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[kosmogrl]

[aueua]

people with siblings: how do you feel about them?

[notquiteaghost]

mitski's entire discography is pay what you want on bandcamp until october 19th!!!!

[abbaswift]

not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116

[ace-misplaced]

i very much will be a number nerd on main and the 27th of September will be extra special...

[spiteswallow]

I humbly suggest that true crime freaks should get into learning about scammers instead of serial killers. I LOVE reading about fraud and grifts and pyramid schemes. true crime ppl have all this paranoid energy about murder, which is rare in the grand scheme of things.....maybe instead that could be channeled into some productive rage toward capitalism.

[spiteswallow]

And u know a side effect of learning about scam artists is that you start to understand certain things about economics, and just how STUPID these systems are and how easily they are taken advantage of....and I'd much rather people gained a passing familiarity with economics than whatever armchair psychologist shit these true crimers get on. We need fewer people who think they're experts on "sociopaths" and more people who understand how people like Elizabeth Holmes and the WeWork guy were able to do what they did

[lindstromm]

Here are some of my favorite books about financial scams:

The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques.

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (about the 2008 stock market collapse).

The Caesar's Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Corruption of the Private Equity Industry by Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap. (I admit I've never finished this one; the writing is hard to read.)

The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute, by Zac Bissonette. I bought this book because of the subtitle and I have never regretted it. You must read it.

Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale. They turned this one into a movie! The book was very different and is worth reading.

The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion, by Elliot Brown and Maureen Farrell. I haven't read this one yet, but it's on my tbr pile!

Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church, by Gareth Gore. I'm reading this one right now. The author is a financial journalist who stumbled onto this story by unraveling a bank failure in Spain.

And here's a list of more non-fiction books about fraud and financial scams. The first book on this list is about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes, which I also haven't read yet.

Enjoy!

[commandtower-solring-go]

Windows 11's latest update is resulting in SSD failures if it reaches 60% capacity. The update wipes the drive and unmounts it.

If you are on Windows 11, please don't update. If you have already updated, please look up how to roll back your update

[commandtower-solring-go]

[melyzard]

How to uninstall KB5063878 to fix SSD disappearing issue on Windows 11

[punchspeedchunk]

REMINDER THIS CAN EFFECT WINDOWS 10 USERS AS WELL, PLEASE REMOVE THIS UPDATE IF YOU HAVE WINDOWS 10

[ralfmaximus]

Some users report Firefox scoffing CPU power

: You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI

Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

[motherblackcap]

[ID: the Firefox about:config page, showing that the item named “browser.ml.chat.enabled” has been changed so that its value is false. /End ID]

[ohjessmarie]

house with a garden 🌻🍅🌺 | print shop

[museiums]

artist: liv lee

[bizlybebo]

someone say a yuri ship . first one u think of

[chilewithcarnage]

[guooey]

they are like beautiful tropical birds to me

[guooey]

Literally..

[nattousan]

@guooey ya

[persistentmanlyagitation]

@elodieunderglass

[elodieunderglass]

They are BEAUTIFUL and so well adapted for their different environments!

[goodpngs]

transparent version of these 1965 french flower stamps + view here

[obsob]

u n me <3

[maakomori]

[dwagunlily]

My whole family owns/operates/works in Chinese restaurants so lemme tell you: -We chop all our vegetables FRESH -We butcher our own chicken from whole chickens (we strip the breasts/tenders from the torso; we debone the thigh meat) -We use the bones to make chicken stock for our soups -We roast our own pork/ribs in an in-house smoker -We peel and devein all of our shrimp BY HAND (this is what i did as a kid) -We make our own dumplings/wontons/egg roll/spring rolls/breaded shrimp BY HAND (none of these are frozen) -We used to make our own dumpling dough from scratch, but it was a lot of work and we switched to premade but many other places still do this -All sauces and marinates are made by hand (no premade/store bought) -All gravy is made by hand from scratch -All soups are made from scratch -Egg Foo Young takes FOREVER TO MAKE (there are like 7 different steps and you can only make one order at a time) -An average take out restaurant has 3-6 employees (oftentimes family) -Most employees work 6 days a week/60-70 hours a week -Many employees live with their employers, sometimes very far away from their families (ie a father sending money back to his wife and kids in China) -Owners (such as my parents) usually work 7 days a week, 364 days a year (we close on thanksgiving) -Oftentimes kids will be helping out/hanging around bc they can’t afford childcare (I’ve been cashiering since i was 10) SO WITH ALL THIS IN MIND, it’s really hurtful when someone complains about our prices. Averaging $5-$10/person (which is FAST FOOD LEVEL PRICES), the food you get has fresh vegetables, fresh meat, no weird preservatives—all cooked to order. “HOW MUCH did you say this cost??? WHEEEEW!” “You’re taking all my money!” “(Asks for extra thing) Why does that cost extra?” “So what do i get for free for spending $20?” “How’s your pork made? It ain’t dog meat, is it?” —all hurtful things I’ve personally heard and had to grin and bear For some reason, it seems people don’t respect Chinese restaurants. You would never treat a Western-owned restaurant like this. Even places like PF Chang and Panda Express (who DO NOT use fresh ingredients) can overcharge out the wazoo but no one complains because they’re oftentimes being served by Western faces. It really hurts for people to act like my family’s hard work isn’t worth anything to them. Treat your locally owned business with respect. Treat your Chinese restaurants with respect. Really think about the food you’re getting and all the work that goes into it. Think of all the hard working people behind bringing you this meal you’re about to enjoy, a meal you didn’t have to prepare (this goes for fast food too). Above all else, TREAT OTHER HUMAN BEINGS WITH BASIC DIGNITY.

[thiccthighs-n-brows]

^^^ all of this. Read it.

[theabfresh]

As a chef, Asian food is very complex and intriguing. Please respect the craft!

[handmaidensquad-deactivated2020]

cc @creepingmyrtle for the food-and-race project

[spaceswordblaster]

Apparently this is from a documentary called The Search for General Tso

[tuulikki]

If you want to learn more about both the history of Chinese food and the history of the reception of Chinese food, I really recommend the book Invitation to a Banquet by Fuchsia Dunlop.

Why ordering a Chinese meal is ‘like a symphony’ for author Fuchsia Dunlop

Fuchsia Dunlop, award-winning cook and writer, wants people around the world to understand that when they eat Chinese food they are enjoying

[halles-comet]

Today I was trying to chat up this girl standing with her friend at a lesbian bar and said “oh are you two together?” meaning were you friends before being next to each other at this bar and one turns to the other and goes with all the venom of a black mamba snake “I don’t know Cara, are we?” and I was like you know what? not my table

[assaariyoshi]

thank you bags from various delis in New York 

[eviltmbg]

thinking about this again

[cyberm0sh]

hey fun fact this album is actually named after a book called steal this book (first edition came out in the 70s)

here’s the 2023 version, it’s got everything from how to apply for work, ways to feed yourself for cheap, how to start your own printing workshop, bunch of stuff. the pdf is tiny so personally i have it downloaded on my phone

Steal This Book (4th Edition) : Steal This Wiki : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

2023 edition of Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book.This book provides a huge wealth of information about practical living.Great thanks to the l