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Red chili ice cream.
Recipe came from a magazine and will need some work, but in principle: yes, you can make ice cream using red chilis. The trick is to make a syrup with the chilis and then use that as a sweetener.
My next project is going to be to combine this with Sichuan peper to create “ma la” ice cream, so hot *and* numbing.
I’ve already made Sichuan pepper ice cream before and it’s fantastic: the numbing effect pairs really well with the coldness of the ice cream.
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12 hours ago, chenGOD said:
They probably did clear some payments from Iran through the US. If 90% of their payments went through the US dollar market.
If the law is silly, the way to go about it is by amending the law. I wouldn't say extradition laws are particularly silly either.
Still not a diplomat. Diplomatic immunity is clearly defined.
Come on man. Really? Really?
It’s perfectly clear by now you’re adamant about your position that China is in the wrong and Canada is reasonable, so I’m not going to argue further with you about this, but I do want to point out the following:
In Saudi Arabia drinking and even owning alcohol is illegal. This law is stringently upheld, but not for rich western expats working in the oil industry (so not diplomats, mind you). Saudi police *never* raids compounds where westerners live even though they’re guaranteed to find alcohol there and when an ambitious young policeman stops a car with a westerner in it, opens the trunk and finds it completely filled with fruit (westerners are not involved in the fruit trade in Saudi Arabia and the only reason they fill their cars up with it is to ferment it) his superiors immediately tell him to let it go.
Saudi Arabia is wise enough not to uphold all of their laws for every foreigner in the country. Making a point on “the rule of law” to them is worth less than not causing a diplomatic incident with countries they deem important.
(BTW, the crazy strict laws they have *are* in fact upheld for citizens of countries they deem to be less important, such as India, Bangladesh and Indonesia).
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6 minutes ago, chenGOD said:
From the second article (which is about TotalEnergie):
Ah, right. I thought you meant they clear payments *from Iran* through the US. What this is talking about is the thing that makes the sanctions unilaterally imposed by the US so effective - most companies like doing business with the US more than they like doing business with Iran.
8 minutes ago, chenGOD said:From the part where you said:
1 hour ago, rhmilo said:the dumbasses in Canada that refused to let her “accidentally” slip out of the country.
Ah, ok. Yes, in some cases I think not being too rigid about upholding laws, especially silly ones like these, is wise.
Especially since:
9 minutes ago, chenGOD said:Meng isn't a diplomat though
She is a senior figure in one of the most important companies in China, so in a sense she might as well be, just like there would likely be trouble if China would, for example, arrest the vice chairman of the board of Bombardier.
It’s not fair, but some people are more important than others. Arresting her without the consent of China was a very dumb thing to do.
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29 minutes ago, chenGOD said:
If French and German companies were selling to Iran and using the US banking system to clear payments, you can bet the US would investigate.
They are (we’re) not using the US banking system to clear payments - that would’ve been silly. But even clearing payments outside of the US does not get you out of trouble with the US, simply being known to be doing business with Iran is enough. It’s what the second article you linked to calls “secondary sanctions”.
46 minutes ago, chenGOD said:So just to be clear, you're ok with ignoring the rule of law?
Wait wut? Where do you get that from?
BTW, lots of laws don’t apply to diplomats. Embassy personnel can collect speeding tickets as much as they like, for example, and will never have to pay them (which is why you have to be careful around cars with diplomatic license plates - they drive like crazy) and even for more serious stuff they often get off free. It’s how diplomacy works.
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1 hour ago, chenGOD said:
It's not for phones, it's certain computer equipment, probably that the US believes is dual-use.
Iran is a surprisingly well functioning society (given the circumstances, anyway) and not everything that is needed to make it so is made in China. French and German companies are also very busy selling serious equipment to Iran using methods that according to some incredible dickfuck laws set by US Congress are illegal. Luckily the US is smart enough not to look into that too deeply.
I will stand by my original point: arresting Ms Meng was a dick move. Even if they let her stay in her own villa to await the trial. Everyone knew China wasn’t going to let that slide and everyone knows Chinese jails are horrible.
The responsibility for this clusterfuck lies entirely with the US and with the dumbasses in Canada that refused to let her “accidentally” slip out of the country.
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3 minutes ago, chenGOD said:
I expect it to be appealed, and the case to drag on for another couple of years. Which sucks incredibly for my friend and Mr. Kovrig.
It also sucks for Ms Meng. She may have lied to HSBC so she could do business with both the US and Iran, but I don’t personally find that particularly problematic, morally speaking. I can assure you they’re not only selling Huawei phones in Iran - when I was there there were tons of stores selling iPhones as well so maybe the US would like to look into that as well?
