having fun being mocked sitewide?
Having fun never having said anything remotely controversial or contrary to the opinions your in-group decided for you? Mister or miss not even willing to post hate-mail on main.
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deepseametro
im gonna be honets i think a lot of you are just fucking terrible with money. are you kidding me right now.
deepseametro
like the median household income of new york city, arguably one of the most expensive places in the US to live is 76k.
even the median household income of san francisco - which btw if youre living in sanfran complaining abt rent prices lol MOVE to a suburb then bitch - is 136k - but thats because sanfran COL expenses are 83% higher than the rest of the fucking country
like. you are all crazy. try living literally anywhere other than the absolutely most expensive place in the country to live and stop whining i will kill you
Sorry to have to disagree with this but $100k isn't a lot of money and y'all are poor as fuck relative to your spiritual counterpart one generation ago. You need to understand what's been taken from you and that wages have been suppressed for so long that what used to be considered a middle class lifestyle is reserved for the very top % of household incomes.
This is the world I grew up in. My middle class parents bought a two story house with a double lot and freestanding two-car garage for $70k, had two cars, put me through private school my whole life, fully paid for my college, and has a pension that pays 80% of his last salary for life. My dad paid all the bills and my mom's salary, when she wasn't out of work, was just "fun money." I need you to understandโ really understand that upper-middle class families at my school had mansions, literally gated communities, in-ground pools, new Mercedes on their 16th birthday, country club memberships, summer homes. Our school didn't even crack the top 10 richest schools, I'd never even met any actually rich kids.
I, as well as everyone else, have to make roughly 2.5x my parents' salary to break even with them in purchasing power, I don't even get a pension and I'm in the same, famously low CoL, city in a flyover state. My mortgage is 10x what theirs was.
So yeah, people could be better with money and it sucks seeing someone with more than you, more than most people, complain but I maintain that their barometers aren't off, yours is. Go watch some old movies and see how the "average family" was portrayed.
Saying you need that much money to literally survive is silly and obviously doesn't stand up to the reality that many people manage to do so with far far less but that much money to have some semblance of a middle class lifestyle is right on the money. Which is necessarily more than a studio, my god coastal rents are bonkers. But nonetheless it's hard to fault someone for setting the bar at a lifestyle that was supposed to be achievable by most people.
deepseametro
everyone cry tears of sorrow and pity for this poor woman and her mortgage โค๏ธ ill play you a song on the worlds tiniest violin
Well that went about as well as expected. When you're made to stand out in the rain, the man beside you wearing a hat isn't your enemy.
Making six figures used to be a symbol of genuine wealth reserved for lawyers, dentists, executives, not even 30 years ago. Today in real dollars it's worth less than half. You would never say someone in 1990 making $45k to be an out of touch elitist but that's the same purchasing power as $100k today. Wages have stagnated in the face of inflation for so long that $100k is still a crazy hard to reach salary but gets you the life that used to be had by a union autoworker or a public servant.
I don't know what else to tell you, it's simultaneously true that six figures is out of reach for most Americans and is also not a lot of money. It's a normal amount of money, it's 1 maybe 2 vacations a year, a modest savings, used Honda Civic, Kohls Cash, can afford it when your HVAC breaks, might be able to retire one day money.
The price of shit hasn't risen uniformly so yeah sure, you can afford a lot of chipotle burritos if that's your thing but just like the avocado toast it doesn't move the needle. Mortgage, car payment, student loans, insurance, bills is 6k out the door every month before surprises. No other expenses even matter by comparison. It's why the "treastsies for me" is so funny because I couldn't eat enough starbucks or doordash to make it even 5% of the budget.
Like I'm really not trying to be condescending, I recognize the extreme amount of luck I've had to get where I am and the privilege that comes with it. But this is just the reality of itโ it's not the 1%er, lifestyle youtuber, instagram life of luxury people make it out to be. And I'm mad that around six figures is the threshold into real financial stability and crossing that threshold used to be attainable without winning the job lottery.
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deepseametro
im gonna be honets i think a lot of you are just fucking terrible with money. are you kidding me right now.
deepseametro
like the median household income of new york city, arguably one of the most expensive places in the US to live is 76k.
even the median household income of san francisco - which btw if youre living in sanfran complaining abt rent prices lol MOVE to a suburb then bitch - is 136k - but thats because sanfran COL expenses are 83% higher than the rest of the fucking country
like. you are all crazy. try living literally anywhere other than the absolutely most expensive place in the country to live and stop whining i will kill you
Sorry to have to disagree with this but $100k isn't a lot of money and y'all are poor as fuck relative to your spiritual counterpart one generation ago. You need to understand what's been taken from you and that wages have been suppressed for so long that what used to be considered a middle class lifestyle is reserved for the very top % of household incomes.
