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Airpods Pro 3 reviews out

marfccy — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:48:09 +0800

very interested in the new improved battery life from 4.5hrs ANC to 8hrs, my 1st gen APP isnt great even when fresh

wonder if any resellers buying in 2nd hand APP anymore

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Madani fixing MY Debt!?

marfccy — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:25:10 +0800

cukurrrr??

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home reno punya questions

marfccy — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:30:33 +0800

sup /k want to ask for your experiences as i recently got my first condo and doing some reno

first Q is my living room & master bedroom is provided with their own AC (1.5HP & 1.0HP respectively). im planning to take the living room's 1.5HP to swap into the 1.0HP in master bedroom cause so far macam the 1HP one couldnt cool the room enough and will be using more power trying its hardest to do so.

then i am also planning to get stronger 2/2.5HP AC in living room so that when i host friends/family over, say around 6-10 pax total at least i feel it wouldnt be so stuffy. due to bad experience so many times where visit friends/relative house during CNY, gatherings etc and i find out their AC never enough to cool the living room when filled with even 4-6 pax, everyone just sitting inside hot ass room sweating even with fans at max speed

living+dining room size - L shaped 26sqm, AC facing TV wall parallel to balcony
master bedroom - long rectangle room 15sqm, AC facing windows

parents however said unnecessary purchase as they said the current ACs are more than cold enough once you close curtains/turn on fan. while this works to a degree, but i feel it kinda defeats the purpose of the AC if the AC so weak until need close curtains and turn on fans baru can cool the room? another would be also where parents attacking with the logic of "you every day host party in your house ar until need this? you think AC unit and electricity so cheap ar"

heat calculator estimate my master bedroom need 14k BTU/hr cooling capacity for its size. current 1HP model is rated 9000 only. while living room it estimated need around 20-30k? (what?)

and then 2nd Q is about installing power socket idea inside bathroom. i kinda itchy hand thinking to install those japanese toilet seat in my toilet, my own grand throne lol

but as usual in average condo they dont have sockets la, so i was wondering how much feasible is this project in terms of cost and time wise to do something to install 1-2 sockets inside toilet? planning to hide it inside a cabinet or under counter so at least water dont splash on them easily plus maybe i can install those LED light mirrors also

"USA Asthma Team"

marfccy — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:15:48 +0800

https://x.com/ThePollLady/status/1821108492825928086

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Did you know Olympic Anti Doping agency WADA is controlled by U.S. and it allows 3 countries to hold 63% of all Therapeutic DRUG use exemptions and the same 3 countries hold most number of medal tally.

The agency itself is set up with the sole purpose to enable massive doping of the US/Western athletes and to forbid and target other athletes in the name of anti-doping.

Athletes can legally dope themselves with performance-enhancing drugs, all under the guise of "medical treatment."

All thanks to system that World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has created, a system that allows western countries to dominate the medal tally with:

WADA's "exemption list".

This list is a little-known secret that allows athletes to use banned drugs, as long as they get approval. Approval by whom? US controlled WADA.

But here's the catch - the applications are kept private, opening the door for widespread doping. And guess which countries are taking advantage of this loophole? The same three countries that top the medal tally.

If you take a closer look at the numbers. In 2015, 653 American athletes applied for exemptions, with a staggering 60% approval rate. Compare that to Russia, which had a mere 37% approval rate, and China, which had only a single-digit number of approved exemptions.

But that's not all in 2016, the Russian hacker group "Magic Bear" leaked into the WADA database and found that American athletes have been using banned drugs with the help of their own anti-doping agency.

Yes, you read that right - the very agency meant to prevent doping has been enabling it. Over 200 American athletes have received medical exemptions, allowing them to use drugs like synthetic steroids and diuretics.

And it's not just limited to one or two sports. Cycling, athletics, triathlon, swimming, and skiing - all the sports that require peak physical performance - have been hit hard by doping. Even tennis superstars like Serena and Venus Williams have been allowed to take banned drugs, without revealing the medical certificates that justified their use.

WADA's system is a scam. Games should be about fair play and sportsmanship, instead WADA is used as a US weapon to attack adversaries in foreign policy.

cukurrr US so nice give drugs to people suffering from asthma to compete at Olympics

apa lanjiao? (literally)

marfccy — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:27:06 +0800

dem what kind of defense mechanism is this?