Like your friend, she is a pawn being used to assert US dominance over the world - and Canada is the puppet.
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1 hour ago, pizza said:
First release on that page is “the original tapes of several The Seneschal Arrives-related projects that were thought long lost. Here is their 1982 masterpiece LOVE & STALKING”.
Not a good look, dude.
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11 hours ago, chenGOD said:
The difference of course being that Meng's trial is being conducted in open court in a transparent manner, whereas both Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig have been tried in secret courts.
Not a CCP apologist at all, but this is disingenuous. According to Wikipedia she was arrested for “fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud”. What “fraud” you ask? Well, “fraud in order to circumvent U.S. sanctions against Iran.”
That’s not “fraud”, that’s someone doing business in a place where it’s not illegal to do so according to the laws *of her own country*. Remember, folks, she is Chinese and in China US laws *do not apply*.
So transparency and open courts don’t matter, this is just a power play by the US and she should never have been arrested in the first place. Arresting your friend in retaliation was a dick move by the CCP but so was sending out an extradition request for Meng by the US.
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1 hour ago, usagi said:
yeah, something about "I own an 32-unit apartment building and this is all I have, poor me" doesn't sound plausible.
The fact that they’re crying like a little baby on the internet about it makes it sound at least somewhat plausible, like someone tried to play capitalist landlord and comes running to mommy at he first sign of adversity.
A real landlord would know what to do in a situation like this.
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2 hours ago, o00o said:
At the same time there is a very vibrant and innovative Bandcamp scene that nobody here seems to notice.
Links or STFU
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3 hours ago, chenGOD said:
Yeah it's completely fucked. If Spav is a spy, I'm the other member of the Aphex Twins.
Saw it in the news this morning and thought of you too. Sucks, dude. Really fucking petty if them to do this.
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47 minutes ago, Claudius t Ansuulim said:
Thanks.
1 hour ago, Claudius t Ansuulim said:this is a new drug delivery mechanism that not only hasn’t been administered previously in humans, but failed spectacularly in previous animal trials of the technology
I’ll admit to finding the article difficult to read, but I’m pretty sure it didn’t say anything about the drug delivery mechanism not having been administered previously in humans (which it has, btw). I also couldn’t find anything about “spectacular failure” in animal trials. Could you help point out where it says that?
I’m not being snarky, btw. I genuinely find it hard to distill anything from this article other than “vaccines may have unexpected side effects, given this vaccine will be administered to billions of people for whom the disease it protects again may not be very serious we should test them very thoroughly “. If you can help point the way that’d be great.
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9 minutes ago, Claudius t Ansuulim said:
ok fair enough but we aren’t talking about a typical vaccine, this is a new drug delivery mechanism that not only hasn’t been administered previously in humans, but failed spectacularly in previous animal trials of the technology, in a way that wasn’t seen until the long term (beyond 6 months). Antibody dependent enhancement isn’t even being evaluated by the drug companies afaik, they really should be looking for that signal if they aren’t.
Citation needed.
AFAIK these mRNA vaccines have been cobbled together from parts that have been developed and tested since the 1970s (mRNA: 1970s, using them as vaccines: 1990s, using those lipid thingies to deliver the vaccines: 2015-ish).
Moderna has been working on this stuff for decades. The reason they haven’t had much to show for it until now is that they bet on using this technology to treat cancer. This turned out to be a bit if a dead end as it required creating a new “vaccine” for every individual patient, which is way, way too expensive to be feasible (but technically very possible).
The reason we haven’t seen this technology used for “normal” vaccines before is that drug companies are in it to make money and a truism in the industry is that “vaccines don’t make money”.
Unless you can sell them to 7 billion people.
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Guy is on a roll lately.
Acid King:
Syntax:
Acid King is quite brutal.
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So to all the Frenchies that came out in numbers when us foreigners were saying nice things about your capital city:
Can you explain WTF is going on with these demonstrations. They seem to be huge, much larger than similar demonstrations elsewhere in Europe. The proposed measures they're supposedly demonstrating against aren't all that different from what is being proposed elsewhere in Europe either.
Is this just a case of Frenchmen never wasting an opportunity to take to the street even if the cause is borderline ridiculous (dunno, but from what we hear over here the measures seem quite reasonable)?
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Just had a wind surfing lesson my wife got me as a birthday present. It was quite a lot of fun and after the storm level winds calmed down a little I even managed to make it work a little
But twice during the dozens of times I ended up in the water I popped my eardrums and now I’m sitting on the couch with an earache and it really hurts when I yawn or burp.
