Yeah, as a big trueanon enjoyer and also I always get annoyed whenever they make fun of veganism

Then Ms. Maxwell told a story about how she flew a Blackhawk helicopter in Colombia and fired a rocket into a supposed terrorist camp.

https://observer.com/2002/11/vikram-chatwal-turban-cowboy/

This is very interesting, thanks! Do you have any books you can recommend on this topic?

Quick tofu primer: there are a bunch of different kinds, but the main distinguishing factor is its firmness. Softer tofu has more water and firmer tofu has less water (it’s pressed for longer). I normally just get extra-firm tofu (the kind that comes completely wrapped in flexible plastic, and is sometimes called super-firm tofu) because that’s what Costco sells in my area and use it for almost all tofu instances. Some people press tofu to get more water out of it before using it, but I’ve never noticed much of an improvement from doing that. Maybe at most you’d want to pat it dry if you’re going to toss it in corn starch or something.

My roommate makes a lot of stir fries where she just cubes up tofu and puts it in, and it can absorb the flavor of the sauce pretty well. It’s pretty neutral and bland by itself, but in a very simple stir fry I think it’s pretty tasty.

My all time favorite tofu recipe is this vegan palak paneer with tofu. It’s even easier to make than the recipe says imo, follow the boiled tofu part but you don’t need to boil the tofu (just plop it in raw) and you can use frozen spinach, which comes pre-blanched. I normally double the recipe and use 340g of frozen spinach and it makes a lot of meals for my partner and I.

I have no idea what region you’re from, but if you’re looking to recreate a lot of fast food/standard American diet meals, check out Thee Burger Dude on YT, he has a lot of good recipes for prepping tofu or soy curls or a bunch of other things to imitate meat.

Tofu can also be delicious in its own right, rather than as a replacement for something. This vegan mapo tofu recipe is very tasty, and tofu is normally an integral part of the dish (and not trying to be meaty in any sense). This is also one case where I’ll seek out the softest tofu I can find, either silken tofu or soft tofu.

Happy to send more recipes if you’d like, or if you want to find a good vegan version of something I can try to give recommendations! Also, congrats on going vegan! btw

Adrenochrome goes hard

Reminds me of this very good short film inexplicably produced by the Canadian government about the philosophy of teleporters:

https://www.nfb.ca/film/to_be/

Is there some kind of shadowy cabal out there with a grudge for teeth

Dentists

Some of the only good news to come out of 2026 so far…

“fighting cartels”

I exist too!

(shamelessly stolen from the TrueAnon thread on this)

squints Was this written by an LLM?

My “Isn’t it weird that questioning any of the numerous oddities surrounding 9/11 or asking about who stood to gain from the attack gets you permanently labeled a conspiracy-brained nutjob?” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already raised by my shirt

Listen to TrueAnon’s episodes on 9/11. They do a very good job going over the background of the people involved, then cover the actual day of, plus all of its oddities. Disclaimer: they’re conspiracy-pilled, but honestly I can totally understand where they’re coming from.

At the very least, it’s a little bit odd that the PATRIOT act was pushed through right after the attack, and in fact was so long that no one had time to read it fully before voting on it. They were either saving it for a rainy day, or… something else.

• https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/911-week-bush-did-911-part-1
• https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/911-week-bush-did-911-part-2
• https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/911-week-bush-did-911-part-3
• https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/bush-did-911-part-4
• there’s a 5th one that’s paywalled on their patreon but if you go to kemono.cr you definitely can’t find full episodes from many patreon podcasts…

Choosing to interpret “N/A” as “we don’t use soap here”

Oh you sweet summer child…

Using these numbers, you can see that, on average, a complete pair of glasses will run you between $200-$300+ if you don’t have vision insurance

Excellent news, awful comparison in the title. Also, the script of the video definitely extensively used LLMs, there are so many phrases there that are the epitome of AI slop, but I’m glad to have learned about it nonetheless.

Stasi State or Socialist Paradise is the book I’ve read on it. It focuses mostly on the good aspects (and especially makes very good comparisons to other countries at the time) but also mentions and to some extent contextualized the bad aspects too. I think it would probably be a good starting point despite being more editorialized than a strict history book, and it has citations for further reading.

Side note: I read that book just before visiting Berlin, and of course I had to visit the DDR Museum there. It was a real shock seeing the propaganda there after reading the book. It almost felt like satire of anti-DDR propaganda. At one point the museum mentioned that people in the East had more sex on average than people in the West, and the museum tried to explain it as “there wasn’t much else to do in the DDR.” That and the fact that people repaired things (“a DIYers heaven”) were the only good things the museum had to say about the country. They even said that its revolutionary child care systems were just communist indoctrination, and had nothing to say about women’s rights or anything like that.

Honestly I have not been super impressed with Kimi K2. Maybe the thinking model is better, but in my experience GLM has been much better. I’ll still give it a shot though.

I saw a Hacker News article of someone running Deepseek R1 for $6k, although still too expensive IMO

Do you remember what their setup was? My guess would be CPU inference with a metric fuckton of RAM if they were running it at the full quantization, which could work but would be pretty slow. But for $6k it’d be impossible to buy enough VRAM to run it at full quant on GPUs.

Thanks comrade!