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  1. 4 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

     

     

    We are the Rangers so Leiter will be a Cy Young winner for the Pirates while we pick Rocker and he'll be diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome. 

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  2. 4 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Semi-political, Covid relevant.

    TL;DR.  If you are traveling abroad this year, it's gonna suck.

    https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2021/03/26/slower-than-suez-global-travel-during-covid-492266?nname=politico-nightly&nid=00000170-c000-da87-af78-e185fa700000&nrid=0000014e-f0fd-dd93-ad7f-f8fde5bf0000&nlid=2670445

     

     

     

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    This prefab hotel has been installed inside a massive hall at Singapore Expo Center. With rooms starting at $400 a night, guests are taken from the airport under escort — after their mandatory Covid test on arrival. 

    You aren’t allowed outside, in fact there is no natural light at all. But you are allowed to roam the facility (your movements are tracked) to use its private gym pods — essentially shipping containers with exercise bikes and treadmills — and take prison-style business meetings with locals: Your guest is fully separated from you via a glass wall. See the Orwellian Chic vibe.

    But first I had to get through Singapore’s border. My problem: None of the border officials had ever heard of Connect@Changi.At one point nine officials crowded in front of me trying to figure what to do. I later learned that Connect@Changi is so new, I had booked the sixth-ever meeting at the facility. I passed 32 hours without seeing a single other guest, though I did see used food trays outside two rooms. 

    I finally boarded my flight to Australia Thursday morning. I’m typing this from the 21st floor of a five-star hotel in Sydney. But is it five-star with no room cleaning or rooftop pool?

    I can’t open my room door for 14 days except to receive a food tray. It took an hour and 45 minutes to receive a breakfast roll I ordered off the snack menu. But there is a huge bathtub.

    The two biggest issues I see with these good-faith efforts to keep local populations safe: They aren’t standardized, so it’s annoying to repeatedly share biometrics, documents and stories. And labor-intensive escorting simply can’t scale: Changi airport processed 68 million passengers in 2019. There are only 5.8 million people in Singapore, and they can’t all work as visitor escorts.

    Mass tourism is going to be hell, chaos or both when it returns. And the process of getting there might include a lot of extra expense for travelers. 

    At the Sydney airport I texted my brother, who lives in the city’s western suburbs, to complain about being forced to wait on a bus (no social distancing) for a police escort to arrive, to guide us to our quarantine hotel. He didn’t care — there’s huge public support for these extreme measures.

    He texted back, “Imagine if America had done this instead.”

     

    Some places are already loosening restrictions later in the year for people who are vaccinated. 

    Thailand is opening up Phuket mid summer for vaccinated tourists. They've also shortened the quarantine to 10 days starting April 1. 

    https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2090243/phuket-to-open-to-vaccinated-foreign-tourists-on-july-1

    If all goes well the rest of the country will open up in Oct for vaccinated tourists.

  3. 2 hours ago, tantric superman said:

    Actually, Dahobbs, I went apeshit on twitter attacking a couple of commentary podcast idiots for just taking this asshole at his words that it wasn't about race, and I'm waiting for a it more evidence to go after them again.

    Within hours after the capitol riot, all these facebook idiots started posting pictures of Shaman Trumpster or whatever, and frankly, at the time, I was 99% sure they were wrong, but didn't want to say anything until I was absolutely sure, and that certainty came the next day.

    I'm just trying to be doubly sure when I throw around racism.  So it's mostly just me feeling like it's bad juju to judge too quickly.

    Well there is a witness report saying the shooter said "I'm going to kill all Asians."  So there's that. 

  4. 6 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    So, to get this clear, you wanted to hear what Asian people thought on the topic and were willing to retire it. Several Asian people told you, and now it’s “nope, gonna double down.” 

    Look, I get this. I’ve watched John Hughes movies, too and liked them. A lot of people thought the prank was funny. No one wants to think about themselves as someone who laughs at racist shit. No one likes to think of movies they enjoyed as being racist.

    Its OK to move on. It’s OK to admit, “that was some racist shit we used to think was funny. Glad that’s not coming out of Hollywood anymore.”

     

    +1 as another AA surly poster. But I'd venture to guess all of us in this thread have gotten it our entire lives that we barely think about it. Everything YChang hit on earlier is almost universal for my social circle. 

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  5. 7 hours ago, SKJ said:

     

     

     

    Ok. So,  the Vietnamese are basically ranked third in the hierarchy. It's a strange thing Asians do to each other,  but in the eyes of all the Asians, (as i understand it) the Vietnamese are tied with the Koreans for third. Now,  as I also understand it,  skin tone plays a lot in the rankings,  but they essentially all hate each other while everyone hates the Hmong universally.

    So,  as below: 

    Japanese

    Chinese

    Vietnamese/ Korean

    Thai

    Lao/Cambodian 

    Hmong

    Not exactly. It's generally Japan or Korea because they export so much of their culture but really it depends on which country you're dealing with.  

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  6. 10 hours ago, victory88 said:

    Started watching Alice in Borderland.  You'll have to read subtitles but I'm 2 episodes in and liking it so far.

    I finished it and liked it enough but Japan's live action stuff seems to be 15-20 years behind technology wise.  

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  7. Yup the rotation looks terrible on paper right now. There's another Japanese pitcher we were supposedly interested in that was a little less regarded than Arihara. Considering the price of Arihara I'm wondering if he's still an option. 

  8. 25 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

    Oh, man, sorry.  That is awful.  But one reason I held off this year.  It was just too risky.  Didn't buy a pass, no bookings yet, nothing.  I might leap for something in late Jan. or Feb. if things get better, but this year was just too much of a gamble.

    For no particular reason, and this is not the most exciting ski video you will ever see (by far, lol!), phd jr. and I did a "cheap bastard" tour of a few slopes last year - we went to Loveland, Cooper, and Monarch, and stayed in Buena Vista cheap.  The trip was modular (i.e. if we didn't do a day or something we wouldn't lose out on the entire trip), and very, very fun.  And all of these 3 mountains provide more than enough skiing even at the expert level to make you happy.  In a mid-January trip, no one at all was around (cf. the video) and we had the entire area almost to ourselves each day.

    This is Monarch, moving through about 6" of new powder, the boy took a shot of dad (me) easing through it.  Again you won't be riveted to your screen, but you hopefully can feel the nice soft schuss through the ankle (and in some places mid-calf) deep snow.  Quite a fun day.

    So here's virtual skiing in today's virtual 2020 world (only about 40 secs):

     https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RoI-QjwCMJwUXH1yuT0qA5Vp42rNCi08/view?usp=sharing

    Loveland is underrated. Had a good time every time I've ridden that mountain. 

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  9. 15 hours ago, Jhawkmvp said:

    I stopped giving COVID updates from South Korea as it feels depressing to contrast here to the USA. Things are pretty normal here except anyone indoors in public wears a mask.  Otherwise life is fairly normal all things considered.

    I just stopped trying to explain Trump support and the corona virus. I just tell people who ask WTF is up with America that it is full of morons. They must understand because I rarely get follow up questions, which is good because I don't want to talk about it.

    My brother found out today he has COVID and he has had an organ transplant so he has increased risk for complications. I have been lucky as that is the first person in my family who tested positive, though a few were quarantined due to exposure in the past. 

     

    If you've heard about the Korean Englishman controversy there it feels like we are living in 2 different planets. 

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