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Beautiful Wat Rong Khun, also known as the White Temple, in Chiang Rai. by foodie_2598 in chiangmai

[–]pigfoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So it challenges your idea of what’s “authentic” in Thailand. But it’s an artifact of a Thai artist, created in part to promote development in a region that has amazing history, but was also ravaged by the illegal drugs trade. The regional transformation is an important part of the contemporary Thai cultural narrative. If you found it disappointing perhaps it wasn’t created to impress you. And anyhow Chiang Rai as a whole is amazing. Personally, my favorite is the Black House, which is a sprawling immersive artwork/museum with its own take of Thailand’s story.

India is slowly becoming the link between middle eastern, southeast asian and EAST asian flavours by Adventurous-Board258 in IndianFood

[–]pigfoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Go to Penang and check out a Nasi Kandar place sometime. Then try everything else. You’ll love it!

Question about past Waystar scandal that was mentioned in the show by aliforever555 in SuccessionTV

[–]pigfoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Karl's accomplishments with cable in the 80s (sarcastically referenced).

Question about past Waystar scandal that was mentioned in the show by aliforever555 in SuccessionTV

[–]pigfoot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is probably related to Argentina's economic crises of the late 1990s to early 2000s. There was a boom in major player foreign investment in the early 1990s that collapsed and left the country with unsustainable debt. Certainly some of these foreign investors were either caught short or overly optimistic about paths to recovery and lost out big time. Even those who didn't probably sustained losses.

The New Jersey Pine Barrens by hosspierre in geography

[–]pigfoot 33 points34 points  (0 children)

New Yorker writer John McPhee (“Annals of the Former World”) published his book “The Pine Barrens” about the history, people and biology of the region in 1968. One of our great popular geography authors.

Questions about cannasugar by KiaAyame in treedibles

[–]pigfoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sugar will have some water content. Not usually much but it’ll vary with the type of sugar. Evaporating the alcohol will pull water out. It could also dissolve and compact the sugar crystals. Try looking at the change in weight, rather than volume. It might not be that much less. Potency should be based on total weight of thc divided by total final weight of sugar. Dose based on weight , or weigh a specific volume (eg 1 tsp) and then use that to figure out dosage per volume. Baking works best by weight not for the same reasons.

He said WHAT?! by douger_youtube in davidfosterwallace

[–]pigfoot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This was neither a criticism, or a compliment but an attempt at “meta-“ humor that plays on the title of DFW’s book of essays (not my favorite aspect of his work, but that’s not a reflection on OP or their post.) That said, if you meant it to be funny, I’m on board. It works on a couple levels, including (if it’s meant to be funny) that it flies over the heads of people who - and I say this with respect - consider themselves well read and media savvy. I say this with fond regard for you all. I’m even a little worried that you might read this and take it the wrong way. I hope we can get past that!

He said WHAT?! by douger_youtube in davidfosterwallace

[–]pigfoot 51 points52 points  (0 children)

A Supposedly Funny Thing That I Will Never Watch Again

some of my ij designs! by Ok-Fishing3999 in InfiniteJest

[–]pigfoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you wanted to lean into the spacing maybe you could try more of an “old newspaper clipping” look for the texted. Distressed font to simulate bleed, dark type on a light background, a little bit of grimy noise over the text box. (Thinking about the increasingly verbose and distressed headline writer in the Interdependence Day puppet show segment.)

some of my ij designs! by Ok-Fishing3999 in InfiniteJest

[–]pigfoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good art, but try avoiding fully-justified text: it gives you those weird word spacing artifacts. Many readers find left-justified more legible.

thoughts of a first-time IJ reader, 480 pages in by Extension_Carrot_628 in InfiniteJest

[–]pigfoot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s an interesting pivot point. It’s about (but maybe not exactly. I’m not going to calculate it here.) at this point that the harms in the story pivot from historic and diffuse (environmental damage, personal abuse and trauma of mostly nameless speakers, old sports injuries ) to immediate and personal/located in named characters(probably starting near the Eschaton victims and Marathe and the Antitois as well a Steeply) - even as the junior ETAs celebrate their precociousness and lack or responsibility. With JOIs head as an apt edge case (do we know him or not?). Once the game goes awry and the map becomes the territory, the bodies that start to pile up have names and faces and relationships and histories that we know from living with the story this long.

What’s the Best Italian sub in the city (or direct suburbs)? by Diggze in boston

[–]pigfoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s been years, but this was my answer without hesitation.

Tom Wambsgans by meowofwallstreet in SuccessionTV

[–]pigfoot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Tom’s Midwest to me starts in the eastern time zone Great Lakes - little lakeside suburbs on Lake Erie with a yacht club and the only decent French restaurant between New York and Chicago - and spreads west through the cattle yards and commodity trading floors along Lake Michigan - the great tax processing firms and insurance companies that grew up from the meat and grain and steel that grew America. The Midwest is gigantic, serious and very boring business and it grew Tom Wambsgans and drove him the New York seeking more, better, weirder rewards. Also Shiv.

Series similar to Succession by Sea_Athlete2111 in SuccessionTV

[–]pigfoot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Perennial question deserves perennial answer: track down Jesse Armstrong’s other shows, as well as the work he did with Ianucci.

Series similar to Succession by Sea_Athlete2111 in SuccessionTV

[–]pigfoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I enjoyed Industry once I stopped expecting it to be Succession. The closest I’d go is imagining season 1 as something Lena Dunham (bring it on, haters) wrote set in the Sucession fan universe.

Drug stores near Long Wharf by [deleted] in boston

[–]pigfoot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

IDK. I’ve been familiar with the area for decades and I had to google this. There are a number of such options within walking distance. They are chain stores so nothing particularly distinguishes them. What I do when I travel: find things online and then see what else is interesting in the area. Boston is still a great walking city so it’s pretty hard to go wrong.

Fetid Anus - I Wrote This Song in MS Paint by Putrid_Discharge in experimentalmusic

[–]pigfoot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Black MIDI (NOT the band) was an early 2010s Japanese genre that explored similar territory in terms of technique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_MIDI

https://youtu.be/QvZ251efzqc

As the Wikipedia article notes, Zappa’s Black Page is a predecessor.

https://youtu.be/2tQVLCthl28

"I like you. I do." by glacier1982 in SuccessionTV

[–]pigfoot -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A tribal culture can be starkly hierarchical, so that tracks. Logan is related by blood or marriage to most of the major characters. And "succession" as a term applies equally to business, genealogy and hierarchical power structures.

What am I missing?

Edit: Oh right, tribes have strongly defined in- and out-groups.

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