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If you like history and/or storytelling, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcasts. They are extremely long format and really, really good.

Light Lens Lab in China is doing pretty incredible things with camera lenses. They've recreated a number of vintage/rare lenses to spec for 20-50% of the price. I'm very excited for the Z21, the test shots are stunning. Honorable mention: TTArtisan. Almost as good as LLL in terms of quality, but same story: China lab recreating vintage, rare lenses to spec. TTArtisan's f0.95 50mm scratches my Noctilux itch, it delivers 80% of the value for 6% of the price lol My tupperdore also holds humidity quite a bit better (and more cigars) than my much more expensive wooden humidor, so maybe that too 🤣

Won't/can't comment on the stock, but I agree with this statement

Some funky Sunday tunes on a Saturday.

This is a big fear of mine as my collection grows. I probably wouldn't tell the cops. $20k is comfortably a felony for ole sticky fingers, and that could bring some scrutiny upon what was stolen and how you got them. Though at that price, it probably makes sense to talk to a lawyer - might be able to play some ball.

I haven't been yet, I typically smoke at Casa Sudo (my backyard). The Maybourne is quite nice as @B44 mentioned. Non-cigar related, but the Magic Castle is also a great time!

This isn't the behavior of a healthy market 😅 but greed during the fear was rewarded handsomely today!

Nope. If the U.S. was serious about reducing the deficit, they could start by letting me pay taxes on my CCs 😂

Thanks @nKostyan, I got my UV light today and the Lusis have a very very weak stamp. Here is a photo: My other boxes all were glowing. For example, a box from FoH looked like this under the same lighting conditions: Have you ever seen this before? I may have to break out the hair dryer next...

I agree 100%. Broad tariffs are indirect government subsidies and fundamentally anti-competitive. I would argue that the scope of these tariffs are akin to a "government bailout". If Peter Navarro's claim of $6T over the next decade is true, that's basically a 2008 GFC bailout every year for the next decade for American manufacturing. The difference is, instead of the Fed footing the bill through deficit spending, consumers will fund this bailout directly through prices.

A good friend and I discussed this for a solid hour last night (over some RASS ROTTs from my first FoH haul). I don't want to cross the political line in drawing the specific comparisons, but there are many. Hopefully the U.S. doesn't meet the same fate as the Roman Republic did...

Thanks @nKostyan for the pointers! Still learning the ropes - I've added some additional photos below. After searching around some other posts to see what to look for: the microprinted number on the bottom right of the warranty seal matches the number under the bar code. I also see the last 5 digits "10591" on the tobacco leaves on the right crest. Anything else I should be looking for? The cigars themselves feel well constructed and smell what I imagine heaven smells like.

I think this is an egregious unforced error. It’s the Luka Doncic trade but $9T worse. Tariffs are the opening salvo, but I think the next phase will be competitive devaluations and currency conflict. The U.S. wants to devalue the dollar, and that’s going to have profound second-order effects on capital flows, inflation, and global financial stability. It’s hard to predict since policy has been so sporadic and brittle, but on the current path I think we’re heading into a 1970s-redux. If things don’t change, the U.S. may need a Volcker-style rate shock to reset expectations. All that being said, anecdotally these tariffs are deeply unpopular in America. It’s abhorrent how we’re treating our allies (people from countries who I served down range with, unlike the people who are treating these countries as foes 🙄) and in general how we’re treating the world. America as a bully is not a good look. I am hopeful things will change. As for the stock market, be fearful when people are greedy and be greedy when people are fearful

It's been transformative at work and greatly empowers software development as David said — I don't really work on Fridays anymore. At home, I use OpenAI's Deep Research for lots of things, like conjuring complex business structures to expense cigars or crawling FoH to summarize reviews on a particular stick I'm looking to try. I've been toying with Cursor for personal coding projects and have been really impressed. I think Google's newest Gemini is the best overall model right now, but I'm loving the competition amongst the frontier models, the future will be exciting!

I worked at Microsoft years ago and was working on an export feature in Excel, which took some time to complete. I was a wee junior engineer at the time, and asked one of the seniors about how to best handle loading times. He told me to use a loading bar pop-up and set it 1% complete every second, and then just stop at 95% until it's complete. 😅 Glad to see they're improving some UX over there.

Meal prep and a rainy LA day Epicure #2, can't ask for a much better Sunday.

Hello all! I've just received this box of Partagas Lusitanias. Being rather new to Cuban cigars, I wanted to get this community's thoughts on the legitimacy of this box:

I enjoy smoking with friends the most, but there's something about putting on The Rest is History or a Dan Carlin podcast, cracking a cold one, and having a cigar after work.

I'm only 6 years late, but this would be awesome.

Hello all! I've been smoking cigars for about 14 years now, started just before I joined the military. Recently I've gotten into Cuban cigars and discovered this community. Outside of cigars, I enjoy software and cameras. Glad to be part of the community!