Vikings' decision to trade Jonathan Greenard
- He's played 1 full season out of 6 in the NFL (2024)
- He wanted more money than the Vikings were willing to pay
- Minnesota has an immediate replacement in Dallas Turner
- The Vikings added another Top 100 pick in a loaded 2027 draft
Am I missing something? 🤷♂️
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