and yet, people who should know better (having seen these schemes play out in the exact same way countless times) still made the decision to give these scams more visibility, needlessly 😮‍💨

analog programming 😏

orb is so good 🥳

its more like a religious publication given their rhetoric; their primary audience target are those who desire an alternative to chinese state media (short list for anything long-standing), and epoch times has an impressive track record capturing that audience across the chinese speaking world

however their reporting is often shoddy and the digital transition has been rough for them. I wouldn't believe a state actor is behind it because it'd be very weak propaganda if after all the decades of building an audience and network -- all they can muster is a traveling circus. it's by no means a media powehouse

certainly not something i pick up on for anything important, but i can appreciate its existence.

theres an audience out there yhay have nothing to look forward to but divine judgement over their enemies; epoch times fills that (tragic) void non-stop 😅

straight from the lab 3 👀🔥

full metal alchemist - taking energy from the gate of truth to shape the world as one sees fit -- kinda like Bitcoin 🧐

tengen toppa guren lagann - anti-spirals are so fiat 🙂‍↔️

vagabond - made me want to be a better person or at least get good at something, i dont even mind if it never finishes

attack on titan - everything about it was great but the monthly wait for chapters was hell 🥲

the psyop:

"keep staring at the shadows on the cave walls with us, dont think about climbing out"

.... because it's "too hard"

the blue checks want to trust in badges handed over through KYC rails rather than themselves 🙂‍↔️

typical blue check nonsense over there 🙂‍↔️

great album 😎

TIL that during Computex 2001 Intel Marketers being unhappy with Taiwanese chipset supplier's (VIA) encroachment upon on Intel's motherboard chipset business, cut VIA's booth balloons on the showroom

how petty. Spectacular how far Intel has fallen 🥹

source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/778

video on Intel's heyday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdSAuYCcs_o

oh my, how big is that thing 😱

of course not, just typival blue check nonsense 🙂‍↔️

🤮

yesterday at the local street market my mom asked the fish monger to keep an eye out for mullet at the auctions. she brought home three this morning with a few raised eyebrows

"ma'm what are you planning to do with all that fish?"

"oh we're making mullet roe for chinese new year"

"why make it yourself? save the hassle and get a prepared gift box, who has the time these days to do that"

by all measures the bystander is correct, it's more cost effective to buy instead of preparing this coveted delicacy as it takes days and the professionals know how to get every bit of hydration and keep quality control at scale.

*in the kitchen with a handful of fish guts*

"yeah mom, why are we doing this again this year? what did you say?"

"oh wheres your festive spirit this year, these fish only swim by during this time!"

~34,000 sats for the fish and to keep a tradition alive 🧐 thanks again #bitcoin

WHERE ARE WE GOING? 🥳

修改你的： what i find is that i should learn english everyday

直接翻 「應該.... 必須」： i feel that i have to/must/should learn english everyday

我覺得你想說的: (i think) i should be practicing english everyday

多看些小說🥳，光用課本學英文很容易寫的像機器人

typical blue check nonsense 🙂‍↔️

THE BLUE CHECKS CAN'T STOP IN CIRCLES WITH THEIR NONSENSE

you have only yourself to blame 🙃

my mistake. i got too used to Reuters only bringing up Russian bitcoin use for trade in the context of sanction-busting rather than simply superior way of conducting foreign trade