Yeah living near NYC there are so many great free shows that you can easily find new favorites.

This Thursday Big Freeda is doing a show in Brooklyn for free.

Sadly Celestial Seasonings is a legitimate cult

Except it’s wrong. 40% are independents so a 50/50 split cannot happen.

This is a shitty poll as it splits everyone 50/50 and neither party has the plurality of voters.

why is Rawstiry accepted as a source here?

I had a screen die on an iphone. The guy lied and said it could not be fixed. I got a piece if shit android phone. Two years later I see the old Iphone and plugged it in. The fucking thing works.

After a few dozen you are tipsy. If there’s booze it’s a different story. This tasting always had Hans Reisetbauer near the door with his incredible eau de vies.

Even spitting you still swallow a bit. Most in the trade spit at tastings into the spit buckets. You’ll be fine trying 5 wines in an hour but I would be tasting dozens of wines for hours. It adds up after a while.

I have a Harris tweed Teapot Cozy. It is one of my favorite things in my kitchen. I should have thought of that.

That is not my understanding though I am not a lawyer.

I think this is more for the random person that attacks people for being fans of things eg adults attacking adults because they like Legos

Legally speaking in the USA anything after the first is driving while intoxicated/under the influence (different states use DWI or DUI).

Working in the booze biz you are sadly correct though. I had a wine rep a few years back offer to pay for my parking in NYC if I went to a tasting. I told him I was taking the train and he was surprised. He shouldn’t be.

Bottom left looks like it is fake.

I think it is accident and emergency wards

Yes, and you will get a solid bottle for less than buying a US wine.

They are different beasts. BC has a less ideal climate and slightly shorter season. Your beer is great while your wines are less reliable at this point. Climate change will alter this but right now this is the case.

Portugal has the best QPR in wine IMO

Source: 30 years in the alcohol business.

The really sad part is this is only common for some nations. Many people that I talk to outside the Anglo-sphere (English speaking nations) are surprised at how common the belief is that government cannot help people. As a friend once asked, “It’s your government. If it doesn’t work for you why aren’t you fixing it?”

No, I am saying the crash of Evergrande was in no way a planned or negotiated event. Everyone knew there was trouble but no one “popped” it intentionally.

It’s a trend observable in all capitalist nations.

Ok 100% of nations

If you develop enough, the rate of profit falls, and so you need to expand outward to profit. This is the basis of imperialism, the carving out of the global south for profit. Across the west, this is a fact, even if it manifests in different ways.

Ok so there are exceptions that make it not observable in all nations only those that have met specific situations (presuming any of the claims are valid which has never been demonstrated to be the case).

It’s A or B. It cannot be observable in all capitalist systems if it has not happened in most and likely cannot happen in them ever. That means the presumption is not inherently valid like you are treating it.

You are treating your opinions as fact. Others here are doing the same. No one has been able to provide anything to support this. They only engage in ad hominem or complete misunderstandings of the claim.

They didn’t intentionally pop this bubble. It popped and they have done everything in their power to limit the damage. China might not be forthright about their policies but they do seem to be interested in preventing social collapse.