This is the world I grew up in. My middle class parents bought a two story house with a double lot and freestanding two-car garage for $70k, had two cars, put me through private school my whole life, fully paid for my college, and has a pension that pays 80% of his last salary for life. My dad paid all the bills and my mom's salary, when she wasn't out of work, was just "fun money." I need you to understandโ really understand that upper-middle class families at my school had mansions, literally gated communities, in-ground pools, new Mercedes on their 16th birthday, country club memberships, summer homes. Our school didn't even crack the top 10 richest schools, I'd never even met any actually rich kids.
I, as well as everyone else, have to make roughly 2.5x my parents' salary to break even with them in purchasing power, I don't even get a pension and I'm in the same, famously low CoL, city in a flyover state. My mortgage is 10x what theirs was.
So yeah, people could be better with money and it sucks seeing someone with more than you, more than most people, complain but I maintain that their barometers aren't off, yours is. Go watch some old movies and see how the "average family" was portrayed.
Saying you need that much money to literally survive is silly and obviously doesn't stand up to the reality that many people manage to do so with far far less but that much money to have some semblance of a middle class lifestyle is right on the money. Which is necessarily more than a studio, my god coastal rents are bonkers. But nonetheless it's hard to fault someone for setting the bar at a lifestyle that was supposed to be achievable by most people.
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Creative & DIY
autumnthejokerat
SO THATโS HOW THEY FUCKING DO IT
verysorrytobother
Reblogging this because my entire life, all of my bows have looked like my shoelaces. Wrapping presents is going to be so much more aesthetically pleasing now
There is zero chance I will remember how to tie these, and even less chance that any of them would stay tied if attached to the vortex of entropy that is my person. But theyโre so cool!
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[ESP] Todos los fanarts Meiley que he hecho hasta ahora๐
'Meiley' es un crackship conformado por Meilin Lee de 'Red' y Riley Andersen de 'Intensamente' ๐๐บ
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[ENG] All the Meiley fanarts I have made so far. 'Meiley' is a crackship between Meilin Lee, from 'Turning Red', and Riley Andersen, from `Inside Out'
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every time i see those posts likeย โwhat food from a show did YOU always wanna tryโ i go lol none? but i just remembered im a liar
i always wanted the fucking soup brock made in the pokemon anime
Hello OP, i donโt have anyway to prove this is the same recipe they make in the shows but i make this to calm my inner kid from wanting the fictional soup:
- 300gr bacon, beef or chicken. A meat of your choice. These go specially well. I prefer chicken tights. Diced
- 1 medium onion, diced.
- Garlic minced (i used 2-4 pieces depending on size)
- 300gr carrot, cleaned, peeled and diced.
- 3 sticks of celery, washed and diced.
- 800gr potato. Washed, peeled diced in quarters.
- 1 head of broccoli.
- 8 cups of stock of your preference. I recommend using the bones of the beef or chicken, but veggies stock works too for a vegetarian or vegan version.
- 3 tablespoons all purpose flour.
- 1 cup whole milk. (Almond or rice milk work fine for a vegan option)
- ยฝ cup heavy cream. (Skip it for a vegan option)
- Salt and black pepper to taste.
- ยฝ teaspoon paprika, use the spicy one to get the warmth up a notch in winter.
- 1 tablespoon fresh chopped coriander. Optional.
- 1 cup diced gouda or manchego cheese. Optional but really ties all together.
Make sure you have all your ingredients ready and at hand for this one to make sure it comes out nice and tasty!!!
- In a pot put water and the bones to prepare your stock (chicken, beef, veggie) You can use premade or bouillon cubes, just make sure its 8 cups worth of broth. In a different pot boil the potatoes until soft.
- In a big pot put some butter or olive oil to fry the onion, when it turns a little transparent add the garlic, move constantly.
- Add the celery and diced carrots, moving constantly.
- The carrot will get a little brighter in color, add the diced meat. Salt and pepper to your taste.
- Meanwhile, blend the potatoes with enough stock so your blender wont have trouble blending. If you have a food processor, itโll be easier.
- Ad the remaining stock to you big pot with the veggies and meat, add the broccoli chopped in bite size pieces. Add the paprika and taste for salt and pepper. Let over a medium fire for 10 min.
- Separate 3 tbsp of the stock to mix with the flour, set aside. This will be a thickening agent.
- Pour the potato mix on the big pot, move to integrate and taste for salt and pepper.
