DrinkMonkey

Penang or GTFO.

Seriously though, a good Thai recipe book on curry or an online source you trust is going to be your bet here, and not subbing out ingredients for the western equivalent.

Elsewhere people have already mentioned avoiding certain shortcuts, but I think you’re going to have to make some allowances the first time around, like a food processor versus using a mortar and pestle. As you track down more ingredients over time, try them out. You might have to go to multiple stores.

Lots of excellent advice in the thread already (could kick myself for not including shrimp paste!) but the truth is there are no surprise ingredients or techniques.

Without knowing the specific curry you’re looking to replicate makes it hard to make specific recommendations but a few things have helped me up my game.

The first is what you use to add a sour note. In the west we often use lime juice, which is great to add sprinkled at the end, but you need to get some tamarind paste for the depth of flavour. It also adds sweetness, but you can instead use some sugar, preferably brown or palm.

Fish sauce is a must to round out the depth of umami and I find soy really doesn’t work for me. If that’s a no-go because of dietary restrictions you might have to add some yeast flakes with the soy sauce, but it’s not going to have the same depth.

If you can get galangal, use it. Same with lemon grass. But again all depends on the specific curry.

Is this an evolution of Kia’s existing EGMP platform?

But man, that range is not looking good. If it were real world that’d be something, but WLTP is typically…aspirational. Shame because I want a minivan for road trips…

I always explain it as when you buy an EV, instead of a gas card for $1500 off (an incentive I’ve seen a few times for trucks and SUVs) the EV comes with a magical elf who every night takes your car to the gas station for you, and fills it up, and puts it back in the garage. This elf gets a great deal on gas and it only costs you about $5 a tank. Is that something you might be interested in?

No testing on dairy. Bleached chicken.

Don’t forget the antibiotics in antibiotic free beef!

That was my initial reaction, thinking China MUST hold more treasury bonds than anyone else, right? Turns out that’s typically Japan ($1 trillion), and the UK has generally held roughly the same number as China (both in the $700B range). Maybe the US anticipated and had contingencies ready if it was just China doing the selling, but when the other big holders started a slow bleed, it might’ve given them pause? Dunno.

We also don’t know who held what more recently than January and I don’t know if the data gap is the usual lag or if the the people who do this work at the Treasury department got “DOGE’d”.

Bottom line, it’s been fun to think about but I don’t think we should put too much stock in conspiracy theories originating on Substack.

There’s a theory being batted around without too much evidence (hold tight, Snopes is on it) that Mark Carney talked European and Japanese leaders into accumulating US Treasury bonds, and then slow-selling them to make Trump squirm once he imposed the broad-brush tariffs to spook the T-bill market.

The theory sounds mostly plausible in that Carney was in Europe for closed door meetings with European leaders shortly after being designated PM, and that Trump backed off so quickly and used the language of “the bond market is tricky” to justify the change in direction. Dropping demand for T-bills leads the Fed to increase yields to keep the borrowing taps on, means expensive borrowing for them, means no money for tax cuts for billionaires.

On the other hand, the story originates from a twice-fired shock-jock’s Substack.

But it sounds like something a wicked smart Harvard/Oxford educated economist would dream up and pull off…

¯\(ツ)/¯

The deceased girl’s father insisted that measles helps build up a person’s immune system.

So here’s the thing…and I know that everyone here knows this, but it doesn’t.

Measles causes immune amnesia.

It’s pretty sneaky - integrating into respiratory tract macrophages, and avoiding destructive phagocytosis by binding directly to certain membrane receptors, and then being transported to lymph nodes where B and T cells get infected by the measles virus too. These memory B and T cells contain the memory of past infections, and when they’re destroyed (because they’re infected), you no longer have the ability to quickly ramp up a response to past infections and you get to start all over from the start.

So even if their other kids survived, their chances of dying from another infection goes up. It takes somewhere between 2.5 and 5 years for that risk to come back to baseline.

The infection itself might not have been “that bad” (despite killing one of their children) but the mortality risk isn’t over by a long shot.

…that mediocrity can pay to greatness”

All this “mediocrity” is pretty overwhelming right now.

I like these ones below. While I consider Star Trek the utopian ideal, and as a Canadian could use some Picard daddy energy in my life right now, this whole shitstorm feels more like a resistance, so went with Star Wars.

I really don’t dig the “I bought this before…” versions because they’re face saving, wordy, and somewhat defensive.

To paraphrase Office Space, “Why should I apologize, he’s the one who sucks!”

Literally wearing this shirt right now!

It’s all laid out in the final scene in Rebecca’s office, and that appears to be exactly what’s happening.