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[starfoozle]

Heatwave Recipe Recommendations

The heat’s been brutal this summer but we still gotta eat! If you’re like me, heat might suppress your appetite, and the last thing any of us want is to sweat over a hot stove and oven when it’s already boiling outside. Here are some of my favorite hot-weather recipes to keep hydrated and fed with when the weather is unbearable! (All recipes should be un-paywalled).

NYT’s best gazpacho (lives up to its name!!)

Persian cold cucumber soup (if you like tzatziki you will like this!)

Eric Kim’s cold noodles with tomato (infinitely riffable Korean flavor profile — for a creamier and less brothy take, try these cold sesame noodles too)

Vietnamese chicken and herb salad (this is an excellent time to get a rotisserie chicken so you don’t have to turn the oven on)

Radish sandwiches with butter and salt (and in a similar vein, if you dig this flavor combo you should try this Polish cottage cheese dip on some good rye bread or even crackers)

It’s still a little early in the season, but you can never go wrong with a BLT (or, if you don’t eat bacon, try this tomato furikake sandwich in its place)

Infinite iterations of pasta salad! You can use anything you got but here is a template I like.

Assorted dense bean salads. This back pocket canned salad is a weird combo of jarred ingredients but it slaps, this hoagie-inspired one is super satisfying, and cowboy caviar is a classic for a reason.

Poke bowls! Canned tuna mixed with some kewpie mayo and sriracha is a budget-friendly riff on the usual ahi and makes everything taste like a spicy tuna roll, but use whatever proteins you like, this is more of a loose template.

Please feel free to add some of your own favorite summer recipes in the replies and comments! We’ll get through this together. 🤝🤝🤝

[flintandpyrite]

If you can buy pre cooked or canned beets at the store, chłodnik (beet yogurt soup) is a great choice. You can leave out the radishes if you can’t get them.

I also love sardines on fresh bread and butter with assorted vegetables. Buy the fanciest canned sardines you can afford but even regular ones are pretty good. Plus, very healthy!

[apenchantforpedantry]

DID THE TUMBLR POST FONT CHANGE

[apenchantforpedantry]

started taiwan travelogue, and maybe it’s because i’m still quite early into the novel and needs some adjustment but i am finding the translation (& prose, for that matter) to be rather clumsy and juvenile.

[egregore-engine]

imagine, if you will, that it's 2005. and google is around and a useful and usable tool for things. and it's also like, not perfect, because nothing is, and obviously has a lot of inbuilt problems. but imagine everyone was like "google is bad because it doesn't have a Soul." and "actually google is killing the library." and "google is something only uncreative bastards use." and then imagine you are someone who understands that google is like, a basically neutral tool, and not only that, but one which will become so mundane and banal as to basically fade into the fabric of social reality, because it is a useful technology that got integrated into how we interface with the world. this is how I feel about everybody culture warring about AI. I don't think you have a real argument for your qualms, I think you're a liberal making idealist errors and a not even particularly useful idiot.

[egregore-engine]

like there are issues to have with the technology as there are with any technology but people don't view "AI" as a technology, they view it as some kind of horrific devil homunculus golem without any understanding of how it functions or its social or political externalities. the reality is that it is here to stay and will become as integrated with your future as the internet is to you now. you are simply behind the curve.

[birgenworth]

History has proven time and time again that once a new technology is invented there is no undoing or destroying it. Every attempt to halt the progress of a new and useful technology has failed miserably and it's clear that the only way to deal with it is to accept its existence as a foundation upon which to educate people in its use so that we can collectively develop more efficient, productive, environmentally friendly, and safe ways of using it.

The ability of the masses to be able to do this is obviously limited by the economic and political systems under which we live and capitalists will of course chase profits over environmental and social safety whenever possible, but that means the solution is not to destroy and shame AI into non-existence (which, historically, we have no reason to believe will actually work), and instead to dismantle capitalism, a much more feasible goal that is historically more likely to succeed than eliminating machine learning and generation altogether.

[apenchantforpedantry]

being home is truly a miserable affair. i wish i was away!!!!

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[guelwaar]

even if video essayists knew what they were ever talking about i just don't think the video essay format lends itself well to presenting historical research lol... there are ways to do it besides classic monographs or lectures for sure but like at bare minimum you need a platform that's built with anticipation that someone is going to have upwards of a citation per paragraph, that the audience will need to navigate around the presentation themselves, that they will want to consult visual aids like timelines or maps at the same time they're taking in verbal information, etc. "this youtube essay's argument is poorly developed and unfounded" yeah and the loose tiger security in this open concept restaurant kitchen is really falling down on the job

[morphogenetic]

(wanting to make a post about something but it reveals too much about your personal life) i have had a negative experience

[lilkakow]

Images created solely using mathematical equations by mathematical artist Hamid Naderi Yaganeh

[arasaka-android]

compilation of kim enjoying fun

[mercurys-in-retrograde]

let the contemporary record show mr beast was pretty ignorable for his whole career if you were just like, busy.

[wutheringheightsfilm]

every day it just concerns me how little compassion people have. no compassion for those living in the global south. no compassion for immigrants. no compassion for disabled ppl. no compassion for addicts. no compassion for prisoners. no compassion for children. like holy shit ...

[wutheringheightsfilm]

i made a separate post about this but actually there are plenty of people cough white people who care about animals more than they ever do human people . not what i'm talking about make your own post

[nourishedbytime]

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

[apenchantforpedantry]

somehow being away from home for an extended period of time has made me forget that i cannot live with my mom

[good-fwiend-in-wome]

i think it's worth remembering this xkcd from 2013 that's still equally true

[systemic-dreams]

[proustiansleep]

"But hands are a complicated organism, a delta into which many divergent streams of life rush together in order to pour themselves into the great storm of action. There is a history of hands; they have their own culture, their particular beauty; one concedes to them the right of their own development, their own needs, feelings, caprices and tendernesses." —Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin