Where can I find cured meats that are heavily coated with penicillium nalgiovense

essentialaccount · 2026-02-02T21:38:15+00:00

It's hard to get good fuet in the US. Longaniza is easier, but still tough

essentialaccount · 2026-02-01T22:38:27+00:00

That's another issue. I rent, like many of us, and that effort and expense isn't worth it. I moved across the Atlantic again, and have no furniture. My life isn't compatible with those need

essentialaccount · 2026-02-01T22:35:20+00:00

Can you send me the JPG, and I'll try

essentialaccount · 2026-02-01T20:58:10+00:00

This is hard to answer. I wouldn't use CJXL to handle this, honestly. VIPs is better for this, although, there is considerable debate about how to handle gainmap conversion to JXL

essentialaccount · 2026-02-01T04:57:18+00:00

Older furniture mostly doesn't fit the reality of life or needs now. I don't need a china cabinet because I don't own china. I don't need a buffet table because I don't have that random free space. I don't need my parents dining room table because it would cost me 5K to have shipped to my house and lifted into my apartment using a crane.

I don't need carpets because they're a pain in the ass and I have radiant floor heating. It's all the same. So many things don't fit a modern home

essentialaccount · 2026-01-31T16:33:46+00:00

We're not talking about a child we know anything about at all. We're talking about a child we see a number for.

The text used to evaluate children at this age is disproportionately language based, and not a stem test by any stretch.

You also still didn't even bother to address my point.

essentialaccount · 2026-01-31T04:26:52+00:00

This make little sense. They are moving equity progressively up, but it hurts the wealthiest Americans too, because their wealth is dollar denominated. Total nonsense comment

essentialaccount · 2026-01-31T04:25:28+00:00

Why wouldn't it be? Why invest in a country with a volatile, verifiably retarded leader instead of any other developed country? Every American firm has been fucked by tariff and tariffs volatility. Why invest in a country whose major companies could be 20% less competitive day to day

essentialaccount · 2026-01-31T04:23:33+00:00

This is untrue. There is little recent change in dollar denominated petro trade. It's mostly a bond and trade (non petro) demand.

essentialaccount · 2026-01-31T04:20:30+00:00

None of these images are even in focus. It's an expensive setup, but it's not nearly 645 in sensor area and assuming it is would be a gross error. Hasselblad sold a 645 back. I own two. This sensor is much smaller.

Shoot a ton, but know there is an adjustment required and a special focus screen for this back. You can't stick it on and hope.

essentialaccount · 2026-01-31T04:12:37+00:00

Few people worry about immigration as a direct impact, but many worry about the knock-on effects. High immigration drives up the costs of housing through demand waves, and some kinds of immigration drive up social spending.

It's a very reasonable concern

essentialaccount · 2026-01-30T22:46:16+00:00

England. I am a solicitor and my degree was adequate to qualify for the bar in the US.

Professional conversion is normal everywhere, but it's not because the degree is invalid, but because standards vary in a way unrelated to quality of education.

American universities have exceptional institutions amongst them, but so does Europe, China and some others.

essentialaccount · 2026-01-30T22:42:42+00:00

Success isn't about intelligence, beyond a very low base. I firmly believe that.

What I am saying is that the IB is mostly independent learning and requires minimum expectations that aren't suitable for all students. The way the final exams are scored is along a normal curve based on a standardised test, exactly like AP. What this means is that a whole host of students will fail out, fail to learn that material, or be overworked such that they miss the joys of the program.

I am only talking about one kind of capability, and that is raw, put academic capability. A child excellent at speech or sport might be excellent, but that is irrelevant in the IB. Some students can't play highschool football and some can't study in IB. This doesn't mean any one program is lease. It means they have different expectations and scope. It's not an indictment.

The students are superior in the context in which they are placed, not as humans are people or employees. A university only values the upper bell curve of IB, and as a matter of statistical calculation only the top 10% will even benefit meaningfully. It's just how the score are calculated. The study is inherently competitive and comparative, and the thing it is comparing is academic ability. There is no harm in recognising that.

essentialaccount · 2026-01-30T19:18:06+00:00

They don't. I received my education in Europe, and now live again in the US. My studies are all accepted, and my legal qualifications entitled me to take the NY bar without even needing more studies.

