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A cartoon showing the rear of an iPhone, growing from one to two to three to four to five to six lenses, and finally with a circle of ten lenses in the shape of a rotary telephone dial, with a hand dialing it and holding an old telephone headet with cord.
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Cartoon by Anton "Yes But" Gudim: https://www.instagram.com/_yes_but/
Cartoon by Anton "Yes But" Gudim: https://www.instagram.com/_yes_but/
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A blue plate covered with pale white dumplings
Made har gow for the first time ever. We've done a decent amount of dim sum dishes from scratch but this wrapper has eluded us - it's not sold frozen and it's surprisingly hard to find the wheat starch necessary for the dough. But we finally got to try making it, and it's definitely on the more challenging end of things to do in the kitchen.
The starch needs to be "cooked" with boiling water to get it to the right consistency. Too cold and the dough won't come together. First batch ended up a sticky mess, second batch was much more pliable and easy to work with. Filling is a simple one of shrimp, bamboo shoot, and white pepper as a main flavoring. (More traditional filling would include chunks of fatback but we have a pescetarian coming over.)
My pleating sucks but they're tasty!
The starch needs to be "cooked" with boiling water to get it to the right consistency. Too cold and the dough won't come together. First batch ended up a sticky mess, second batch was much more pliable and easy to work with. Filling is a simple one of shrimp, bamboo shoot, and white pepper as a main flavoring. (More traditional filling would include chunks of fatback but we have a pescetarian coming over.)
My pleating sucks but they're tasty!
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tamrow
Latest administration rollout…
::panting, clawing at shore:: WTF man that place was teeming with crocodiles!
🤷♂️ I guess they couldn’t read the sign.
🤷♂️ I guess they couldn’t read the sign.
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A striking street art installation by BLCKSMTH, created using metallic silver balloons spelling out a well-known Turkish proverb: "WHEN A CLOWN MOVES INTO A PALACE, HE DOESN'T BECOME A KING. THE PALACE BECOMES A CIRCUS." The text is mounted on a red wall, with "TURKISH PROVERB" highlighted in gold balloons at the bottom. The slightly deflated balloons and dripping effect enhance the visual impact of the message.
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which one? :p
So cute I can't stand it!
Happy birthday! 🩷
So cute!
Ahhhhhh ADORABLE
Aww.
super duper adorable!
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Animated GIF of a scene from Star Trek: Voyager: 3 hyper-evolved baby salamanders crawl around. Caption reads: "Happy Threshold Day! Let's go beyond Warp 10 and have salamander babies!"
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Willow tree branches against a fading sunset.
Taken during a new walk last night, a field I used to go running at.
But none was more dangerous than the Great Willow: his heart was rotten, but his strength was green; and he was cunning, and a master of winds, and his song and thought ran through the woods on both sides of the river. His grey thirsty spirit drew power out of the earth and spread like fine root-threads in the ground, and invisible twig fingers in the air, till it had under its dominion nearly all the trees of the Forest from the Hedge to the Downs.
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A complicated circuit-like animation of moving colored shapes.
Reminds me of Rocky's Boots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
@cwhartman I LOVED Rocky's Boots!
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Semi-relevant story: one of many times I have dropped my wife off at ATL Hartsfield we were saying our goodbyes at the curb and I looked down and saw a D-20 in the gutter by the curb. I gave it to her saying very seriously, "It's dangerous to go alone, take this." We were laughing so hard a guard came over to make sure we were okay...
@1f2frfbf
What a lucky die!
What a lucky die!
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A vintage trading card for an Egg chair, printed in black, orange and white. At the bottom, it says "Collect all 36 cards", "No. 2 of 36" and "Printed in England"
gorgeous, I could stare it for hours
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Chuck Schumer saying "I haven't seen people so aroused in a very, very long time"
Chuck making a new meme is the only useful thing he has done in a decade
Chuck making a new meme is the only useful thing he has done in a decade
What is with the image links, which do not open on this page?
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Euler diagram of UK and Ireland
From Amazing Maps via Facebook
Sorry
the British Islands line is a bit controversial- just because they still claim six counties here doesn’t constitute them being an island like Jersey, no matter what the *UP argue.
The Isle of Lucy Jazz and Blues Festival never would have been allowed in the UK proper.
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A person‘s left hand holds two red envelopes with embossed golden Chinese characters on them.
I dropped off Red Envelopes 🧧 at my grand-nieces house this morning. NYS is now recognizing Lunar New Year and kids have the day off.