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tered perpaduan

marfccy — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:11:59 +0800

jom, today nice cooling day. so ayam nak siok sendiri open tered perpaduan

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if salah tempat kasi move to Hnnghh section gua, /k more traffic je

WTS Ryzen 5 2600 + MOBO + 16GB DDR4 [SOLD]

marfccy — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:34:19 +0800

Item(s): AMD Ryzen 5 2600 + Wraith cooler + B450I board + 2x8GB 3200Mhz memory

Package includes: as above

Price: Negotiable RM700 for all

Warranty: NIL

Dealing method: COD only at Bandar Utama area. Prefer Delivery/Grab (i will absorb delivery cost if within Petaling Jaya)

Location: Bandar Utama

Contact method/details: via PM or thread
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Item(s) conditions: Used but working well

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Reason for sale: Upgrading

chinese "spy" balloon!?

marfccy — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:53:06 +0800

so.. a spy balloon that wasnt spying?

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It was surely the most bizarre crisis of the Biden administration: America's top-of-the-line jet fighters being sent up to shoot down, of all things, a balloon – a Chinese spy balloon that was floating across the United States, which had the nation and its politicians in a tizzy.

Now, seven months later, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells "CBS News Sunday Morning" the balloon wasn't spying. "The intelligence community, their assessment – and it's a high-confidence assessment – [is] that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon," he said.

So, why was it over the United States? There are various theories, with at least one leading theory that it was blown off-track.

The balloon had been headed toward Hawaii, but the winds at 60,000 feet apparently took over. "Those winds are very high," Milley said. "The particular motor on that aircraft can't go against those winds at that altitude."

The balloon floated over Alaska and Canada, and then down over the lower 48, to Billings, Montana, where photographer Chase Doak, who had studied photojournalism in college, recorded it from his driveway. "I just happened to notice, out of the corner of my eye, a white spot in the sky. I, of course, landed on the most logical explanation, that it was an extra-terrestrial craft!" he laughed. "Took a photo, took a quick video, and then I grabbed a few coworkers just to make sure that I wasn't seeing things, and had them take a look at it."

Martin said, "You'll probably never take a more famous picture."

"No, I don't think I ever will!" Doak said.

He tipped off the Billings Gazette, which got its own picture, and he told anybody who asked they could use his free of charge. "I didn't want to make anything off it," Doak said. "I thought it was a national security issue, and all of America needed to know about it."

As a U-2 spy plane tracked the 200-foot balloon, Secretary of State Antony Blinken called off a crucial trip to China. On February 3 he called China's decision to fly a surveillance balloon over the Continental United States "both unacceptable and irresponsible."

President Joe Biden ordered the Air Force to shoot it down as soon as it reached the Atlantic Ocean.

Col. Brandon Tellez planned the February 4 operation, which was to shoot the balloon down once it was six miles off the coast.

Martin said, "On paper, it looks like this colossal mismatch – one of this country's most sophisticated jet fighters against a balloon with a putt-putt motor. Was it a sure thing?"

"It's a sure thing, no doubt," Tellez replied.

"It would have been an epic fail!"

"Yes sir, it would have been! But if you would've seen that, you know, first shot miss, there would've been three or four right behind it that ended the problem," Tellez said.

But it only took a single missile, which homed in on the heat of the sun reflected off the balloon.

After the Navy raised the wreckage from the bottom of the Atlantic, technical experts discovered the balloon's sensors had never been activated while over the Continental United States.

But by then, the damage to U.S.-China relations had been done. On May 21, President Biden remarked, "This silly balloon that was carrying two freight cars' worth of spying equipment was flying over the United States, and it got shot down, and everything changed in terms of talking to one another."

So, Martin asked, "Bottom line, it was a spy balloon, but it wasn't spying?"

Milley replied, "I would say it was a spy balloon that we know with high degree of certainty got no intelligence, and didn't transmit any intelligence back to China."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bizarre-se...as-spy-balloon/

Drone pipur kambing

marfccy — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 22:06:18 +0800

so ayam kinda itchy hand these days and feel like owning a drone just for kicks to fly and ~~skodeng~~.. i mean explore around

saw recently in youtube ada itu DJI Air 3 baru release. nak pointers from you drone owners which one gooding to try out as newbie to drone scene
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i dont really need very good cam as i believe the majority are pretty great already. but i want longest battery life to cost, which is why the Mini/Air range seems interesting

or should i find for those super budget kinds thats <RM1k range to fool around with first? use case purely for fun, no creative content making at all

honda insight bulb replacement

marfccy — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 12:35:52 +0800

sup people so recently my honda insight bulb mampus so want to replace it ASAP. want to know if any of you all know any workshop in Damansara that can do it fast to replace to another H11 halogen bulb or if budget permits, HID?