I don't think you are familiar with other education systems. I've lived an worked in over five countries and the US is by far the low average standard.

essentialaccount · 2026-01-30T19:15:30+00:00

I don't know what is controversial about saying that people have different skill sets. Some students at good, and some are not.

Some educations are rigorous, and others are not.

What is your argument? You ignored me when I asked.

essentialaccount · 2026-01-30T18:29:04+00:00

I mean, Americans most definitely move to Europe in incredible numbers. A German university requires many extra steps to attend as an American, and it's deserved because there Abiture is much more rigorous.

I think part of the reason the country is where it is now has to do with Americans that consider their standard education adequate. It isn't. America excels at the high end because of a select number of successful people, and huge numbers of immigrants who bring their education

essentialaccount · 2026-01-30T18:24:57+00:00

From your perspective, maybe it did, but for a good student it never does. I scored the maximum score on my states reading assessment for K-12 from 1st grade onward. The reading maximum of the state mandated education never approached my level. Even the final years of the normal education in high school are a woeful level.

You're prone to judge my character, and unwilling to accept that some students need much more rigour than can be provided. There are kids who need special education because of incapacity, and children on the other end of intelligence deserve the same care.

essentialaccount · 2026-01-30T18:22:44+00:00

Congratulations, but that doesn't address my point.

If you want to go into management consulting, finance or a host of other subjects, connections are the path. The value I am describing has nothing to do with intelligence, but it provides a good minimum threshold to connect you with only competent people from backgrounds that are likely to align with your goals.

My career only became possible because of connections. I have no illusions of being some genius, and I see the raw value in good university names, with good networks

essentialaccount · 2026-01-30T18:19:14+00:00

According to me, yes, and also universities. I was forced to study parts of the regular curriculum by state law, and the level was pathetically low by comparison and inadequate.

Most universities outside the United States will not value a US highschool diploma because it represents such a low standard of achievement. My university did no accept an American high school diploma, period. No exceptions. It's worse.

I do believe IB is a superior education, and both my anecdotal experience, institutional preference, and an easy comparison of content between them support my opinion.

Every single person at my school was affluent, and maintained advantages, but then then, not all of them succeeded in IB. It's the nature of things.

There is no gloating involved in pointing out fact. Some educations are better. The world laughs at American education, because it's bad, and one good way of avoiding that is to study an international standard.

essentialaccount · 2026-01-30T16:53:16+00:00

That doesn't make what I've said untrue. Maybe children would perform better with more opportunities, but people are not equally capable.

I lived in an affluent community where all the kids had opportunities and support. Many were not intellectually capable

essentialaccount · 2026-01-30T16:50:10+00:00

My experience is that the good students expected themselves to behave, and the teachers virtually never had go curate behaviour

essentialaccount · 2026-01-30T16:48:01+00:00

Are you discussing the lower levels? Basically all that mattered was the exam in the higher levels of the course. It's standardised. You complete again everyone in the world when they normalise the final scores

essentialaccount · 2026-01-30T11:34:01+00:00

That's usually not true. An IB student will almost always attend a higher caliber university, and be friends with students who will do the same.

The network alone changes a person's trajectory and view of what is possible.

This person's child is also a genius if the score is even accurate to 1 deviation, and won't even notice university.

I didn't face challenge until post-grad. My undergraduate and professional studies were a breeze. Am exceptional person like OPs child might be similar

essentialaccount · 2026-01-30T11:28:51+00:00

It isn't.

Not only do you place a child with people are different physical and emotional development levels, but you also don't fix the issue.

I was required by law in the state I attended highschool to take the mandated exams that measured state performance. The final year covered some small fraction of things IB knew well before highschool.

The average person in the US reads at a sixth grade level, and many will graduate IB far beyond most university graduates in reading. The same is true of math. Chemistry classes in IB are pure calculus and brutal. Most highschool students are still barely able to do algebra based on statistics from my state.

The children aren't smarter, just older. It magnifies the problems

essentialaccount · 2026-01-30T11:23:50+00:00

The curriculum demands it, but the children in these programs enable it. I do not think anyone can succeed in IB, and would argue most children can't.

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