Both of them are under ten and as sweet as can be. The older said “Mom? Can we go shopping now?” And her sister replied with “It’s about the love not the money.”
They’re funny too.
Both of them are under ten and as sweet as can be. The older said “Mom? Can we go shopping now?” And her sister replied with “It’s about the love not the money.”
They’re funny too.
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Panel 1:
Red Bird: I'm a bird!
A man stands and listens.
Panel 2:
Man: Impressive.
Panel 3:
Man: I'm a person.
Panel 4:
Red Bird: Who cares!
Panel 5:
Man: Uh... my family?
Panel 6:
Red Bird thinks: Maybe I was too harsh.
Panel 7:
Red Bird, tugging on the man's trousers: Hey, guy.
Panel 8:
Red Bird, looking sincere: I meant to say _I_ don't care.
Red Bird: I'm a bird!
A man stands and listens.
Panel 2:
Man: Impressive.
Panel 3:
Man: I'm a person.
Panel 4:
Red Bird: Who cares!
Panel 5:
Man: Uh... my family?
Panel 6:
Red Bird thinks: Maybe I was too harsh.
Panel 7:
Red Bird, tugging on the man's trousers: Hey, guy.
Panel 8:
Red Bird, looking sincere: I meant to say _I_ don't care.
I am tired of the earth. These people. These kids who summon me to burst through their walls due to insufficient soft drink availability.
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I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their bodily fluids.
Dangit. I posted this comment before you updated the title.
"I am tired of Earth, Oh Yeah"
“Without condoning, or condemning, oh yeah.”
All Kool-Aid shares a single consciousness across time and space
Also I definitely ate at that fusion restaurant in Brooklyn
Also I definitely ate at that fusion restaurant in Brooklyn
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A Jules Feiffer political cartoon, which reads:
[panel 1] Once there was a people who discovered their leader had no values, no morals and no ethics. And they said, "Someone should do something to get rid of him."
[panel 2] But no one did. So they said, "The right people should get rid of him."
[panel 3] But no right people could be found. So they said, "The leadership should get rid of him."
[panel 4] But the leadership excused itself. So they said, "The law should take care of him."
[panel 5] But no law came forward. So they said, "We're tired of hearing about it. Time will take care of him."
[panel 6] And after a time many of the people died. And those left said, "What did he do so bad in the first place?"
[panel 7] To which their children added, "Beats me. He is exactly like the rest of us."
[panel 1] Once there was a people who discovered their leader had no values, no morals and no ethics. And they said, "Someone should do something to get rid of him."
[panel 2] But no one did. So they said, "The right people should get rid of him."
[panel 3] But no right people could be found. So they said, "The leadership should get rid of him."
[panel 4] But the leadership excused itself. So they said, "The law should take care of him."
[panel 5] But no law came forward. So they said, "We're tired of hearing about it. Time will take care of him."
[panel 6] And after a time many of the people died. And those left said, "What did he do so bad in the first place?"
[panel 7] To which their children added, "Beats me. He is exactly like the rest of us."
source: fncubumk
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I'm loving this story so much.
Anybody got a tl;dr on this one?
@owl China released a rather impressive AI app on the 20th of January that cost just $6 million to build within 2 years, and its open source. The code is on Github and the app downloads have crashed the servers.
Yesterday, NVidia lost half a trillion dollars of market value and overall, tech stocks dropped by more than one trillion dollars.
China used cheaper chips to work around the blocks and barriers put up by the US to prevent it from getting fancy AI chips and slowing down its competitiveness with US AI solutions.
Also the people who released the app are a hedge fund (or a VC) not a startup
Its called the whole US multigazillion energy eating AI stack into question.
And yes, the Chinese app uses less energy and resources
Yesterday, NVidia lost half a trillion dollars of market value and overall, tech stocks dropped by more than one trillion dollars.
China used cheaper chips to work around the blocks and barriers put up by the US to prevent it from getting fancy AI chips and slowing down its competitiveness with US AI solutions.
Also the people who released the app are a hedge fund (or a VC) not a startup
Its called the whole US multigazillion energy eating AI stack into question.
And yes, the Chinese app uses less energy and resources
@infini oh cool. Thanks!
The timing is just so chef's kiss, just days after the announcement of a $500bn AI "hub", to rule the world, China says, Hey, we've already done that. Here, It's for everybody.
communize the future.
@infini kiitos!
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Photograph of an owl, white with black ruff and wingtips, shot from below, its wings fully outstretched vertically and almost touching the edges of the frame. Its head is completely rotated down to look at the camera.
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