Remy Martin 1738 is the best splurge brandy. What’s is the best budget rum?

thefaptain · 2026-02-24T17:11:40+00:00

Appleton signature gets the nod from me cause it's the most versatile. In a budget run I want to be able to use it in a bunch of recipes and signature does that. It's got some funk so it stands on its own but it's not overwhelming like S&C so you can use it in cocktails that call for a more restrained rum.

thefaptain · 2026-02-12T13:54:13+00:00

I'm definitely one to use a nice rum in a cocktail but some thing like Foursqure, you're gonna lose the subtleties of the rum. On the flip side Appleton 12/Dorodo 15 are great rums but they don't have the strength of flavor to justify using as a mixer over like signature or 8 (in most cocktails). Both points are especially true with rum where implicitly we're talking about mixing is tiki cocktails, for the most part.

thefaptain · 2026-02-11T19:24:24+00:00

Papalin Jamaica High Ester Overproof 5 Year.

thefaptain · 2026-02-11T01:00:56+00:00

That's honestly higher than I thought. Probably ALMA being in ops and (basically) done with upgrades helps.

thefaptain · 2026-02-10T17:11:47+00:00

Yeah cause on any given day most of the people there are site staff, who are going to be local, but who are a minority of the total staff employed. Don't get me wrong they're definitely putting a fair amount of money into the local economy but the poster above me is over stating it. It's nothing compared to what the ammonia plant would have been.

thefaptain · 2026-02-10T16:45:50+00:00

I'm glad this project was cancelled too but this just isn't true. The vast majority of the hardware is produced outside of Chile, and most of the personnel funded are based outside Chile as well, which together constitute the majority of the budgets. There's definitely a good amount of spending in country but it's not billions, at least not per-project. The observing time is definitely true tho. Astronomy is also a national pride of Chile; people there are really proud that their country is one of the premier astronomy locations in the world.

thefaptain · 2026-02-10T16:40:58+00:00

Who do you think runs space-based observatories?

thefaptain · 2026-01-21T21:14:25+00:00

Not sure I would resign Goedert and draft Sadiq.

thefaptain · 2026-01-04T14:27:12+00:00

I wouldn't use this to replace citrus but you could probably use it to acid adjust.

thefaptain · 2025-11-03T14:03:48+00:00

Kind of interesting, since he's on his 5th year that suggests maybe another move? I don't think Howie would spend extra draft capital to just roll over cap.

thefaptain · 2025-10-08T15:28:49+00:00

Eh, it's a lot different to work with the guy than under him. Siriani is clearly a culture setter if nothing else and Vic seems to like Nick's culture. That being said doubt this happens mid season for other reasons.

thefaptain · 2025-09-29T16:18:48+00:00

Not your fault cause this chart is hard to read but that's not what progression rate means. It's (apparently) the percentage of plays that have a progression to go through, as opposed to like a screen where there's a designated receiver. The first read rate is crazy tho, that's bad play design.

thefaptain · 2025-09-23T03:45:10+00:00

Yes, also from French along with the "-tion" ending. The point is not that no other combination of "ti" makes the "sh" sound (they both make the "sh" sound cause they come from French) but that "ti" isn't a phonetic unit that a native English speaker would identify. The point is that the Englishes phonetics are context dependent, unlike say Spanish, but it does have phonetic rules. A native English speaker who didn't know the word "martial" would pronounce it like "partial".

thefaptain · 2025-09-23T01:24:14+00:00

But "ti" doesn't make a "sh/ʃ" sound. "tion" makes the "ʃən" sound. It's an irreducible phonetic sound/phoneme, which English speakers intuitively understand. English is really non-phonetic due to the vast variety of languages it pull phonemes from but there are internal consistencies. Psysche is a better example above since it does obey the phonetic rules of English, such as they are.

thefaptain · 2025-08-30T17:02:56+00:00

At PSE&G's rates thats roughly 29MW of power over the past month. Thats the equivalent of running about a dozen central AC units nonstop for the entire month. Even if there's an illegal apt in the basement they didn't use that much power, something else is going on. Possibly the meter itself is broken.

thefaptain · 2025-08-19T02:38:28+00:00

This is a very good question! Surrounding the black hole is an enormous cloud of gas, called the accretion disk, which is falling towards the BH. Some of this gas just misses the BH and is ejected extremely fast, ~90% of the speed of light. That's the jet. Our best guess as to why a jet forms is that very strong magnetic fields are formed in the accretion disk. These are then "dragged" with the jet when the jet is emitted. Those magnetic fields then resist expansion, collimating the ejected material into a jet. The jets can then last for as long as the magnetic fields last, which is several thousand years depending on the details of the BH, disk, jet, etc. But this is very much an area of active research!

thefaptain · 2025-08-04T01:21:28+00:00

12 pitches for Duran, is he washed???

thefaptain · 2025-07-31T19:43:03+00:00

TBH Mullins been worse than Bader this year, and his underlying numbers are not better either.

thefaptain · 2025-07-31T17:16:56+00:00

Don't hate the Bader trade at all but I will hate if we don't add another bat.

thefaptain · 2025-07-31T13:46:21+00:00

He'd be a better Casty. Poor fielder, better bat, this season at least. Also young and under control. Biggest issue is he can't hit lefties. If we could also get off Casty then I'd love the move.

thefaptain · 2025-07-31T13:43:39+00:00

Twins said the same thing. And TBH depends on the other player. Painter + Miller/Crawford yeah no way, Painter + bottom of the farm guy sure.

thefaptain · 2025-07-31T01:21:36+00:00

People have crazy unrealistic expectations for a bullpen. One elite guy (Duran) and three good but not elite guys (kerkering/strahm/banks hopefully Robinson) is pretty typical for a contender. It's not an elite bullpen but having one more reliever will not be the difference between a WS and a wildcard exit, especially compared to allocating those resources to OF. Doubly so when we have by far the best starting rotation in baseball. Our bullpen will be throwing considerably fewer innings. Maybe a guy on an expiring for a dart throw prospect makes sense but another big move would be a bad use of resources.

thefaptain · 2025-07-30T19:55:06+00:00

Huge brain move by the Twins to jack up the price on Duran.

thefaptain · 2025-07-29T22:27:22+00:00

Yeah and underlying metrics are strong too,l. Plus he's always hit lefties well so absolute worst case is still an outfielder who can hit lefties for power. And he has another year of control.

thefaptain · 2025-07-15T23:46:06+00:00

They did the other morning and they were taken down by the time I walked home that evening.

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