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Chinese Dissidents Seek to Undermine the Regime With Egg Fried Rice Recipes
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Chinese Dissidents Seek to Undermine the Regime With Egg Fried Rice Recipes

Nov. 25, 1950. Morning has come, the sun has risen well above the rim of the world, and Secretary Liu is still sound asleep. Serving as a Russian translator and aide-de-camp to General Peng Dehuai of the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army (PVA), Liu had worked late into the previous night, and is presently indulging in the rare wartime luxury of a lie-in. Liu’s fellow officers, on the other hand, have all been awake for hours, anxiously scanning the horizon. An American twin-engine fighter, a Northrop P-61 Black Widow to be precise, was recently spotted flying reconnaissance over the PVA headquarters here in North Korea’s northeastern Tongchang County, an ominous sign indeed. Vigilance will be the order of the day. Secretary Liu remains in his bed. The aide-de-camp finally rouses himself around 9 a.m., at which time he asks two of his fellow staff officers, Cheng Pu and Gao Ruixun, to assist him in preparing a restorative breakfast of dan chao fan, or egg fried rice. After gathering together rice, oil, and a few precious eggs — another rarity on the frontline — the three officers leave their post, located inside an abandoned gold mine, and make their way above ground and into a building containing General Peng’s office, where they set to cooking Secretary Liu’s mid-morning repast. Another Chinese general, Yang Di, who will later recount these events, sees smoke rising from the structure, and orders Liu, Cheng, and Gao to put out the fire as soon as they are done frying up their meal, but by then it is already too late. Four Douglas A-26 Invader light bombers slice through the Korean sky, heading directly toward the PVA headquarters. Napalm bombs tumble out of the Invaders’ bay doors, spreading hundreds of gallons of jellied gasoline over the Chinese base, which is instantly engulfed in flames burning at a temperature of some 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Yang Di survives the bombing raid, as does Cheng Pu, but Gao Ruixun perishes in the conflagration, alongside Secretary Liu, whose remains will need to be identified not by facial features or distinguishing marks, all replaced with shriveled, calcined flesh, but by the molten Soviet-manufactured timepiece still affixed to what is left of his wrist. General Peng is appalled at the events of this morning, burdened as he is with the knowledge of Secretary Liu’s true identity. The 28-year-old soldier whose burnt, contorted remains lie before him is no mere functionary. He is Mao Anying, the eldest son and presumptive heir of China’s supreme leader, Mao Zedong. Mao Anying, who had adopted a nom-de-guerre to avoid preferential treatment while in the field, would be laid to rest in the patch of planted death known as the PVA Cemetery of Martyrs, yet fully two months would pass before Chairman Mao was informed by the Politburo of his son’s immolation and inhumation. His reaction was stoic, if not unfeeling: “In a war, how can there be no deaths?” Anying’s widow, Liu Siqi, would not learn of her husband’s fate until another two and a half agonizing years of uncertainty had passed. According to Mao’s biographer, Jung Chang, when Anying had proposed to Siqi in 1949, Mao Zedong had flown “into a ferocious rage and bellowed at [Anying] so terrifyingly that Anying fainted, his hands going so cold they did not react even to a boiling hot water bottle, which left two big blisters. Mao’s furious reaction suggests sexual jealousy (the beautiful and elegant Siqi had been around Mao for much of her teens).” It is not without reason that psychoanalysts have posited that the grandiose violence that marked Mao Zedong’s private and public life was the result of a combination of rampant egocentrism and dispositional schadenfreude. Chairman Mao’s cold-blooded response to his son’s death inevitably gave rise to rumors. Liu Siqi suspected that Mao’s fourth wife, the cunning actress-turned-revolutionary Jiang Qin, had somehow orchestrated Anying’s downfall. Or perhaps other political factions had maneuvered Mao’s son into harm’s way, and invented the egg fried rice tale to cover their tracks. The Chinese Academy of History, citing unreleased and highly classified sources, maintains that Anying’s death was the result of intercepted Chinese radio transmissions, and not conspicuous smoke from an ill-timed breakfast. In any event, the napalm bombs dropped by the American bombers that fateful day in late November 1950 definitively put an end to the Mao dynasty, since the chairman’s only other surviving son, Mao Anqing, was a schizophrenic who spent the better part of his adult life in psychiatric institutions. And so it was that a bowl of egg fried rice, or a well-timed radio signal interception, meant that Communist China would not go the way of North Korea with its Mount Paektu bloodline and freakish Kim-centered cult of personality. Due to China’s all-encompassing media and internet censorship apparatus, criticism of the regime tends to be subtle and oblique. As Xiao Qiang demonstrated in his marvelous compendium of “China’s