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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

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 understand— 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.

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.

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

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 understand— 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.

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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)

½ cup heavy cream. (Skip it for a vegan option)

Salt and black pepper to taste.

½ 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, it’ll 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 it’ll 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.

You’ll 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 it’s 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 to’s, freshly chopped sprinkled just after serving my bowl.

Hope y'all give it a try and if you have any doubts do ask!

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.

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 — 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 — 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.

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 Hackin’ Fest, Ollam – a master lockpicker – 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.

Ollam’s 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, Ollam’s 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 “secret” ways of bypassing, tricking and confounding locks had entered the public domain – 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 “bad guys” 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), he’s doing important (and hilarious!) work.

He’s such an engaging speaker and the subject matter is nothing short of fantastic. There are a hundred heist novels in this talk alone. It’s definitely my must-watch for the week.

Through the eyes of a thief (2023)

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 — delicious. If you use baking powder your cookie will be wide, flat, and bendy — also delicious. If you do both your cookie will be airy all the way through.