I randomly wandered into a dumpling shop I’ve never heard of next to SFSU and, well I think I’ve found my favorite xiaolongbao in the city. It’s better than all the more famous ones!!
It’s called Mom Dumpling in park Merced. They make their own dumpling dough AND noodles. The crab and pork xlb is especially good, almost as good as the good ones I’ve had in Taiwan and Shanghai
My hobby (film development and printing) is really only possible because of the density of burned out hardware and software engineers with time and money, and a deeply autistic interest in making things work (just spoke to the people who set up my community darkroom. They bought out gear from labs which closed, and fixed it up.. this doesn’t really exist anywhere else)
I have a color darkoom I can use! (They rebuilt some color processors, it was pretty gnarly)
Over 4-5 days new server- and media storage bills are coming in for this month
Currently I am still over €428 short this month😿😟
For upcoming weekend I have a server migration planned to scale down the costs by another €200 on the main servers but that will only take effect next month
Some of you know I’m a big fan of LA food. I think that dollar for dollar you get a tremendous amount of cuisines, varieties of foods, in this melting pot which feels to me like it has far more immigrant and working class food than the Bay Area. Even the density and quality of ‘fancy food’ is high!
Absorb this graph—but note that the final year is 2018, the year of Trump’s tax cuts. That’s #Trump’s big goal, always has been: to rip off working people and hand huge bags of cash to the ultra-wealthy, like himself and his Mar-a-Lago buddies.
Rutger Bregman:
Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.
@skinnylatte I've always struggled with what to do with extra yolk/white when a recipe asks for one. It just seems wasteful so I don't really cook these recipes. Grandparents + economic depression= me?
When I first moved to the U.S., eyeglasses and contacts were very confusing to me. They were terribly expensive and many of the cheaper places didn’t also do eye exams. It was also confusing with ‘vision insurance’. Anyway I finally figured it out: just go to Costco! That’s the answer to everything in this country!
What I do now: I get a fully covered eye exam at my local optometry place
Then I go to costco for frames and contacts. The prices are.. a fraction of elsewhere
One time I met someone who I thought wanted to be a friend and she just wanted to ask if she could list all my awesome food recs in her ‘food recs startup’
Another time I met someone who was cool and then when we hung out she started spouting the worst Hindutva nonsense
Making friends in San Francisco is hard, I should move to Oakland lol