general

And I'd listen to this two times over every day while working on my PhD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7voSN82FGF0

Kribbles yearns to live in the South where you can just open your window and listen to all the cicadas, crickets, and frogs

The comments on that video are heartbreaking too.

To be fare I only eat Tartare on very nice steaks

This man ordered a rare burger today for lunch

is that strange

for a burger yeah that's kinda strange

for ground beef I think it is

I would rather eat rare than well done tbh

ground beef is ground up so you don't want any of it to be pink

My dad would cook our burgers rare every time, it would be goopy in the middle and it was gross.

Would you rather eat Tartare than well done

But rare steak is good.

if you get good quality ground beef it doesnt matter usually

it's like biting into a slightly cold mound of sludge and hemoglobin

if its cold it wasnt cooked properly

thats just raw

true I guess

but yeah no it's a sin to have a burger at rare

Even refridgerated after being cooked it probably should not be sludge lmao

burgers go to medium rare or medium

that's the law

I prefer medium rare anything but i am not going to turn my noise up at rare

blue rare is too far for me though....

the moral and ethical standard of burgery is medium to medium rare

medium well is like yeah okay sure

anything past medium rare and you're entering depression era cooking territory

yeah

speaking of depression era

have you guys ever heard of slugburger

No I have not heard of slug burger

It's a burger patty mixed with bread

yeah basicaly

you take a quarter pound of ground beef and you add filling to it until it's like half a pound

and then you cook it

the filling being like flour or bread

It's great depression food, though the bread inside can get sort of toasty

it is literally depression era food yeah

do you guys think that we're going into a recession

grok says not yet but there are some warning signs that one might occur at the end of fiscal year 2026

thanks grok

thanks rusp for thanking grok

I'll order steaks medium rare, because I don't like a lot of fat and most restaurant cuts aren't great but if I buy good cuts myself to cook I'll usually stop a little below rare

burgers I'll take either extreme, though ig if they're too rare they fall apart

I usually order steaks medium because I don't trust the cooks, and I'll order medium rare at fancier places. Not really a fan of rare.

Has anyone imported/ordered anything from JP recently? Is it a pain in the ass right now like some people are telling me

Why would i ever do that

uh, depends what you're doing (not Japan specific, just in general with tariffs)

Importing from Japan is always a pain

Regi is the expert, but I can probably answer

if you're just buying something and having it shipped here, that's easy

if you're importing or doing any fucking routing, that gets a little harder

It's been a few years since I got anything from Japan, so idk what it looks like now

Ok thanks, thats really all I needed to know

uh, you can DM me if you want, I can probably give advice

but no, in general it's not that much harder if you're not doing shit at scale

its not regi who asked so i assume its just normal buying

i only ever got stuff through playasia and that wasnt hard

Yea, im just ordering a single product of AmiAmi, but ive never done it so I wasnt sure. Thanks

I've never done it before, but I know some people have said that depending on what you're buying from, you may need to use a proxy/forwarder

AmiAmi might be international though

The "This content isn't available, try again later." shit on YouTube is so annoying especially when I listen to a song, it automatically makes a playlist and then every song is hit with that and within a few minutes, I've loaded 20 youtube videos.

never had issues with international shipping or dnh in the past. ordering my uruguayan bathtub estrogen this time around was a pain. had to pay imports, transaction kept failing, they couldn't get me a tracking number once they transferred it to usps. also tragic I can't pay dnh imports in crypto. could have and probably should have used paypal

tmi mint

Probably should not order medical supplies through the black market

I trust the black markets with my life

Well, probably just as safe as the other horrible things you put in your body for no reason

Look, Mint has his bathtub estrogen, I have my diet coke

Cigars and whiskey my beloved

Spooky has like 15 cans of monster

and so, so much more

Man who did not think someone could get more pitiable is forced to read another mint post

tragedy

I just ignored it

did not clock the content until Dialga pointed it out

I read like 4 words, realized it was about shipping and stopped reading lol

I will never miss an opportunity to string some of my favorite words together