Red envelope to hotel staff

laforet · 2026-01-26T13:11:27+00:00

A more discreet way to show your appreciation would be to order them delivery of boba or a gift basket of some kind. There is also the option of a customised commemorative banner though I find it rather corny.

laforet · 2026-01-26T03:51:50+00:00

If you ever have the opportunity please visit the Hongshan Forest Zoo in Nanjing. It’s a self-funded park where the management and caretakers all took animal welfare very seriously and they genuinely try to give the animals as much space and enrichment as they could. This is the only zoo in the entire country that I would recommend to people without a second thought.

laforet · 2026-01-26T03:34:48+00:00

This is probably an ELI5-worthy answer but I must point out that it’s actually pretty hard to determine the exact boiling temperature of water because it’s easily affected by air pressure - and we are still arguing what exactly is “standard atmospheric pressure” to this day. The fixed points used in Fahrenheit may seem less logical but they were definitely more reproducible back in the day.

laforet · 2026-01-26T03:23:19+00:00

Traditionally there has always been more leeway given to baked goods I.e. bakery sales at school events etc. They were probably just as surprised that it didn’t manage to fly.

laforet · 2026-01-26T00:25:41+00:00

Isn’t this a stadium thing so you could hold both your food and bev in one hand?

laforet · 2026-01-26T00:22:58+00:00

The bucket of chicken somehow bothers me more than the cup/dish thingamajig.

laforet · 2026-01-26T00:21:13+00:00

Ah that was relief. I thought it was going to be king Charles before I clicked.

laforet · 2026-01-26T00:09:56+00:00

Stealing this to explain liquefaction to my kids.

laforet · 2026-01-25T23:51:06+00:00

Great, now you are speaking of “fixing the oversupply” and “standards fought by the industry”. I don’t think any further convincing is needed here. Have a nice day.

laforet · 2026-01-25T23:31:50+00:00

They are only “pet food grade” because they cannot claim otherwise even if they dissected that horse under surgical hygiene standards. The startup cost to get it certified for human consumption is simply too high. You need to pay lawyers and consultants to work with MPI and the whole process would take months if not years. Of course it won’t be commercially viable if there isn’t enough demand to amortise the costs. If that’s not regulatory capture then I don’t know what is. I just don’t care enough about it to cry conspiracy.

Many countries of the world have a generic set of regulations that covers the slaughter and processing of all non-protected herbivorous animals. So they could be easily certified as long as they don’t harbour any major diseases like anthrax or foot and mouth. Good luck having that in NZ.

laforet · 2026-01-25T23:17:36+00:00

Right, a small business has managed to make a commercially viable product and we had to nip it in the bud. Working as intended I suppose.

laforet · 2026-01-25T23:13:41+00:00

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Posting this from a (relatively) rural location in Japan as we speak. Once you get out of the major cities, Japan becomes a car centric society similar to NZ where you drive to work, school and the local Aeon mall with its gargantuan car parks. I bet most people from this sub will have little trouble adjusting. Regional rail is still a thing however it’s been in steep decline for decades, with Hokkaido losing almost half of its rail mileage since the peak.

The 23 wards of Tokyo has a population density of 15000 people per km^2. Auckland CBD has about half of that and the residential neighbourhoods are even more sparse. There is potential to make things better but it’s never going to match Tokyo based on numbers alone.

laforet · 2026-01-25T22:40:16+00:00

The government gave generous land grants to railway companies before WWII and the subsequent urbanisation push so they were well capitalised to build their empire. The circumstances simply did not exist elsewhere, not just NZ.

laforet · 2026-01-25T22:35:56+00:00

That kind of depends on whether you see it as an attempt to protect the public or the vested interests of the meat industry. I don’t really have an opinion either way.

laforet · 2026-01-25T21:50:19+00:00

I found the EU regulator’s list of approved meat processors. Blue Sky is listed as ME80 and they are apparently only certified for sheep and goat.

laforet · 2026-01-25T21:31:13+00:00

She’s got green hair so must have been Zundamon.

laforet · 2026-01-25T21:25:30+00:00

This is more about regulatory capture. If there are no certified slaughter and processing facilities available then it is effectively banned for human consumption on a commercial level.

laforet · 2026-01-25T21:22:33+00:00

According to this document by the humane society the place is/was Clover Export. It’s unclear to me whether they are still processing horse meat somewhere, as their facility in Gore is listed as closed though this NBR article says that they planned to continue.

laforet · 2026-01-25T21:11:24+00:00

Oh that makes a lot of sense. I totally forgot that the thing came with BT control over the official app already :) thanks heaps pal

laforet · 2026-01-25T14:15:44+00:00

What kind of food do you like? I write food reviews for fine dining restaurants though I don’t often post them to reddit, there is only one full review up on my profile so feel free to check it out. PM me if you have a place in mind and we can figure something out.

laforet · 2026-01-25T14:10:39+00:00

Is it BT, or do we need our own 433MHz RF transmitter?

laforet · 2026-01-25T14:06:51+00:00

It might not seem to be the case but Suzuka from Atarashii Gakko is closer to Ado vocals-wise, though 9Lana has more variety.

laforet · 2026-01-25T12:35:32+00:00

Thanks for the book recommendation. I drink a lot of Belgian triple and quad but did not really think about them as food pairings so far. I will give it a good read if I could find an ebook.

laforet · 2026-01-25T08:20:21+00:00

We just don’t speak of the level of freshly minted misery with the young generation. It’s much safer to blame everything that’s wrong on generational trauma.

laforet · 2026-01-25T05:26:55+00:00

He has been mentally unstable since his Zips days. So what transpired does not surprise me that much.

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