- Add the milk and heavy cream. Move with a laddle. Have a final taste and let over low fire for 5 min.
- Serve hot and decorate with a pinch of coriander and some cubes of cheese.
- ENJOY!
Notes:
I personally prefer to use chicken, love how it goes with potatoes and veggies. Also the tight is very tender and flavorful. With beef you have to be careful not to overcook it or itโll get gummy and hard to bite, so make adjustments.
VEGAN: could also skip the meat, cheese and heavy cream for a vegan option.
I make it for my younger sister and she loves it. Instead of meat i add some diced, toasted nuts when served. Cashew, pecan and pistachios work nicely.
Youโll have to use 5 tbsp of flour to thicken up the broth a tid bit more without the heavy cream but you can still use a vegan milk.
You can totally skip the coriander, but it adds another dept of flavor.
Do try it with the cheese tho, i promise itโs GODLY. Gouda and manchego are my fave, the melt nicely and have a strong after taste, but i guess any cheese that melts could work.
Finally, if you are like me and like spicy food you can add chopped chili. Serrano and arbol chiles are my go toโs, freshly chopped sprinkled just after serving my bowl.
Hope y'all give it a try and if you have any doubts do ask!
Provecho!
this is literally the best addition iโve ever gotten to any of my posts thank you so much
Hey I tried this recipe out and I can confirm that it tastes heavenly!!
Can confirm this soup is absolutely divine!
Substituted spinach for broccoli because my partner is not a fan of the latter and used chicken and bacon. Gonna try it again with a nice Italian sausage in place of the chicken next time.
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If an AI can't do it, it's almost as if it requires a skilled person on it, one that should, you know, been paid a living wage. Just saying.
No no no, there's tea here. This isn't so much a "AI can't do it" story as much of a IBM literally can't do anything ever[1] and it's an embarrassment for every company that "partners" with them. Old ass executives keep falling for the IBM Watson sales pitches because they all watched that episode of Jeopardy and associate them with AI. It's got to be the greatest ROI on a marketing ploy ever.
But watch the episode, and pay attention to how the machine "thinks" because they show the probabilities on-screen. IBM tricked the world into believing they invented Sci-Fi quality AI. But what it's actually doing is quite clever, which is why it's disappointing how much IBM obfuscated the details โ IBM engineers actually "solved" Jeopardy. It's legit cool as hell, not really general purpose AI, but cool. They took a bunch of Q&A prediction algorithms, used full-text-search (which was new and cool at the time) to narrow the documents used to do the prediction, and then put what is essentially a poker-playing algorithm in front to assign probabilities to the answers and decide whether it was confident enough to "bet." And then they hand-tuned the individual predictors until it performed well on specifically Jeopardy questions.
Today IBM is playing catch-up with the current state-of-the-art and it shows. They'll get there and approach something like Anthropic eventually โ they do employ machine learning researchers that can do cool things when not kneecapped by management, but in the meanwhile let's all have a laugh at the McDonald's exec who took "no one is ever fired for hiring IBM" about 15 years too late.
[1] Yes this is meaner than necessary but I'm allowed to exaggerate as much as their pitch decks.
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i swear to god if people don't start understanding that responding to doylist critique of a piece of media with watsonian exonerations is not an actual rebuttal
somebody saying "hey i don't like that the only gay man in this story is a weird pervert and it portrays gay sexual promiscuity as a moral failing and character flaw" cannot be rebuked by arguing about how the character's backstory or personality traits explain their behaviour. the choices made by a writer are all fundamentally mutable; somebody saying an author's choices should have been different is not going to be persuaded by an argument that takes those choices as immovable fact
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Beyond lockpicking: learn about the class-breaks for doors, locks, hinges and other physical security measures
Deviant Ollam is runs a physical security penetration testing company called The Core Group; in a flat-out amazing, riveting presentation from the 2017 Wild West Hackinโ Fest, Ollam โ a master lockpicker โ describes how lockpicking is a last resort for the desperate, while the wily and knowledgeable gain access by attacking doors and locks with tools that quickly and undetectably open them.
Ollamโs techniques are just laugh-out-loud fantastic to watch: from removing the pins in hinges and lifting doors away from their high-security locks to sliding cheap tools between doors or under them to turn thumb-levers, bypass latches, and turn handles. My favorite were the easy-exit sensors that can be tricked into opening a pair of doors by blowing vape smoke (or squirting water, or releasing a balloon) through the crack down their middle.
But more than anything, Ollamโs lecture reminds me of the ground truth that anyone who learns lockpicking comes to: physical security is a predatory scam in which shoddy products are passed off onto naive consumers who have no idea how unfit for purpose they are.
