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'Chaotic' Asian Games threaten Japan hopes of hosting Olympics again
channelnewsasia.comOpenAI Giving 62,500 credits to people who thank them for generously reducing weekly quotas
Saw my first "do you know who I am" in economy...
Someone had their meal served before the rest cos they ordered special meal...
This dude from across the aisle asked for his meal served first too even though he didn't have a special meal.
cue the "hello I am a elite silver okay"
*eyerolls*
bro also asked for cup noodles before the meal trays were even cleared away
A Chinese woman crossed the border for a concert. It could cost her family their welfare
edition.cnn.com5.6-pro Chat for Pro 20x Nerfed?
The daily limit for Pro 20x on web chat is now 170 messages daily.
Up till Astra was announced I think 5.6-pro was practically unlimited on the web interface. What is going on, why are they nerfing it so severely?
Doing my part to help SQ pay for Air India...
Thank you to the hardworking crew who make the experience so special, and my boss for footing the bill...
Let's fly SQ as much as possible so that Temasek won't have to shoulder the losses... the pride of our country. Nothing else compares really, Emirates is tacky af in comparison.
btw 777 F is goated, why settle for a single suite when you can have the cabin to yourself?
Campus too crowded? It's the graduate students.
The number of undergrads has barely changed over the past 5 years, but NTU has (out of greed, probably) elected to massively increase its intake of (foreign) graduate students who are overpaying for the NTU name on a lousy piece of paper. Cash cows for the University, you can almost hear them moo.
Of course, one might assume the University is using the funds wisely... except all indications suggest the teaching has been as bad as it has always been. Campus, of course, is not getting any bigger, with rare exceptions.
Enjoy the crowds!
Which seat would you choose?
Just booked on this flight. 5 passengers booked into the flight but 1 of them didn't select their seats. Apparently in terms of suite size row 1 > row 2 > row 3. Is this the best choice available or would row 3 be more private?
PSA: Frankfurt Airport is a mess right now, but the queues can be bypassed.
The immigration lines at Frankfurt Airport are now hundreds of people deep, starting from the security checkpoint of the A gates all the way up to the immigration counter. The wait takes hours.
Alternative route: remain in the Schengen area of the airport, and take the foot tunnel to the schengen B gates, B1-19. There is an alternative checkpoint to the B20-xx area. After passing the checkpoint you can proceed by bus to the non-schengen gates of Zone B. This saves at least 40 minutes of waiting and gives you more time in the lounge.
Haidilao Buffet @ Piccadilly
28M here craving the buffet at Haidilao Piccadilly but unfortunately they don't seat tables of 1. It's 36.99+service all you can eat. Looking for more hungry people to eat the place down.
If no one else responds and you can't afford to pay I would be happy to cover your meal.
[28-29/07/2026] Haidilao Buffet @ Piccadilly
I'm craving the buffet at Haidilao Piccadilly but unfortunately they don't seat tables of 1. It's 29.99+service all you can eat. Looking for more hungry people to eat the place down. Seatings are for 90 minutes anytime between 11am-5pm.
AITA: Asked a parent not to dangle their baby's feet above the buffet spread
At a JW Marriott somewhere in Asia. Saw a Eastern European (idk, slavic sounding) dude carrying a toddler around the buffet spread showing him the food. Kid's muddy shoes were dangling inches above open containers of food. That struck me as pretty disgusting, so I went up to him and asked if he could stay slightly further away from the food so that the kid's feet didn't get so close. Just for that he got mad at me and basically told me to f off.
Once he got mad I didn't bother sticking around talking to him (and I wasn't about to eat stuff that had a foot waving above it) so I just left and had my breakfast in a convenience store. Am I the asshole and did I overreact?
Hot take: PPS Solitaire is useless because that much flying is pure punishment
If you don't fly long haul, flying enough to get TPPS is *punishing* - imagine something like 20 round trips to Hong Kong or 25 to Hanoi in a single year...
Actually, even 4 rt SIN-FRA/LHR a year is pretty bad, how many dental xrays is that radiation exposure equivalent to?
I can't imagine anyone enjoys flying at that point.
Routes with the most/least PPS/Solitaires?
Was recently on a flight to/from Japan... the number of solitaire-tagged bags coming out onto the belt was extraordinary. One might think the vast majority of the J cabin is PPS.
Are there other such routes with such a large number of frequent flyers besides Japan and London? On the other extreme, are there routes with very few frequent flyer passengers?
An empty airport. No passengers. No staff. No shops.
Europe flights really need better WiFi coverage...
A little bit of a rant here but as a frequent flyer between Asia and Europe, the lack of WiFi coverage with SITAOnAir over India, Turkey and Iran is becoming extremely annoying. The flight path for a typical FRA - SIN route means that you have coverage for maybe 2 hours after takeoff, after which it cuts off and only really resumes after leaving Indian airspace, 3 hours before landing.
Naturally, this is quite appalling for anyone who wishes to stay connected and/or up to date with work while in the air, especially on these business travel heavy routes. Fortunately the A380 will be upgraded to starlink soon (but not soon enough!) and the A350MH doesn't really fly to those problematic regions, but for the 777-300ER it really depends on the luck of the draw whether you get a Panasonic-equipped aircraft with full coverage over the route...
p.s. to those saying a lot of people are using wifi because its free, you're missing the point. the problem I'm pointing out is that over large parts of the flight path to Europe, *0* people are able to use wifi, because it just isn't available because it is outside of SITAOnAir's coverage area.
And then there were fewer...
Latest one is from this month... it's starting to become really, really lonely at the top.
No, 600k shares is not anywhere close to making you CEO of ADTX
The stock has been continually diluted and reverse split since it listed and the number of shares outstanding is likely in the millions at this point... more than a week ago there was a filing showing a single entity holding more than 2m shares, so good luck if you believe the float is only ~800k.
Why do Indians think paying more for fuel due to Iran War is worth it?
Very curious why Indians are willing to pay more for fuel and gas because of the conflict in the Middle East - even more willing than Israel, it seems. Why?
Source: Ipsos (https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2026-04/attitudes-to-the-iran-conflict-ipsos-global-advisor-april-2026.pdf)