Skua

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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 4 points 1 month ago

I assume you've tripped up on your measurements somewhere, because 4 ml would be a very sad dram. A spirit measure in the UK is 25 ml, so you get 28 of those out of a 700 ml bottle for $7,000 at that bar.

Edit: upon looking it up, apparently a dram actually is 4 ml in America? In Scotland that's just the word for a glass of whisky, assumed to be an approximate "one drink" rather than an actual specification of volume. If you offered someone a dram and poured them 4 ml here, they'd think you were the stingiest person since Ebenezer Scrooge

However bars mark drinks up like mad, and they will absolutely do so on extremely premium drinks because the only people buying those are people who do not care how much it costs. If you take $3 for a shot of a basic vodka, that's $84 for the bottle, and there's absolutely no way you'd pay $84 for that same bottle in a supermarket.

You definitely could spend seven grand on a 40 year old bottle of whisky if you went looking for one. This specific bottle is 51 years, but it's commanding this price because it's a very rare special edition from a big and popular distillery

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

None of the Anglosphere currencies would make this anything other than the price of a car anyway. This is absolutely just a collector's item for those with more money than sense, never expected to be actually drunk

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Chad chose it when Romania was using a different one, Chad is environmentally conscious and reuses to reduce waste

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Therefore you are a woman

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Wait, people actually avoid Australia because of it? I mean, I do think of Australian wildlife as dangerous, but to me that means "don't fuck about" rather than "don't go at all". And I live in the UK, where we killed everything that was even slightly dangerous to humans long ago

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 6 points 2 months ago

Presumably you downloaded Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC), which I still had to do to make a custom keyboard layout in 2022. Funnily enough I was also wanting to use AltGr to add diacritics to vowels, because I don't want to have to go to the backtick key for àèìòù

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

For what it's worth, making a custom layout actually is a huge pain in the arse. That's a pretty niche use case, but there is definitely no reason for it to be as much of a hassle as it is

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't a khopesh sharp on the other side of the curve from a shotel, though? It seems like sharpening the inside was the big innovation that makes shotels distinctive

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 25 points 2 months ago (21 children)

To be fair, I don't have to trust elected politicians to distrust unelected CEOs and other upper management more

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 6 points 2 months ago

This has literally nothing to do with women’s rights

this is exactly the point I'm making

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

You responded to criticism of the state of women's rights under Taliban governance with criticism of America, you absolutely said something exactly that simplistic. If the post was saying that America and/or its allies should re-invade or otherwise try to overthrow the Taliban, sure, you might have a point, but it isn't

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 31 points 2 months ago (16 children)

You don't have to think America is doing things right to think the Taliban are doing them wrong

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