When locksport began, locksmiths were outraged that their long-held โsecretโ ways of bypassing, tricking and confounding locks had entered the public domain โ they accused the information security community of putting the public at risk by publishing the weaknesses in their products (infosec geeks also get accused of this every time they point out the weaknesses in digital products, of course).
But the reality is that โbad guysโ know about (and exploit) these vulnerabilities already. The only people in the dark about them are the suckers who buy them and rely on them.
So when Ollam reveals that thousands of American cop cars, fleet cars, and taxis can all be unlocked and started using a shared key that you can literally buy for a few bucks at Home Depot, or that most elevators can be bypassed with a similarly widely available key, or that most file cabinets and other small locks can be opened with a third key, or that most digital entry systems can be bypassed in seconds with a paperclip (or another common physical key), heโs doing important (and hilarious!) work.
Heโs such an engaging speaker and the subject matter is nothing short of fantastic. There are a hundred heist novels in this talk alone. Itโs definitely my must-watch for the week.
Here are some of his recent talks on youtube to watch or put on in the background:
His talk on fire safety regulations is really good, too!
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This white man is trustworthy in the kitchen
judasclementine-deactivated2023
@doctorstarlock 's comment has passed peer review
By now Iโm sure most of yโall have seen this video but I just now noticed this:
Item: wrist-mounted spice holster. The Spice Bracer of Dionysus Jones.
Wasn't sure he could be trusted until he whipped out the hog lard then we knew we could
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When youโve been cooking for long enough, you stop making recipes and start making โshit in a skilletโ and โwhatever soupโ
The truth is, cooking is just a basic skill set, and once you have that skill set down you can make almost anything. It's like drawing/painting, once you learn what you're doing, you can do anything.
Do Not Apply This Thinking To Baking.
Yes apply this logic to baking! Where do you think those recipes came from anyway? They weren't divinely inspired, they were written down by someone fucking around in the kitchen.
In the same way you learn the basic shapes of a recipe in cooking you do the same with baking. Cookies are 3 parts flour, 2 parts butter, 1 part sugar and some method of leavening. If you cream the butter your cookie will be light airy and crumbly with crisp edges โ delicious. If you use baking powder your cookie will be wide, flat, and bendy โ also delicious. If you do both your cookie will be airy all the way through.
Once you know the levers you can pull and what they do the world is yours for the taking.
When people say "junk food is cheaper" they don't mean in comparison to plain rice and chicken, they mean in comparison to healthy foods they're actually willing to eat.
It's so much money and effort to make something as good as a McDouble you don't even understand. And this isn't praise for McD this is pure uncut frustration trying to help my partner kick the habit. And I say this as the person in the friend group who people say, "oh yeah her cooking is amazing."
I can't win. I can't win even when I'm willing to throw off all pretense of the meal being healthy and have as much cheese, butter, oil, fat, carbs, MSG, salt, or straight grease to the veins.
And the worst part is that it's not even a matter of taste preferences, my partner is right -- the McDouble is better. The problem with junk food is that it so massively raised the bar for the flavor we expect from food that a home kitchen can't compete anymore. If your ingredients come from a grocery store you're doomed to fail from the start.
I hate this I hate this so much. The only time I was able to win was grinding my own meat from a butcher, pickling my own veggies, making my own mayo from scratch, baking my own buns, and getting cheese from a fancy cheese shop. It's so expensive to beat that stupid $1.29 burger.
Trying to use quality to beat chemistry is such a losing battle.
The midwest goodbye is a symptom of not hanging out with your friends enough and being insecure about your friendships. This counts 10x if you do the "millennial after-hangout thanks for coming text." If you feel the need to drag out goodbyes then keep increasing the frequency you hang out with them until it stops being such a big deal.
If you need a heuristic to see if you're trapped in this limbo when was the last time you hung out with your friends that wasn't an "event." When was the last time you were in a shared space with your friends (even digital) where you were bored and decided what to do from there.
Okay so there's this weird thing I've been noticing among my straight friends, I don't know if it has a name but let's call it the, "every queer relationship is unique but every straight relationship is the same." I swear straight folks don't recognize their power in not having to take the "standard package" relationship.
"Is ___ cheating?" Girliepop [gender neutral], how would I know? Have you talked to your partner about what you're both comfortable with? The look of utter confusion at the thought that the rules of her relationship with her boyfriend are determined by the two of them.
It seems like gay folks are forced to reckon with the fact that the standard package complete with gender roles and expectations can't possibly work and come out the other end (in this aspect) healthier for it.