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1 hour ago, d-a-m-o said:
Aside from cultural / historical stuff, Paris is a hellhole. This is getting worse day by day since the 90's...
Quote- Gender: Male
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Aahhh … I love the French and their sunny outlook on life. Their attitude towards their own country, which by most objective standards is one of the most pleasant in the world, is especially refreshing.
Paris is not a hellhole. It’s crowded and full of tourists and therefore expensive and somewhat difficult to find your bearings in, but in no way is it in the same league as, oh, Jakarta, Teheran ... or Winnipeg.
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1 hour ago, usagi said:
it is a world-class museum, of course. it's just a tourist trap in the sense that it's flooded with visitors constantly, or was at least when I went there >10 yrs ago.
I understand where you’re coming from and having lots of visitors is certainly annoying. For me, however, a “tourist trap” is something that is designed to entrap (and fleece) tourists and that has no attraction (any more) for anyone else. The ramblas in Barcelona would be an example: all tourists and trinket shops and nothing else. Or think of something like the Borobudur, which by itself is interesting enough but where you need to make your way through at least half a kilometer of gift shops before you can get back out again (it also has extortionate prices for foreigners, although I wouldn’t personally consider that to be unfair).
The Louvre on the other hand is surprisingly cheap to get into and it has very few gift shops (certainly less than the Vatican). I also like how it has a cafetaria that serves simple and, get this, affordable meals so you can get your energy levels back up and visit more of its stunningly vast collection. A real tourist trap would fleece and gouge you at every opportunity. The Louvre does not.
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1 hour ago, usagi said:
the Louvre is worth going to even if it is a tourist trap. now would be the best time actually, while world travel is at an all-time low.
This.
Although the term “tourist trap” is a bit unfair for what it is: a really good museum, probably one of the best in the world, and therefore extremely popular.
Musee D’Orsay (19th century, so impressionists and *spits* Van Gogh) is also popular for a reason and, like the Louvre, well worth the time you spend queuing up.
Try to find out when they’re having services in the Sacre Coeur and attend one. The organ is huge and the French really like pounding their church organs. If they’re doing recitals, that’s even better.
There’s a museum of outsider art at the foot of Montmartre that has interesting exhibitions every now and then.
Etc.
Etc.
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12 hours ago, Disappearer said:
apart from the typical touristy stuff,
You’re in Paris.
In August.
Just do the touristy stuff. It’s Paris - a lot of it is pretty great.
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7 minutes ago, luke viia said:
I was not in any way criticizing vaccines, fyi.
Don't worry, didn't think you were.
8 minutes ago, luke viia said:@rhmilo on a personal level it is still a "problem" that these people are catching covid. My cousin was legit bedridden and scared. It sucks.
Bedridden sucks, but in the end is just an annoyance. One would hope that at some point in the very near future there'll have been enough COVID going around that not everyone who encounters it ends up in bed, the way not everyone who encounters an influenza virus ends up with a fever for a week.
The scared part is because we've been living in fear for over a year and a half. I understand perfectly that your cousin would be scared catching COVID right now but hopefully at some point in the, again, very near future we'll all learn to live with this disease.
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11 hours ago, luke viia said:
Got word yesterday that one of my coworkers, who was vaccinated over a month ago, tested positive after being in contact with a family member - also vaccinated - who was not aware they were infected.
This follows news I got about a month ago that one of my cousins, a healthcare worker (at an assisted-living facility), tested positive despite being vaccinated AND having already caught covid last October. He said this second infection was worse. Thankfully the illness subsided about a week after he tested positive.
Don't get too comfy, folks
Right, but by themselves "testing positive" and "not aware they were infected" are not a problem. It's the "ending up in the hospital" that vaccines need to prevent - and they do, except in the elderly and the very sick.
If they keep doing that at this level they make COVID-19 about as manageable as the flu, which isn't great but which up until now we seem to have decided was a-ok.
Without vaccines excess mortality during the first wave in 2020 was about twice as high as it was during the - very severe - influenza epidemic of 2018 (figures and graphs here: https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/visualisaties/welvaart-in-coronatijd/gezondheid-in-coronatijd - in Dutch as CBS is the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics). So even the lousiest vaccines like the Sinovac one with its fficacy of around 50%, are actually pretty useful.
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^ case in point.
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How does the World view China these days?
in General Banter
Posted · Edited by rhmilo
The lovely German word “Ambiguitätsintoleranz” seems apt here.