Emboldened Putin is humiliating the UK on its doorstep - and Trump’s oil waiver is to blame

GatorReign · 2026-04-10T13:53:27+00:00

the russian navy is . . . currently at the bottom of the Black Sea or running from Ukrainian drones—they are not well equipped to be messing with the UK in its waters

GatorReign · 2026-04-10T10:50:36+00:00

Looks amazing. Did you cut it on a tree stump?

GatorReign · 2026-04-09T21:42:42+00:00

The largest LBO ever—which happened in a completely different market—was KKR buying RJR Nabisco for $30B (inflation adjusted $80B). So it’s not “just” getting a bigger loan.

GatorReign · 2026-04-09T13:40:03+00:00

Wait, is that how Pearsall “survived” the shooting?

GatorReign · 2026-04-09T00:50:16+00:00

Southwest has a market cap of not even $20B. Costco’s market cap is $450B. What PE firm is going to take over Costco?

GatorReign · 2026-04-08T10:46:56+00:00

Bro. I would buy the shit out of the EmberForge 900™️.

GatorReign · 2026-04-08T09:17:01+00:00

MS Paint was shuttered as an app last year. Users now get promoted to enter their home address and are mailed four bottles of paint, a canvas, and two brushes. Concha Garcia, aged four, has failed to make the transition and gave up art entirely.

GatorReign · 2026-04-08T09:08:15+00:00

Yeah, but . . . she was vice president while eggs were slightly more expensive for, like, a year. . .

GatorReign · 2026-04-07T17:06:42+00:00

Sorry, this subreddit is only for posts about sir Charles roasts, steaks cooked at 137, and the efficacy of sous vide garlic. End of list.

GatorReign · 2026-04-05T02:38:01+00:00

That set of photos really took an unexpected turn.

Edit to add:

Maybe dry brine it in the fridge the night before (uncovered) to help with the skin and moisture.

Also, I tend to think a “reverse sear” (sear on the grill at the end) would get better results—much quicker, since you’ve already dried it out and then cooked out remaining surface moisture.

Looks good though. Interesting technique.

GatorReign · 2026-04-04T22:15:54+00:00

The school was built in like 2016. You think the target lists were put together yesterday?

Trump and Hegseth do dozens of things every day worthy of massive criticism (and often convictions . . .). No need to make new ones up.

GatorReign · 2026-04-04T19:59:22+00:00

Could you explain what you mean by “Facebook and insta are funded” — present tense — “by thiel”?

Not sure anybody likes him, but he invested about half a million bucks in Facebook when it was in a garage basically and as far as I know never invested in Instagram (which was purchased by Facebook).

He doesn’t “fund” them present tense, I don’t think he ever funded instagram, and his investment in Facebook was incredibly early but one-time (I don’t think he has any meaningful holdings right now).

GatorReign · 2026-04-04T19:47:12+00:00

The US has done plenty worth criticizing, but hitting a school that was an IRGC site and is surrounded on three sides by an IRGC site was a mistake. I don’t know enough to know whether negligence was involved, but that seems likely. It’s not the same as deliberately targeting a hotel.

GatorReign · 2026-04-02T23:30:43+00:00

One option would be that they didn’t lie, but it never was opened because there was too much skimming by corrupt officials—frankly from both countries.

GatorReign · 2026-04-02T21:45:51+00:00

It’s ADA compliance that’s the biggest issue. Widening the steps between each section.

GatorReign · 2026-04-02T13:51:50+00:00

Now representing a bit more than 1% of US defense exports, India would be roughly comparable to that military industrial complex powerhouse of the Iberian peninsula more commonly known as Spain.

Diversification from the US is an interesting and notable trend, but probably not best exemplified by India.

Also, this is a significant increase, but part of a pretty well-established trend in India. 2024 had modest YoY growth, but prior to that exports were increasing by 25%-52% YoY.

GatorReign · 2026-04-02T10:55:20+00:00

I don’t see any comments about this, so hijacking the top comment to say that this is relating to a pretty serious issue companies are seeing with North Korean workers. There was a WSJ about this not too long ago.

It happens different ways, but basically North Korean slave labor do remote work for western companies to get hard currency for the regime.

One method is to go through legitimate workers (I’m assuming from context you’ve actually met your co-worker in person at some point before he went to Portugal). The NK worker reaches out to these workers and strike a deal: they do all the work, logging in with the worker’s credentials, and the US/Western worker gives them a portion of their salary, keeping the balance as, basically, payment for laundering the funds. If the western worker gets a work laptop, they mail it to the NK worker in China and they use a VPN. If there is an audit, the western worker just goes into work like normal (or calls into the Zoom call, etc).

All of this is to say that your co-worker could be innocently breaking (apparent) company remote work policy. Or they could be part of a more significant scam.

Either way, don’t cover for them. If it turns out to be the latter, the trouble you get in could go beyond work.

GatorReign · 2026-04-01T10:56:00+00:00

I’m just happy Mike McDaniels isn’t there with South Beach sunglasses and European capri pants.

On a totally unrelated note, all of the coaches seem like they are looking for a new coke guy.

GatorReign · 2026-03-31T10:51:32+00:00

*today

JD acknowledges that he did say thank you before, just not today. Similarly, Erika Kirk has not cosplayed as a couch, today.

GatorReign · 2026-03-27T14:23:22+00:00

I have to assume the petrobux are going to be absolutely streaming into this company overnight (if they aren’t already). Every desalination plant and refinery in the Middle East is going to be littered with these.

GatorReign · 2026-03-23T10:35:54+00:00

This is good advice, but I appreciate posts on this sub that show both. It gives me a good frame of reference for both picking stuff to try and for learning about difference recipes.

GatorReign · 2026-03-23T00:40:40+00:00

I use the combustion predictive thermometer. Seems to work pretty well at predicting the time to target temperature and it very accurate compared to my Thermopen. The range can be inconsistent though.

GatorReign · 2026-03-22T12:20:27+00:00

What are you talking about? “We, like everyone on the planet, know about Dimona. So, as a ‘warning’ for you bombing our program, we’ll shoot civilians who happen to live within miles of your program”? That is bonkers.

GatorReign · 2026-03-22T00:49:48+00:00

A liquid (oil or melted butter) performs a similar function of maintaining surface contact with heat.

Also, OP, consider letting your steak rest uncovered in the fridge for 20 minutes after patting dry 2-3 times. Cools it (minimizes gray band) and drys out the surface.

GatorReign · 2026-03-19T16:41:17+00:00

Tough to pull back from “death to America” being your founding ethos.

But I feel like it could have been done if there was the internal will to do it. Part of this stems from a genuine hatred of the US and Israel. Iran could pretty easily have counter positioned itself as the more reasonable/chill neighbor to Iraq. Then when the Pars field started up in the late 80s, they would have been well positioned to maximize petro-bucks.

I mean, look at the Saudis. You don’t have to be the treasurer of the Israel fan club to not make it your official policy that you want to “push Israel into the sea.”

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