LaurieWired has good content. She does lots of computer science/history related content which is really interesting

Heavily modded Kerbal Space Program. It’s so relaxing building rockets and going on complex interplanetary missions for science

The perfect dust

In only 25% of the world

Also, make sure to be generic. Choose cheap, common clothing that won’t stick out

$100/month tier of course

Virginia implemented a universal background check law a couple years ago that banned private sales without going through an FFL so they can be removed from the list. Though I’m not sure about the other half of the country

I did a bit of searching and found a reddit threat that looks like this one but posted 6 months ago.

The only answer that looked somewhat correct was “Because they always have a spare in their trunks.” posted by u/A_Nice_Shrubbery777

Reddit thread for those interested: https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1e1qbg9/a_joke_with_no_answer/

One month ago: ~$3.29

Yesterday ~$5.49

For 18 eggs: ~$7.19

They only have grade A eggs that come in the fancy compressed paper boxes so that’s what I normally get. Though eggs have been getting harder and harder to find since they’ve been struggling to restock them.

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x86 is the architecture, amd64 is an extention on that architecture so it’s still x86 just with an instruction set extension that allows for native 64 bit computing.

x86 was designed to be nearly fully backwards compatible back to the i386 or even the 8086 so whatever code that could run on those CPUs would work on modern “amd64” CPUs.

Pretty much x86 is a snowball rolling down a hill. It keeps picking up new things and growing as time goes on but the core of it will always be the same.

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Ginger Chicken

Preparing

Cut some chicken up into strips a bit under 1cm (0.4in) thick and against the grain if using beast (more of a thigh guy myself).

Put chicken in bowl and wet chicken with equal parts rice vinegar and soy sauce. I used around 1.5 (22.5ml) tablespoon rice vinegar and 1.5 (22.5ml) tablespoon soy sauce for around 0.6kg (1.3lb) of chicken. Hand mix the chicken until the vinegar and soy sauce are worked in.

After around 5-7 minutes, the chicken should soak up the vinegar and soy sauce and leave little to no liquids.

Add in about 1.5 tablespoon (22.5ml) of shaoxing wine and enough corn starch to turn the liquid into a thick-ish white liquid but not enough to dry it out. It should have roughly the same consistency of an egg white. Once it’s hand mixed, put in some black pepper and sprinkle a little bit of MSG if you have any and mix it again. For pepper I put in around 1 tablespoon (15ml). For MSG, I used what I could grab with my fingers which would be like 1-2g.

After doing that, chop up a sweet onion into crescent moon shaped slices and set it aside.

Let the chicken marinate for about 30 minutes.

Prepare the sauce

Go in with the mindset of making teriyaki sauce.

Mix together:

• 5 tablespoons (60ml) of soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons (30ml) of brown sugar
• Three microplaned garlic cloves (~1 tablespoon, 15ml)
• 2 tablespoons (30ml) mirin

At the end, fuck up and add 1 tablespoon (15ml) of ginger powder instead of the 1 teaspoon (5ml) you were supposed to add.

Now you have ginger sauce.

Cooking

Get large carbon steel or cast iron pan (stainless might work but I’ve never tried it since I don’t have any. Non-stick will not work) and fill it so there’s about 2mm of vegetable oil in the pan. Pre-heat at low-medium heat.

Before putting in chicken, coat the chicken in a layer of corn starch, kinda like breading it. It should feel dry and not sticky after coating.

Prepare about 1 tablespoon (15ml) of butter in a spoon (or butter knife or whatever, you’ll be quickly throwing it into the pan while cooking) and have a clean plate large enough to hold the cooked chicken ready.

Pre-heat until oil is just starting to emit thin wisps of smoke then turn heat to medium high the dump chicken in the pan and keep it moving until the outside is browned then throw in the butter and stir until the butter evenly coats the chicken and then cook it for about 20-30 seconds more while constantly stirring it.

Remove the chicken and put it on a plate using a slotted spatula to limit the amount of leftover oil and butter from soaking into the chicken and making it soggy.

Put in sliced onions and stir fry until decently and evenly browned but not charred.

Turn heat to medium, add back in the chicken, then pour in the sauce and keep mixing until the sauce thickens and sticks and soaks into the crust of the chicken.

Best enjoyed with some fried eggs and rice.

I know it’s not much compared to everyone else’s stuff here but it’s the easiest to post since I actually have picture of it.

Made some ginger chicken after experimenting with making the chicken tender and crunchy without deep frying. Turned out very good.

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What does being a person mean to you? Could a sufficiently advanced AI become a person and if so, at what point would it become a person that deserves to be treated the same a human? If a machine can be a person, would it be plausible for a person to become a machine? For example, with transhumanism being possible, would a human that has ship of theseus’d with machine components instead of biological components become a machine instead of a person?

I was born in the current millenia so I wasn’t around during the aerospace boom but it makes me kinda sad that looking back, there was so much innovation and hope for a future. I remember talking with some older people in how they thought we’d be living on the moon or Mars by now after seeing the Apollo missions and seeing commercial supersonic flight. I still remember going to the library and checking out books about how technology was developed and reading in awe about the insane engineering behind each thing.

It’s just sad that all of the potential and movement was just shutdown by politicians and the rich just so they could get that extra little bit more wealth and power year after year.