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Whole roasted snapper tonight on #WildGameKitchen 🎣 A mild, white-fleshed fish, red snapper is universally beloved and readily available anywhere. First, I'm cooking up fried snapper fingers with a spicy chile-orange mayonnaise dipping sauce. Then, I'll be roasting a whole fish over open fire, serving it family style with...

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11,759 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

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Selene Mariposa

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TSUBAKI

14,717 Aufrufe • vor 23 Tagen

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Selene Mariposa

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1/7 Built a Polymarket trading bot over 3 months. Here are the biggest mistakes that cost me real money > Went from v1 to v61. Every version fixed something painful. --- 2/7 Stop Loss killed more money than it saved. > Binary markets need room to breathe - fluctuations are normal. > Stop Loss was cutting positions on random noise and locking in losses right before the market flipped. > Removed it in v61. Immediately better. --- 3/7 Martingale + Stop Loss = a loss cascade. > Seemed logical: lost $5 -> bet $8, lost again -> bet $10. > In practice: a losing streak plus early exits = a hole in your balance in a single day. > Killed it. For good. --- 4/7 Smart Exit without Force Exit is a trap. > Token hits 90c (+75% profit), but the bot was waiting for a "BTC reversal" signal. > Market closes, token drops, profit gone. > Fix: hard Force Exit at 85c. No conditions, no waiting. --- 5/7 Blocking the 5:30-10:30 PM ET window felt safe. It wasn't. > NYSE open = sharp spikes = bad signals. Made sense to block it. > But the full block was also killing clean entries at 8-10:30 PM. > Had to split the zone into segments with different edge/move thresholds. --- 6/7 The Gamma API lies about market start time. > Start price ("price to beat") is the core input for every signal. > Gamma was returning stale data. Had to pull prices directly from Chainlink on-chain on Polygon. > That's its own adventure - polling a smart contract every 2 seconds at 2 AM. --- 7/7 The real lesson: don't overcomplicate what works. > v1: complex system, 10 indicators -> -$200/day > v61: "buy the expensive token for $5, exit at +30%" -> consistently green > Simpler logic = fewer failure points. > The bot runs 96 intervals a day. Every mistake shows up fast.

Kotte

31,803 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

Seedance V2 Now the prompt is out you can change the character's the food and the location, have fun 🤭 realistic live-action, single continuous shot, full first-person POV, no cuts, no angle changes, no scene transitions, no montage, no flash cuts, no music, no subtitles. Only two characters: my unseen first-person POV and @ Image1 sitting across from me. Natural ambient sound only: light restaurant noise, tableware, distant water, faint voices, chewing, spitting, rinsing, my laughter. Setting: Outdoor dining table beside West Lake, Hangzhou, near the water, calm daylight or soft late afternoon light. Real smartphone-video realism, grounded textures, realistic food, realistic body and hand motion, accurate chopstick use, accurate mouth movement, accurate eye focus. The lake stays visible to one side of frame. Character: @ Image1 is the only visible person. She can switch seamlessly between slightly fierce-cute and soft adorable. Lip sync, voice, expressions, and body language stay fully synchronized. Emotional arc: cheerful and relaxed while eating, then shocked disgust, then angry embarrassment. Table: Exactly 7 dishes on the table. One dish is the West Lake vinegar fish shown in @ Image2. @ Image1 is happily eating rice and the other dishes, but not the fish at first. The table feels full but readable. The fish dish remains clearly visible before I offer it to her. Camera: Entire video is from my seated first-person view across the table. My hand and chopsticks may enter frame naturally. Slight handheld micro-shake from breathing and laughter only, never chaotic. No third-person shots, no reverse shots, no overhead shots, no cutaways. Continuous believable framing centered on @ Image1 with part of the lake visible. Action: @ Image1 sits opposite me, happily eating from her bowl, enjoying rice and other dishes except the West Lake vinegar fish. She looks bright, playful, relaxed, cute. From first-person POV, I pick up one bite of the fish with chopsticks and slowly extend it toward her. She notices it immediately, trusts me, leans forward, opens her mouth happily, and makes a cute “aam” sound as she bites the fish. I gently pull the chopsticks and my hand back out of frame. She chews happily for about one second, expecting it to taste good. Then the taste hits. Her expression changes instantly into exaggerated but believable disgust. Her face shifts into a comedic purple-disgust reaction while staying within realistic live-action style. She quickly turns toward the lake and spits it out with repeated “ptui, ptui, ptui” sounds. The motion is fast, fluid, and continuous from chewing to rejection. The moment she starts spitting, I begin laughing in first-person POV and keep laughing through the whole reaction. My laughter sounds genuine, amused, and uncontrollable, coming from behind the camera. The camera shakes slightly from laughing. After spitting, @ Image1 sticks out her tongue in disgust, immediately grabs the water on the table, and rinses her mouth quickly. She looks offended, embarrassed, irritated, but still vivid and cute. After rinsing, she snaps into angry frustration, grabs the entire fish dish from the table, and throws it into the nearby lake in one continuous motion. Ending: She finishes the throw angrily, still facing the lake, clearly annoyed and feeling betrayed, while I remain in first-person POV laughing. Keep the action continuous and clean. No extra characters enter frame.

