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    My Lent Regret

    I keep buying Whiskey but I treat it like medicine and therefore I never remember to drink it. (Apparently there are some health benefits to consuming alcohol in very small amounts.)
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    "Ships From And Sold By Amazon" Buyer Beware

    I'm just trying to figure out what the heck is going on and keep a public record of it because this all totally new and probably insanely confusing for everyone.
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    "Ships From And Sold By Amazon" Buyer Beware

    Interesting followup, Amazon says they've verified the cards were genuine and removed my review on their website which speculated the cards were fake, so assuming everything is square then the Samsung cards genuinely do not work correctly in many devices. And the rabbit hole goes deeper...
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    "Ships From And Sold By Amazon" Buyer Beware

    Ultimately, whether or not my card reader is compatible is actually irrelevant because the card is also barely compatible with my mobile device, so the theoretical benchmarks are really a moot point, the card functions poorly in its intended application.
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    I've Got Friends in Low Places

    I have a few packs of Toscano cigars stashed and given how many recommendations they've received in this thread I'm starting to dread the idea of trying one because it might make my horde of pipes obsolete.
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    I've Got Friends in Low Places

    Every time I find the best of something I am driven to find its low cost equivalent. Very few products have ever been made where a top of the line example isn't matched or exceeded by a competitor at a fraction of the price. To use the ubiquitous car analogy, the Nissan R35 GT-R became one of...
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    "Ships From And Sold By Amazon" Buyer Beware

    This is actually backwards to what Volkswagen was doing. VW was giving everyone the absolute best performance by skirting regulations, the cars that broke regulations were actually producing less Co2 by being overall more efficient cars. Emissions regulations make your engine less efficient...
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    "Ships From And Sold By Amazon" Buyer Beware

    20K reviews on Amazon.com but I only see 3 benchmarks posted, and one of those reports reduced read speed. If we had 20K benchmarks it's anyones guess what the split of positive/negative would be. The worst case would be if everything is legitimate and the cards I bought are both fully...
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    "Ships From And Sold By Amazon" Buyer Beware

    For what it's worth Amazon has an exceptional return policy and I've never had a problem getting products replaced or returned. However this does not fix the issue of whether or not I can trust products to be what they say they are.
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    "Ships From And Sold By Amazon" Buyer Beware

    Yes, to that point what really disturbed me is the performance of my old card that cost half as much: This is a Patriot brand "A1" class card: Amazon.ca - https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07S98ZVLZ Which only guarantees IOPS to 1500 Read and 500 Write, but in the benchmark it has BETTER read speed...
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    "Ships From And Sold By Amazon" Buyer Beware

    I've been told to be weary of buying electronics from third party re-sellers on Amazon, but "Ships From And Sold By Amazon" is supposed to be a guarantee you're getting genuine product... or maybe not. Purchased directly from Amazon, these Samsung MicroSD cards are advertised as having...
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    Chronicling An AliExpress Pipe For Science 2.0: The Re-Chronicling

    Look for good pipes, get good pipes: AliExpress Gem: Shao Lan Reverse Calabash. :: Pipe Talk - https://pipesmagazine.com/forums/threads/aliexpress-gem-shao-lan-reverse-calabash.86681/ Sadly my link to the purchase page is dead, but the principle remains it's not too hard find something decent...
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    I Don't Smoke in Warm Weather. You?

    Coldest time of day is usually just after sunrise (evaporating condensation chills the air), I'd be getting up early for the morning smoke. No matter what your local weather is, nothing can be worse than being attacked thousands of mosquitos. I'd be more comfortable smoking in a hurricane.
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    Dow 38,000

    The practicality of sustaining a billion people makes no claim to the happiness of those people. Past the baby boom, every developed nation has naturally contracted its population (including the U.S. in the last decade). Population "can" increase but people don't like it. The exponential...
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    Dow 38,000

    Despite the verbiage of the article, the "Bob" example is still more on the optimistic side because of the chosen timeframe, anyone who invested at average market conditions in the first half of the century and needed money in the 1980's was getting the short end of the stick. However, given...
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    Dow 38,000

    There's no getting around opportunity cost, the bottom of the market was 1/4 of the peak and a broad portfolio would have lost insane amounts of money compared to alternative investments. And that's why realestate is now the #1 preferred method of storing wealth, which has the side effect of...
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    Dow 38,000

    https://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historical-chart After 1930 it took another 30 years for the economy to recover to the same position in 1960. After 1965 it took another 30 years for the economy to recover to the same position in 1995. History repeats itself.
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    How Come We Don't See Counterfeit Pipes?

    Pipes are just way too niche.
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    I Gave Latakia a Fair Try.

    Most of those tins are not on my list of favorites (that I've tried) except for SG Skiff Mixture, which I consider to be one of the best English blends. The only point of contention I might bring up is that even Skiff is rather dull when it's too dry, if you haven't tried it fresh out of the tin...
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    Do Big Pipes Smoke Better?

    Generally no, but 90% of the time I only want to smoke my big pipes because I always want to feel like it's a big event.