checking nearby my housing area seems like they are primarily tyre shop nia

singapore done claim more food?

marfccy — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 15:03:47 +0800

dunno if posted before but jom lets start the shitstorm on who claim what food

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Osaka station facial recognition gate

marfccy — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 11:01:36 +0800

wah new addition this year at osaka station. sape at japan atm to try this? inb4 stealing biometric details

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Michelle Yeoh identifies as Asian!

marfccy — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 15:37:43 +0800

lolwat

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china toilets, dirty or clean?

marfccy — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:31:58 +0800

this is quite an improvement compared to what i seen last time in china 20yrs ago lel

just a hole in the ground minus door to close

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Just watched Top Gun Maverick

marfccy — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 22:16:27 +0800

as per title, movie so far nubbad but felt it shouldve ended when they took on the 2nd Su57 and flew back to carrier

but instead they asspull in Hangman and a 3rd Su57? for what?

Schedule Grab to KLIA

marfccy — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 09:57:11 +0800

as per title, anyone tried this before? i dont see option in my grab app to do so unlike what Grab website said

need to schedule ahead cause my flight quite early in morning so i sked if on same day i couldnt get

otherwise anyone has other options besides PT/ERL from KL sentral or hire airport limo?

stereotypes on driver to car models

marfccy — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:07:05 +0800

jom lets start shitpost for fun since boring day at werk, ill start with what i usually get the most so far

80-90s era proton wira/saga/iswara - owner as ancient as car usually drive like they own the road, slow AF hogging everyone lane. 30km in 60km roads
toyoto vellfire - either driving too fucking fast or too fucking slow on roads. generally owner is some braggy loud mouthed prick driving his entire extended family of 8 people of adult and kids
maibee - wannabe racer but kenot afford proper racing hatchback like golf gti

"stop calling it asian salad"

marfccy — Tue, 24 May 2022 13:03:29 +0800

jom time to be culturally appropriate

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Stop Calling It Asian Salad
Excuse me, waiter, but there’s a race in my greens

By Perry Santanachote
May 20, 2022

I’m generally not the kind of person who puts much thought into something like a salad, and it took a long time for me to even notice Asian salad—all of my life, actually. Then a few years ago it tagged along with me to a friend’s potluck. It was my husband who, at the last minute, bought the salad from a nearby grocery store as the dish that we would contribute as a couple. “I just picked up some Asian salad,” he said. Having not seen said salad, I asked him what made it Asian. “Not mayonnaise,” he said with a shrug.

What came out of the box was a cabbage and lettuce salad with flecks of carrot, scallions, and almond slivers, underseasoned with soy sauce and sesame oil. Over the course of the party, at least three others asked the same question: What makes an Asian salad Asian? We joked about it, but the truth is, this salad hit a nerve. It felt weird being cowed by cold, soggy vegetables, but the longer I sat with it, the more pissed I became. There was something going on here. So I reached out to culinary historians, chefs, food writers, and artists to help me unpack what might be wrong with the Asian salad.

What Is Asian Salad and Where Did It Come From?

Asian salad is usually an American-style green salad (sometimes it’s a cabbage slaw) topped with fried wontons or chow mein noodles, sometimes canned mandarin oranges and chicken, too. The dressing is often a vinaigrette with some combination of sesame oil, soy sauce, and ginger or plum sauce.

Asian American dishes such as these are often inventions of Asian immigrant entrepreneurs, as an attempt to figure out what Americans like to eat, adapt, and build a bridge, says Krishnendu Ray, PhD, an associate professor of food studies at New York University and author of “The Ethnic Restaurateur” (at Amazon). And at the end of the 20th century, Americans wanted salads.

“Recipes for generalized Chinese or Asian salads were popular up until the 1930s, a few decades after the very Americanized chop suey craze,” says KC Hysmith, social media manager at the Museum of Food and Drink and a PhD candidate in food history at the University of North Carolina. “Then with the change in immigration laws in the 1960s, another wave of Asian ingredients took over American foodways.”

In the 1960s, the Chinese chicken salad caught on, likely because of Madame Wu’s Garden in Santa Monica, a trendy Chinese restaurant that added the salad to the menu per Cary Grant’s request. Over the decades, the salad—or renditions of it—popped up at various restaurants, but the salad exploded in popularity when Wolfgang Puck created a version for his fusion restaurant Chinois on Main in the ’80s.