Emily

41,832 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day feature the most impressive severe thunderstorm setup I’ve seen along the California coastline in at least a decade. The first round of isolated severe thunderstorms will come ashore tonight, bringing the threat of a isolated tornado and severe wind gusts over 60 mph from the Central Coast up to Humboldt County. The severe weather threat then expands into the Central Valley during the afternoon, California’s tornado alley, with the potential for isolated tornadoes, damaging winds, and even large hail. The threat then shifts south into Southern California tomorrow, where isolated severe wind gusts and a brief tornado will be possible. However, Christmas Eve into Christmas morning features the most potent severe weather environment of the week and could lead to a severe thunderstorm outbreak along the coastline from the Central Coast up to the North Coast. The combination of strong low-level and deep-layer shear with sufficient instability is rarely seen in this part of the world. I seriously cannot recall seeing Significant Tornado Parameter (STP) values exceed 3 along the California coastline. The peak threat window appears to be from 10 PM Thursday to 8 AM Friday. It would not be out of the question to see a Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued Christmas Eve night with the potential for a couple tornadoes and scattered severe wind gusts. I also believe this may be the first time on record that San Francisco has been placed under a Marginal Risk for severe thunderstorms in the Day 1–3 NWS Storm Prediction Center Convective Outlooks.

Colin McCarthy

68,544 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

Simply use CapCut to recreate this. Head to capcut and go to Capcut Studio and paste this prompt: [Style] Live-action + 2D Anime Sticker Composite Funny Short Video, First-Person Beach Grilling POV (POV Cooking Vlog), Realistic Beach Environment Mixed with Flat Cartoon Sticker Style for Strong Contrast, 8K Ultra HD, Handheld with Slight Shake, Vertical Screen [Duration] 10 seconds [Scene] Realistic beach first-person view: A small portable charcoal grill with several hotdogs cooking on the grates. Real person's hand holding metal tongs, flipping and moving the hotdogs. Background shows bright beach environment with sand, ocean waves, blue sky, and some distant palm trees. Natural sunlight with realistic lighting and shadows. A small wooden stool is placed beside the grill. [Character] Q-version Anime Sticker Character (flat 2D sticker texture, cartoon outlines, paper-cut feel): Golden long hair with straight bangs, big purple round eyes, pink blush, wearing a cute beach outfit (light blue bikini top with white frills, matching beach skirt, small sun hat, and yellow sunglasses resting on her head). She is sitting on the small wooden stool beside the grill, height about half the size of the grill, maintaining pure 2D flat quality throughout, not affected by real lighting. Real person's hand (photorealistic, skin texture visible) entering from the right side of the frame. [00:00-00:03] Shot 1: Sauce Sabotage (Overpouring) First-person POV: Real person's hand using tongs to flip hotdogs on the grill. The sticker character has a mischievous grin, raises both hands holding a big squeeze bottle of ketchup, and sneakily pours a huge amount of ketchup all over the hotdogs in one go — thick red sauce dramatically covers the hotdogs like a waterfall. Real physics on the sauce. Sound Effects: Sizzling hotdogs + thick ketchup squirting sound. [00:03-00:05] Shot 2: Bottle Snatch & Tongs Bonk Real person's hand quickly snatches the ketchup bottle away from her. The other hand raises the metal tongs and lightly bonks