Lexicon of Digital Resistance,” an excerpt of which was featured in China Books Review last March, Chinese “netizens actively oppose censorship and propaganda through strategic, well-timed actions focused on specific issues and tactical opportunities,” employing allusions, puns, catchwords, slogans, and hashtags that can, for a time at least, circumvent official censorship. Critics of the communist regime will, for example, refer to “your party” (guidang, 贵党) instead of “our party,” “my party,” or “the party,” an ironically honorific turn of phrase that also happens to mean “expensive country.” When Lin Jiaxiang, the former party secretary of the Shenzhen Maritime Administration, was caught harassing a young girl back in 2008, he responded to the entirely warranted criticism by ranting “So what if I pinched a little child’s neck? You people are worth less than a fart to me! How dare you mess with me? Just see how I deal with you.” Ever since, the Chinese populace has archly been referred to as the “fart people” (pimin, 屁民), hence that timeless political maxim, which may suffer a bit in translation: “The system errs, the fart people suffer” (体亏屁思).” And during the COVID-19 lockdowns, the melancholy phrase zuihouyidai (最后一代), or “the last generation,” went viral despite the best efforts of social media censors, after a Shanghai citizen was caught on film vocally opposing mandatory quarantine measures, and was threatened with a punishment that “will influence your next three generations.” His response, as he closed the door on his tormentors, was memorable: “We’re the last generation, thank you.” Zhang Xuezhong, a human rights lawyer, described the phrase as “an expression of the deepest form of despair. The speaker declared a decision of a biological nature: we will not reproduce. This decision is underpinned by a psychological and existential judgment: a future worth striving for has been taken from us. It is, perhaps, the strongest indictment a young person can make of the era to which they belong.” Censors were obliged to work overtime keeping the haunting phrase zuihouyidai out of posts, usernames, and bios on social media platforms like WeChat and Weibo.   Another subtle way in which Chinese dissidents have sought to undermine the regime is through the sharing of egg fried rice recipes on two annual occasions: Mao Anying’s birthday (Oct. 24) and the anniversary of his untimely demise (Nov. 25). Although there is nothing inherently seditious about a recipe for the culinary staple of dan chao fan, the timing of these egg fried rice protests means that they run afoul of China’s “Law on Protection of Heroes and Martyrs,” promulgated on April 27, 2018, which makes it “forbidden to distort, smear, desecrate, or deny the deeds and spirit of heroes and martyrs” like Mao Anying. Online accounts have been suspended, and Chinese citizens have been imprisoned, for posting egg fried rice recipes in October and November. One individual was arrested by the authorities in Nanchang after arguing on the Weibo microblogging platform that “the greatest result of the Korean War was egg fried rice: thank you, egg fried rice! Without egg fried rice, we would be no different from North Korea. Sadly, there’s not that big a difference nowadays.” A renowned chef and food blogger, Wang Gang, was accused of engaging in “malicious political innuendo” after uploading an egg fried rice preparation video in the autumn of 2020, and was again made to apologize when it was accidentally reuploaded late last year, prompting Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu to boast in an X post that in his democratic country “we savor #FreedomFriedRice whenever the mood strikes … No apologies needed.” What began as a possibly apocryphal story about the death of Mao’s heir apparent in the Korean War has become a source of protest and even an international flashpoint. I flatter myself that I am a consummate humanitarian, and am not here to take any particular pleasure in the gruesome death of Mao Anying, who by all accounts did not inherit his father’s monstrously genocidal impulses. And although it is not a terribly grand gesture — the spectator.org domain is blocked by the Chinese National Public Security Work Informational Project’s infamous Great Firewall — I would like to add a egg fried rice recipe of my own, in solidarity with those who have been imprisoned and deprived of their civil liberties for something so innocuous as posting cooking directions for a rice dish. My own egg fried rice recipe is admittedly less like dan chao fan (蛋炒飯), and more like a Japanese yakimeshi (やきめし), particularly with its use of short-grain as opposed to long-grain rice, and the introduction of the egg after rather than before the rice during the cooking process, but I prefer a chewier, sticker fried rice to one that is drier and firmer. And we just filled our kiribako paulownia wood rice box with the contents of a rather large bag of Shinmei Niigata Koshihikari rice from the Uonuma area of Japan’s Niigata Prefecture, and we need to make use of it. So, you will first prepare two cups or so of rice, and set the cooked rice aside for a few hours — fresh, warm rice will struggle to hold its texture. Then, you will stir fry a couple of finely chopped carrots, leeks, and spring onions, and some minced garlic, in butter or lard (not seed oils, obviously) in a wok, which will provide the flavor and aroma evocatively known in China as wok hei (鑊氣), or “the breath of the wok.” Then comes the cold rice, which is cooked and stirred around in the wok for a few minutes, at which point it is time to add the two or three large scrambled eggs that put the dan in dan chao fan. Ideally you would use locally-sourced or mobile pasture-raised eggs, and not eggs from concentrated animal feeding operations that practice forced molting, live-shackle slaughter, the shredding of live baby chicks in high-speed grinders, and all those other horrors that, incidentally, result in eggs lamentably deficient in vitamins A, E, D, and K2, but to each his own.  Push the rice to one side of the wok, and add the scrambled eggs, whisking them constantly and gradually folding them into the rice-vegetable admixture. Then add one or two tablespoons of soy sauce (Shibanuma in Ibaraki, Japan makes a good artisanal, barrel-aged, unpasteurized, umami-rich shoyu), and add salt, white pepper, and Japanese pepper (Zanthoxylum piperitum, or sanshō) to taste, using your wok spatula to stir and flip all the while.  Your egg fried rice is now ready to plate; hopefully you have not given your position away to enemy forces. And even if you do not choose to fry up a bowl of dan chao fan according to this or any other recipe, do spare a thought, on Oct. 24 or Nov. 25, not for Mao Anying and the lineage his death brought to a dynastic dead-end, but for those Chinese men and women who languish in prison for their political beliefs, for their religious faith, and even just for sharing an egg fried rice recipe at the wrong time of year. Chī hǎo hē hǎo! READ MORE: The Vatican–China Pact Has Proved to Be a Catastrophe Aristotle Never Existed?: The Chinese Aversion to History Chinese Cultural Vandalism and Popular Unrest The post Chinese Dissidents Seek to Undermine the Regime With Egg Fried Rice Recipes appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI

AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI’s Future and Save Our Own By Verity Harding (Princeton University Press, 288 pages, $22) The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised By James Pethokoukis (Center Street, 336 pages, $18) Society has long been fascinated and terrified by the idea of artificial intelligence. Our belief that we can deploy AI to execute tasks previously performed by humans coexists with our fear that this Brave New World may self-destruct or fall under the control of evil-doers.  While we appreciate AI’s role in automating manufacturing, correcting our grammar, and generating backgrounds for Zoom calls, we grow squeamish when it starts creating original intellectual content. Our discomfort deepens when we hear that AI has infiltrated virtually every profession, including law, medicine, and journalism. Despite recognizing the technology’s time-saving benefits, we are fearful that we will be automated out of our jobs.  Subscribe to The American Spectator to receive our fall 2024 print magazine, which includes this article and others like it.   Furthermore, we are worried about both excessive and inefficient government regulation — as well as the political persuasions of those controlling the regulations and manipulating the technology. With a highly divisive U.S. presidential election in full swing, fears persist that either party might attempt to use AI to steal the election or propagate a narrative that the election was stolen. Society is craving guidance to mitigate our reservations about AI and to unleash its potential to better our lives. Two books provide valuable insights in this regard.  In AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI’s Future and Save Our Own, Verity Harding, the director of the AI & Geopolitics Project at Cambridge University, recommends that we look to history for solutions. Harding, whose career included a stint at Google, believes we should apply lessons from past innovations, including the atomic bomb, the space race, and the internet to develop policies and protocols for artificial intelligence.  In The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised, James Pethokoukis, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, champions AI’s potential to drive the development of technologies that will enhance our overall quality of life. The book exudes enthusiasm for the potential of artificial intelligence to turn once-imagined science fiction wonders into reality. This article is taken from The American Spectator’s fall 2024 print magazine. Subscribe to receive the entire magazine. Though Harding and Pethokoukis differ in their political views, they are united in their belief that AI will enhance the quality of human life. They also both emphasize the need to establish guardrails around AI. Moreover, they concur that AI is suffering from a public relations problem and that the industry must improve its efforts to communicate AI’s benefits to the public. Harding believes that AI has infinite potential to improve our lives. To demonstrate this, she fills her book with examples across different industries, including banks’ usage of AI to improve online fraud detection systems and the United Nations’ usage of AI to synthesize and summarize hearings. She additionally champions AI’s ability to accelerate medical diagnosis and treatment through the automated analysis of retinal scans, mammograms, and other radiological tests. However, Harding asserts that AI is challenged by the technology industry’s closed-door mentality and argues that consumer input should have a greater role. “[W]hat innovators can do,” she says, “is listen to how that technology is making people feel, the effects it is having, and respond to them.” She believes that today’s AI industry mirrors the internet’s state in the 1990s. This is especially the case insofar as AI is “at the mercy of differing, overlapping factions and interests,” including academics, activists, governments, and profit-motivated businesses. Harding believes lessons from the beginning of the internet can be extrapolated to establish a policy framework for AI. For example, Harding asserts that, just like the internet, artificial intelligence requires a neutral, transparent third-party governing body. As a model for this, she suggests that we look to the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which has worked to create protocols for the internet’s Domain Name System, among other tasks. Harding describes ICANN as a “bridging institution” between the “traditional treaty-based organizations and the rapidity and the lawlessness of the internet.” She posits that ICANN’s neutral arbitrator role could serve as inspiration for a comparable entity that could serve as a go-between for artificial intelligence’s many stakeholders. Pethokoukis’ The Conservative Futurist argues via a mélange of economic philosophy, historical and contemporary economic data, and popular culture references that we should embrace artificial intelligence rather than run from it. He addresses the widespread concern that artificial intelligence will eliminate jobs by pointing out that technological displacement has historically resulted in the creation of better jobs to replace those that are lost.  Pethokoukis cites the postwar period of 1948–1973 as the golden age for what he terms “Technologically Futuristic Productivity” (TFP), with 2.2 percent annual TFP. He maintains that the next TFP surge is within our grasp if we leverage our emerging technology and assume an “Up Wing” perspective. “Up Wing” and “Down Wing” are terms coined by futurist Fereidoun M. Esfandiary in the 1970s to differentiate between societal optimists and pessimists; up-wingers are innovative risk-takers while down-wingers are risk-averse doomsayers. Pethokoukis asserts that America is an Up Wing nation: “Without an ethos of anticipating a tomorrow better than today, it never would’ve grown from a country of 3 million people huddled on the Atlantic coastline of North America into a technological frontier-pushing, continent-sized, space-faring superpower of more than 330 million people.”  Like Harding, Pethokoukis believes that the public needs to be better educated about AI’s potential to make us healthier, wealthier, and wiser. To illustrate its positive impact, Pethokoukis cites a March 2023 Goldman Sachs study that predicted generative AI could increase U.S. productivity growth by just short of 1.5 percentage points over a decade, possibly driving annual GDP growth to as high as 4.5 percent.  In the 1960s, the public was excited about the space age, and Hollywood responded to that enthusiasm by producing entertainment that glorified future technology, including Star Trek, Lost in Space, and The Jetsons. Over the ensuing decades, Hollywood’s apocalyptic depiction of technology has become ubiquitous. Pethokoukis maintains that Hollywood needs to switch out its dark view of future tech with one that encourages us to envision a better world. I highly recommend Verity Harding’s AI Needs You and James Pethokoukis’s The Conservative Futurist. Artificial intelligence has the capability to exponentially increase our economic prosperity, improve our quality of life, and transform our fantasies into reality. The genie is out of the bottle. Subscribe to The American Spectator to receive our fall 2024 print magazine. The post How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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Yet another reason to NEVER EVER DATE A MUSLIM…unless you are one
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Yet another reason to NEVER EVER DATE A MUSLIM…unless you are one

A New York City MUSLIM plastic surgeon turned a glamorous model into a “sex slave,” subjecting her to sickening abuse, then  trying to cover up the shattered eye socket he gave her by injecting her with filler to cover up the abuse, but without using anesthesia, an explosive new lawsuit claims. NY Post (h/t Theresa […]
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Le’Veon Bell Describes His Thrilling Day with Donald J. Trump
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Former NFL great Le’Veon Bell posted a TikTok video telling people how he feels about President Trump. Bell rallied with Trump last Saturday and rode to the game with him. He said he didn’t know how “real” Trump is. Trump called him to the stage and then gave him the mic. He was shocked he […] The post Le’Veon Bell Describes His Thrilling Day with Donald J. Trump appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.
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Law Prof Floats Idea To Amend Constitution, Targeting ‘Ultra-Wealthy’ Voices Like Elon Musk!
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Even Tucker Carlson Is SPEECHLESS: Journalist Makes STARTLING Prediction (WATCH)
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Manchester City’s Erling Haaland Scores Absolutely Insane Goal You’re Guaranteed To Have Never Seen Before
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Kitten Living on a Lot with Other Cats, Always Hiding, Then She's Petted for 1st Time, and Everything Changes
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Kitten Living on a Lot with Other Cats, Always Hiding, Then She's Petted for 1st Time, and Everything Changes

A kitten had been living on a lot with other cats, hiding from everyone. Then, one day, she was petted for the first time, and everything changed for her. Katy PurryJosh NoremA towing company contacted Alley Cat Project, a volunteer-run rescue, concerning the safety of cats living in a boat on a lot."It's a busy spot, with lots of sharp objects and cars being moved around at any time, so they wanted help safely relocating them," one of the rescue volunteers shared with Love Meow.Rescuers set out humane traps with a camera and waited for the cats to come out. On the screen, a tiny calico emerged from her hiding spot, drawn by the smell of the food. Alley Cat ProjectWith lots of patience, they secured the calico and two orange tabbies. Thinking they could all be related, a kind-hearted foster volunteer, Josh Norem, took them home for socialization.Soon, it was clear that the calico wanted nothing to do with the tabbies. Terrified, she hissed and swiped at anyone who came near. Josh NoremOnce she had some alone time with Josh, her fearful reaction to touch subsided, replaced by a gentle, growly purr. Slowly, she crept closer to Josh.She went from hissing and cowering in the corner to purring and standing up straight. Her eyes softened, and she began to trust. Josh Norem"It took her a few days to come out of her shell and start to trust me, but when she did, the most amazing thing happened," Josh shared. "At one point, she reached out for my hand, then lifted it up to her face and gently licked it a few times."With her newfound courage, the calico, named Katy Purry, explored her space for the first time, filling the room with her rumbling purr. Josh NoremShe began accepting pets and attention, slow-blinking at her human as he stroked her gently. Thinking she'd prefer eating alone, Josh left the room to let her eat in peace, only to find out Katy didn't touch the food until he returned.When she discovered belly rubs, she flopped over and stretched her legs as if reaching for more. Josh NoremBefore long, Katy climbed onto Josh's lap and settled in for a cozy cuddle, all the while purring nonstop. She turned into a snuggle bug and a "biscuit" maker.The calico was much calmer on a lap, being petted and loved on. Her purr motor never seemed to cease running. She turned into a lap cat, a cuddle bugJosh NoremOnce Josh was able to examine her closely, he discovered a wound on her belly.Estimated to be eight months old, Katy was very small for her age, likely due to malnutrition. Her wound was treated, and she was transferred to another foster home with Patti so she could have a dedicated carer all to herself. Josh Norem"She is initially shy but readily works up to a loud purr. She seeks pets and especially seems to love chin scratches," Patti shared with Love Meow.When Katy noticed her new toys, her eyes lit up, and soon, her playful side emerged. "She loves going through her rather short cat tunnel and attacked a bird toy that chirps. She has a feisty side yet to be revealed." PattiAbove all else, Katy enjoys spending time with her foster mom and has mastered the art of lounging on her lap."She has loved her opportunities to cuddle with our adult cat, who often takes fosters under his wing. She's a charming young girl who loves her new life - food, warmth, toys, and love." PattiWith a second chance, Katy has learned to trust and is now living the good life with a future full of endless lap time. PattiShare this story with your friends. More on Katy and Alley Cat Project on Instagram and Facebook Thanks to Josh @furrtographer and Patti.Related story: Shy Cats Depend on Each Other Their Whole Lives Meet Person Who Comes Back to Shelter Just for Them
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