Still, Chinese chicken salad had nothing on “Asian salad,” a term that appeared in mainstream media in the ‘80s. Mentions of it increased by about 400 percent within two decades. The Asian salad is now on the menu of countless fast-casual and fast-food restaurants, in the salad sections of grocery stores, and featured on food blogs galore. And it’s no longer enterprising Asian Americans at the helm.

When and why did the Chinese in the name get swapped out for Asian? When it comes to hybridized American food, the pattern has always been for cookbook authors, restaurant owners, and recipe writers to keep upping the stakes, says Ken Albala, PhD, a food historian and professor at the University of the Pacific in California. “I think that the needle kept having to move into new territories every time a new cuisine was so-called discovered by the West and those ingredients would get incorporated.” For example, when people started adding miso, yuzu, lemongrass, or (ugh) peanut butter to the salads, they were no longer tied to specifically Chinese flavors. And today, even the classic Chinese chicken salad is called Asian salad.

The Problem With Asian Salad

To be clear, this isn’t about the other capital A word: Authenticity. The Asian salad has never claimed to be a dish from any place in Asia. Dishes can be inspired and fused together, nothing is truly ever authentic, and I grew up eating and enjoying diasporic cooking. It’s the Asian descriptor that irks me.

“These elements from Asian cuisine are sort of pulled out of context and put into this pedestrian salad,” says Miranda Brown, PhD, professor of Chinese studies at the University of Michigan. “But the main problem here is they’re taking a racial label and adding it to the food, which just doesn’t mix well with where we are as a country right now.”

“Asian salad is my biggest pet peeve in American food media, food blogs, and restaurant menus,” says Pailin Chongchitnant, chef and creator of Hot Thai Kitchen and author of “Demystifying Thai Cuisine with Authentic Recipes to Make at Home” (at Amazon and Walmart). “To me, it represents how Asian people have been treated in North America—as a monolith, as walking stereotypes, and without respect.”

While growing up in California, Jenn de la Vega, a caterer and author of “Showdown Comfort Food, Chili & BBQ: Bold Flavors from Wild Cooking Contests” (at Amazon and Walmart), always found it strange to see bags of Asian salad mix at the grocery stores. “I remember seeing fried wontons and chow mein noodles appearing with teriyaki style dressings,” she says. “A real confusion of cultures; none of them Filipino.”

What the 'Asian' in Asian Salad Means

“I don’t think that the Asian in ‘Asian salad’ is intended to be pejorative, but rather, Asian food is kind of fetishized in a lot of ways,” says Brown. And in this case, what people mean when they say Asian in America is really that it’s Chinese. “Part of the American understanding of Asian food, what it should look like and taste like, is very much conditioned by the Chinese-American diner and takeout. Dealing with this specter makes it hard for other Asian cuisines to get a foothold into the United States.”

South Asians, for instance, still need to constantly remind people in America that they’re Asians, too, whereas in the U.K. the presumption is that Asian means Indian.

“When you’re calling something Asian, what are you really saying?” asks Preeti Mistry, chef and co-author of “Juhu Beach Club Cookbook” (at Amazon). “Calling something Asian doesn’t describe anything and it requires a lot of assumptions because most people would be surprised if they ordered an Asian salad and got something that was full of Indian spices or Filipino flavors, even though those cultures are in Asia. It’s collapsing so many diverse cultures into one word.”

These Minor Feelings: It’s a Generational Thing

In the book, “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning” (at Amazon), the author Cathy Park Hong gets at the existential core of what being constantly gaslit by the mainstream public can do to a person. The experiences aren’t new. But speaking up about them kind of is. The number of Asian Americans born and raised in the U.S. is larger than ever but many of us grew up constantly pounded by microaggressions that we were supposed to just quietly take. But we’re all grown up now, and some of us are kind of pissed.

“Immigrant generations are generally not all that incensed with questions of misappropriation but their children tend to be quite sensitive about it,” says Ray. “Partly because they grew up here and many of them were bullied and ostracized about their weird lunches at school and now all that weird stuff has become very trendy and sexy.”

It’s true. When I asked my parents, who opened Thai restaurants in the ‘80s and ‘90s, what they thought, they told me they never thought about it; that they were too busy working and appeasing white customers to make money to send me and my sisters to college so we could disappoint them with our liberal arts degrees and earn the privilege to think such thoughts and make our own money writing about them.

Fair enough, Mom and Dad, thank you, and I love you, but also, like, a little “OK Boomer,” amirite? The demographics of this country have changed. Millennials are the largest generation in the U.S. and the most diverse group of adults this country’s seen. (Gen Z will be even more so.) Before we know it, half of this country will be majority not-white and Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group among them. So, if restaurant groups and grocery chains are marketing and naming things for the benefit of the consumer, they’re excluding a huge chunk of people. And I’m not the only one with Asian salad under my skin.

In 2017, Bonnie Tsui wrote an op-ed in The New York Times asking the same question: “Why Is Asian Salad Still on the Menu?” the comment section of which is like gaslighting on steroids. But we’re not going to stop talking about this.

“Asian salad as a concept highlights the potentially harmful ways people can digest cultures different from their own,” says Divya Gadangi, a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist. “They’re experiencing something flattened and distorted expressly for their consumption, and a lot of the time it’s for some white dude’s gain.”

“The Asian salad aimed to appease the white gaze,” says Gadangi. “And is now being wielded by mostly non-Asians, if not exclusively non-Asians, to what? Celebrate Asian flavors? Bring underrepresented foods to the forefront? Hardly, because who is celebrating the culture? Who is at the forefront? Who gets to decide what the ingredients are? It was never meant to be representative.”

Brown says that so much of Asian American identity revolves around food and grappling with feelings around how it gets appropriated, disrespected, and misrepresented can get tricky.

Growing up in Staten Island, Gadangi says, she’d wish to see more of herself in the prominently white culture. “The shallowness and commodity-ness of what we get says to us, ‘Well, we still don’t actually like you, let’s get that straight. But we’ll eat your food.’”

Food for Thought: Renaming the Asian Salad

If you haven’t caught on by now, this article isn’t really about salad, it’s about words and how they matter.

“In the grand scheme of things, what we call an Asian salad doesn’t rise to the level of serious concern like anti-Asian hate crime in the era of Covid, but it’s a mainstream insensitivity that we could do away with,” says Brown.

“When I first saw packages of Asian salad mix, I thought of returning them to the manufacturer with red ink like a teacher,” says de la Vega. “Nice try, guys. Redo this."

And no, Asian-inspired isn’t any better. That’s just lazy. We can do better.

Like maybe just using straightforward language:

“If I could change the culture, I would prefer to name it by the ingredients,” says Linda Shiue, MD, a chef and author of “Spicebox Kitchen: Eat Well and Be Healthy with Globally Inspired, Vegetable-Forward Recipes” (at Amazon). “Let’s say, a napa cabbage salad with mandarin oranges and a sesame-soy dressing. It tells you what you’re getting and it actually sounds more appetizing. Your palate starts to get excited about those flavors.”

Or come up with your own name without leaning on tired tropes like “Emperor’s salad” or “Enlightened salad.”

“When we first opened Tao Yuan in Maine 10 years ago, I put Asian slaw on my menu,” says Cara Stadler, chef and co-owner of Bao Bao Dumpling House, Tao Yuan, and Zao Ze Cafe and Market in Portland, Maine. “I thought it would appeal to the community. There are too many cultures smashed together in our slaw for me to say it’s Chinese but calling it Asian was so nonspecific and didn’t really add any value. Eventually we had to ask ourselves, ’Why do we still have this on our menu?’” Stadler says she and her mom, who’s also her business partner, changed it to the Eighty Ate Slaw, based on the name of their restaurant group. There was no uproar, no confusion about what the slaw was, she says, and the dish remained widely popular.

But you don’t need to be a restaurant owner or recipe writer or food executive to push for these changes. The claim is that this is what consumers want. Kindly tell them that you’re smarter than that.

In the Eater article, “Why Do Fast-Casual Restaurants Get a Pass on Appropriation?” the author Jenny Dorsey, chef and founder of nonprofit think tank Studio ATAO, implores readers to “scrutinize these brands, whose reach permeates our lives on the daily, whose executives (inaccurately) treat America as though they are as white as they are, whose menus and messaging influence the next wave of restaurateurs and food entrepreneurs.”

https://www.consumerreports.org/food/stop-c...ad-a3082309856/

kenapa org cina kaya!?

marfccy — Mon, 23 May 2022 13:11:55 +0800

anyone posted this back then?

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all his pointers is basic common sense je

>suka menabung
>benci kumpul liabiliti
>paham kadar bunga
>tahu duit pigi mana
>faham duit sejak kecik
>perkerjaan itu sementara

travel bideos

marfccy — Fri, 20 May 2022 12:08:27 +0800

since everyone itching to travel liao, jom lets post those boring long walk videos

imma start with this

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