her head with the flat side — cartoon "Duang" effect, a red cartoon bump appears on her head, her whole body jolts from the impact. Sound Effects: Metallic "bonk" + cartoon spring sound. [00:05-00:08] Shot 3: Cry & Force Feed Sticker character holds the bump on her head, eyes turn into spirals (swirl eyes), mouth wide open crying with blue cartoon tears spraying out. Real person's hand immediately uses the tongs to pick up one overly sauced hotdog and stuffs it into her mouth mid-cry. Sound Effects: Exaggerated cartoon crying + mouth stuffing sound. [00:08-00:10] Shot 4: Overload KO Her cheeks puff up, she is forced to swallow, face turns pale, body stiffens and twitches. Eyes turn into "X"s as she dramatically falls backward off the small wooden stool and lands flat on the sand with legs up. Spinning dizzy stars appear above her head and a small wisp of white smoke comes out of her mouth. Frame freezes. Sound Effects: Thud + cartoon dizzy sound + faint ascension tone. Negative Prompt: blurry, low quality, deformed hands, extra limbs, text, watermark, logo, realistic 3D character, overexposed, underexposed, dark lighting

MrDejie

160,975 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

What happens when Europeans find out how poor they are? The Europoor? Nothing. That’s what happens. Americans ring the White House every morning to ask what the GDP is today, the way the rest of us check the weather. The trouble is that GDP is what you get when you stick Jeff Bezos and a man sleeping in a Walmart car park into a spreadsheet and take the average. It tells you the country is rich. It does not tell you that a hundred million people inside it are quietly not. GDP measures how much money sloshes around. It does not measure whether any of it ever reaches you, or what sort of life you get to live once it does. It also, rather conveniently, doesn’t mention the bill. Because the whole American miracle is being run on a credit card that has been on fire since the Reagan administration. The federal government owes nearly forty trillion dollars. The households owe another eighteen. Car loans, student loans, medical debt, a mortgage the size of a small principality, and a Visa bill that arrives in an envelope you have to open with tongs. This is the country lecturing the rest of us about prosperity. This is a man pulling up to valet parking in a leased Lamborghini and calling himself rich because nobody at the table has yet asked to see his bank statement. Run any household like that and the bailiffs would be through the door by Thursday. Run a country like that and apparently you get to be on the cover of The Economist. And this is where the whole sermon falls apart. Because on every single thing that actually makes a life worth getting out of bed for, Europe wins. Not by a bit. By a humiliating distance. The food. The streets. The holidays. The pavements you can walk on without being flattened by a Dodge the size of a small barn. The cities built before the invention of the strip mall. The Tuesday afternoon that contains an actual lunch, rather than a protein bar eaten standing up over a keyboard. The summer that contains an actual summer. Pick any parameter that matters to a human being who is alive and would like to remain so in reasonable spirits, and Europe is ahead. Often by a mile. Sometimes by an ocean. So no. Europeans are not about to find out how poor they are. We found out years ago, had a long hard look at the alternative, the debt, the diabetes, the drive-thru funerals, and decided we’d really rather not.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ If you like what you read, follow Gandalv on X: Gandalv

Gandalv

225,559 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten