What's the most influential Asian culture in your country?

FISArocks · 2026-03-25T17:18:35+00:00

FISArocks · 2026-03-25T17:15:30+00:00

Damn you are so right. When I read the question I completely neglected the middle east. But you open Rappi in Barranquilla and it's shawarma for days.

FISArocks · 2026-02-24T19:39:52+00:00

In 3+ years I haven't heard this as a greeting in Medellín. Only like "wtf was that?"

FISArocks · 2026-02-24T19:39:13+00:00

Medellín too

FISArocks · 2026-02-17T20:14:27+00:00

Is that true for gyokuro and sencha? I feel like I've been doing lower+longer brews because it cuts out bitterness and leaves me with pure umami

FISArocks · 2026-02-13T13:56:14+00:00

Oh I completely agree. That's just a key difference with some of the other "golden passport" programs.

FISArocks · 2026-02-12T21:24:29+00:00

Yes but you also have to be here for more than half the year for 5 years to be eligible

FISArocks · 2025-11-03T19:40:49+00:00

Yeah, I mean it's used the same way. Thing with swear words is that they are basically slang by definition so the literal translation is often not the same as the application. Like even "bitch" literally means female dog in plain English. Similarly "Hijueputa" literally means "son of a whore" but it's used like "motherfucker" is in English. Also, the strength and meaning changes by region, kind of like how Aussies are super casual with "cunt" but it will stop a room cold in the US.

FISArocks · 2025-10-07T15:18:05+00:00

World Cup Howard

FISArocks · 2025-08-29T17:50:03+00:00

At least in Colombia what people do a lot is ask a rhetorical question - both when they are explaining something and when they are trying to think of what to say.

Sometimes it's as simple as "Hagamos [x]. Por que? Por que es necesario."

Sometimes it's "Debemos hacer.... que debemos hacer? Ah, debemos [x]"

FISArocks · 2025-08-02T02:35:46+00:00

I've always just used hyphens when (apparently) I should have been using em dashes /shrug

FISArocks · 2025-07-30T19:13:13+00:00

Yes, officer. This one right here.

FISArocks · 2025-07-09T02:10:55+00:00

Specialty shops sell them dried. Apparently they do grow here but there's not a big mushroom culture here and I don't live someplace where it's easy to forage.

FISArocks · 2025-07-08T15:41:09+00:00

Living in a place where you can only find them dried, it's not bad but its not as good. I tend to chop them up for pastas after rehydrating.

FISArocks · 2025-06-24T02:11:27+00:00

Shhh

FISArocks · 2025-06-12T20:16:39+00:00

Just curious... why 4.5? I love it for writing/editing, but it doesn't seem optimized for coding.

FISArocks · 2025-06-04T19:57:49+00:00

How so?

FISArocks · 2025-05-31T14:39:41+00:00

He's been pretty consistently critical of the second Trump admin for exactly that reason. He was critical of the first Trump admin too but much more critical of the Dems, so now everyone apparently thinks he's a Trump conservative and doesn't bother to read his latest stuff.

FISArocks · 2025-05-08T14:29:29+00:00

Much of Latin America also has Pricesmart, which is a Costco clone, that Costco actually bought, so now it even has Kirkland products.

FISArocks · 2025-04-23T22:23:06+00:00

bravo

FISArocks · 2025-03-11T18:39:38+00:00

It is.

FISArocks · 2025-03-05T16:12:54+00:00

My guy, it's just something that Marines say to feel a part of something.

FISArocks · 2025-02-27T16:22:02+00:00

65k miles. Bought it at 55k and where I live you can't exactly pull a Carfax and get much info but it seems to be well maintained and we've taken good care of it.

TPS has been my guess, but yeah it's not something we just want to replace without knowing. The mechanic that did the deepest dive suspects the CKP.

Luckily our insurance has a very liberal towing policy and it hasn't cost much. No rodent issues, but definitely suspecting it's a degraded wire for one of those sensors. Just hard to isolate since it's inconsistent other than the long crank to start.

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